No wonder when we say international business, we are typically referring to outside our border, who would want to follow other countries laws, what is the value in a citizenship then?
You'd be surprised how many businesses run $XXXXX HP printers because of the readily available toner and supply chains, the high availability of parts, and the decent reliability. I don't mind their workstations either, on the low-mid grade they are just as competitive as anybody else. They get pricey quick though, but our users don't need those, so no warrant for my research.
On that note, my next home printer is going to 90% be a brother or cannon, I just can't seem to find myself to like HP photo printing (not sure about brother, cannon is amazing), which is a feature I require for my printers:)
I'd just tell my users not to upgrade and block the update via the ASA till I got off my ass, you realize I actually do this shit professionally don't you and it just doesn't work your way, never did, never will?
Never heard of sky TV, not a comparable scope though, tiny company vs the planet earth? Keep dreaming.
Browsers would allow tls 1, 1.1, and 1.2 and then figure out what's supported or not by the server. Admins would recognize the hard lined benefits of 1.2 over 1.0 especially in shops that care about their security and set their servers to 1.2 only. In a few years, more and more people would adapt 1.2 until 1.0 can finally be phased out with a broadcast like message that you are implying.
Let me be clear though, unless there is a compelling reason for a hard cut over, it should never happen, nobody deserves to have their site knocked out of the loop because their web admin sucks or they haven't been paying attention (ex. incorrect DNS contact info). Cut overs occur with 99% planning and 1% doing, and downtime is factored out whenever possible, such as here lol.
I can say I know how to use sql server 2000, 2005, 2008 as an example.
Most resumes have sql server listed and then boom cold water. 2005 and 2008 have significant differences lol, especially in SSRS, even some syntax like system stored procs.
Because we run legacy apps on these old systems, I get to for the most part unwillingly experience them and sql 2000 shows its age consistently, but by doing this I've learned the technologies and now when I apply for a job and they say they are migrating TO 2008 from 2000, I can be like "btw I can help, I know both", which may make a difference for me, and it wasn't as bad as I make it out to be to learn sql 2000, collation was a bit of thorn in side for sure... for a while.
Then again when you know sql 2000, 2005, 2008 contracting seems attractive too as does dba:)
When you do things for users with your applications that compromise their personal data, and don't let them consent to it, then your software has a problem. Do you realize the line for a coder between app that messes with you and app that works ONLY as it should is very grey?
Really? I'm a bit of a hybrid in terms of tasks, but I've gotten...
1. a lot more offers for admin positions (might have more to do w/ my presentation though) 2. better salary offers on coding positions
Thinking of just me, it seems to be better to stay w the code, especially web development, those are always in demand.
I'd take being a part of an admin team over a coding team anyway though, prolly need more experience before I start getting offered those w/o actively seeking them and getting no reply:)
It's always worked like... browser implements new feature, web devs and admins follow, if you ask me to to turn on features on a server that aren't in use by anybody... I'd make sure you didn't have a job in my department the next day.
Do not track is a shining example of this concept, shame the implementation is half assed, but it does require web admins to do a little more than change some server settings to implement.
TLS 1.2 would experience the same implementation for a while, so a hard cut over would be nice, but who cares about security when there's money at stake by turning of tls 1.0 and losing revenue from customers who can't hit your site.
It's A LOT more complicated to implement shit in the real world than in your university dmzed lab.
Why do none support TLS 1.1, firefox is releasing new versions of its browser on an insane schedule, IE is on version 9, chrome is moving along, yet no tls 1.1? Is there something I'm missing here?
Of all the useless features they've implemented in the past year, why not secure the browser? I remember when firefox was proud of it's security.
Then again good luck replacing ssl, what are viable alternatives? Pointless discussion if there aren't any...
Also read carefully about BEAST, it's not a remote exploit, so you can't just click and choose the stream you want to sniff, it's a ways more complicated and requires a high level of trust on the compromised machine.
The place I'm at currently is one such place where we don't even have versioning, we have nightly back ups and i've used those before, but not nearly as efficient. All major apps are developed third party and I sit here and patch them little by little. Versioning doesn't do much for me as a developer in this environment, I can make strong arguments both for and against it for me, but in the end I ask myself should I invest the time and burden and the answer comes back no every time. I can at the least get things functioning to a basic QC standard, edge cases sometimes aren't accounted for, but that's where I set my own expectation on handling those as they come up. Why do I want to go through all this you say?
1. I need to entrepreneur to be happy I realize and wearing many hats at your job is one of the quickest ways to wear one big one. 2. I work almost directly with the CEO so I get to see a lot of what made that person 7+ figures in their lifetime in hopes of learning the ins and outs of being the big boss. 3. Flexible scheduling, the same disorganization that has nobody holding me accountable for standards spills over into the schedule, I can get things off short notice as needed as long as I don't over do it.
It also pays more than enough for me to live on, I wonder if it's worth it though, the money isn't as great as people think, it certainly won't make me rich as to where I can chill and relax for large sums of time.
I knew though, sometime past my first college programming course I wouldn't be able to be a pure code monkey, and need things to be challenging rather than repetitive (not a word, naming the same objects differently is not unique, the object still works the same), for which corporate was good for for a total of 6 months then shit got boring and repetitive.
To answer your question better, I would have to know the # of employees at both companies aka size and the IT budget. The question to ask is are they giving you the tools to be successful. To directly answer your question though, yes for smaller IT shops it's the norm, for dedicated IT service companies and larger corporations it certainly is not. Enterprise environments with the project flows you speak of all cost money, a lot of, system debuggers, analysts, QC are all people the bosses need to hire, and they do not usually come cheap.
Also at smaller shops it is up to you to take the initiative to upgrade usually since there is nobody else to do it and the bosses are typically busy with other stuff. As long as you are comfortable in it though it doesn't matter. What you'll notice is the standard is also lower, most CEO / boss people aren't ignorant / stupid enough to think that a smaller IT crew can produce the same quality as a bigger one, so everybody just rolls with the bugs and punches until a working product is ready.
If this is an IT firm though, and they are running outdated software, then chances are your management team is NOT IT and that is usually a good sign to run. I've only truelly enjoyed working with IT people when I approach the coding realm, and everybody else is kinda meh, but you do what you to to put bread on the table:)
As you become more independent though and possibly as your skill range widens, you may find things work out for the best in your career as there are more job paths to take. A common one is sql developer to sql dba, they are so closely related, experience can jump you from one to the other.
I'm basing this all on your going from a larger well organized shop to a smaller to less organized one based on you naming the practices and lack of. I guess it's always possible to have a shitty large IT shop too, just talk to Sony:)
Those are some pretty massive rockets, ever work on stuff like model helicopters and RV cars? To get to that level where did you have to start? Did you go to wal-mart and purchase a kit and go from there, or get a blow torch and start creating rocket fins?
Right, that would definitely work, my goal would be to prevent the intrusive government from installing anything on my computer and not wasting any time. I would be a little paranoid of that second hard drive within the scope of this article, since the government probably has rootkit grade stuff. But now that I think of, add have a system imagine from ghost or something and flash back to that every flight on your 2nd hard drive and that would kill the root kits. I'm thinking more along the lines of people like to bring the laptop on board so it doesn't get damaged during shipping, but don't want their shit searched. What's the customs official gonna say? "Sir your missing a hard drive that's a crime?" Just be like it fried right before I left X country and I tossed it to get a new one here.
What if the hard drive is removed prior to passing through the checkpoint. Or rather shipped separately, so I'd be passing through with a non-functioning laptop. Never tried it, I don't bring a laptop on vacation, f that, but what about for people who travel international? I don't think a hard drive would get searched in baggage in it's off state.
It's unfortunate that the DOJ can now seize emails whenever they feel like it without providing a reason, but I'd imagine there was a lot more pressure with this one than there is typically since this is a federal investigation. What next though? Jacob Appelbaum gets to disappear w a black bag? What exactly does the DOJ do nowadays?
And then there's statements like this...
"that raising the standard for obtaining information under ECPA may substantially slow criminal and national security investigations."
And that's a federal DA speaking, like I get he convicts pedos and murders and stuff, but have you ever heard of justice and ethics dude? Your DA score card isn't worth 1/1000 of a human life.
And here's what makes me shake my head...
Doing anything controversial on the internet... rule 101, don't tie personal information to your accounts. The technology available nowadays makes it mostly possible.
Ours works fine at my fine corporate job with all you fine people w a different face and the same attitude, we always get refurbs, if only the copier trays worked so well, fuckers never heard of metal gears vs plastic.
What u should do is...
a. get a printer tech who doesn't bitch about his/her job. b. get a printer contractor that maintains and charges u per page rather than doing it yourself or hiring the often times more expensive printer tech.
I guess a little thought goes a long way in IT.
Back to the consumer market though, they definitely cut it, i'm never paying $50 for ink again, if it explodes on me, oh well, I won't clean more than I have to, which isn't that much when it comes down to it on a consumer grade printer (I wouldn't be the first consumer to blow up an ink cartridge).
As consumers got sick of paying $50 to refill their $100 printer once every 3 months, wal greens started doing refillable cartridges, it's been all downhill from there for the ink industry and their fine and just pricing.
On that note I could care less what happens to a soulless corporation, there may be job loss yes, but somebody with better marketing will come and take their place (never liked HP advertising).
Isn't it all about what's on the TV anyways right slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
In regards to the fox news link,
No wonder when we say international business, we are typically referring to outside our border, who would want to follow other countries laws, what is the value in a citizenship then?
They REALLY want that camera.
quick everybody go grab it, whether you have an "iDevice" or not.
I'll just link to...
http://www.stemkoski.com/simple-iphone-emulator-for-windows/
and pretend anyone cares.
Only works when the people you work with are cool or smart or attractive. Otherwise massive fail.
You'd be surprised how many businesses run $XXXXX HP printers because of the readily available toner and supply chains, the high availability of parts, and the decent reliability. I don't mind their workstations either, on the low-mid grade they are just as competitive as anybody else. They get pricey quick though, but our users don't need those, so no warrant for my research.
On that note, my next home printer is going to 90% be a brother or cannon, I just can't seem to find myself to like HP photo printing (not sure about brother, cannon is amazing), which is a feature I require for my printers :)
Really?
I'd just tell my users not to upgrade and block the update via the ASA till I got off my ass, you realize I actually do this shit professionally don't you and it just doesn't work your way, never did, never will?
Never heard of sky TV, not a comparable scope though, tiny company vs the planet earth? Keep dreaming.
No transition has ever worked that way...
Downtime is not acceptable worldwide rofl.
Browsers would allow tls 1, 1.1, and 1.2 and then figure out what's supported or not by the server. Admins would recognize the hard lined benefits of 1.2 over 1.0 especially in shops that care about their security and set their servers to 1.2 only. In a few years, more and more people would adapt 1.2 until 1.0 can finally be phased out with a broadcast like message that you are implying.
Let me be clear though, unless there is a compelling reason for a hard cut over, it should never happen, nobody deserves to have their site knocked out of the loop because their web admin sucks or they haven't been paying attention (ex. incorrect DNS contact info). Cut overs occur with 99% planning and 1% doing, and downtime is factored out whenever possible, such as here lol.
There is a crown to be had in all of this...
I can say I know how to use sql server 2000, 2005, 2008 as an example.
Most resumes have sql server listed and then boom cold water. 2005 and 2008 have significant differences lol, especially in SSRS, even some syntax like system stored procs.
Because we run legacy apps on these old systems, I get to for the most part unwillingly experience them and sql 2000 shows its age consistently, but by doing this I've learned the technologies and now when I apply for a job and they say they are migrating TO 2008 from 2000, I can be like "btw I can help, I know both", which may make a difference for me, and it wasn't as bad as I make it out to be to learn sql 2000, collation was a bit of thorn in side for sure... for a while.
Then again when you know sql 2000, 2005, 2008 contracting seems attractive too as does dba :)
OP reminds me of...
Remember google buzz and all the privacy issues?
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/google-google-buzz-google-lawsuit-google/11/4/2010/id/30935?page=full
When you do things for users with your applications that compromise their personal data, and don't let them consent to it, then your software has a problem. Do you realize the line for a coder between app that messes with you and app that works ONLY as it should is very grey?
The contractors warranty their work :) Sometimes makes all the difference, the $15/h tech is just miserable usually.
Really? I'm a bit of a hybrid in terms of tasks, but I've gotten...
1. a lot more offers for admin positions (might have more to do w/ my presentation though)
2. better salary offers on coding positions
Thinking of just me, it seems to be better to stay w the code, especially web development, those are always in demand.
I'd take being a part of an admin team over a coding team anyway though, prolly need more experience before I start getting offered those w/o actively seeking them and getting no reply :)
As did you, what major browsers?
Look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Market_adoption
You calling opera a major browser and piggy backing off (#37683562) in regards to servers?
IE, Firefox, nor Chrome don't support it as stated above, a 10 second google search would yield something like...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0539619c98f85cbb&hl=en
It's always worked like... browser implements new feature, web devs and admins follow, if you ask me to to turn on features on a server that aren't in use by anybody... I'd make sure you didn't have a job in my department the next day.
Do not track is a shining example of this concept, shame the implementation is half assed, but it does require web admins to do a little more than change some server settings to implement.
TLS 1.2 would experience the same implementation for a while, so a hard cut over would be nice, but who cares about security when there's money at stake by turning of tls 1.0 and losing revenue from customers who can't hit your site.
It's A LOT more complicated to implement shit in the real world than in your university dmzed lab.
I can deploy GIT faster than you wrote your post, what makes you qualified to judge?
Why do none support TLS 1.1, firefox is releasing new versions of its browser on an insane schedule, IE is on version 9, chrome is moving along, yet no tls 1.1? Is there something I'm missing here?
Of all the useless features they've implemented in the past year, why not secure the browser? I remember when firefox was proud of it's security.
Then again good luck replacing ssl, what are viable alternatives? Pointless discussion if there aren't any...
Also read carefully about BEAST, it's not a remote exploit, so you can't just click and choose the stream you want to sniff, it's a ways more complicated and requires a high level of trust on the compromised machine.
The place I'm at currently is one such place where we don't even have versioning, we have nightly back ups and i've used those before, but not nearly as efficient. All major apps are developed third party and I sit here and patch them little by little. Versioning doesn't do much for me as a developer in this environment, I can make strong arguments both for and against it for me, but in the end I ask myself should I invest the time and burden and the answer comes back no every time. I can at the least get things functioning to a basic QC standard, edge cases sometimes aren't accounted for, but that's where I set my own expectation on handling those as they come up. Why do I want to go through all this you say?
1. I need to entrepreneur to be happy I realize and wearing many hats at your job is one of the quickest ways to wear one big one.
2. I work almost directly with the CEO so I get to see a lot of what made that person 7+ figures in their lifetime in hopes of learning the ins and outs of being the big boss.
3. Flexible scheduling, the same disorganization that has nobody holding me accountable for standards spills over into the schedule, I can get things off short notice as needed as long as I don't over do it.
It also pays more than enough for me to live on, I wonder if it's worth it though, the money isn't as great as people think, it certainly won't make me rich as to where I can chill and relax for large sums of time.
I knew though, sometime past my first college programming course I wouldn't be able to be a pure code monkey, and need things to be challenging rather than repetitive (not a word, naming the same objects differently is not unique, the object still works the same), for which corporate was good for for a total of 6 months then shit got boring and repetitive.
To answer your question better, I would have to know the # of employees at both companies aka size and the IT budget. The question to ask is are they giving you the tools to be successful. To directly answer your question though, yes for smaller IT shops it's the norm, for dedicated IT service companies and larger corporations it certainly is not. Enterprise environments with the project flows you speak of all cost money, a lot of, system debuggers, analysts, QC are all people the bosses need to hire, and they do not usually come cheap.
Also at smaller shops it is up to you to take the initiative to upgrade usually since there is nobody else to do it and the bosses are typically busy with other stuff. As long as you are comfortable in it though it doesn't matter. What you'll notice is the standard is also lower, most CEO / boss people aren't ignorant / stupid enough to think that a smaller IT crew can produce the same quality as a bigger one, so everybody just rolls with the bugs and punches until a working product is ready.
If this is an IT firm though, and they are running outdated software, then chances are your management team is NOT IT and that is usually a good sign to run. I've only truelly enjoyed working with IT people when I approach the coding realm, and everybody else is kinda meh, but you do what you to to put bread on the table :)
As you become more independent though and possibly as your skill range widens, you may find things work out for the best in your career as there are more job paths to take. A common one is sql developer to sql dba, they are so closely related, experience can jump you from one to the other.
I'm basing this all on your going from a larger well organized shop to a smaller to less organized one based on you naming the practices and lack of. I guess it's always possible to have a shitty large IT shop too, just talk to Sony :)
Those are some pretty massive rockets, ever work on stuff like model helicopters and RV cars? To get to that level where did you have to start? Did you go to wal-mart and purchase a kit and go from there, or get a blow torch and start creating rocket fins?
Right, that would definitely work, my goal would be to prevent the intrusive government from installing anything on my computer and not wasting any time. I would be a little paranoid of that second hard drive within the scope of this article, since the government probably has rootkit grade stuff. But now that I think of, add have a system imagine from ghost or something and flash back to that every flight on your 2nd hard drive and that would kill the root kits. I'm thinking more along the lines of people like to bring the laptop on board so it doesn't get damaged during shipping, but don't want their shit searched. What's the customs official gonna say? "Sir your missing a hard drive that's a crime?" Just be like it fried right before I left X country and I tossed it to get a new one here.
I've always had this theory...
What if the hard drive is removed prior to passing through the checkpoint. Or rather shipped separately, so I'd be passing through with a non-functioning laptop. Never tried it, I don't bring a laptop on vacation, f that, but what about for people who travel international? I don't think a hard drive would get searched in baggage in it's off state.
There's a pretty decent movie about this too,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418689/
Flags of our Fathers.
It's unfortunate that the DOJ can now seize emails whenever they feel like it without providing a reason, but I'd imagine there was a lot more pressure with this one than there is typically since this is a federal investigation. What next though? Jacob Appelbaum gets to disappear w a black bag? What exactly does the DOJ do nowadays?
And then there's statements like this...
"that raising the standard for obtaining information under ECPA may substantially slow criminal and national security investigations."
And that's a federal DA speaking, like I get he convicts pedos and murders and stuff, but have you ever heard of justice and ethics dude? Your DA score card isn't worth 1/1000 of a human life.
And here's what makes me shake my head...
Doing anything controversial on the internet... rule 101, don't tie personal information to your accounts. The technology available nowadays makes it mostly possible.
Actually I was looking for the phrase "go f yourself" Mr. wannabe royalty nazi.
Ours works fine at my fine corporate job with all you fine people w a different face and the same attitude, we always get refurbs, if only the copier trays worked so well, fuckers never heard of metal gears vs plastic.
What u should do is...
a. get a printer tech who doesn't bitch about his/her job.
b. get a printer contractor that maintains and charges u per page rather than doing it yourself or hiring the often times more expensive printer tech.
I guess a little thought goes a long way in IT.
Back to the consumer market though, they definitely cut it, i'm never paying $50 for ink again, if it explodes on me, oh well, I won't clean more than I have to, which isn't that much when it comes down to it on a consumer grade printer (I wouldn't be the first consumer to blow up an ink cartridge).
It's never too late for a popular product to tank cause of "new features" .
Not sure how piratebay users would feel using the cloud based storage either.
As consumers got sick of paying $50 to refill their $100 printer once every 3 months, wal greens started doing refillable cartridges, it's been all downhill from there for the ink industry and their fine and just pricing.
On that note I could care less what happens to a soulless corporation, there may be job loss yes, but somebody with better marketing will come and take their place (never liked HP advertising).
Isn't it all about what's on the TV anyways right slashdot?