Because in light of their performance, pricing products and upgrades that render devices near useless, I feel there is something in the air about the question of apple's monolithic existence in my household.
TL;Dr Apple is on my shit list after being an avid user due to price and declining inventiveness
I would like to see this assessment done with the collection of data done by a Myers-Briggs or enneagram (with wing analysis) test. I think it would produce some interesting and more revealing results about strengths and vulnerabilities, this really being able to drill down on the conscious and subconscious drivers of rat "type" of hacker.
I used to be a self taught IT technician. Nothing overly high reaching, but enough to manage a network and look after pc's. The long and the short of it was the job burnt me out. With no official quals under my belt I had a hard time getting another job in the industry (circa 2004). So I decided to become an electrical apprentice with the local government supplier (distribution).
Best thing I've done: PROS: Pay's not too bad as a second year adult apprentice working conditions are good I haven't worked hard since I started, no pressure. I can still utilise my IT skills in scada and maybe later on in the network control side of things. The pay is as a first year tradesman out of their time is about the same as a recent graduate (and can go up from there) Awesome job security (everyone needs power) Working is still challenging and interesting. Out and about without a boss breathing down my neck Scope for further study
Cons: The risk goes up, but the company is *very* safety conscious Some occasionally filthy environments Attitude exists that you know nothing because your 'just the apprentice'
All in all, having the general IT skills gives me an edge in an industry where some tradies still struggle to use a computer (usually the older ones, but some of the younger ones aswell).
Think about it, it might be worth in your area/state/country or then again YMMV
That's pretty much the marketing of Australian ISPs. I've been off work for the last week and have been able to pull speeds during the day that are great for my service. Come 4 -7 o'clock and up till about 10 pm, the service is pretty average. It doesn't take a think tank to see this stuff.
Load shedding is a work around when you realise that your network is crap and it's turning to shite around you, but companies will still have to pony up and expand the infrastructure properly, instead of just rolling out enough to keep the funny-numbers-balance-sheet looking pretty.
Usually it is by regulation to reduce inteterferance from adjacent electrical. Or to ease the process of a cable pull.
In australia, the S009 standards are a fixed seperation of 150mm or a semi durable barrier with no seperation for data/telco from LV cables (240 - 1000V)
Yes I was ranting, though for some reason the rant tags I wrote didn't show up. The reason LV is more dangerous is that HV tends to blow people away like you described. Still I contest that familiarity in something we use every day breeds contempt.
I understand the author of the article knows his/her limits; this is not directed at him/her.
It never ceases to amaze me the advice given on slashdot. How to make network cables, what 2 way radio I should buy, what widget is good, what version of *nix should I run to do abc (insert favourite version of *nix here). The above advices is often very helpful and gives many including myself a point in the right direction for learning. However as an apprentice electrician with a background in IT and telecommunications, I have learnt there are just some things you don't fuck with unless you have the necessary experience. Electricity is one of them. I work on the industrial distribution side of things where the smallest is 230V (Australia) and the more usual is 11/33 kV. I have done some contracting also.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. With a electricity, even a moderate amount of knowledge is a dangerous thing. If a plumber stuffs up his pipes, the shit goes in the sewer and the storm water goes down the shit. An environmental issue, but not immediately life threatening. I'm not having a go at plumbers, just that water doesn't kill in the same sense. We mix active and neutral wires around and we kill someone. This is called polarity because the neutral is bonded to the earth by a multiple earth neutral (MEN) link. So now that you weren't sure which socket to put that wire into, congratulations, you just livened up every tap in your house. There have been many cases of this happening with workers and people dying.
The other thing to consider is how many KVA that you are going to need. This is related to power factor; in short how much extra overhead is needed to run the system, let alone you basic current draw. Examples of power factor (overhead) include starting currents for running fridges (up to 8 times it's operational current to kick over the compressor). Too much voltage drop on the circuit (a fair amount here, not just 1 or 2%) because of too high a load and congratulations you've just burnt out your fridge. What happens is the compressor does not have enough initial voltage to kick it over and continues to attempt to do so. If the voltage has dropped by half for example, the fridge is going to pull twice as much current to try and start. At 8 times *initial* starting current, we've just doubled that. We are now pulling current outside of what the fridge is designed to carry. Increased load = increased heat = increased resistance = increased load and so the cycle continues. Magic Black Smoke ensues.
Safety: I will keep this brief It takes 0.4 A to induce an heart attack. Our cells operate at very close the frequency of electricity (50hz in euro/aus, 60Hz in North America) It can be said that low voltage (240 to 1000V) is more dangerous than high voltage (1000V to 33kv). I'm sure many here have mucked around with power supplies or power outlets and gotten a tingle. Some people get thrown across the room, if you unlucky enough to touch it with the palm of your hand, your muscles will contract and lock down. And will stay that way until you are a puddle on the floor. The general resistance of a human is approimately 1000 ohms, thus doing the math (i = v/r) 110/1000 = 0.11 A. Those figures are starting to push into the major danger area. If you are slightly wet, sweaty or not wearing the right gear, your resistance goes down and your likelihood to die just went up a whole lot. To put into perspective the testing tolerance on a working electrical glove for LV is 8mA at the very most before fail.
The calculations that go into design are not hard, and in the Aussie standards there are load recommendations as well. The point is a good electrician is also an engineer at heart, designing the system so you are not paying too much for something and not killing your system either. You pay for an electrician's skill, experience and insurance that he won't make it go bang or *kill* someone when he walks away. For those giving advice on slashdot
Call me cynical, but I thought the obvious spelling error may have been placed to simply obtain attention. It seems to have worked considering I am posting.
One thing that I cannot understand about Australian, particularly in Brisbane is the attitude of 'Australia: love it or leave' combined with the surreptitious nationalism. Our easy going nature is simply apathy that we will not admit to. When constructive criticism is made, it is often met with derision by the general populace because it is not the Australian way. For all the multiculturalism in this country, tt concerns me the bigotry, racism and provincial mindset that so many have on this island.
Sadly enough, it makes me want to hand in my pass at the door. We are the 51st state of the US (foreign policy, economic policy, etc) , and have learnt it's lessons and bettered them. (ie we are more litigious per capita then the US). A country that chooses to play second fiddle instead of stand on our own two feet.
I guess we shouldn't knock bacteria, after all it's the only culture that some people have in this country.
It's a fair comment to say that images that are changed are going to have different hash values. But how many non tech people who download images en masse that are of interest to law enf0rcment are going to reneame them? Often, it's those that don't think about what they are doing that these tools are designed to catch; end users as such.
Tools like these I believe are for the majority of cases and the occasional big ring crackdown. It's not so that they can shut down kiddy pr0n, but to tell everyone that they are doing something about it while putting in minimal effort and thus justifying a government job. It's amazing how many people in government jobs will keep a cruisy job going if all they have to do is justify it every now and again. I see it around me every day in my job. Maximum output on paper, with minimal input in reality.
Then again I could be wrong, but I've been known to lean on my government 'shovel' from time to time aswell.
Actually this is one of the few games I have bought. I felt that after years of producing comics that gave me a good laugh ( though I wish fruit fucker and the divx player would make appearances again), i felt not just a relationship with the authors; and emotional investment if you will, in the characters that are portrayed through Penny Arcade. Playing the game was like reliving the comics
Further to that, the price of the game wasn't too bad either.
I had a boss like that once. An arrogant, small statured MD who "hates IT" (yet worked for a business machine company) who was also impatient, and had a small statured attitude to match. As soon as XP opened he would click on the outlook icon, and click and click and... Needless to say he wasn't impressed when outlook locked up.
$20M dollar company all running windows boxen ( with a few saleman macs thrown in for excitement) , but no exchange server to centralise calenders. Never understood that [apart from them just being tight].
No amount of educating him would work. In a corporate environment of 100 users where everything from 95 to 2003 server flourished because there was no budget, the only end result was to buy him the 'latest and greatest', fastest computer that we could find from dell (why dell? because that's the rules). The ticket worked out at about $5K
Of course the guy who normally ran the IT section (there was two of us) was the web developer, the crm developer, the database admin, and so on... To cut a long story short he quit because he was jack of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
That was first and last "formal" experience in IT. I quit and started an industrial electrician apprenticeship instead. The good part is, many of tradesman are 'wowed' by the IT competencies. Hopefully it will help me secure a stronger position later on. However, having said that, I don't really want to be called on for my IT skills
One thing I have noted from all of this, because corporate institutions are such socio-pathological entities, the experience I had wrecked a hobby-turned-job of 10 years.
As was once said "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry" (Einstein). I believe this goes for work aswell. When you are so driven by an institution to be a widget to produce a widget, nothing is left for curiosity, discovery and creative expression. Attributes which are quite necessary to stay in such an industry. My hat goes off to those who persevere, particularly against the mooing of the great unwashed of cow-orkers and management. I guess my story is one very similar many other peoples.
My passion and fascination will always be there for the technical, and I still spend a lot of time in related fields. But these days I play the violin and piano, aswell as pursue other interests.
In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
The people get leaders who say one thing and do another. What they get is often not what the people asked for
The idea of censoring the internet, especially for the laughable justification that its "for the children" simply indicates to me that the people of Australia need to start taking responsibility for their government and elect candidates who will not pull this kind of crap.
I hope you know some good ones, because the 51st state of the US is not inclined to have candidates who are here for the people
Don't get fooled into thinking that "the government" did this. It was the people of Australia who elected politicians who are doing it. It is up to the people of Australia to un-elect those politicians, by force if necessary.
This is why ripple controllers are being installed on air conditioners by Energex to alleviate the transformer load. It will be interesting to see what effect turning off an airconditioner for 15 minutes will make on the network.
Things have changed since 2004 from a management perspective. It used to be cost cut as much as possible. Now tranny upgrades are occurring as a preventative maintenance meausre. If a maximum demand indicator gets close to the limit, it gets upgraded, not left to the last minute when it falls over. Of course spending (or not spending) on the network can be a political thing aswell. Having said that the network is still under significant load during summer. Hopefully the firies won't be hosing down pole transformers to keep them cool this summer. At least it's not the Joe Bjelke-Peterson days that it used to be.
Slashdot Mirror
Because in light of their performance, pricing products and upgrades that render devices near useless, I feel there is something in the air about the question of apple's monolithic existence in my household.
TL;Dr Apple is on my shit list after being an avid user due to price and declining inventiveness
I would like to see this assessment done with the collection of data done by a Myers-Briggs or enneagram (with wing analysis) test. I think it would produce some interesting and more revealing results about strengths and vulnerabilities, this really being able to drill down on the conscious and subconscious drivers of rat "type" of hacker.
I used to be a self taught IT technician. Nothing overly high reaching, but enough to manage a network and look after pc's. The long and the short of it was the job burnt me out. With no official quals under my belt I had a hard time getting another job in the industry (circa 2004). So I decided to become an electrical apprentice with the local government supplier (distribution).
Best thing I've done:
PROS:
Pay's not too bad as a second year adult apprentice
working conditions are good
I haven't worked hard since I started, no pressure.
I can still utilise my IT skills in scada and maybe later on in the network control side of things.
The pay is as a first year tradesman out of their time is about the same as a recent graduate (and can go up from there)
Awesome job security (everyone needs power)
Working is still challenging and interesting.
Out and about without a boss breathing down my neck
Scope for further study
Cons:
The risk goes up, but the company is *very* safety conscious
Some occasionally filthy environments
Attitude exists that you know nothing because your 'just the apprentice'
All in all, having the general IT skills gives me an edge in an industry where some tradies still struggle to use a computer (usually the older ones, but some of the younger ones aswell).
Think about it, it might be worth in your area/state/country or then again YMMV
That's pretty much the marketing of Australian ISPs. I've been off work for the last week and have been able to pull speeds during the day that are great for my service. Come 4 -7 o'clock and up till about 10 pm, the service is pretty average. It doesn't take a think tank to see this stuff.
Load shedding is a work around when you realise that your network is crap and it's turning to shite around you, but companies will still have to pony up and expand the infrastructure properly, instead of just rolling out enough to keep the funny-numbers-balance-sheet looking pretty.
(U.S. Fed reserve are you listening?)
Particularly when it comes to the Australian govt on telecommunications. Their track record leaves a bit to be desired
Usually it is by regulation to reduce inteterferance from adjacent electrical. Or to ease the process of a cable pull.
In australia, the S009 standards are a fixed seperation of 150mm or a semi durable barrier with no seperation for data/telco from LV cables (240 - 1000V)
YMMV
Or do you only care if your actions affect people you know personally?
I don't have the resources to worry about everyone else all the time. Charity begins at home
Fuck it. I steal music. I can live with it. I wish others would admit to it aswell
There are two important things in politics:
1) Money
2) And I forgot what the second one was...
Yes I was ranting, though for some reason the rant tags I wrote didn't show up. The reason LV is more dangerous is that HV tends to blow people away like you described. Still I contest that familiarity in something we use every day breeds contempt.
I understand the author of the article knows his/her limits; this is not directed at him/her.
It never ceases to amaze me the advice given on slashdot. How to make network cables, what 2 way radio I should buy, what widget is good, what version of *nix should I run to do abc (insert favourite version of *nix here).
The above advices is often very helpful and gives many including myself a point in the right direction for learning. However as an apprentice electrician with a background in IT and telecommunications, I have learnt there are just some things you don't fuck with unless you have the necessary experience. Electricity is one of them. I work on the industrial distribution side of things where the smallest is 230V (Australia) and the more usual is 11/33 kV. I have done some contracting also.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. With a electricity, even a moderate amount of knowledge is a dangerous thing. If a plumber stuffs up his pipes, the shit goes in the sewer and the storm water goes down the shit. An environmental issue, but not immediately life threatening. I'm not having a go at plumbers, just that water doesn't kill in the same sense. We mix active and neutral wires around and we kill someone. This is called polarity because the neutral is bonded to the earth by a multiple earth neutral (MEN) link. So now that you weren't sure which socket to put that wire into, congratulations, you just livened up every tap in your house. There have been many cases of this happening with workers and people dying.
The other thing to consider is how many KVA that you are going to need. This is related to power factor; in short how much extra overhead is needed to run the system, let alone you basic current draw. Examples of power factor (overhead) include starting currents for running fridges (up to 8 times it's operational current to kick over the compressor). Too much voltage drop on the circuit (a fair amount here, not just 1 or 2%) because of too high a load and congratulations you've just burnt out your fridge. What happens is the compressor does not have enough initial voltage to kick it over and continues to attempt to do so. If the voltage has dropped by half for example, the fridge is going to pull twice as much current to try and start. At 8 times *initial* starting current, we've just doubled that. We are now pulling current outside of what the fridge is designed to carry. Increased load = increased heat = increased resistance = increased load and so the cycle continues. Magic Black Smoke ensues.
Safety: I will keep this brief
It takes 0.4 A to induce an heart attack.
Our cells operate at very close the frequency of electricity (50hz in euro/aus, 60Hz in North America)
It can be said that low voltage (240 to 1000V) is more dangerous than high voltage (1000V to 33kv). I'm sure many here have mucked around with power supplies or power outlets and gotten a tingle. Some people get thrown across the room, if you unlucky enough to touch it with the palm of your hand, your muscles will contract and lock down. And will stay that way until you are a puddle on the floor.
The general resistance of a human is approimately 1000 ohms, thus doing the math (i = v/r) 110/1000 = 0.11 A. Those figures are starting to push into the major danger area. If you are slightly wet, sweaty or not wearing the right gear, your resistance goes down and your likelihood to die just went up a whole lot.
To put into perspective the testing tolerance on a working electrical glove for LV is 8mA at the very most before fail.
The calculations that go into design are not hard, and in the Aussie standards there are load recommendations as well. The point is a good electrician is also an engineer at heart, designing the system so you are not paying too much for something and not killing your system either. You pay for an electrician's skill, experience and insurance that he won't make it go bang or *kill* someone when he walks away. For those giving advice on slashdot
Call me cynical, but I thought the obvious spelling error may have been placed to simply obtain attention. It seems to have worked considering I am posting.
Mod parent up for working bat-shiat crazy hours as your own boss
How is this news on Slashdot? The mere scraping of something astronomical and it appears as a news feed. Next up... Paris Hilton's new dog..
This is not new. This has been done by hypnosis and embedded commands for quite a while now
Or maybe Kevin Smith's version to the ending of the LOTR
To blame others is to disempower ourselves by not accepting our own 'response-ability'
One thing that I cannot understand about Australian, particularly in Brisbane is the attitude of 'Australia: love it or leave' combined with the surreptitious nationalism. Our easy going nature is simply apathy that we will not admit to. When constructive criticism is made, it is often met with derision by the general populace because it is not the Australian way. For all the multiculturalism in this country, tt concerns me the bigotry, racism and provincial mindset that so many have on this island.
Sadly enough, it makes me want to hand in my pass at the door. We are the 51st state of the US (foreign policy, economic policy, etc) , and have learnt it's lessons and bettered them. (ie we are more litigious per capita then the US). A country that chooses to play second fiddle instead of stand on our own two feet.
I guess we shouldn't knock bacteria, after all it's the only culture that some people have in this country.
Songbird has potential, but it needs to lose weight and refine its technique before it can fly with the big birds. (Sorry, couldn't help myself...)
So it's song is a symphonic siloquy of a solo soaring
It's a fair comment to say that images that are changed are going to have different hash values. But how many non tech people who download images en masse that are of interest to law enf0rcment are going to reneame them? Often, it's those that don't think about what they are doing that these tools are designed to catch; end users as such.
Tools like these I believe are for the majority of cases and the occasional big ring crackdown. It's not so that they can shut down kiddy pr0n, but to tell everyone that they are doing something about it while putting in minimal effort and thus justifying a government job. It's amazing how many people in government jobs will keep a cruisy job going if all they have to do is justify it every now and again. I see it around me every day in my job. Maximum output on paper, with minimal input in reality.
Then again I could be wrong, but I've been known to lean on my government 'shovel' from time to time aswell.
This happened to "a friend of mine". But I guess it's a different story when your cracking WinNT passwords with L0phtcrack.
Actually this is one of the few games I have bought. I felt that after years of producing comics that gave me a good laugh ( though I wish fruit fucker and the divx player would make appearances again), i felt not just a relationship with the authors; and emotional investment if you will, in the characters that are portrayed through Penny Arcade. Playing the game was like reliving the comics
Further to that, the price of the game wasn't too bad either.
I had a boss like that once. An arrogant, small statured MD who "hates IT" (yet worked for a business machine company) who was also impatient, and had a small statured attitude to match. As soon as XP opened he would click on the outlook icon, and click and click and... Needless to say he wasn't impressed when outlook locked up.
$20M dollar company all running windows boxen ( with a few saleman macs thrown in for excitement) , but no exchange server to centralise calenders. Never understood that [apart from them just being tight].
No amount of educating him would work. In a corporate environment of 100 users where everything from 95 to 2003 server flourished because there was no budget, the only end result was to buy him the 'latest and greatest', fastest computer that we could find from dell (why dell? because that's the rules). The ticket worked out at about $5K
Of course the guy who normally ran the IT section (there was two of us) was the web developer, the crm developer, the database admin, and so on...
To cut a long story short he quit because he was jack of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
That was first and last "formal" experience in IT. I quit and started an industrial electrician apprenticeship instead. The good part is, many of tradesman are 'wowed' by the IT competencies. Hopefully it will help me secure a stronger position later on. However, having said that, I don't really want to be called on for my IT skills
One thing I have noted from all of this, because corporate institutions are such socio-pathological entities, the experience I had wrecked a hobby-turned-job of 10 years.
As was once said "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry" (Einstein). I believe this goes for work aswell. When you are so driven by an institution to be a widget to produce a widget, nothing is left for curiosity, discovery and creative expression. Attributes which are quite necessary to stay in such an industry. My hat goes off to those who persevere, particularly against the mooing of the great unwashed of cow-orkers and management. I guess my story is one very similar many other peoples.
My passion and fascination will always be there for the technical, and I still spend a lot of time in related fields. But these days I play the violin and piano, aswell as pursue other interests.
In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
The people get leaders who say one thing and do another. What they get is often not what the people asked for
The idea of censoring the internet, especially for the laughable justification that its "for the children" simply indicates to me that the people of Australia need to start taking responsibility for their government and elect candidates who will not pull this kind of crap.
I hope you know some good ones, because the 51st state of the US is not inclined to have candidates who are here for the people
Don't get fooled into thinking that "the government" did this. It was the people of Australia who elected politicians who are doing it. It is up to the people of Australia to un-elect those politicians, by force if necessary.
With what weapons?
In Brisbane:
This is why ripple controllers are being installed on air conditioners by Energex to alleviate the transformer load. It will be interesting to see what effect turning off an airconditioner for 15 minutes will make on the network.
Things have changed since 2004 from a management perspective. It used to be cost cut as much as possible. Now tranny upgrades are occurring as a preventative maintenance meausre. If a maximum demand indicator gets close to the limit, it gets upgraded, not left to the last minute when it falls over. Of course spending (or not spending) on the network can be a political thing aswell. Having said that the network is still under significant load during summer. Hopefully the firies won't be hosing down pole transformers to keep them cool this summer. At least it's not the Joe Bjelke-Peterson days that it used to be.