Agreed. If someone has people skills, and built up a positive network of people they work with, then perhaps let trusted coworkers know you are open to trying new positions in your company, even if the positions are not hands-on programming work.
For where I work, I was offered a position in another dept. It seems that over the years I had earned some positive karma with them when I worked with their dept. I accepted.
Kept my salary. Kept my years of previous employment, so still qualified for pension benefits after 5yrs of total work. Get bonuses now. Telecommute 4days/wk.
If I want to program at home on my own time, then fine too.
So now I am 'only' a hobby-ist programmer, and happier. Win/win.
Hopefully future people graduating high school will learn the appeal of getting an A.S. or A.A. degree in their field of interest
They then have a 'real' college degree in 2 years, and the 2year system tends to be a bit friendlier, classes not as impacted.
Also, if they find they can get rewarding and high-enough paying work with their A.S/A.A., then no need for the extra expense and stress of getting a 4yr degree.
Finally, and this is something most people do not realize: A person applying for a 4year school, that already has a 2yr degree, has _higher_ priority to getting accepted than a high school student.
- but -
None of this may make a difference, if once a graduate starts working in a technical job, comes to find they do not appreciate the workload, lack of family time, or hostile work environment some technical professions have.
Microsoft allowed the pair to continue their contributions to the open source project, and Powerset, which was rolled into Redmond’s Bing search engine, continued to run atop Hadoop.
This made Bing one of the first “shipping” Microsoft products to actually include open source code. But somewhere along the way, Microsoft moved the engine onto a proprietary platform...
"Microsoft allowed the pair" -- Here
"which was rolled into Redmond's Bing search engine" -- It
"But somewhere along the way, Microsoft moved the engine _onto_a_proprietary_platform_" -- Comes *sigh*
"Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
"Embrace, extend and extinguish,"[1] also known as "Embrace, extend and exterminate,"[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.
A rootkit would make TripWire thing the binaries had not been modified. Thats what rootkits do, they hide every trace of themselves so that they are undetectable. Or at least thats the theory, theres always a way to detect them but it usually (for good ones) requires scanning the data in a known clean machine.
IDS systems don't work with the kernel tells the IDS that the file is the original and even delivers the original bytes to the IDS in order to fool it. The kernel returns the original data for any read of the file, any memory mapping attempt, anything you try to do to get it at the data other than what the rootkit wants you to do.
Root kits make the kernel lie to an IDS, making it useless. You can't scan an infected machine by asking it for data (local app or network share, doesn't matter). You have to ask another known clean machine to do the scanning on the data directly without any other untrusted code in the process.
People may want to get into the habit of booting from a 'rescue CD' with a known-clean kernel, boot system and system binaries. Then using the 'rescue CD' to scan the computer's hard drive copies of system and boot files.
It might also be a good idea to keep the listing of critical filenames and their checksums on remote media, too.
OS doesn't matter if someone wants to target it. In fact it can even be good thing - it's a lot easier to rootkit and hide in Linux based systems than Windows, and most people don't know how to get rid of them too. Hell, in Linux a simple rootkit can work just by editing the system commands like ls.
When a Microsoft Windows machine gets infected by viruses/malware it does so mainly because users forget to update the Java JRE, Adobe Reader/Acrobat and Adobe Flash.
3. I silently thank every person and organization that advocates, promotes, creates, and helps distribute Open Source, Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, Mozilla, GPL, Apache, FSF, and every non-M$ FOSS alternative I can think of.
...speaking of how M$'s new thing is a better way than using things that exist now......I remember Microsoft's history up to that moment, and remind myself:
3. I silently thank every person and organization that advocates, promotes, creates, and helps distribute Open Source, Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, Mozilla, GPL, Apache, FSF, and every non-M$ FOSS alternative I can think of.
I used to be able to count on getting to any 24hr pharmacy (and most local 24hr supermarkets) and purchasing Primatene Mist (or an equivalent) if suffering an asthma attack.
So now I have to stock up on the works-less-well-for-me albuterol from a doctor's prescription? And if I am out have to run to the ER to get the now-only-available-by-prescription medicines? (Yes, yes: In a perfect world I would never run out, and always have a Rx solution on hand, but sh*t happens.)
Not. Happy.
I would rather they simply switch from a CFC propellant to something else, and keep such medicines as over-the-counter and CFC free.
For 2011-09-21, peak power was about 38,000MW, peak wind contribution was about 1100MW, peak solar contribution was about 450MW Perhaps as more Walmart's, Ikea's, and residental grid-tied PV is added, the solar contributions will rise to what wind adds now.
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BWHAH HAHAHA.
Time to go to Chatski's (however they spelled it) and make fun of the waitstaff's flair.
Agreed. If someone has people skills, and built up a positive network of people they work with, then perhaps let trusted coworkers know you are open to trying new positions in your company, even if the positions are not hands-on programming work.
For where I work, I was offered a position in another dept.
It seems that over the years I had earned some positive karma with them when I worked with their dept.
I accepted.
Kept my salary.
Kept my years of previous employment, so still qualified for pension benefits after 5yrs of total work.
Get bonuses now.
Telecommute 4days/wk.
If I want to program at home on my own time, then fine too.
So now I am 'only' a hobby-ist programmer, and happier. Win/win.
Best wishes on 'finding your happy place.'
Agreed.
Hopefully future people graduating high school will learn the appeal of getting an A.S. or A.A. degree in their field of interest
They then have a 'real' college degree in 2 years, and the 2year system tends to be a bit friendlier, classes not as impacted.
Also, if they find they can get rewarding and high-enough paying work with their A.S/A.A., then no need for the extra expense and stress of getting a 4yr degree.
Finally, and this is something most people do not realize: A person applying for a 4year school, that already has a 2yr degree, has _higher_ priority to getting accepted than a high school student.
- but -
None of this may make a difference, if once a graduate starts working in a technical job, comes to find they do not appreciate the workload, lack of family time, or hostile work environment some technical professions have.
...so nationally we can be ready for any zombie apocalypse! ;D
"Microsoft allowed the pair" -- Here
"which was rolled into Redmond's Bing search engine" -- It
"But somewhere along the way, Microsoft moved the engine _onto_a_proprietary_platform_" -- Comes *sigh*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
People may want to get into the habit of booting from a 'rescue CD' with a known-clean kernel, boot system and system binaries. Then using the 'rescue CD' to scan the computer's hard drive copies of system and boot files.
It might also be a good idea to keep the listing of critical filenames and their checksums on remote media, too.
Then use http://www.chkrootkit.org/
Oh, and apparently it is GPL software, too. http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=210
...would want you to believe ;)
Survey submitted.
Update early. Update often.
Geez!
...and will further put a stake into the heart of Java in the web.
In my opinion W would be a discussion for somewhere like The Daily Show, or Colbert Report, and not /.
...I remember Microsoft's history up to this moment, and remind myself:
1. Convicted monopolist ...and their strategy of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft [wikipedia.org]
2. Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. ...and then...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish [wikipedia.org]
3. I silently thank every person and organization that advocates, promotes, creates, and helps distribute Open Source, Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, Mozilla, GPL, Apache, FSF, and every non-M$ FOSS alternative I can think of.
...that is an attractive solution ;)
...I am drawn to it ;)
I watched the video on the page, showing the step-by-step of the exploit working, and the trace of what it did.
Informative and interesting.
Seems if a person did _not_ have java enabled in their browser, then the attack would have failed.
...speaking of how M$'s new thing is a better way than using things that exist now... ...I remember Microsoft's history up to that moment, and remind myself:
1. Convicted monopolist ...and their strategy of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
2. Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. ...and then...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
3. I silently thank every person and organization that advocates, promotes, creates, and helps distribute Open Source, Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, Mozilla, GPL, Apache, FSF, and every non-M$ FOSS alternative I can think of.
Oh great.
I used to be able to count on getting to any 24hr pharmacy (and most local 24hr supermarkets) and purchasing Primatene Mist (or an equivalent) if suffering an asthma attack.
So now I have to stock up on the works-less-well-for-me albuterol from a doctor's prescription? And if I am out have to run to the ER to get the now-only-available-by-prescription medicines? (Yes, yes: In a perfect world I would never run out, and always have a Rx solution on hand, but sh*t happens.)
Not. Happy.
I would rather they simply switch from a CFC propellant to something else, and keep such medicines as over-the-counter and CFC free.
Sounds like a sweet machine to run boinc apps on.
To see the daily power generation for California's CAISO, including the contributions by wind and solar, here is the URL:
http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx
For 2011-09-21, peak power was about 38,000MW, peak wind contribution was about 1100MW, peak solar contribution was about 450MW
Perhaps as more Walmart's, Ikea's, and residental grid-tied PV is added, the solar contributions will rise to what wind adds now.
;D
Google+ Nethack, of course! ;) ...Or a multi-player version of Nethack ?! ;D