I expect that those IT professionals working for me will have input into what our department does, that's why I hired them... I can't possibly plan how long something will take or what resources are required without talking with them first.
And dammit, YES, I *DO* want people who will do what they're told, because it's my JOB to keep the department doing what we're supposed to be doing. Just because one of my IT Professionals thinks something else is 'more important' doesn't matter.. he can bring it to my attention, but in the end, I decide what gets done and what doesn't, and if the department doesn't do what it's supposed to, I LOSE MY JOB.
Yes, it's an unfortunate blip in the IT world, especially with this Internet thing, that lots of 'neat ideas' came about from very green IT people (read: young, inexperienced, but smart and creative) and were exploited by the company, and it sucks. That's life.
Managing an IT department is *NOT* a piece of cake, though of course every new 'IT Professional' thinks he knows it all and could do everything, and criticizes his boss who doesn't 'know' every detail about everything. It's not our JOB to know every little detail; it's our job to ensure the company's IT departmen runs smoothly, doing what the company requires it to do.
Another thing. All too often I hear crap like 'management knows nothing about IT! THey don't know what they want.. they're idiots'. Well... one thing experience has shown me is that IT people (me included) like to overengineer everything, and solve every problem with computers, whereas Mr. Suit doesn't *give a shit* how it works, as long as his fax machine faxes and his email emails.
http://www.phasys.com is based on what you are saying. Inexpensive remote security monitoring.
Probably not as small scale as you want.. but cool anyway.
If that's who the person you have to report to, the politics and paperwork are the key. The MIS should be able to document, and say, to his hypothetical grey-haired corporate zombie 'this is what needs to be done. Here's how long it will take; here are the resources we need' and get his answer.
Zombies can be dealt with. It's when you get all these 'okay I'll go talk to Sam and ask if we can have some more machines' or 'I'll bring it up over coffee next week' that things don't get done.
I knew a corporate account type (CFO) who I thought initially was 'accountant' and wouldn't understand anything, and this would make things difficult. Turns out, things were only 'difficult' when we simply asked for stuff. If we presented proper business documents (ie: terms he can understand, becaues as CFO, he *HAS* to understand the impact of what they do in financial terms, things went really smoothly.
One of the biggest IT problems I've seen out there, possibly the most widespread, is not lamers, disintersted moneygrubbers, kids-with-toys, or tight-assed bosses. It's simply *bad communications*.
It's been rare for me to really see a company where the IT department actually understands what the company wants to do, and the company understands the cost and process of getting there. Usually this is due to a lack of a good MIS person. A good MIS must know not only the technical issues, but the political and organisational ones as well. They must be able to speak with the company and act as a go-between for the techies who do the work.
People talk about bosses who won't 'spend the money to do it right'. Well.. has anyone *properly, in terms they undersatand* shown them a cost/benefit analysis? Shown them what they really will and won't get?
These are not the same bits. The bits often used for TOS were specced for something else, but never really used.
THe bits ECN is using were originally flagged as 'other'.
And the main issue is packet filters that say 'these options aren't recognized, so it must be an attack! block it!'
'We do something for people for free, and it's really popular.. gee.. how can we keep it going now that we can't afford to do this free thing for everyone out of our pockets anymore?'
Charge the users. Don't think they'll pay? Get sponsors. Don't think they're interested? Then perhaps there is no reason to keep it going.
He never said it was okay to deliver a whole bunch of 'compressed' files. He said ONE decompressor, and ONE compressed file. Though Patrick asked about this, all the guy did was restate his terms.
What Patrick did was take a small bit of information out of the file, and, rather than having a table of 'offsets' telling his decompressor where to insert 5's, he broke it up into a bunch of files, effectively using the directory/inote tables to store this information.
Had he not insisited on a single file, I'd say Patrick here would have technically won, though not at all in the spirit of the competition.
Whether ECN is experimental or not, *standards* dictate that the bits in use should be simply passed through by other routers. If a router doesn't understand certain option bits, it's supposed to IGNORE them. It is routers NOT following this *long-standing* standard that are causing the problem.
but if any Linux admins working for me were upgrading production servers to each new kernel 'just because it was available', they'd get some lecturing. You upgrade production boxes when you NEED to. ie: A security patch...
It only takes moments to skim the kernel changelog for each new version.
Also, as I've said before, why on earth would you turn on something like ECN not knowing what it was? And the help file for ECN *DOES* say specifically that it will cause problems on the internet, because many routers don't support it yet.
This has nothing to do with instability. The kernel is very stable; this has to do with people using things without doing the research.
The reason a new 'version' isn't released once or twice a year only? OPEN SOURCE. Whenever there are a reasonable number of bug fixes, a new version comes out.
I find it strange. In moving to 2.4 kernels, the first thing I did was, of course, run through the configuration.
For each option that I didn't recognize, I hit the help button. The help button for ECN (which defaults to off) specifically states that ECN is not supported by some routers, and currently may cause problems with reaching websites on the Internet, so I left it off.
So my question is: Why would you turn on a new network option without knowing what it was?
Most games have a rating on them, letting the purchaser know what type of material is contained within.
In BC (not the rest of Canada) I believe there is law requiring vendors to actually enforce this rating. Everywhere else, it's just informational (as it should be).
All those bible-thumping the media-made-my-kid-a-satanic-postal-worker types should go live somewhere else, like China.
Not really; WindRiver's market is embedded systems; they deal in embedded realtime systems.
As for competition.. it's rediculous to speak of 'competition' between things that aren't commercial entities. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, these exist because people want them to, not because of some company.
Well... they allow outside connections so yuor users can receive mail.
They aren't talking about someone relaying off your server, we're talking about someone simply trying every common username AT your server, to try to deliver mail to your users.
You are assuming that there must be a way to keep the status-quo with regards to how musicians live and work, while providing a different method for them to receive compensation. That's not a fair way to look at things. There is no natural 'right' for musicians to exist; they exist because of the laws and desires of the society they are part of.
A more realistic way to look at this is to say: If we abolish copyright, will we still have music? Of course we will. How will it work? That doesn't *matter*.
is an urban myth, along with thinking saying 'no law enforcement personell are allowed to log in'. It's like asking 'are you a cop' to an undercover cop. Not gonna help you one bit.
Lots of BBS' tried to call themselves 'tryware' and such. I doubt that was ever used in court. It doesn't matter if it's for 24 hours; if it's protected by copyright, you don't have *any* right to distribute it, for 24 hours only or not.
This is a bit obscure, but the reason napster is different is because
- napster is a corporation
- Napster's business plan is based on attracting users to their service because they *know* those users will use it to pirate music. They know people want to do that. That's called contributory infringement.
That's very different than Gnutella, where the tool exists in it's own right and is obviously not limited to mp3. If you are an individual, and you are offering up copyrighted material for public download, why *shouldn't* they go after you?
Wireless has it's place in the home.
I *loved* having my WaveLAN card in my laptop..I could sit in front of the TV and work on stuff... I could sit out on the balcony in the evening.. it was nice. Going out in the yard (if you are lucky enough to have one) and lounging with your laptop.. what more could you ask for?
But nothing beats some good cat5 for stability and speed. Take the time to run some cat5.
If it's your own home, do it properly, even get contractors to do the cabling if you like. If it's an apartment, you can run it along the edge of the carpet, usually doing quite a nice job. My lat apartment had hot-water pipes for heating, so there was open conduit between all the rooms.. very handy.
How is 'copying a grapic file' reverse engineering?
I'm sorry... talking about the power of your OS, then forbidding anyone to develop for it without purchasing a developer kit & license is rediculous. What this effectively means is that if you 'figure out' how to do anything not documented, you can't share it with anyone, as you reverse engineered it.
Due to licensing of the OS, nobody anywhere is allowed to ever write anything for MacOS using anything but the API's Apple publishes? Yeah.. like that'll stick. That's worse than Microsoft!
What.. are they jealous because they didn't include a theme editor?
This is what will kill OS-X. I said over and over again to friends, OS-X is cool, I think it's *really* cool, but I just have this feeling Apple will fuck it up.
Looks like they're on their way.
All computers should have publicly reachable IP addresses; this makes writing new network applications far easier. You can assume a fairly transparent network. With the IP shortage, this is no longer the case.
BTW.. they aren't 'fake' IPs, they are 'reserved' IPs.
And http is one of the ONLY protocols that includes the domain being looked up in it's own protocol.
In short, we have something that came about via an oversight in the original design of the protocol (that 32 bits would be enough address space), and now people like you are complacent about the hacks we use to get around it?
What we need is IPv6, deployed properly. And it's going to happen.
So there is an army of typists translating and typing in captions so all those deaf monitoring agents back at the station can read what everyone is saying?
After travelling some of the rest of the world, I don't mind *one bit* the high taxes in Canada. It's worth it for the quality of life. If you don't think so, move on...
I do disagree with how some of our tax dollars are spent... but that's different.
And who cares if the PM is French? We don't hire him for his pronunciation. It's people like you who create the conflict between the French/English.
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I expect that those IT professionals working for me will have input into what our department does, that's why I hired them... I can't possibly plan how long something will take or what resources are required without talking with them first.
And dammit, YES, I *DO* want people who will do what they're told, because it's my JOB to keep the department doing what we're supposed to be doing. Just because one of my IT Professionals thinks something else is 'more important' doesn't matter.. he can bring it to my attention, but in the end, I decide what gets done and what doesn't, and if the department doesn't do what it's supposed to, I LOSE MY JOB.
Yes, it's an unfortunate blip in the IT world, especially with this Internet thing, that lots of 'neat ideas' came about from very green IT people (read: young, inexperienced, but smart and creative) and were exploited by the company, and it sucks. That's life.
Managing an IT department is *NOT* a piece of cake, though of course every new 'IT Professional' thinks he knows it all and could do everything, and criticizes his boss who doesn't 'know' every detail about everything. It's not our JOB to know every little detail; it's our job to ensure the company's IT departmen runs smoothly, doing what the company requires it to do.
Another thing. All too often I hear crap like 'management knows nothing about IT! THey don't know what they want.. they're idiots'. Well... one thing experience has shown me is that IT people (me included) like to overengineer everything, and solve every problem with computers, whereas Mr. Suit doesn't *give a shit* how it works, as long as his fax machine faxes and his email emails.
http://www.phasys.com is based on what you are saying. Inexpensive remote security monitoring.
Probably not as small scale as you want.. but cool anyway.
If that's who the person you have to report to, the politics and paperwork are the key. The MIS should be able to document, and say, to his hypothetical grey-haired corporate zombie 'this is what needs to be done. Here's how long it will take; here are the resources we need' and get his answer.
Zombies can be dealt with. It's when you get all these 'okay I'll go talk to Sam and ask if we can have some more machines' or 'I'll bring it up over coffee next week' that things don't get done.
I knew a corporate account type (CFO) who I thought initially was 'accountant' and wouldn't understand anything, and this would make things difficult. Turns out, things were only 'difficult' when we simply asked for stuff. If we presented proper business documents (ie: terms he can understand, becaues as CFO, he *HAS* to understand the impact of what they do in financial terms, things went really smoothly.
One of the biggest IT problems I've seen out there, possibly the most widespread, is not lamers, disintersted moneygrubbers, kids-with-toys, or tight-assed bosses. It's simply *bad communications*. It's been rare for me to really see a company where the IT department actually understands what the company wants to do, and the company understands the cost and process of getting there. Usually this is due to a lack of a good MIS person. A good MIS must know not only the technical issues, but the political and organisational ones as well. They must be able to speak with the company and act as a go-between for the techies who do the work. People talk about bosses who won't 'spend the money to do it right'. Well.. has anyone *properly, in terms they undersatand* shown them a cost/benefit analysis? Shown them what they really will and won't get?
These are not the same bits. The bits often used for TOS were specced for something else, but never really used.
THe bits ECN is using were originally flagged as 'other'.
And the main issue is packet filters that say 'these options aren't recognized, so it must be an attack! block it!'
Hmm. okay.. point taken.
Guy should cough up 5 big ones then.
Allow me to summarize your problem.
'We do something for people for free, and it's really popular.. gee.. how can we keep it going now that we can't afford to do this free thing for everyone out of our pockets anymore?'
Charge the users. Don't think they'll pay? Get sponsors. Don't think they're interested? Then perhaps there is no reason to keep it going.
The data has to come from the guy accepting the challenge; you get to tell him how much data to compress, he gives you the data.
He never said it was okay to deliver a whole bunch of 'compressed' files. He said ONE decompressor, and ONE compressed file. Though Patrick asked about this, all the guy did was restate his terms.
What Patrick did was take a small bit of information out of the file, and, rather than having a table of 'offsets' telling his decompressor where to insert 5's, he broke it up into a bunch of files, effectively using the directory/inote tables to store this information.
Had he not insisited on a single file, I'd say Patrick here would have technically won, though not at all in the spirit of the competition.
Whether ECN is experimental or not, *standards* dictate that the bits in use should be simply passed through by other routers. If a router doesn't understand certain option bits, it's supposed to IGNORE them. It is routers NOT following this *long-standing* standard that are causing the problem.
but if any Linux admins working for me were upgrading production servers to each new kernel 'just because it was available', they'd get some lecturing. You upgrade production boxes when you NEED to. ie: A security patch...
It only takes moments to skim the kernel changelog for each new version.
Also, as I've said before, why on earth would you turn on something like ECN not knowing what it was? And the help file for ECN *DOES* say specifically that it will cause problems on the internet, because many routers don't support it yet.
This has nothing to do with instability. The kernel is very stable; this has to do with people using things without doing the research.
The reason a new 'version' isn't released once or twice a year only? OPEN SOURCE. Whenever there are a reasonable number of bug fixes, a new version comes out.
I find it strange. In moving to 2.4 kernels, the first thing I did was, of course, run through the configuration.
For each option that I didn't recognize, I hit the help button. The help button for ECN (which defaults to off) specifically states that ECN is not supported by some routers, and currently may cause problems with reaching websites on the Internet, so I left it off.
So my question is: Why would you turn on a new network option without knowing what it was?
Most games have a rating on them, letting the purchaser know what type of material is contained within.
In BC (not the rest of Canada) I believe there is law requiring vendors to actually enforce this rating. Everywhere else, it's just informational (as it should be).
All those bible-thumping the media-made-my-kid-a-satanic-postal-worker types should go live somewhere else, like China.
Not really; WindRiver's market is embedded systems; they deal in embedded realtime systems.
As for competition.. it's rediculous to speak of 'competition' between things that aren't commercial entities. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, these exist because people want them to, not because of some company.
Well... they allow outside connections so yuor users can receive mail. They aren't talking about someone relaying off your server, we're talking about someone simply trying every common username AT your server, to try to deliver mail to your users.
You are assuming that there must be a way to keep the status-quo with regards to how musicians live and work, while providing a different method for them to receive compensation. That's not a fair way to look at things. There is no natural 'right' for musicians to exist; they exist because of the laws and desires of the society they are part of.
A more realistic way to look at this is to say: If we abolish copyright, will we still have music? Of course we will. How will it work? That doesn't *matter*.
An injunction against a trader forbidding them trading movies online?
Believe me,the *first* time they break that injunction by trading again, the judge will *NOT* be happy, or lenient.
is an urban myth, along with thinking saying 'no law enforcement personell are allowed to log in'. It's like asking 'are you a cop' to an undercover cop. Not gonna help you one bit.
Lots of BBS' tried to call themselves 'tryware' and such. I doubt that was ever used in court. It doesn't matter if it's for 24 hours; if it's protected by copyright, you don't have *any* right to distribute it, for 24 hours only or not.
This is a bit obscure, but the reason napster is different is because
- napster is a corporation
- Napster's business plan is based on attracting users to their service because they *know* those users will use it to pirate music. They know people want to do that. That's called contributory infringement.
That's very different than Gnutella, where the tool exists in it's own right and is obviously not limited to mp3. If you are an individual, and you are offering up copyrighted material for public download, why *shouldn't* they go after you?
Wireless has it's place in the home.
I *loved* having my WaveLAN card in my laptop..I could sit in front of the TV and work on stuff... I could sit out on the balcony in the evening.. it was nice. Going out in the yard (if you are lucky enough to have one) and lounging with your laptop.. what more could you ask for?
But nothing beats some good cat5 for stability and speed. Take the time to run some cat5.
If it's your own home, do it properly, even get contractors to do the cabling if you like. If it's an apartment, you can run it along the edge of the carpet, usually doing quite a nice job. My lat apartment had hot-water pipes for heating, so there was open conduit between all the rooms.. very handy.
How is 'copying a grapic file' reverse engineering?
I'm sorry... talking about the power of your OS, then forbidding anyone to develop for it without purchasing a developer kit & license is rediculous. What this effectively means is that if you 'figure out' how to do anything not documented, you can't share it with anyone, as you reverse engineered it.
So much for apple.
Due to licensing of the OS, nobody anywhere is allowed to ever write anything for MacOS using anything but the API's Apple publishes? Yeah.. like that'll stick. That's worse than Microsoft!
What.. are they jealous because they didn't include a theme editor?
This is what will kill OS-X. I said over and over again to friends, OS-X is cool, I think it's *really* cool, but I just have this feeling Apple will fuck it up.
Looks like they're on their way.
All computers should have publicly reachable IP addresses; this makes writing new network applications far easier. You can assume a fairly transparent network. With the IP shortage, this is no longer the case.
BTW.. they aren't 'fake' IPs, they are 'reserved' IPs.
And http is one of the ONLY protocols that includes the domain being looked up in it's own protocol.
In short, we have something that came about via an oversight in the original design of the protocol (that 32 bits would be enough address space), and now people like you are complacent about the hacks we use to get around it?
What we need is IPv6, deployed properly. And it's going to happen.
So there is an army of typists translating and typing in captions so all those deaf monitoring agents back at the station can read what everyone is saying?
You mean Closed-Circuit, I believe..
After travelling some of the rest of the world, I don't mind *one bit* the high taxes in Canada. It's worth it for the quality of life. If you don't think so, move on...
I do disagree with how some of our tax dollars are spent... but that's different.
And who cares if the PM is French? We don't hire him for his pronunciation. It's people like you who create the conflict between the French/English.