I had an isp tech show up at a customers office, cut a phone extension and patch (electrical tape) cat5 cables onto the cat3 while ignoring the cat5 cable that I had left there. I don't think it even worked before he left.
Doing unspeakable things to existing firewalls is standard industry practice. The tech is only required to make sure your internet connection works and everything else is the customer's problem.
Could be worse. Try Spain. The wages in Spain suck badly compared to the cost of living and even though I get payed well above average if I wanted a decent place to live I would expect to spend 50% of my income on rent. My employers here keep going on about how much I'm making compared to Canada (I make $500 more per month than I did in Canada) but the cost of living means I actually have the spending power that someone that in Canada would consider below the poverty line.
To top it off most Spanish companies work by seniority rather than skill and their culture seems to dictate that if they have a complaint they will tell everyone (including the boss) except you about it. And don't even get me started on how the average Spaniard would rather leave something partially working rather than fix it if it means putting in effort and if said fix has even the smallest chance of breaking something I am outright banned from doing it. I actually caught someone trying to disable my security update notifications on one of the servers.
Throw in a huge government bureaucracy where the rules depend on who you talk to and you can spend weeks trying to get permits and never be quite sure if you will succeed and have to start over from the beginning.
I agree with this one. I often wonder why we go to all the wrong people for advice when it comes to relationships. Would you ask a beggar how to manage your finances? Go to someone who has what you want (preferably someone who has been married awhile) and ask them.
Actually Oracle also employs some high level kernel developers. A lot of the FS work that has been done lately has been done by people with Oracle email addresses.
On security note, default configs of ftpds found in Fedora, SUSE and Debian are [censored] insecure: they allow anonymous to access anything on hard drive while rejecting (even over SSL) valid users.
Not sure where you get this. On Debian "apt-get install ftpd" installs proftpd with anon access disabled. My one gripe with the Debian install is that it doesn't chroot user directories by default causing confusion for my users. "DefaultRoot ~" in the config fixes that nicely though.
Well employment insurance in Canada is where you go for money (up to 6 months) when you lose your job so it's not that fringe.
My point was more that I used to have to spoof just to preform day to day tasks but I don't now. As alternative browsers have gained share the number of sites that to browser id checks has gone down and that I'll bet reduces the number of people who need to spoof.
My actual point was that spoofing used to be a possibly valid argument for firefox and opera having higher share than shows up in the stats but I think that's long since not become an issue.
My company hires management based on management experience, not experience in the field I work in.
Being 39 doesn't make you 'too old for tech'... being lazy, unwilling to change, inexperienced and out of touch does. On the other side - some people are built for management and some aren't. Unfortunately a lot of people who aren't still end up in management positions.
I have to agree with this. One of the best programmers I have ever worked with changed from an accountant to a programmer in his 40s and one of the best techs I know is in his 50s so short of being senile I don't think it's possible to be "too old for tech".
I used to. The Canadian employment insurance website for some inexplicable reason checked the browser and demanded either netscape or IE they fixed that but then inexplicably locked you out if your OS wasn't mac or Windows. My choices were either travel for 45 minutes and file my reports in person, install windows, or spoof my browser ID. Thankfully they have since come to their senses.
St-Hubert ordering system had the same IE or netscape (I need my rotisserie chicken) as did several other food ordering systems. They all got fixed as Firefox gained market share.
I'm blown away that this entirely inaccurate screed got modded informative.
Said President's term wasn't up until January and as much as he wanted to extend his term limit he wasn't likely to succeed. It also wasn't likely that had he succeeded in extending his term limit he would have been reelected anyhow since his approval ratings were at an all time low.
I also need to point out that an ally of Chavez he wasn't an American ally by any stretch of the imagination.
Proper democracies work by voting lame duck leaders out at the end of the term so what happened was a military coup. Obama speaking out against a military coup was, in fact, arguing in favor of the rule of law not against it.
Funny but not really true. You are only warming the ceiling. Much better to save the power and use it on something designed to spread the heat around the room.
People with large legacy infrastructures who didn't want to pay to have their software converted to Solaris, BSD or Linux. They buy the upgrades so they can run old software on new hardware because in the short term it's cheaper.
Used to be very common for restaurant chains on their cash registerslLike McDonald's. Also Autozone had their ordering system on SCO but left(and got sued).
1x1 flash is for permanent cookies. Browsers have all sorts of cookie controls and max cookie storage times whitelists and blacklists flash doesn't. Any site can set a cookie and cookies in flash never go away unless you go to a special adobe site that allows you to browse your flash cookies and delete some or all of them.
It is not actually fixed. Even had it been removable in the first place it still would have been bad because they should not have installed it without permission.
The worst part is that the happy pills often don't work as well as other means.
A friend of mine who went to the doctor years ago complaining of depression. The doctor gave him Zoloft and he went completely delusional. I went with his mother to drag him back to the doctor and had him explain how he was going to get rich by joining one of the groups that rule the world.
Doctor's answer? "well maybe we should treat this with diet instead of Zoloft" Turns out some forms of depression can be caused by nutrient imbalance and removing him from the pills at least fixed the delusions.
Guy lost all but two of his friends because some quack decided that the quick fix was better than the non pill version.
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I had an isp tech show up at a customers office, cut a phone extension and patch (electrical tape) cat5 cables onto the cat3 while ignoring the cat5 cable that I had left there. I don't think it even worked before he left.
Doing unspeakable things to existing firewalls is standard industry practice. The tech is only required to make sure your internet connection works and everything else is the customer's problem.
Allowing refunds if you screw up and buy the wrong domain. Once again proving that on the internet no good deed goes unpunished.
Could be worse. Try Spain. The wages in Spain suck badly compared to the cost of living and even though I get payed well above average if I wanted a decent place to live I would expect to spend 50% of my income on rent. My employers here keep going on about how much I'm making compared to Canada (I make $500 more per month than I did in Canada) but the cost of living means I actually have the spending power that someone that in Canada would consider below the poverty line.
To top it off most Spanish companies work by seniority rather than skill and their culture seems to dictate that if they have a complaint they will tell everyone (including the boss) except you about it. And don't even get me started on how the average Spaniard would rather leave something partially working rather than fix it if it means putting in effort and if said fix has even the smallest chance of breaking something I am outright banned from doing it. I actually caught someone trying to disable my security update notifications on one of the servers.
Throw in a huge government bureaucracy where the rules depend on who you talk to and you can spend weeks trying to get permits and never be quite sure if you will succeed and have to start over from the beginning.
I agree with this one. I often wonder why we go to all the wrong people for advice when it comes to relationships. Would you ask a beggar how to manage your finances? Go to someone who has what you want (preferably someone who has been married awhile) and ask them.
I'm curious how you even know you have found a good C programmer to begin with.
What do you look for?
In Widnows, plugins do not get updated automatically(only addons do). You will need to download from their site.
People get pissed when Open Source patches break things too.
The difference is that in the Open Source world things tend to be more modular so making a change isn't as likely to cause unintended side affects.
Actually Oracle also employs some high level kernel developers. A lot of the FS work that has been done lately has been done by people with Oracle email addresses.
On security note, default configs of ftpds found in Fedora, SUSE and Debian are [censored] insecure: they allow anonymous to access anything on hard drive while rejecting (even over SSL) valid users.
Not sure where you get this. On Debian "apt-get install ftpd" installs proftpd with anon access disabled. My one gripe with the Debian install is that it doesn't chroot user directories by default causing confusion for my users. "DefaultRoot ~" in the config fixes that nicely though.
Seconded. I've maxed out a 100 mbps link using scp on an inter isp transfer and the sending machine was a non raid dual 650 with 512 mb ram.
Unless one of your computers is older than that piece of crap you shouldn't notice a difference.
Well employment insurance in Canada is where you go for money (up to 6 months) when you lose your job so it's not that fringe.
My point was more that I used to have to spoof just to preform day to day tasks but I don't now. As alternative browsers have gained share the number of sites that to browser id checks has gone down and that I'll bet reduces the number of people who need to spoof.
My actual point was that spoofing used to be a possibly valid argument for firefox and opera having higher share than shows up in the stats but I think that's long since not become an issue.
My company hires management based on management experience, not experience in the field I work in.
Being 39 doesn't make you 'too old for tech'... being lazy, unwilling to change, inexperienced and out of touch does. On the other side - some people are built for management and some aren't. Unfortunately a lot of people who aren't still end up in management positions.
I have to agree with this. One of the best programmers I have ever worked with changed from an accountant to a programmer in his 40s and one of the best techs I know is in his 50s so short of being senile I don't think it's possible to be "too old for tech".
I used to. The Canadian employment insurance website for some inexplicable reason checked the browser and demanded either netscape or IE they fixed that but then inexplicably locked you out if your OS wasn't mac or Windows. My choices were either travel for 45 minutes and file my reports in person, install windows, or spoof my browser ID. Thankfully they have since come to their senses.
St-Hubert ordering system had the same IE or netscape (I need my rotisserie chicken) as did several other food ordering systems. They all got fixed as Firefox gained market share.
I'm blown away that this entirely inaccurate screed got modded informative.
Said President's term wasn't up until January and as much as he wanted to extend his term limit he wasn't likely to succeed. It also wasn't likely that had he succeeded in extending his term limit he would have been reelected anyhow since his approval ratings were at an all time low.
I also need to point out that an ally of Chavez he wasn't an American ally by any stretch of the imagination.
Proper democracies work by voting lame duck leaders out at the end of the term so what happened was a military coup. Obama speaking out against a military coup was, in fact, arguing in favor of the rule of law not against it.
Your missing the part where heat rises. Unless you are pointing a fan at your light bulbs you are only warming a small section of your ceiling.
Funny but not really true. You are only warming the ceiling. Much better to save the power and use it on something designed to spread the heat around the room.
Forgotten what Rambus did to the spec all the memory makers follow already?
Just because it follows a spec it does not mean there are no patents waiting in the sidelines.
Microsoft likes to rattle the patent saber against Linux as it is. How do we know the spec isn't designed around one or more of their patents?
And no way for server admins to track what virus infected bots are trying to break into their systems.
This rule will hurt more than it will help.
People with large legacy infrastructures who didn't want to pay to have their software converted to Solaris, BSD or Linux. They buy the upgrades so they can run old software on new hardware because in the short term it's cheaper.
Used to be very common for restaurant chains on their cash registerslLike McDonald's. Also Autozone had their ordering system on SCO but left(and got sued).
1x1 flash is for permanent cookies. Browsers have all sorts of cookie controls and max cookie storage times whitelists and blacklists flash doesn't. Any site can set a cookie and cookies in flash never go away unless you go to a special adobe site that allows you to browse your flash cookies and delete some or all of them.
It is not actually fixed. Even had it been removable in the first place it still would have been bad because they should not have installed it without permission.
That's all PCI is really: a bunch of pretty looking standards.
The upshot of all of those standards is that I now have a whole set of servers that I absolutely hate to work on.
PCI does. All PCI audtors have to be retrained each year.
Firefox 3.5beta for Ubuntu is here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=195473&package_id=231607
The worst part is that the happy pills often don't work as well as other means.
A friend of mine who went to the doctor years ago complaining of depression. The doctor gave him Zoloft and he went completely delusional. I went with his mother to drag him back to the doctor and had him explain how he was going to get rich by joining one of the groups that rule the world.
Doctor's answer? "well maybe we should treat this with diet instead of Zoloft" Turns out some forms of depression can be caused by nutrient imbalance and removing him from the pills at least fixed the delusions.
Guy lost all but two of his friends because some quack decided that the quick fix was better than the non pill version.