You were usually evaluated by a jury of your peers
Peers meaning: A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.
By that definition I would think these 'peers' would also have thier own stash for sampling. That normally not being the case, I considered them freeloaders.
What I am saying is that on balance, the number of very poor self-taught people far outweighs the number of very good self-taught people.
Now that I can somewhat agree with.
Learning good troubleshooting and problem solving skills normally only comes with practice and is built upon a good base knowledge. Those skills carry on to different fields. I am currently on my third career path (electonics and communications equipment, reactor plant operator and now IT). The troubleshooting and problem solving techniques for all of these are identical. IANAP (I am not a programmer) but I assume these concepts would apply there also, I know I used it way back in the C64 basic days;) I'm sure when I leave IT (when, not if), the next field will have the same problem solving techniques also.
but I have seen far more self-taught people who think they are a lot better than they are than people who actually have an apptitude.
So you are saying that self taught that took the initiative to learn it on their own and have been in the real world sharpening those skills have less apptitude then someone that chose the school route?
I do not see the connection. I am not saying either is automatically better than the other but your comparision guidelines is in no way shape or form a measure of a persons apptitude. No wonder you get flamed by the headhunters.
Do you care where they got that degree or do you assume they are all equal? If that does not matter, how could self taught with XX years of experience mean so much on your decision?
Not that the cheaper home routers are flawless but they are indeed routers and many are indeed firewalls. Not as configurable as an extra machine but they are not just blind NAT forwarders opened up to the world. You may want to go out and actually look at some of the models.
how secure is NAT when dumbasses enable port forwarding?
You can do the same thing with your BSD firewall. This is a function of how the USER wants it setup, not a deficiency of the firewall.
Cable or DSL goons do not know how to properly config NAT appliances.
Again, you are talking about the USERS configuration, not the equipment. How many of those same users can properly configure the 2610 you suggest they use? I would probably not many more then ZERO!!
Based on reading your entire post, I have deduced a few things about your thinking.
You think everyone with an internet connection should:
Have a BSD or Cisco firewall.
Have extensive networking background in firewall construction and network monitoring
Gain right of passage by bowing to the packet gods through some kind of ritual. Or not use any firewall/NAT appliance at all because they are not "in the know" like yourself.
Yeah, and DVD's are not copyable and region restricted, the Xbox will only run approved MS code, The PS2 will not play any backups, a Cuecat can only be used with DC's own software, a blank cdrom can not be overburned, Macrovision prevents copying video streams, Safedisc and Securerom prevent coping cd's and a cable box can prevent you from watching the Playboy channel for free.
But.... The Segway can not be started without the approved key.
Factory owner makes another million, on its way to mega-corpdum.
But nothing prevents factory owner B and C from taking the same product and attempting to make money off of it also, therefore factory owner A will not be the only one making the millions and the result for consumers would be increased competition do to three sources which means cheaper prices and/or better quality.
Those micro remote controlled cars that were such a hit in some areas last christmas is a perfect example of this concept.
Intuit responds to customers to survive as a business
They have to because there is competition in the tax prep business. The desktop and office product business does not. I believe going into this, Intuit truely felt they could bully the customers a little bit and get a way with it do to the market share they had in the past and its close tie in with other products used by customers throughout the year. They now see their grip was not as tight as they thought.
I believe MSCONFIG is not present in W2K, at least in the W2K machines I have used. There is winrep.exe (Windows Report Tool) but everytime I execute it and run the collection agent, I get "winrep.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows", figures..
Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers
and then say..
much of Linux has been built from contributions by numerous unrelated and unknown software developers
and then reverse it with..
Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers
So the Unix developers became clueless unrestricted developers when they stopped codeing commercial software and started working on Linux? I would venture to say a very high majority of people who develop on Linux have jobs working on commercial software. In this day and age, "carefully selecting" means person who will accept the lowest wage and "screened" means they looked at your Resume for more then 10 seconds.
This letter was sent to various companies and yet they refuse to release any details of what the issue is? I find that very confusing and frustrating.
At least the RIAA *attempts* to identify offending material, although we have found that to be a not so accurate process.
The adjective proprietatary simple describes almost all Commercial software.
I've been using AntiVir for a few months on W2K and 98SE machines. Seems to work pretty good.
AVG appears to be another free one but I have not tried it.
I was using an older version of NAV Corporate but it seemed too bloated for some of my slower machines. I've also used the scaled down version of Trendmicro that normally comes packaged with new motherboards, it is limited to 3 months of updates unless you pay for a subscription but the price is reasonable if you want to keep using it.
When I lived in Hawaii, I had a software rebate rejected from Corel (Canadian) because "The offer was only good in the United States and Canada". Somebody at the rebate processing facility must have failed geography. When I called the toll free number they laughed and sent the check.
Best people on it?
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Bezos 'bet big and put hundreds of his best people on it.'
How can one person honestly work close enough with thousands of people that he knows each and every one of them, and then be able to pick the "best hundreds" out from the total pool. This project may have been a top priority for Amazon but attempting to show how high with a statement like the above proves nothing.
This year, my lawn has been such a priority for me that I have spent 5 times the amount of time and 100 times as money on it then I did last year. This efort has really paid off as this year my lawn and trees are greener, fuller, and look great.
What that really means is: Last year we did not have any rain so nothing was growing and I did not spend more then 2 hours a month cutting the brown grass. All I had to buy was weed wacker line for $10. This year it has been raining a lot, my lawn is growing about 4 inches a week because of the rain and I have to cut it more often. I also had to spend a $1000 on a tractor because my old POS mower finally died.
Okay, mod as troll... I just thought that original statement was bogus.
One of my relatives worked at a 711 and used to get all kinds of coins and dollars. It is amazing how many people buy beer on Saturday nights with silver dollars and pennies, 2 dollar bills, steel pennies, indian head nickels the newer gold colored dollar coins, fifty-cent pieces etc... She used to swap out the collector stuff with bills from her pocket when she could. Half of these bums would pay with jewerly if they could.
As for the two dollar bill being real, did you ever hear the saying as phony as a three dollar bill or as in Limp Bizkit's "Three dollar bill y'all$"? They skipped over two because it is real!
Re:Easy with PC
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You don't even need a tuner card. Any $5 radio with a headphone jack can supply audio through the microphone (not really good) or line in jack (better quality) of any soundcard. I do this all the time with VOX software and my Uniden police scanner on Windows. Of course this method has none of the features of TIVO but much cheaper.
Replace "snail mail" with "email" in your comment and you have summed up what millions and millions of people with an email account have been dealing with for years on a daily basis and the problem is getting worse. I rely and use email much more then I use snail mail which componds the problem even more.
If you live within a SprintPCS service area you can get unlimited 56-144kbps service (that is the advertised rate, YMMV) for $80 month. Some people in alt.cellular.sprintpcs have had good luck with the service while on the road with laptops (no cell phone is required).
They do have very limited service areas and are normally only near highways and larger cities.
Breaking a lock is one thing, what about browsing around? Say I went directly to http://company.com/r_and_d/not_released_yet/produc ts and find a companies up and coming new product. I did not break any access rules. The company did not have any direct links to the data but it was on a public web site.
Another example is browsing someones image directory directly. If they did not have an index.html file in there, you get a directory listing. More often then not you will find images in there that are not directly linked and the maintainer probably does not want you to see. Search Google for all of these together:
Index images parent last modified size description
and look how many people have open image directories, throw a non general word in there like Cindy, vacation, webcam, myself, etc and you can narrow it down.
I wonder if this would be considered illegal access..
Another one that I know would be touchy is people with open file shares. I have not done this in a while but a few years ago as broadband was just picking and cheap home routers were not available, you could find at least 15 computers with shares open scanning a subnet of 255, of those 15, 5 had no password at all. You can connect to c:\My/ Documents and see and/or delete everything. Sharing out a drive is not automatic, someone had to bind TCP/IP to the Microsoft FAPS client, share out the drive with FULL access, and NOT give it a password. You connect with normal file and print sharing tools like smbclient with no password and browse what they have. At some point the owner of that shared computer has to take the responsibility for their action of not knowing what they were doing and chalk it up a lesson learned.
I recieved a snail mail from Comcast a few months ago for the same thing. They even offered 2/256k speed for the service which is an upgrade from the normal 1.5/256 (1.5/128 at the time) all for only $10 more a month including the Linksys Wireless router. The goal of the advertising package was wireless access from anywhere in your house and more speed for "demanding" business applications when others are online in the house also. The full color ad had pictures of kids playing online games in the family room while Mom was in the den in a business suit, talking on the phone and typing away in a fake spreadsheet application.
I was never able to find any information online about that deal and a call to CS about the package was useless. Maybe it was a limited test of some sort that failed?
Funny how they advertise these things and at the same time complain about people using too much of thier "unlimited" internet driving up costs.
Secondly, think about the ecologic impact cross-compatible parts would have. You dont need 10 different gas pumps (for example.) you can have only one model that fits 10 different cars.
Even further off-topic..
Most car designs do include cross compatible parts within one company. Some manufacters more then others. Using Ford for an example. The radiator for my Mustang fits just about every V8, many 6's and even quite a few 4 cylinder engines made by Ford/Lincoln/Mercury from the mid 70's to the upper 90's. Not as compatible but many of the ignition parts, emmisions controls, brakes, alternators, PS pumps etc.. are the same across the line. Another example is compatibility across the lines, an example being.. The larger diameter rotors and calipers off of certain Lincoln's and Thunderbirds and directly bolt on a Mustang with no modifications. Since there is a good third party supply of all these things they tend to be available anywhere and cost much less. I don't know if the ecological impact is any better though as stated. You need a specific quantity of replacement fuel pumps regardless of what type. How would fewer models but the same quantity represent less waste?
I can point you to a solution to your problem with Michael's articles.
Go to your/. options and deselect Michael from the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage".
If you are truely that disgusted with his stories why would you not deselect his name? Complaining about him in everyone of his stories does not make sense when you can get rid of him. You will never see one of his articles again.
Slashdot Mirror
You were usually evaluated by a jury of your peers
Peers meaning:
A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.
By that definition I would think these 'peers' would also have thier own stash for sampling. That normally not being the case, I considered them freeloaders.
What I am saying is that on balance, the number of very poor self-taught people far outweighs the number of very good self-taught people.
;)
Now that I can somewhat agree with.
Learning good troubleshooting and problem solving skills normally only comes with practice and is built upon a good base knowledge. Those skills carry on to different fields. I am currently on my third career path (electonics and communications equipment, reactor plant operator and now IT). The troubleshooting and problem solving techniques for all of these are identical. IANAP (I am not a programmer) but I assume these concepts would apply there also, I know I used it way back in the C64 basic days
I'm sure when I leave IT (when, not if), the next field will have the same problem solving techniques also.
but I have seen far more self-taught people who think they are a lot better than they are than people who actually have an apptitude.
So you are saying that self taught that took the initiative to learn it on their own and have been in the real world sharpening those skills have less apptitude then someone that chose the school route?
I do not see the connection. I am not saying either is automatically better than the other but your comparision guidelines is in no way shape or form a measure of a persons apptitude. No wonder you get flamed by the headhunters.
Do you care where they got that degree or do you assume they are all equal? If that does not matter, how could self taught with XX years of experience mean so much on your decision?
how secure is NAT when dumbasses enable port forwarding?
You can do the same thing with your BSD firewall. This is a function of how the USER wants it setup, not a deficiency of the firewall.
Cable or DSL goons do not know how to properly config NAT appliances.
Again, you are talking about the USERS configuration, not the equipment. How many of those same users can properly configure the 2610 you suggest they use? I would probably not many more then ZERO!!
Based on reading your entire post, I have deduced a few things about your thinking.
You think everyone with an internet connection should:
Have a BSD or Cisco firewall.
Have extensive networking background in firewall construction and network monitoring
Gain right of passage by bowing to the packet gods through some kind of ritual. Or not use any firewall/NAT appliance at all because they are not "in the know" like yourself.
If anyone wants a mirror site, I found some
good ones with Google.
Yeah, and DVD's are not copyable and region restricted, the Xbox will only run approved MS code, The PS2 will not play any backups, a Cuecat can only be used with DC's own software, a blank cdrom can not be overburned, Macrovision prevents copying video streams, Safedisc and Securerom prevent coping cd's and a cable box can prevent you from watching the Playboy channel for free.
But.... The Segway can not be started without the approved key.
Factory owner makes another million, on its way to mega-corpdum.
But nothing prevents factory owner B and C from taking the same product and attempting to make money off of it also, therefore factory owner A will not be the only one making the millions and the result for consumers would be increased competition do to three sources which means cheaper prices and/or better quality.
Those micro remote controlled cars that were such a hit in some areas last christmas is a perfect example of this concept.
Intuit responds to customers to survive as a business
They have to because there is competition in the tax prep business. The desktop and office product business does not. I believe going into this, Intuit truely felt they could bully the customers a little bit and get a way with it do to the market share they had in the past and its close tie in with other products used by customers throughout the year. They now see their grip was not as tight as they thought.
I believe MSCONFIG is not present in W2K, at least in the W2K machines I have used. There is winrep.exe (Windows Report Tool) but everytime I execute it and run the collection agent, I get "winrep.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows", figures..
Ohhh the FUD in this thing..
Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers
and then say..
much of Linux has been built from contributions by numerous unrelated and unknown software developers
and then reverse it with..
Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers
So the Unix developers became clueless unrestricted developers when they stopped codeing commercial software and started working on Linux? I would venture to say a very high majority of people who develop on Linux have jobs working on commercial software. In this day and age, "carefully selecting" means person who will accept the lowest wage and "screened" means they looked at your Resume for more then 10 seconds.
This letter was sent to various companies and yet they refuse to release any details of what the issue is? I find that very confusing and frustrating.
At least the RIAA *attempts* to identify offending material, although we have found that to be a not so accurate process.
The adjective proprietatary simple describes almost all Commercial software.
So when is a MS going to have Redhat Linux written on the box as one of the products that qualifies you for the cheaper "Upgrade" version?
I've been using AntiVir for a few months on W2K and 98SE machines. Seems to work pretty good.
AVG appears to be another free one but I have not tried it.
I was using an older version of NAV Corporate but it seemed too bloated for some of my slower machines. I've also used the scaled down version of Trendmicro that normally comes packaged with new motherboards, it is limited to 3 months of updates unless you pay for a subscription but the price is reasonable if you want to keep using it.
When I lived in Hawaii, I had a software rebate rejected from Corel (Canadian) because "The offer was only good in the United States and Canada".
Somebody at the rebate processing facility must have failed geography. When I called the toll free number they laughed and sent the check.
Bezos 'bet big and put hundreds of his best people on it.'
How can one person honestly work close enough with thousands of people that he knows each and every one of them, and then be able to pick the "best hundreds" out from the total pool. This project may have been a top priority for Amazon but attempting to show how high with a statement like the above proves nothing.
This year, my lawn has been such a priority for me that I have spent 5 times the amount of time and 100 times as money on it then I did last year. This efort has really paid off as this year my lawn and trees are greener, fuller, and look great.
What that really means is:
Last year we did not have any rain so nothing was growing and I did not spend more then 2 hours a month cutting the brown grass. All I had to buy was weed wacker line for $10. This year it has been raining a lot, my lawn is growing about 4 inches a week because of the rain and I have to cut it more often. I also had to spend a $1000 on a tractor because my old POS mower finally died.
Okay, mod as troll... I just thought that original statement was bogus.
One of my relatives worked at a 711 and used to get all kinds of coins and dollars. It is amazing how many people buy beer on Saturday nights with silver dollars and pennies, 2 dollar bills, steel pennies, indian head nickels the newer gold colored dollar coins, fifty-cent pieces etc... She used to swap out the collector stuff with bills from her pocket when she could. Half of these bums would pay with jewerly if they could.
As for the two dollar bill being real, did you ever hear the saying as phony as a three dollar bill or as in Limp Bizkit's "Three dollar bill y'all$"? They skipped over two because it is real!
You don't even need a tuner card. Any $5 radio with a headphone jack can supply audio through the microphone (not really good) or line in jack (better quality) of any soundcard. I do this all the time with VOX software and my Uniden police scanner on Windows. Of course this method has none of the features of TIVO but much cheaper.
Replace "snail mail" with "email" in your comment and you have summed up what millions and millions of people with an email account have been dealing with for years on a daily basis and the problem is getting worse. I rely and use email much more then I use snail mail which componds the problem even more.
If you live within a SprintPCS service area you can get unlimited 56-144kbps service (that is the advertised rate, YMMV) for $80 month. Some people in alt.cellular.sprintpcs have had good luck with the service while on the road with laptops (no cell phone is required).
They do have very limited service areas and are normally only near highways and larger cities.
I understand you, my reply was not specifically to you. I was trying to bring up more points similar to yours.
Breaking a lock is one thing, what about browsing around? Say I went directly to http://company.com/r_and_d/not_released_yet/produc ts and find a companies up and coming new product. I did not break any access rules. The company did not have any direct links to the data but it was on a public web site.
Another example is browsing someones image directory directly. If they did not have an index.html file in there, you get a directory listing. More often then not you will find images in there that are not directly linked and the maintainer probably does not want you to see. Search Google for all of these together:
Index images parent last modified size description
and look how many people have open image directories, throw a non general word in there like Cindy, vacation, webcam, myself, etc and you can narrow it down.
I wonder if this would be considered illegal access..
Another one that I know would be touchy is people with open file shares. I have not done this in a while but a few years ago as broadband was just picking and cheap home routers were not available, you could find at least 15 computers with shares open scanning a subnet of 255, of those 15, 5 had no password at all. You can connect to c:\My/ Documents and see and/or delete everything. Sharing out a drive is not automatic, someone had to bind TCP/IP to the Microsoft FAPS client, share out the drive with FULL access, and NOT give it a password. You connect with normal file and print sharing tools like smbclient with no password and browse what they have. At some point the owner of that shared computer has to take the responsibility for their action of not knowing what they were doing and chalk it up a lesson learned.
I recieved a snail mail from Comcast a few months ago for the same thing. They even offered 2/256k speed for the service which is an upgrade from the normal 1.5/256 (1.5/128 at the time) all for only $10 more a month including the Linksys Wireless router. The goal of the advertising package was wireless access from anywhere in your house and more speed for "demanding" business applications when others are online in the house also. The full color ad had pictures of kids playing online games in the family room while Mom was in the den in a business suit, talking on the phone and typing away in a fake spreadsheet application.
I was never able to find any information online about that deal and a call to CS about the package was useless. Maybe it was a limited test of some sort that failed?
Funny how they advertise these things and at the same time complain about people using too much of thier "unlimited" internet driving up costs.
Secondly, think about the ecologic impact cross-compatible parts would have. You dont need 10 different gas pumps (for example.) you can have only one model that fits 10 different cars.
Even further off-topic..
Most car designs do include cross compatible parts within one company. Some manufacters more then others. Using Ford for an example. The radiator for my Mustang fits just about every V8, many 6's and even quite a few 4 cylinder engines made by Ford/Lincoln/Mercury from the mid 70's to the upper 90's. Not as compatible but many of the ignition parts, emmisions controls, brakes, alternators, PS pumps etc.. are the same across the line. Another example is compatibility across the lines, an example being.. The larger diameter rotors and calipers off of certain Lincoln's and Thunderbirds and directly bolt on a Mustang with no modifications. Since there is a good third party supply of all these things they tend to be available anywhere and cost much less. I don't know if the ecological impact is any better though as stated. You need a specific quantity of replacement fuel pumps regardless of what type. How would fewer models but the same quantity represent less waste?
That would be tempest monitoring.
I can point you to a solution to your problem with Michael's articles.
/. options and deselect Michael from the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage".
Go to your
If you are truely that disgusted with his stories why would you not deselect his name? Complaining about him in everyone of his stories does not make sense when you can get rid of him. You will never see one of his articles again.
I thought this scam was only limited to sleezy car salesman and their mechanics?