Hrm. Already download ad-hoc. May look into the feed thing. Good idea. At $92/month for directv, it is time to let it go and put a nice antenna up instead for passive viewing. The WD TV LIve Plus, btw, is an excellent inexpensive box that can play any format you throw at it. I use one on my main tv, and in my gym and office. I just download to my NAS. I was mounting the NAS via NFS, but UPnP media server works fine as well.
I noticed this the other day. I sync my phone with facebook for many of my contacts. Now I have an address book full of bogus email addresses where they were correct before.
I'd work for $20K less than what I make now for a job doing something that I actually enjoy, where I have the respect and power to do things the Right Way, while also having reasonable time off, flex time, and the ability to telecommute a bit. Also, to be judged on the work that I do and the success of the projects I manage and lead, not how many hours I am in an office.
The general population of redditors and their self-masturbatory attention whoring has become annoying enough that I don't bother any more. I used to waste hours a day there, but the signal/noise ratio has turned decidedly flamboyant hipster. The resulting Imgur postings each day, however, are still worth watching, so I just subscribe to those feeds. Funny/Sexy/Nerdy content without the self-pleasuring drivel. Much better way to 'reddit'.
Let microsoft control software on their own hardware. There will be hardware vendors to fill the void, and I'm guessing that hardware will run something open source.
WebOS is already out there. Android too. And for generic computing, you have Linux, BSD, etc.
Nothing to be afraid of here. It's an opportunity. Perhaps those who want 'cheap hardware' will now be forced to finally look at the better OSs. It disgusts me that I work for a government contract, managing unix servers, where we waste so much money, time, and effort shovelling this unusable crap on our desktops.
And considering the incompetency of most government agencies, especially the DoD, to properly manage their networks, well, is provoking an attack on us really wise? All it takes is one idiot and one flash drive. And we know the massive amount of idiots working as 'lowest bidder' on all of these government contracts.
Yup, we have a big complex military that can physically stomp you into the ground. That big, complex network, however, is quite an easy target to a motivated attacker. Probably not best to provoke that 'war'.
It lies at the majority of the problems I have with my WebOS phone. Why they chose pulse on a device that DEPENDS on doing audio with multiple sources and outputs simultaneously is beyond me. Buggy and unreliable as hell.
I'm still rockin' an unlocked gsm pre2 on straight talk, though. The OS is great. The homebrew community is amazing. And linux is easily accessible, no jailbreak. A shame developers have abandoned it, so we have to limp along with existing applications, but it does all that I need for the forseeable future. I moved from ATT to Sprint to get the original. FrankenPre'd the pre2 for sprint, then unfrankenpre'd it to move to straight talk for $45 a month.
My only gripe is WebOS 2.x bluetooth sucks hard compared to 1.4.5. and that likely is never going to be fixed. But who knows what will happen when we get a mature Open WebOS release later this year.
Aside from rendering things properly, do NOT rely on hover events for functionality... to bring up menus, for example. Otherwise, the same things as always... don't hardcode screen resolutions, don't rely on javascript for form validation, etc.
What we as sysadmins and users should focus on instead is prevention.
Unfortunately, prevention relies mostly on end user education. They will always download that cool image, or play that game, forward that e-card, etc. You can't cure user stupidity with technology. The car analogy would be, well, eliminate cars and make everyone take the train.
You just described the hell that is being a competent sysadmin currently working for a branch of the DoD. I've only been here a few months, and I'm desperate for a fast exit to anything else.
CDs are only dead because of ridiculous pricing schemes. Ok, fine, lemme download them instead as FLAC and rip/encode them with my own easy to use tools. Don't have your music database tied to a single computer. Instead use devices (rockbox) that properly index on the tagging data itself. Placing music on any device is just a matter of, well, putting the music on that device. No specialized software required. Drag/drop with the filesystem. Or, make a program that does this for people too retarded to know the basics of using any modern computing device.
This is how I feel about anything that starts with a 'K' or spawned from it. Not a big fan of the "Let's copy Microsoft's really bad interface, and not use established standards by requiring our own huge set of daemons to run for IPC instead" crowd.
And as a CISSP myself who is well-grounded in the infosec field, I guarantee that most CISSPs don't get it, and that cert, while having merit in the past, is quickly becoming the MCSE of our time.
People from different races are different. If they aren't of your clan, you distrust them. This is how the clans survived for so long. It's hardwired into us. Distrusting someone of a different color or culture isn't necessarily racist. Going out of your way to harm them, physically, verbally, or by not giving them opportunities within society is. For the record, I distrust most mountain folk and nascar fans too. Until I've formed an actual relationship with them, then they are welcome into my circle. But the rest of them will have to pass the same way before being trusted.
I forgot to mention. This stuff is also all rendered in real time. It's not a movie. The music is also composed/tracked. It is not a recording. Here's another impressive entry in the 64K competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CiF034IhgY&hd=1 It's mind blowing where these guys have gone over the years. I thought the demoscene would have died as computers became more powerful and anyone could create effects without having to be an artistic assembly programming god. I apparently, and thankfully, was wrong:-)
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Hrm. Already download ad-hoc. May look into the feed thing. Good idea. At $92/month for directv, it is time to let it go and put a nice antenna up instead for passive viewing. The WD TV LIve Plus, btw, is an excellent inexpensive box that can play any format you throw at it. I use one on my main tv, and in my gym and office. I just download to my NAS. I was mounting the NAS via NFS, but UPnP media server works fine as well.
I noticed this the other day. I sync my phone with facebook for many of my contacts. Now I have an address book full of bogus email addresses where they were correct before.
I'd work for $20K less than what I make now for a job doing something that I actually enjoy, where I have the respect and power to do things the Right Way, while also having reasonable time off, flex time, and the ability to telecommute a bit. Also, to be judged on the work that I do and the success of the projects I manage and lead, not how many hours I am in an office.
Wish I could upvote this spot-on comment.
The general population of redditors and their self-masturbatory attention whoring has become annoying enough that I don't bother any more. I used to waste hours a day there, but the signal/noise ratio has turned decidedly flamboyant hipster. The resulting Imgur postings each day, however, are still worth watching, so I just subscribe to those feeds. Funny/Sexy/Nerdy content without the self-pleasuring drivel. Much better way to 'reddit'.
Let microsoft control software on their own hardware. There will be hardware vendors to fill the void, and I'm guessing that hardware will run something open source.
WebOS is already out there. Android too. And for generic computing, you have Linux, BSD, etc.
Nothing to be afraid of here. It's an opportunity. Perhaps those who want 'cheap hardware' will now be forced to finally look at the better OSs. It disgusts me that I work for a government contract, managing unix servers, where we waste so much money, time, and effort shovelling this unusable crap on our desktops.
Indeed.
And considering the incompetency of most government agencies, especially the DoD, to properly manage their networks, well, is provoking an attack on us really wise? All it takes is one idiot and one flash drive. And we know the massive amount of idiots working as 'lowest bidder' on all of these government contracts.
Yup, we have a big complex military that can physically stomp you into the ground. That big, complex network, however, is quite an easy target to a motivated attacker. Probably not best to provoke that 'war'.
Indeed. Fuck Pulseaudio.
It lies at the majority of the problems I have with my WebOS phone. Why they chose pulse on a device that DEPENDS on doing audio with multiple sources and outputs simultaneously is beyond me. Buggy and unreliable as hell.
Fuck pulseaudio.
Maybe we will get some active development on compiz, or something equivalent again to take advantage of all of the cool things you could do with this.
Came here to say exactly this. Government loves that prefix. It's nauseating.
I'm still rockin' an unlocked gsm pre2 on straight talk, though. The OS is great. The homebrew community is amazing. And linux is easily accessible, no jailbreak. A shame developers have abandoned it, so we have to limp along with existing applications, but it does all that I need for the forseeable future. I moved from ATT to Sprint to get the original. FrankenPre'd the pre2 for sprint, then unfrankenpre'd it to move to straight talk for $45 a month.
My only gripe is WebOS 2.x bluetooth sucks hard compared to 1.4.5. and that likely is never going to be fixed. But who knows what will happen when we get a mature Open WebOS release later this year.
Aside from rendering things properly, do NOT rely on hover events for functionality ... to bring up menus, for example. Otherwise, the same things as always ... don't hardcode screen resolutions, don't rely on javascript for form validation, etc.
Once you are hit, it is already too late.
What we as sysadmins and users should focus on instead is prevention.
Unfortunately, prevention relies mostly on end user education. They will always download that cool image, or play that game, forward that e-card, etc. You can't cure user stupidity with technology. The car analogy would be, well, eliminate cars and make everyone take the train.
You just described the hell that is being a competent sysadmin currently working for a branch of the DoD. I've only been here a few months, and I'm desperate for a fast exit to anything else.
I have to agree. Cockroach or not.
That's what repositories are for. Re-inventing the wheel to do that within every app is, well, retarded. Adobe on windows, anyone?
Grandparent is correct. This is rather useless on a platform such as linux that does software management the right way.
So now facebook is AOL? I guess for many people, if it isn't on facebook, it just doesn't exist.
Enough said.
Rockbox + cdex.
CDs are only dead because of ridiculous pricing schemes. Ok, fine, lemme download them instead as FLAC and rip/encode them with my own easy to use tools. Don't have your music database tied to a single computer. Instead use devices (rockbox) that properly index on the tagging data itself. Placing music on any device is just a matter of, well, putting the music on that device. No specialized software required. Drag/drop with the filesystem. Or, make a program that does this for people too retarded to know the basics of using any modern computing device.
This is how I feel about anything that starts with a 'K' or spawned from it. Not a big fan of the "Let's copy Microsoft's really bad interface, and not use established standards by requiring our own huge set of daemons to run for IPC instead" crowd.
So, in other words. The terrorists were more successful than they ever could have dreamed.
The RHCE and RCSA are rather good.
And as a CISSP myself who is well-grounded in the infosec field, I guarantee that most CISSPs don't get it, and that cert, while having merit in the past, is quickly becoming the MCSE of our time.
eztaxreturn.com has worked well for me for several years.
People from different races are different. If they aren't of your clan, you distrust them. This is how the clans survived for so long. It's hardwired into us. Distrusting someone of a different color or culture isn't necessarily racist. Going out of your way to harm them, physically, verbally, or by not giving them opportunities within society is. For the record, I distrust most mountain folk and nascar fans too. Until I've formed an actual relationship with them, then they are welcome into my circle. But the rest of them will have to pass the same way before being trusted.
To be worthy of posting on slashdot? Yes.
Here's the blurb I posted on my facebook page:
I forgot to mention. This stuff is also all rendered in real time. It's not a movie. The music is also composed/tracked. It is not a recording. Here's another impressive entry in the 64K competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CiF034IhgY&hd=1 It's mind blowing where these guys have gone over the years. I thought the demoscene would have died as computers became more powerful and anyone could create effects without having to be an artistic assembly programming god. I apparently, and thankfully, was wrong :-)