One of the dirtiest machines I ever saw was a POS terminal at a tire store. When you install a few dozen tires every day, the rubber dust particles get EVERYWHERE.
When I picked the machine up and set it on the counter, the whole thing was pitch black, except for 2 nice, clean hand prints:)
As another poster mentioned, the Close Combat games are great RTS games, highly recommended. No mining or tree cutting, just WW2 combat with fairly smart units, i.e. they'll seek cover on their own instead of standing around and getting butchered.
Another really interesting series is Combat Mission. It's a not quite real time game, with a pretty decent 3D engine. The 3D engine makes terrain hugely important when fighting. The steppe looks flat, but in reality it's a gently rolling plain, with lots of places for men and even tanks to hide. There's a demo, do yourself a favor and check it out.
>During a first year maths lecture in Cambridge, a member of my college >fell asleep - head leaning on hands - and awoke when his head slipped >out of his hands. The sound of this collapse drew the attention of >almost all - in particular of the lecturer who commented humourously >upon the occurrence
Wow, your profs are pretty good-natured.
A buddy of mine (Jimbo) fell asleep during a lecture, sitting right next to a window. When the prof noticed, he got pissed. Since he had a piece of chalk in his hands, he threw it at Jimbo.
The prof made an honest attempt to bounce that chalk off Jimbo's head, but he wasn't a very good shot: it missed Jimbo and went BANG! off the window. Jimbo sat up, and looks around to see the whole class was staring at him. Serious embarassment.
Another story I heard from my high school was about a guy who fell asleep in class. The teacher let him sleep right through, when the bell rang he didn't wake up. The teacher told everyone to leave very quietly, and met the incoming students at the door and told them to enter very quietly. When the poor bastard woke up, it took him a few minutes to realize that he was surrounded by a bunch of people who weren't usually in his physics class:) So what's more embarassing, getting up and leaving, or sticking it out to the end of the class?
(I know people who witnessed the chalk-throwing incident, but I only heard about the other one third-hand, so maybe it's bull.)
Running AIM/ICQ/MSN messenger on the employee desktop doesn't fit with the locked-down situation you describe.
The logging solution you describe is certainly possible, but silly. If the company has taken the time and $$$ to lock down and standardize the desktop, will they duct-tape a homebrew logging facility onto a consumer IM product, or purchase a corporate IM product that comes with the features they want?
>First, how do you know they are going into an archive?
Isn't that what we're talking about, archiving IM messages?
>Second, you have to have write access to your log, because without it, >your im can't write to said log, but do you have any idea how little >overhead is actually involved in making a master log and copy your >personal log to it every 30 seconds... on the server level, this would >be an issue, over the network this would be an issue... on a local >workstation this wouldn't barely qualify as overhead.
Since I have permissions to write to the log, I can just overwrite the central log with a doctored one at the end of the day.
Trying to kludge logging into AIM or ICQ would be a harder and less reliable then rolling out an IM system with centralized loggin built in.
Yes, but since the logs originate on the desktop machines, they can't be trusted. I could edit the IM transcript before I log off for the day, to ensure that my evil comments don't make it into the archive.
I usually use NET SEND for my smartass/obscene OOB communication, nobody logs/monitors that:)
The commercials don't mention that those machines *HURT* like a motherfucker. I've only used a physiotherapy shocking gizmo, but I assume the mail order ones are similar.
If you're getting enough juice to make your ab muscles twitch like those girls in the commercial, you're not having any fun. I'll take sit-ups any day, a lot less painful.
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A lot of people have a lot to say about the causeway, they've have been fighting about it for 30 years.
I think the "rich landowners" thing is pretty funny, Moncton isn't known for its wealth. The houses along that artifical lake are pretty middle class, we're not talking about millionaires. Also, while those guys oppose *removing* the causeway, they didn't have anything to do with *building* it in the first place.
Also, as the linked article points out, the fishermen downstream oppose removing the causeway.
Lastly, the "let's get rid of the causeway" people conveniently forget about the old garbage dump on the banks of the river just downstream from the causeway. (A lot of really smart environmental decisions were made in Moncton in the 60's, can you tell?) If they remove the causeway there will be a lot more erosion along that stretch of the river, unearthing God knows what. So any plan to remove the causeway had better budget for shoring up the banks of the old dump.
Just to be balanced, the people who want the causeway to be removed have a website here.
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Some days, when the conditions are right, Moncton gets a nifty "tidal bore". What's that? When tide starts coming in, a couple of waves flow UP the Petticodiac river from the ocean all the way to Moncton. (By the time you see them, those waves have moved upstream about 80-100km.)
The size of the bore varies on how big a tide it is, how dry the river is etc. It's neat to observe when you happen to drive by at the right time and catch a good one. It isn't reliable enough to sit at the stupid tourist viewing area and wonder what the fuss is about.
>I always cheat when I play video games. If I don't cheat I team kill.
>It is so fun to watch people get mad and angry. The players when I >team kill get really pissed off, and this just fills me with joy. They >have worthless lives if they care so much about video games, and I'm >having fun being a bully. That fact that people put alot of work into >servers and the game, and I can come along and distroy the whole thing >and make all his work useless is very fun. They usually can't even >kick me because I know a hack, a real hack, no script but and explot >that I figured out involving that fact that an l and an I look the >exact same in half-life.
I don't know how to mod this: it's complete flamebait, but at the same time an insightful glimpse into someone's mind.
I've lost a couple of SAN points after my glimpse inside the mind of this juvenile fucktard, but I guess you can't win 'em all.
>If he wanted to leave some hard-to-find malicious timed-release >back-door-opening code running, it's certainly within his means.
<PESSIMIST> How long has he been working there?
If he wants to fuck you, YOU ARE ALREADY FUCKED! </PESSIMIST>
<OPTIMIST> Since this guy is really smart, he'll realize that he'll be blamed for anything that goes wrong over the next 10 years. He has worked hard to build your infrastructure, and does not want to harm it. </OPTIMIST>
<CYNIC> You seem very intimidated, you write as if this guy is a lot smarter then the rest of you. If he really is the one-man show you've described, then you *will* have technical problems, no matter how good his intentions were - the people you have left simply aren't smart enough to fill his role. </CYNIC>
I'm looking forward to the part where Skywalker/Vader gets beat up so badly that he has to spend the rest of his life with a machine to breath for him, hiding his maimed face behind a mask.
Some of these are new content that is freely available because of the wishes of the authors, i.e. DocBook: The Definitive Guide and Free as in Freedom.
Some of them are out of print books, i.e. The Future Does Not Compute and Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual.
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One of the dirtiest machines I ever saw was a POS terminal at a tire store. When you install a few dozen tires every day, the rubber dust particles get EVERYWHERE.
:)
When I picked the machine up and set it on the counter, the whole thing was pitch black, except for 2 nice, clean hand prints
As another poster mentioned, the Close Combat games are great RTS games, highly recommended. No mining or tree cutting, just WW2 combat with fairly smart units, i.e. they'll seek cover on their own instead of standing around and getting butchered.
Another really interesting series is Combat Mission. It's a not quite real time game, with a pretty decent 3D engine. The 3D engine makes terrain hugely important when fighting. The steppe looks flat, but in reality it's a gently rolling plain, with lots of places for men and even tanks to hide. There's a demo, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Geez. That's pretty fucking ironic, considering that lawyers spent more time consulting reference materials then almost any other profession.
>something Windows got right from the start
Hahahahahhahaha, guess you didn't have to support anything prior to Win95.
Right from the start. ROTFL!
Mind you, that was the least of the problems with Win3.x, but your statement is just silly.
I heard the story about our high school (small town New Brunswick, Canada.)
>During a first year maths lecture in Cambridge, a member of my college
:) So what's more embarassing, getting up and leaving, or sticking it out to the end of the class?
>fell asleep - head leaning on hands - and awoke when his head slipped
>out of his hands. The sound of this collapse drew the attention of
>almost all - in particular of the lecturer who commented humourously
>upon the occurrence
Wow, your profs are pretty good-natured.
A buddy of mine (Jimbo) fell asleep during a lecture, sitting right next to a window. When the prof noticed, he got pissed. Since he had a piece of chalk in his hands, he threw it at Jimbo.
The prof made an honest attempt to bounce that chalk off Jimbo's head, but he wasn't a very good shot: it missed Jimbo and went BANG! off the window. Jimbo sat up, and looks around to see the whole class was staring at him. Serious embarassment.
Another story I heard from my high school was about a guy who fell asleep in class. The teacher let him sleep right through, when the bell rang he didn't wake up. The teacher told everyone to leave very quietly, and met the incoming students at the door and told them to enter very quietly. When the poor bastard woke up, it took him a few minutes to realize that he was surrounded by a bunch of people who weren't usually in his physics class
(I know people who witnessed the chalk-throwing incident, but I only heard about the other one third-hand, so maybe it's bull.)
Running AIM/ICQ/MSN messenger on the employee desktop doesn't fit with the locked-down situation you describe.
The logging solution you describe is certainly possible, but silly. If the company has taken the time and $$$ to lock down and standardize the desktop, will they duct-tape a homebrew logging facility onto a consumer IM product, or purchase a corporate IM product that comes with the features they want?
>there is no reason you need ANY access permissions to the central log
How does my machine "upload them to server using a scheduled script" if I don't have any rights to the central log?
>First, how do you know they are going into an archive?
Isn't that what we're talking about, archiving IM messages?
>Second, you have to have write access to your log, because without it,
>your im can't write to said log, but do you have any idea how little
>overhead is actually involved in making a master log and copy your
>personal log to it every 30 seconds... on the server level, this would
>be an issue, over the network this would be an issue... on a local
>workstation this wouldn't barely qualify as overhead.
Since I have permissions to write to the log, I can just overwrite the central log with a doctored one at the end of the day.
Trying to kludge logging into AIM or ICQ would be a harder and less reliable then rolling out an IM system with centralized loggin built in.
I think we're talking about a heavily regulated and highly paranoid industry, but I admittedly don't have any direct experience.
If I was rules enforcer for the licensing body, I wouldn't OK a naive/easily spoofed IM logger.
If I was a techie for one of these trading companies I'd extend my day-to-day paranoia to IM logging.
>It would take an admin maybe -- what? -- an hour or two to implement
:)
>this? If that?
Heh. They might want to test for more then 2 hours, just a thought
Yes, but since the logs originate on the desktop machines, they can't be trusted. I could edit the IM transcript before I log off for the day, to ensure that my evil comments don't make it into the archive.
:)
I usually use NET SEND for my smartass/obscene OOB communication, nobody logs/monitors that
>The right way, of course, is to keep a careful database of what's on
>your network, and report any unscheduled/unauthorized changes.
ARPwatch is an easy way to do what you described. It notifies you whenever an unfamiliar MAC addr shows up on your network.
The commercials don't mention that those machines *HURT* like a motherfucker. I've only used a physiotherapy shocking gizmo, but I assume the mail order ones are similar.
If you're getting enough juice to make your ab muscles twitch like those girls in the commercial, you're not having any fun. I'll take sit-ups any day, a lot less painful.
>But I wouldn't use this for anything "heavy" including, a
>high-volume e-mail server, Active Directory or DNS server, etc.
Heh.
I guess Active Directory really is a pig, I ran NDS trees with several thousand accounts on 486 servers. And since when is DNS CPU-bound?
> stupid mooseheads!
Mmmm. Moosehead.
A lot of people have a lot to say about the causeway, they've have been fighting about it for 30 years.
I think the "rich landowners" thing is pretty funny, Moncton isn't known for its wealth. The houses along that artifical lake are pretty middle class, we're not talking about millionaires. Also, while those guys oppose *removing* the causeway, they didn't have anything to do with *building* it in the first place.
Also, as the linked article points out, the fishermen downstream oppose removing the causeway.
Lastly, the "let's get rid of the causeway" people conveniently forget about the old garbage dump on the banks of the river just downstream from the causeway. (A lot of really smart environmental decisions were made in Moncton in the 60's, can you tell?) If they remove the causeway there will be a lot more erosion along that stretch of the river, unearthing God knows what. So any plan to remove the causeway had better budget for shoring up the banks of the old dump.
Just to be balanced, the people who want the causeway to be removed have a website here.
Some days, when the conditions are right, Moncton gets a nifty "tidal bore". What's that? When tide starts coming in, a couple of waves flow UP the Petticodiac river from the ocean all the way to Moncton. (By the time you see them, those waves have moved upstream about 80-100km.)
The size of the bore varies on how big a tide it is, how dry the river is etc. It's neat to observe when you happen to drive by at the right time and catch a good one. It isn't reliable enough to sit at the stupid tourist viewing area and wonder what the fuss is about.
>I just don't think 128 megs is practical for the average geeks home
>directory
It's not for ~/porn or ~/mp3z, it's for
~/.bashrc
~/.ssh/
~/News/Score
and all your other settings and config data. As a bonus, you have extra room for the files you are working on right now.
>After SCO wins this round, Linux and *BSD will truly become toys for
>computing hobbiests, and will be out of the server rooms.
*BSD has already been thru the litigation wringer. A settlement was reached, and BSD is now unencumbered - 100% free of any Unix code.
Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix - From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
That lawsuit put the BSD folks in limbo for quite a while, I sincerely hope this SCO mess doesn't put a similar drag on the growth of Linux.
>I always cheat when I play video games. If I don't cheat I team kill.
>It is so fun to watch people get mad and angry. The players when I
>team kill get really pissed off, and this just fills me with joy. They
>have worthless lives if they care so much about video games, and I'm
>having fun being a bully. That fact that people put alot of work into
>servers and the game, and I can come along and distroy the whole thing
>and make all his work useless is very fun. They usually can't even
>kick me because I know a hack, a real hack, no script but and explot
>that I figured out involving that fact that an l and an I look the
>exact same in half-life.
I don't know how to mod this: it's complete flamebait, but at the same time an insightful glimpse into someone's mind.
I've lost a couple of SAN points after my glimpse inside the mind of this juvenile fucktard, but I guess you can't win 'em all.
>If he wanted to leave some hard-to-find malicious timed-release
>back-door-opening code running, it's certainly within his means.
<PESSIMIST>
How long has he been working there?
If he wants to fuck you, YOU ARE ALREADY FUCKED!
</PESSIMIST>
<OPTIMIST>
Since this guy is really smart, he'll realize that he'll be blamed for anything that goes wrong over the next 10 years. He has worked hard to build your infrastructure, and does not want to harm it.
</OPTIMIST>
<CYNIC>
You seem very intimidated, you write as if this guy is a lot smarter then the rest of you. If he really is the one-man show you've described, then you *will* have technical problems, no matter how good his intentions were - the people you have left simply aren't smart enough to fill his role.
</CYNIC>
>My approach was to put myself beyond reproach.
Great advice, mod this guy up!
>I don't hold out much hope for episode three
Me either, but I will go see it.
I'm looking forward to the part where Skywalker/Vader gets beat up so badly that he has to spend the rest of his life with a machine to breath for him, hiding his maimed face behind a mask.
Hehe.
O'Reilly is doing that now.
They've got several free books available at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/.
Some of these are new content that is freely available because of the wishes of the authors, i.e. DocBook: The Definitive Guide and Free as in Freedom.
Some of them are out of print books, i.e. The Future Does Not Compute and Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual.