"Have you ever used Word?" "No, but I've used Writer, Abiword, Islandwrite, and Emacs."
Sorry, but if I ask someone in an interview whether they have used a wordprocessor, and they reply that they have used emacs, then they ain't gonna get the job!
A texteditor is not a wordprocessor!
(Mind you, if they say at any stage that they use emacs through choice, they are unlikely to get the job;-) )
"built in" is not a verb, it is an adjective (properly written built-in, but hey, if someone is going to create a sentance with no verbs, then they are not going to worry too much about missing hyphens, are they?).
This is not an attempt to troll or flame or anything, but I really have to question the statement "I like the idea of being able to leverage my knowledge of Linux when I'm jotting down a note or looking up an address."
Sorry, but no matter how geeky I am feeling, when I want to jot down a note or look up an address on my PDA, I don't want to have to "leverage my knowledge" of the underlying OS, I want to jot down a note or look up an address.
Can you clarify what you mean, please? I'm genuinely lost as to how you "leverage your knowledge" of Linux when jotting doiwn a note on a PDA!
(1) I am not always at home - I could be absolutely anywhere when The Call comes in. It's just that when I am at home, it is easier to fix without having to drive for 30 minutes.
(2) You mean you are unable to remotely reboot your systrems? For real? Then you need to get a proper sysadmin and configure things up properly. I woudl hate to be admining our Norwegian servers (which I also do) and have to catch a flight just to be able to reboot them...
"If anything Crazy(tm) happens, the office is only a 30 minute drive from my apartment to fix things on the spot."
I live 15 minutes drive from work.
I dunno about you, but I much prefer rolling out of bed, logging on, fixing problem and rolling back to bed over getting out of bed, getting dressed, spending 30 - 60 minutes round trip driving,. fixing problem, getting undressed and rolling back into bed:-D
"Killing" Aragorn in order to bring him back with that pathetic method they used - NOT in the book, adds ZERO to the plot (detracts from it, even)
Fucking up Faramir's character, changing him into nothing more than a clone of Boromir - AGAINST the plot in the book.
Having that army of Elves turn up at Helms Deep (which, in teh book, they absolutely did NOt do, and that is key to the overall background story about the time of the elves passing and the time of man rising);
The entire diverting the ring bollocks toward the end of TTT;
There's 4 for you to be getting on with.
Oh, I know Jackson claims they were valid changes (being a charter member of the Fan Club [how sad:-)], I've read his "excuses"), I just happen to believe he is wrong. As do many others.
Sure, he can't include EVERYTHING (and I know of almost no-one who was upset about Tom Bombadil being omitted), but there's a difference between condensing the story to fit 3 films, and fucking it up by ADDING things that were not there and changing in major ways some of the characters.
Still not really a useful excersise, killing all active connections twice a day on a department basis. Our site is 24/7, part of a global 24/7 operation world-wide.
Just because Joe sixpack has gone home for the evening, does NOt mean his session should be killed - he (in our case) is quite probably running stuff even while he is away.
Now, you might want to limit operations to 33% of the maximum available time, but for sites which require 24/7 operation, that is a very bad idea.
Or we just employ proper secutiry procedures, rather than relying upon a script running twice a day to kill off connections (let's face it, the original suggestion, namely run this twice a day, is pointless - the intruder woudl already have been in, done whatever they were doing, and gone long before the script dropped their connection. Yes, you'd have a nice shiny log to say "J00 waz 0wn3d", but it's a bit late by that point...
The actual killing of connections, now, THAT is a useful tool where your intrusion detection has detected an active intrusion (or intrusion attempt). But that's not what was being discussed in this subthread:)
I can (and indeed, HAVE to) VPN in from absolutely anywhere I happen to be if Things Go Wrong with systems. So do my peers around the world.
We could be required to connect from anywhere at any time. So how do you list all those "safe" IPs? They have to onclude hotels, Kiosks, internet cafes, etc al. Which kinda makes your "safe" list completely pointless.
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You'd still have to pay because your TV is *capable* of being used to receive TV signals.
Note that you do not even have to be able to receive BBC channels, you still need a license!
Sorry, but if I ask someone in an interview whether they have used a wordprocessor, and they reply that they have used emacs, then they ain't gonna get the job!
A texteditor is not a wordprocessor!
(Mind you, if they say at any stage that they use emacs through choice, they are unlikely to get the job ;-) )
"Equally, the central mail store isn't a great idea over a WAN."
OK, so how do you propose enabling users to access their email from different computers at different sites (even dialling in remotely), please?
Nice try, but your flawed "billion" of 100 million is, in fact, metric-based.
The proper system is
million == thousand thousand.
billion == million million
trillion == billion billion.
etc
It's really not that difficult! But then, it does stop you from making figures seem more impresive than they are when you use your flawed system...
Nope, wrong.
:)
"built in" is not a verb, it is an adjective (properly written built-in, but hey, if someone is going to create a sentance with no verbs, then they are not going to worry too much about missing hyphens, are they?).
So that sentance still has no verb
This is not an attempt to troll or flame or anything, but I really have to question the statement "I like the idea of being able to leverage my knowledge of Linux when I'm jotting down a note or looking up an address."
Sorry, but no matter how geeky I am feeling, when I want to jot down a note or look up an address on my PDA, I don't want to have to "leverage my knowledge" of the underlying OS, I want to jot down a note or look up an address.
Can you clarify what you mean, please? I'm genuinely lost as to how you "leverage your knowledge" of Linux when jotting doiwn a note on a PDA!
I guess you still do not know what you are talking about, right?
Hint - check the prices of the dual 1GHz Sunfire V210. You get almost 3 of those for the price of a dual 1.2GHz Blade 2000.
you were saying?
Now add in the extra RAM from Apple to bring both boxes up to 2G RAM for a like-for-like comparison.
Oh, and show me where the 1U dual G5 machine is while you are at it...
"Sun should be very scared. Their Dual 1.2GHz 64bit offering is $14,995. Ouch!
"
Oh DO try to at least pretend to keep up.
$5,795 for sun's dual 1GHz 64-bit system (with 2GB of RAM, not the 512M G5 Macs start with).
Out of interest, how much is it for the 106-CPU version of the Mac, again?
Clue - Sun and Apple are targeting completely different markets.
Jeez, and to think that you guys actualyl expect people to PAY for Slashdot?!
If that's what you wish to believe, then I'm not going to stop you.
Your skewed belief of how we overcome these issues is of no concern of mine.
I don't.
I don't trust that system either.
But then again, I never said I did.
I don't HAVE to trust that *system*.
otherwise he woudl have ralised this story is a dupe of http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/13 18241&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=153&tid=95&tid=9 9
Go on, mod me down Slashdot editors, see if I care.
Really?
Care to explain how you reach THAT invalid conclusion, please?
(1) Yup, it was pointless and completely against the book.
(2) Still does not explain why Jackson took the story, threw it away in those areas and re-wroite his own inferios crap
(3) See 2 - (hint - the book has that battle too, you know, and Toklien managed without an elf army...)
(4) Clue - see the bastardisation of Faramir and where he takes the Hobbits...
(1) I am not always at home - I could be absolutely anywhere when The Call comes in. It's just that when I am at home, it is easier to fix without having to drive for 30 minutes.
(2) You mean you are unable to remotely reboot your systrems? For real? Then you need to get a proper sysadmin and configure things up properly. I woudl hate to be admining our Norwegian servers (which I also do) and have to catch a flight just to be able to reboot them...
"If anything Crazy(tm) happens, the office is only a 30 minute drive from my apartment to fix things on the spot."
:-D
I live 15 minutes drive from work.
I dunno about you, but I much prefer rolling out of bed, logging on, fixing problem and rolling back to bed over getting out of bed, getting dressed, spending 30 - 60 minutes round trip driving,. fixing problem, getting undressed and rolling back into bed
Oh, let's see.
:-)], I've read his "excuses"), I just happen to believe he is wrong. As do many others.
"Killing" Aragorn in order to bring him back with that pathetic method they used - NOT in the book, adds ZERO to the plot (detracts from it, even)
Fucking up Faramir's character, changing him into nothing more than a clone of Boromir - AGAINST the plot in the book.
Having that army of Elves turn up at Helms Deep (which, in teh book, they absolutely did NOt do, and that is key to the overall background story about the time of the elves passing and the time of man rising);
The entire diverting the ring bollocks toward the end of TTT;
There's 4 for you to be getting on with.
Oh, I know Jackson claims they were valid changes (being a charter member of the Fan Club [how sad
Sure, he can't include EVERYTHING (and I know of almost no-one who was upset about Tom Bombadil being omitted), but there's a difference between condensing the story to fit 3 films, and fucking it up by ADDING things that were not there and changing in major ways some of the characters.
"By definition, if it's a 24/7 operation, you wouldn't be terminating tcpip connections at all..."
Well done!
You understood the point of my post. Congratulations. Now you understand why it was moderated the way it was...
Still not really a useful excersise, killing all active connections twice a day on a department basis. Our site is 24/7, part of a global 24/7 operation world-wide.
Just because Joe sixpack has gone home for the evening, does NOt mean his session should be killed - he (in our case) is quite probably running stuff even while he is away.
Now, you might want to limit operations to 33% of the maximum available time, but for sites which require 24/7 operation, that is a very bad idea.
Or we just employ proper secutiry procedures, rather than relying upon a script running twice a day to kill off connections (let's face it, the original suggestion, namely run this twice a day, is pointless - the intruder woudl already have been in, done whatever they were doing, and gone long before the script dropped their connection. Yes, you'd have a nice shiny log to say "J00 waz 0wn3d", but it's a bit late by that point...
:)
The actual killing of connections, now, THAT is a useful tool where your intrusion detection has detected an active intrusion (or intrusion attempt). But that's not what was being discussed in this subthread
And see my reply as to why that won't work.
No good.
I can (and indeed, HAVE to) VPN in from absolutely anywhere I happen to be if Things Go Wrong with systems. So do my peers around the world.
We could be required to connect from anywhere at any time. So how do you list all those "safe" IPs? They have to onclude hotels, Kiosks, internet cafes, etc al. Which kinda makes your "safe" list completely pointless.
Which is all well and good if your organisation is strictly a 9-5 place.
However, given that a hell of a lot of places run 24/7, when woudl you propose running said script in their cases?
"But, Peter Jackson said it wasn't true to the book, so they did cut it out."
You mean unlikle the large, irrelevant and uttetly pointless changes Jackson made to the story already?