I must say.. certainly there are some bad headlines on slash.. like any media outlet that needs hits for money..
but blatant statements claiming people *do* things are VERY WRONG!
OUt of context headlines and articles like this do GREAT HARM sometimes. I'm not saying this one did.. but
'Kevin Mitnick supports a federal DNA database' is a *far* cry from what he said in the article, especially taken into context.
Sort of like when The Hurricane said, in *pure* jest, after being provoked as to why he wasn't outside in a protest, saying 'Hell, why don't we just get up, go out there, and shoot every white person we see in revenge?'. It was *completely* a joke, and obvious to everyone there. What he was implying was 'I'm not out there because it would nto be rational to do so.'. What do the papers print? "The Hurricane in favour of shooting all white people dead".
The article says nothing about finding a programmer inside a VCR.. it says the guy got his motor from the VCR..
There would *NOT* be a PIC programmer inside a VCR, unless I'm completely mistaken. A PIC is genearally a one-shot deal anyway.. you can't 're-program' it.
Too true.
I heard a story from an anonymous colleague. THey do internal software development for use within their company. Safe to say, what the programmers produce is critical to the business model of the company. The software makes it work.
One day he told me 'yeah, we're ditching the SUN stuff and going to these big Linux servers'. I said 'that's neat.. but why are you doing it? You ahve a big SUN investment already. Not working for you?'.
THe answer? "The programmers are doing all their development on Linux, and when they port it, it causes problems, so they want us to use Linux instead of SUN".
Wow. What inane twisted logic. Seriously. As a systems person, I would think one would chose SUN for whatever reasons they chose it; support, reliability, scalability, whatever.... and the programmers *JOB* should be to write software *FOR THAT SYSTEM*. Talk about screwed up.
Now.. of course, I don't work there, and I may have the story completely wrong.... but that's what it sounded like to me.
And this wansn't due to some big 'flaw' in SUN systems... simply taht they were developing solely on Linux, and viewed porting to sun as an 'extra step imposed on them by Management'.
Perhaps 4 or 5 is conservative, I was only making a point. I do recall reading years ago that at some company (It was IBM I believe), programming rate was set at 15 lines of fully debugged code per day.
Of course, the one thing is, what constitutes a 'line'... that's changing... and depends on what kind of project it is.
You are so right. They are afraid not to look busy (so am I). I know in my own programming, sometimes 3/4 of the day is spent figuring out the best way to solve a problem, and at the end of the day, usually spitting out some nice, clean code that I am happy to put aside and work on the next bit.
Not a big gun at all.
The important part about DDoS is the first big D, standing for 'Distributed'.
All traffic coming from one network would be *easy* to stop.
It's when it's coming from everywhere that it's an effective attack;
100Mbps back to their private network, then out to wherever? What real good is '100Mbps unshared' access to the internet, when the gateway is only a few hundred megabit at most? "Yes, we have a hundred customers on 100Mbps dedicated bandwidth".
I know I'm nit picking.... it's just that somehow, 'unshared' and 'shared' have become buzzwords. For Christ sakes. It's a packet switched medium in the first place!
No. THat lets anyone resolve any name, but does not provide 'brosable' lists of all hosts on the network.
Just as DNS does not provide a list of who is where when.
That all sounds fine.
The post I was replying to simply said 'Don't drives store way more than they are rated for, and why don't drive companies just let us use them?'.
I wasn't implying anything whatsoever about data recovery.. only explaining where that raw 'space' goes.
Actually, when I get 100 resumes, I read them all. I dont' simply look for 'got a degree' and sort them into separate piles. The distinction is meaningless these days.
The first things I look at are 'last few jobs' and how the resume is written in general.
I can say that I'm fairly young (26).
I've seen this 'aging IT worker' shortage happen.
Let me say.. I know several 50+ year old programmers who are worth *TEN* younger programmers. Sure, their attitudes are different. Sure.. they don't put up with 80 hour workweeks.
And they produce nice, clean code at an amazingly steady rate. Oh sure, it might be 4 or 5 or maybe 10 lines of perfect code a day....
But that's awesome!
WHen they say something will take them 10 days? It takes them 10 days.
I find I don't so much *ignore* someone because they have MCSE on their resume, but I look at the whole thing.
If MCSE is simply listed in with some other certifications, at the back of the resume, and they didn't make a big deal out of it, and if their resume shows that they aren't brainwashed by the man... fine.
Oh.. btw... new MCSE grads *ARE* useful as Jr. IT types if you have NT stuff to work with. Just don't give them power until you've reeducated them.
Because in order to store data effectively, the actual drive platter stores many bits for each 'bit' you percieve as stored, using various error-correcting patterns.
Ugh.
Oh boo hoo.
Stick them in a pcmcia adapater and they are *JUST* like any other kind of common flash (smartmedia/compactflash) in a pcmcia adapter.
What he's saying would work for any flash with a pcmcia adapter.
If you are brave.
If it's really how you say it is, and you're prepared to piss someone off, go over the project managers head and figure out the process by which these dates are set.
You might find that the higher-ups are *REALLY* surprised that there is some kind of problem, and will get VERY concerned as to why they hadn't been informed that the work couldn't be completed on time.
It's usually those in the middle that mess things up (not that they aren't necessary, good middle-management is a serious assett).
It's management's JOB to *MANAGE* what they have.
Oh. It helps if you make it clear that you are not trying to 'screw' anyone, but that you are just trying to solve a problem in the company.
The last usenix journal had a good article on 'keeping employees by keeping them happy'. I photocopied it (sorry;login;) and posted a copy in the lunchroom. Everyone read it. The bosses liked it! It made very clear sense.
Like your example... hiring those new employees costs a LOT of money.
I find it strange when the wrong people get ahold of statistics. FOr instance, the average time to close a trouble ticket is useful to know. It's useful to know how much time it takes for a support person to effectively solve a problem, so you can provide an adequate number of support people to deal with the # of problems you have, and do judge the cost of those problems so you can figure out how much to proactively spend on fixing them.
Those same figures in some other managers hand simply say 'how do we cut down on the time per call?'
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Wow. That sucks.
I thought the whole point of moderation was to put this stuff where nobody sees it anyway?
Mitnick has an opinion on this because to a large degree, his 'intrusions' were enabled mainly by some level of identity theft!
I must say.. certainly there are some bad headlines on slash.. like any media outlet that needs hits for money..
but blatant statements claiming people *do* things are VERY WRONG!
OUt of context headlines and articles like this do GREAT HARM sometimes. I'm not saying this one did.. but
'Kevin Mitnick supports a federal DNA database' is a *far* cry from what he said in the article, especially taken into context.
Sort of like when The Hurricane said, in *pure* jest, after being provoked as to why he wasn't outside in a protest, saying 'Hell, why don't we just get up, go out there, and shoot every white person we see in revenge?'. It was *completely* a joke, and obvious to everyone there. What he was implying was 'I'm not out there because it would nto be rational to do so.'. What do the papers print? "The Hurricane in favour of shooting all white people dead".
Yeah. Great reporting there.
I've seen similar devices in the mall..
usually a string of LEDs on a stick, that swings back and forth like a pendulum. Works great. Less bulky, and less effort.
The article says nothing about finding a programmer inside a VCR.. it says the guy got his motor from the VCR..
There would *NOT* be a PIC programmer inside a VCR, unless I'm completely mistaken. A PIC is genearally a one-shot deal anyway.. you can't 're-program' it.
Too true.
I heard a story from an anonymous colleague. THey do internal software development for use within their company. Safe to say, what the programmers produce is critical to the business model of the company. The software makes it work.
One day he told me 'yeah, we're ditching the SUN stuff and going to these big Linux servers'. I said 'that's neat.. but why are you doing it? You ahve a big SUN investment already. Not working for you?'.
THe answer? "The programmers are doing all their development on Linux, and when they port it, it causes problems, so they want us to use Linux instead of SUN".
Wow. What inane twisted logic. Seriously. As a systems person, I would think one would chose SUN for whatever reasons they chose it; support, reliability, scalability, whatever.... and the programmers *JOB* should be to write software *FOR THAT SYSTEM*. Talk about screwed up.
Now.. of course, I don't work there, and I may have the story completely wrong.... but that's what it sounded like to me.
And this wansn't due to some big 'flaw' in SUN systems... simply taht they were developing solely on Linux, and viewed porting to sun as an 'extra step imposed on them by Management'.
Perhaps 4 or 5 is conservative, I was only making a point. I do recall reading years ago that at some company (It was IBM I believe), programming rate was set at 15 lines of fully debugged code per day.
Of course, the one thing is, what constitutes a 'line'... that's changing... and depends on what kind of project it is.
You are so right. They are afraid not to look busy (so am I). I know in my own programming, sometimes 3/4 of the day is spent figuring out the best way to solve a problem, and at the end of the day, usually spitting out some nice, clean code that I am happy to put aside and work on the next bit.
The problem is, poeple woudl have a tendency to consider biometrics as *absolute*. THAT is the danger.
Not a big gun at all.
The important part about DDoS is the first big D, standing for 'Distributed'.
All traffic coming from one network would be *easy* to stop.
It's when it's coming from everywhere that it's an effective attack;
What's that supposed to mean, exactly?
100Mbps back to their private network, then out to wherever? What real good is '100Mbps unshared' access to the internet, when the gateway is only a few hundred megabit at most? "Yes, we have a hundred customers on 100Mbps dedicated bandwidth".
I know I'm nit picking.... it's just that somehow, 'unshared' and 'shared' have become buzzwords. For Christ sakes. It's a packet switched medium in the first place!
But that's the point.
"awfully tough' does not mean impossible.
And passwords would be no more effective than they are today.
Use an NT domain.
The Domain Master Browser should pick up everything.
No. THat lets anyone resolve any name, but does not provide 'brosable' lists of all hosts on the network.
Just as DNS does not provide a list of who is where when.
That all sounds fine.
The post I was replying to simply said 'Don't drives store way more than they are rated for, and why don't drive companies just let us use them?'.
I wasn't implying anything whatsoever about data recovery.. only explaining where that raw 'space' goes.
Actually, when I get 100 resumes, I read them all. I dont' simply look for 'got a degree' and sort them into separate piles. The distinction is meaningless these days.
The first things I look at are 'last few jobs' and how the resume is written in general.
I can say that I'm fairly young (26).
I've seen this 'aging IT worker' shortage happen.
Let me say.. I know several 50+ year old programmers who are worth *TEN* younger programmers. Sure, their attitudes are different. Sure.. they don't put up with 80 hour workweeks.
And they produce nice, clean code at an amazingly steady rate. Oh sure, it might be 4 or 5 or maybe 10 lines of perfect code a day....
But that's awesome!
WHen they say something will take them 10 days? It takes them 10 days.
I find I don't so much *ignore* someone because they have MCSE on their resume, but I look at the whole thing.
If MCSE is simply listed in with some other certifications, at the back of the resume, and they didn't make a big deal out of it, and if their resume shows that they aren't brainwashed by the man... fine.
Oh.. btw... new MCSE grads *ARE* useful as Jr. IT types if you have NT stuff to work with. Just don't give them power until you've reeducated them.
Know what though? Lots of programming jobs don't require them either. I mean require in a technical sense, not in an administrative one.
For most sysadmin/programming jobs I've ever seen, most companies want a CS degree. Why? Who knows.
You feel it desensitizes one. Do you feel that way because you feel it has happened to you? If not, how else can you 'feel' that this is what happens?
I for one am still *horrified* by real life violence.
And I"ve played a *SHITLOAD* of extremely violent video games and watched violent movies.
Because in order to store data effectively, the actual drive platter stores many bits for each 'bit' you percieve as stored, using various error-correcting patterns.
Uhh...
So you memorize your pgp keys, eh?
The key is only *part* of the transaction.. the password is needed too.
Because that's what my kick ass sony camera uses, and that's what my kick-ass sony laptop uses.
Ugh.
Oh boo hoo.
Stick them in a pcmcia adapater and they are *JUST* like any other kind of common flash (smartmedia/compactflash) in a pcmcia adapter.
What he's saying would work for any flash with a pcmcia adapter.
Why memory stick? Why 'proprietary?'? Well...
let's see.
1) It works in my camera.
2) It works in my laptop.
I don't *HAVE* any other devices that take flash...
what's the problem? Should I have not bought my laptop or camera because they employed 'properietary' flash?
What about the 'properietary' batteries?
Shit. Your motherboard uses a 'properietary' chipset... ohh no!
If you are brave.
If it's really how you say it is, and you're prepared to piss someone off, go over the project managers head and figure out the process by which these dates are set.
You might find that the higher-ups are *REALLY* surprised that there is some kind of problem, and will get VERY concerned as to why they hadn't been informed that the work couldn't be completed on time.
It's usually those in the middle that mess things up (not that they aren't necessary, good middle-management is a serious assett).
It's management's JOB to *MANAGE* what they have.
Oh. It helps if you make it clear that you are not trying to 'screw' anyone, but that you are just trying to solve a problem in the company.
The last usenix journal had a good article on 'keeping employees by keeping them happy'. I photocopied it (sorry ;login;) and posted a copy in the lunchroom. Everyone read it. The bosses liked it! It made very clear sense.
Like your example... hiring those new employees costs a LOT of money.
I find it strange when the wrong people get ahold of statistics. FOr instance, the average time to close a trouble ticket is useful to know. It's useful to know how much time it takes for a support person to effectively solve a problem, so you can provide an adequate number of support people to deal with the # of problems you have, and do judge the cost of those problems so you can figure out how much to proactively spend on fixing them.
Those same figures in some other managers hand simply say 'how do we cut down on the time per call?'