I've found that at my current job I seem to get more respect as time goes on. Part of that reason would be that I admit what I don't know, I treat my coworkers the way I hope to be treated, and I take care of any problems as well as my deliverables in a fast, efficient manner.
One of the other comments - 'A BOFH should be feared, not respected' - is perhaps, true, but unless you're in an extraordinarily IT-centric organization, that kind of attitude is much more likely to hurt rather than help.
A friend of mine had her laptop stolen. She used ICQ on it, so we all added her ICQ UIN to our lists.
The first time the stolen laptop came online, it automatically booted ICQ (the thief, I would suppose, wasn't too bright or computer literate). Bang! We had the IP address.
Nice advertisement, Paco. Were you planning mentioning that you like it so much you work for the company?:-)
(Yes, I could tell fairly readily, but then again, I know most of the people who work there. You may want to be a little more up front when doing advertising.)
#1) I noticed something kind of amusing...most of the geeks featured in the comic, including Linus and Malda, are featured in the comic as being - well, very buff and muscular. Now, I haven't seen any pictures of Rob, but I know Linus ain't that buff right now. Do you glamorize, even subconsciously, the physical beauty of the geeks that you seem to swoon for?
SpamCop is a good idea, and I wish Mr. Haight (sp?) luck in his endeavour. However, I'm afraid that in my experiences with SpamCop I've found it to be slightly less then useful.
As head of the abuse department for a rapidly-growing ISP in Virginia, I get my fair share of spam complaints. I'm also an ardent anti-spammer, and not only hunt down all the spam that I get, but also help my customers hunt down their spam.
I have never gotten a legitimate spam complaint from SpamCop. The few that I have gotten have always been incorrect allegations of inappropriate conduct, and the actual messages are near-indecipherable at times.
However, I wish Mr. Haight the best of luck in future versions of his program - and hopefully once it hits a good level of reliability I'll be able to recommend it to my users.
On a side note, as another comment mentioned on Perl and spamming - there's a good interview with Larry Wall in the Linux Journal a month or so ago where he does claim that most spam probably not only harvests addresses using Perl, but also sends the spam using it.:-)
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I've found that at my current job I seem to get more respect as time goes on. Part of that reason would be that I admit what I don't know, I treat my coworkers the way I hope to be treated, and I take care of any problems as well as my deliverables in a fast, efficient manner.
One of the other comments - 'A BOFH should be feared, not respected' - is perhaps, true, but unless you're in an extraordinarily IT-centric organization, that kind of attitude is much more likely to hurt rather than help.
I've seen a number of machines that have been secured this way - for example, using IIS 3.0 on NT machines.
It just simply don't work that well. For virii - it's okay, most of the time. For script kiddies and the such, they blow right through it.
Sort of. :-)
A friend of mine had her laptop stolen. She used ICQ on it, so we all added her ICQ UIN to our lists.
The first time the stolen laptop came online, it automatically booted ICQ (the thief, I would suppose, wasn't too bright or computer literate). Bang! We had the IP address.
SeanMike
Nice advertisement, Paco. Were you planning mentioning that you like it so much you work for the company? :-)
(Yes, I could tell fairly readily, but then again, I know most of the people who work there. You may want to be a little more up front when doing advertising.)
SeanMike
#1) I noticed something kind of amusing...most of the geeks featured in the comic, including Linus and Malda, are featured in the comic as being - well, very buff and muscular. Now, I haven't seen any pictures of Rob, but I know Linus ain't that buff right now. Do you glamorize, even subconsciously, the physical beauty of the geeks that you seem to swoon for?
:)
#2) Will the comic continue after Y2K?
SpamCop is a good idea, and I wish Mr. Haight (sp?) luck in his endeavour. However, I'm afraid that in my experiences with SpamCop I've found it to be slightly less then useful.
:-)
As head of the abuse department for a rapidly-growing ISP in Virginia, I get my fair share of spam complaints. I'm also an ardent anti-spammer, and not only hunt down all the spam that I get, but also help my customers hunt down their spam.
I have never gotten a legitimate spam complaint from SpamCop. The few that I have gotten have always been incorrect allegations of inappropriate conduct, and the actual messages are near-indecipherable at times.
However, I wish Mr. Haight the best of luck in future versions of his program - and hopefully once it hits a good level of reliability I'll be able to recommend it to my users.
On a side note, as another comment mentioned on Perl and spamming - there's a good interview with Larry Wall in the Linux Journal a month or so ago where he does claim that most spam probably not only harvests addresses using Perl, but also sends the spam using it.
Now good luck, and keep fighting the good fight.
--SeanMike