In early Latin, the same letter represents both the vowel U and the consonent V. In later periods the vowel and the consonent were differentiated as V and U.
I could certainly find a way to learn about the interviewees school without asking denigrating questions.
Well, I 'spose the interviewer could have googled for the school in question before conducting the interview.
they may have to do business one day with the people they interview.
Very true. However, in spite of first impressions and all that, I personally don't write someone off until the second time they piss me off. My first dealing with someone may just have been on their off day - and I've had enough off days when I've potentially pissed someone off that I hope to get a second chance:-)
Now, my school may not be widely known but it is fairly highly respected.
How can someone be expected to respect a school they don't know. I don't think the interviewer was trying to be an asshole - he was probably just being thorough. Don't take these sorts of questions personally.
About a year later, my current employer asked me to evaluate several products. One of which was the company that the asshole worked at. Needless to say, they didn't stand a chance in hell of landing our business.
I sure hope for your current employer's sake the the vendor you chose had a superior product to the one you rejected for personal reasons.
Don't know if this would help in your situation, but a while ago on a LUG list I heard about the "wheel" group. Don't recall the exact details, but apparently some *nix systems allow a set-up where ordinary users who belong to the "wheel" group can "su" without a root password.
no idea how it is called in english, sorry. It's "petites créances" in french
In english speaking countries, one would find a "small claims court" or a "small claims tribunal" or a "disputes tribunal". I am in New Zealand (Nouvelle Zéland?) - don't know the USA equivalent.
easily administrated remotely and securely via SSH easy - yes. securely - maybe - there have been remote exploits in openssh, maybe other implementations - I've heard that some linux gurus can update sshd and restart the daemon while logged in via ssh, without losing the ssh session - but I don't know how they do it - you might want to find out since it's a long way from Oz to.de-land:-)
After witnessing this, I will certainly be migrating my parents and other relatives to Linux/Mozilla as soon as I can.
Some folks will probably reply that when Linux gets more common, there will be crapware for linux too. This may or may not be the case (depends on whether you buy the "windows gets attacked because it's popular" argument). In any case, switching to linux will at least buy some time, since it will take a while for linux to get the user base required to make it a target for crapware.
Since the only thing I record onto CD-Rs is personal data and downloaded free (beer & speech) OSS, that would suck for me. Having to pay the music industry for something that has nothing to do with them.
Doh! You're right. The mail headers will contain the external IP. The body of the message will still contain the output of ifconfig which will be the 192.168.x.x address, but I forgot about the mail headers.
Many of the quirks, irritations and nifty features are only discovered after months of using a particular distro. I suspect the kind of depth that the Ask Slashdot question is aking for requires using a distro long enough to become intimately familiar with all the ins and outs.
All the distros handle the standard tasks in a standard kinda way. It's the odd task that the reviewer didn't think of that can make the difference between a really neat distro and a frustrating one.
Taking MS to court in Oz would stand more chance than trying to do so in the states, where they've already bought the politicians
Bzzzt! The USA already owns Australia through various trade agreements. When the US administration tells Australia's leaders to bend over, they reply "Okay, but be gentle."
New Zealand, on the other hand, misses out on vital trade agreements because they refuse to bend over and take it. You can't win either way with a super power, except for the odd pyrhic (sp?) moral victory.
I must be one of the lucky ones. I switched all PCs including wife's laptop to Linux and explained (nicely) that I don't know how to maintain a windows PC (which was true) and that linux is more stable and gets less worms & viruses (also true - I'll leave whether it's due to design or market share to another debate).
Actually, the PCs I owned before we got married were already windowless. I got more complaints from her brother (a microsoft fanboy) than from her.
So for her the only changes are:
The start menu now looks like a K with a cog grafted onto it
"Word" now has an "Export to PDF" button on the toolbar
The "Outlook" type app is now started by clicking on a big orange E
The "IE" type app is now called "Mozilla" (Actually the icon is labled "Surf the web".
Instead of windows media player, clicking an mp3 or ogg file starts in kaboodle or xmms (I can't remember which - it makes no difference to her)
Everything else is more or less like it was in Windows. The differences are small enough for her to shrug her shoulders and keep doing what she's always done. Those who harp on about having to re-learn everything or about linux not being ready for the desktop are making mountains out of molehills. If my non-techie wife can make the switch, any reasonably intellegent person can, even if computers are not their forté.
I'll probably get a few replies from people who can't do something in particular in linux, so I'll add YMMV:-)
It looks like linux is "vulnerable" naive users then. From kmail to ark to running a.sh file is trivial. I'm sure most programmers could write a shell script that greps recursively through $HOME for files containing the pattern something@something.something and writing the results to a file. They could then use the unix mail command to send the zip file containing the.sh script to every address in that file.
None of this would require root privilages. grep and mail are on just about every linux, BSD and other unix box, so this would be a cross platform virus. Not even OpenBSD could prevent this if the users are naive enough to run the.sh script.
Would I go to jail if I created such a script as a proof of concept?
Linux users need to give up their technology that doesn't work correctly and use that which does.
Except that it does work properly. It's not a matter of linux working properly, it's a matter of being allowed. Linux plays DVDs right now. If I take my laptop that runs linux with me to the USA or any other country under US jurisdiction, I'll be a law breaker. Yet another reason not to visit the United Corporations of America.
This will temporarily degrade your CDROM to a quiet 20-speed model, if you run the correct OS, that is.
You gave some hdparm command for the OP to try, but you may have missed his reference to F: which suggests he might be using the other OS. Thanks for the hint though, I'll try it since I use the "correct" OS:-)
As an aside - just to stir a little - what's more intuitive? F: or/mnt/cdrom?
My wife was laid off recently due to her employer losing about 80% of its customers (long story). I showed her how to export to PDF in OOo and how to attach the resulting.pdf to an email in kmail, and she has had interviews for every resume.pdf that she's sent. This is New Zealand. I don't know if things are different in other countries and cultures.
I suppose the people doing the hiring assume we have adobe-pdf-making-thing. They've never asked for resume.doc.
If you have a customer, and you depend on their money for your livelyhood, you WILL find a way to open their documents without going on a tirade.
Of course, it's the golden rule - those who have the gold make the rules. If I want your money, you decide the format for our correspondence. If you want my money, I decide the format for our correspondence.
Even if there's no client/vendor relationship, then there may be some other I-want/need-something/you-have-something relationship, in which case the person who has something can dictate the format. Sorry if that makes me sound like an a***hole.
Whoever has more to gain from the correspondence must go along with the other person, or risk forfeiting what they hope to gain.
The exception is govt depts, whom I feel are obliged to provide info in a format that the people they represent can access (in a democracy where the govt works for the people).
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In early Latin, the same letter represents both the vowel U and the consonent V. In later periods the vowel and the consonent were differentiated as V and U.
I could certainly find a way to learn about the interviewees school without asking denigrating questions.
:-)
Well, I 'spose the interviewer could have googled for the school in question before conducting the interview.
they may have to do business one day with the people they interview.
Very true. However, in spite of first impressions and all that, I personally don't write someone off until the second time they piss me off. My first dealing with someone may just have been on their off day - and I've had enough off days when I've potentially pissed someone off that I hope to get a second chance
Now, my school may not be widely known but it is fairly highly respected.
How can someone be expected to respect a school they don't know. I don't think the interviewer was trying to be an asshole - he was probably just being thorough. Don't take these sorts of questions personally.
About a year later, my current employer asked me to evaluate several products. One of which was the company that the asshole worked at. Needless to say, they didn't stand a chance in hell of landing our business.
I sure hope for your current employer's sake the the vendor you chose had a superior product to the one you rejected for personal reasons.
Don't know if this would help in your situation, but a while ago on a LUG list I heard about the "wheel" group. Don't recall the exact details, but apparently some *nix systems allow a set-up where ordinary users who belong to the "wheel" group can "su" without a root password.
Just a thought.
no idea how it is called in english, sorry. It's "petites créances" in french
In english speaking countries, one would find a "small claims court" or a "small claims tribunal" or a "disputes tribunal".
I am in New Zealand (Nouvelle Zéland?) - don't know the USA equivalent.
easily administrated remotely and securely via SSH .de-land :-)
easy - yes.
securely - maybe - there have been remote exploits in openssh, maybe other implementations - I've heard that some linux gurus can update sshd and restart the daemon while logged in via ssh, without losing the ssh session - but I don't know how they do it - you might want to find out since it's a long way from Oz to
After witnessing this, I will certainly be migrating my parents and other relatives to Linux/Mozilla as soon as I can.
Some folks will probably reply that when Linux gets more common, there will be crapware for linux too. This may or may not be the case (depends on whether you buy the "windows gets attacked because it's popular" argument). In any case, switching to linux will at least buy some time, since it will take a while for linux to get the user base required to make it a target for crapware.
Ditto for Mac.
Since the only thing I record onto CD-Rs is personal data and downloaded free (beer & speech) OSS, that would suck for me. Having to pay the music industry for something that has nothing to do with them.
Doh! You're right. The mail headers will contain the external IP.
The body of the message will still contain the output of ifconfig which will be the 192.168.x.x address, but I forgot about the mail headers.
cron a bash script. /sbin/ifconfig | mail you@where.com
/sbin/traceroute www.slashdot.org | mail you@where.com
If they're behind a NAT, you'll get an email that says the IP address is something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x
That won't be very useful.
How about
perhaps?
Many of the quirks, irritations and nifty features are only discovered after months of using a particular distro. I suspect the kind of depth that the Ask Slashdot question is aking for requires using a distro long enough to become intimately familiar with all the ins and outs.
All the distros handle the standard tasks in a standard kinda way. It's the odd task that the reviewer didn't think of that can make the difference between a really neat distro and a frustrating one.
Contract web development would be great if it weren't for the clients
:-)
I think that applies to just about any line of work. It's amazing what we'll put up with from the person paying us
Robert T Morris - was he the sendmail worm guy? I read something about that years ago. Too lazy check google if he's the same guy I'm thinking of.
Taking MS to court in Oz would stand more chance than trying to do so in the states, where they've already bought the politicians
Bzzzt! The USA already owns Australia through various trade agreements. When the US administration tells Australia's leaders to bend over, they reply "Okay, but be gentle."
New Zealand, on the other hand, misses out on vital trade agreements because they refuse to bend over and take it. You can't win either way with a super power, except for the odd pyrhic (sp?) moral victory.
Actually, the PCs I owned before we got married were already windowless. I got more complaints from her brother (a microsoft fanboy) than from her.
So for her the only changes are:
The start menu now looks like a K with a cog grafted onto it
"Word" now has an "Export to PDF" button on the toolbar
The "Outlook" type app is now started by clicking on a big orange E
The "IE" type app is now called "Mozilla" (Actually the icon is labled "Surf the web".
Instead of windows media player, clicking an mp3 or ogg file starts in kaboodle or xmms (I can't remember which - it makes no difference to her)
:-)
Everything else is more or less like it was in Windows. The differences are small enough for her to shrug her shoulders and keep doing what she's always done. Those who harp on about having to re-learn everything or about linux not being ready for the desktop are making mountains out of molehills. If my non-techie wife can make the switch, any reasonably intellegent person can, even if computers are not their forté.
I'll probably get a few replies from people who can't do something in particular in linux, so I'll add YMMV
Does it include fees to SCO?
It includes licencing costs, so if SCO win their case, then yes it would include those fees.
It looks like linux is "vulnerable" naive users then. .sh file is trivial. .sh script to every address in that file.
.sh script.
From kmail to ark to running a
I'm sure most programmers could write a shell script that greps recursively through $HOME for files containing the pattern something@something.something and writing the results to a file.
They could then use the unix mail command to send the zip file containing the
None of this would require root privilages. grep and mail are on just about every linux, BSD and other unix box, so this would be a cross platform virus. Not even OpenBSD could prevent this if the users are naive enough to run the
Would I go to jail if I created such a script as a proof of concept?
Linux users need to give up their technology that doesn't work correctly and use that which does.
Except that it does work properly. It's not a matter of linux working properly, it's a matter of being allowed.
Linux plays DVDs right now. If I take my laptop that runs linux with me to the USA or any other country under US jurisdiction, I'll be a law breaker. Yet another reason not to visit the United Corporations of America.
Sure you can sue free web-based email providers - but only to get your money back.
This will temporarily degrade your CDROM to a quiet 20-speed model, if you run the correct OS, that is.
:-)
/mnt/cdrom?
You gave some hdparm command for the OP to try, but you may have missed his reference to F: which suggests he might be using the other OS. Thanks for the hint though, I'll try it since I use the "correct" OS
As an aside - just to stir a little - what's more intuitive? F: or
Easy-to-use for joe-idiot is whatever he learns first - after that everything else is hard because it's different from what he learned first.
I've seen plenty of complete first-time computer users totally confused by the windows interface.
My wife was laid off recently due to her employer losing about 80% of its customers (long story). .pdf to an email in kmail, and she has had interviews for every resume.pdf that she's sent. This is New Zealand. I don't know if things are different in other countries and cultures.
I showed her how to export to PDF in OOo and how to attach the resulting
I suppose the people doing the hiring assume we have adobe-pdf-making-thing. They've never asked for resume.doc .
Try the output of lspci.
Markets where people can go around stealing whatever they want are not free markets.
And no matter how many times you say it is, decoding a signal that someone beams onto your property is not stealing.
If you have a customer, and you depend on their money for your livelyhood, you WILL find a way to open their documents without going on a tirade.
Of course, it's the golden rule - those who have the gold make the rules.
If I want your money, you decide the format for our correspondence.
If you want my money, I decide the format for our correspondence.
Even if there's no client/vendor relationship, then there may be some other I-want/need-something/you-have-something relationship, in which case the person who has something can dictate the format. Sorry if that makes me sound like an a***hole.
Whoever has more to gain from the correspondence must go along with the other person, or risk forfeiting what they hope to gain.
The exception is govt depts, whom I feel are obliged to provide info in a format that the people they represent can access (in a democracy where the govt works for the people).