Funny little known fact. Microsoft runs Linux. My predecessor here at my job, left to go work for Microsofts Xbox division managing their Linux developer stations, because a lot of the Xbox developers wanted to develop on Linux (note: this wasn't MS developers wanted to run Linux but third party and so MS had to support it becuase they wanted the developers more than they wanted a pissing match.
US West over here in the Seattle area had those problems. They eventually got bought (I'm not sure of the details mabye it was a merger?) and they were able to fix it. There was widespread 911 outages. Constant "fast-busy" signals. I did support for a couple ISP's and one day we had a phone guy from another CLEC come in and he told us that if we dialed the area code even for numbers that were in our area code then we got routed through the long distance lines at US West (which was the local ILEC).
That saved our asses big time because people would cancel and move to another ISP (that of course wouldn't work either) because they associated busy signals with our banks being busy.
This went on for several months before US West became QWEST and the problems almost immediately went away.
Go download scummvm for mac os x, and then you can run those older lucasarts games.:-D I played Monkey Island 3 on my mac.:-p
as for the newer ones, I dunno. I mostly use my gamecube, and the only ones that I have that are similar is my collection of zelda games.
If you're talking about classic games you'd like to see again, AND lucasarts in the same paragraph, you MUST always talk of Monkey Island and nothing else.:-D
I can't give names because I don't remember them. That's what I was told by my manager (in Ogden). He was an Asian guy if that helps you any. We were told not to tell the customers on the phone that though. Perhaps your vantage point was different but if they spent all that effort BEFORE hell broke loose then why did hell break loose?
The reason I quit was not because I didn't want to help, it was because I wanted to work in technology, this wasn't a "ok we're going to transfer calls from the cancel/save to you for awhile" which did happen on occasion for other queues, that was to be my new permanent posistion.
As for MY vantage point I was tired of getting yelled at. In those days you answered the phone to get screamed at. Customers were LUCKY to have an hour of hold time on the phone. I can't tell you how many times we answered the phones to people snoring because they fell asleep. We'd try and try and try to wake them up (typically it was futile) and that happened several times a day. I can see you are loyal to them but I wasn't. It was a means to an end. Get the college credit for taking AOL's training course work in the support field for a bit and jet. As soon as they said my new posistion was going to be cancel/save, I was gone. There were lots of other crappy non-tech jobs in Ogden.
I miss netcom. See anyone around on the 'net with an @ix.netcom.com email address, pay attention to them. Those accounts are from the 90's and are legacy shell accounts. Mindspring bought netcom, and stopped offering new shell but supporting the old shells. Earthlink then merged with mindspring and same thing. Old shells supported, no new signup though.
Typically those guys know their way around a computer.
I actually worked at AOL about 1996-ish. It was right when they did that infamous switch from version 2-3 and they switched from charging hourly to unlimited monthly. I happen to knopw for a fact they did not upgrade ONE SINGLE MODEM, contrary to what they told the press.
One day they sent a crew through the office to randomly pick people from tech-support and move them into what they call the "Cancel/Save Queue" because so many people were calling to cancel because they couldn't get through. I refused and was "forced to resign".
The point of this is the "Cancel/Save Queue" part. The only people that have authority to actually cancel someones account are those people, and their sole job is to talk you out of it. It *is* hard. They are told they have authority to do whatever it takes to keep you from canceling free months extra whatever else, webcam deal going on? How about a webcam then? Anything they can do to keep you even if your service is broken they will do, and they are told to not take no for an answer.
The whole reason I "resigned" (read: fired without unemployment benefits) was because I couldn't stand them and couldn't stomach the idea of kissing peoples ass when AOL was clearly at fault.
I'd say mirrordot, but they didn't even link TFA which means mirror dot won't catch it. If an editor would update that, then perhaps we will be able to get there, except that mirrordot probably won't get it now that the site has been crushed.
Chapter 1: Sam sets up NTP on Linux
Section1: Sam meets the man in the Red Hat: In this chapter Sam types rpm -i ntp.rpm && ntpd
Section2: Sam meets Mandrake: In this chapter Sam types urpmi ntp && ntpd
Section3: Sam meets Gentoo: In this chapter Sam types emerge ntp && ntpd
Section 4: Sam meets Debian and battles the GNU: In this chapter Sam types apt-get install ntp && ntpd
Chapter 2: Sam set up NTP on other Unixes
Section 1: In this chapter Sam meets puffy the blowfish and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
Section 2: In this chaper Sam meets Beastie and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
Section 3: In this chapter Sam battles his way to the Oracle at Solaris and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
hehe ya I remember the first commercial use of PHP and it kept spitting things out with escape chars (e.g. " became \") so i jsut created a counter and a loop that printed it out character by character and skipped printing the \. Very innefficient to say the least. Months later I learned about stripslashes(). oops.:-p
It's funny to look back at that ancient code in horror and wonder how I managed to get anything working at all. Some of my code you wouldn't know it worked if you read it before running it (but if you read it you would not have run it).
Ya the only way it could be any better is if they said which vulns actually had known exploits with links to the source. For, you know, testing purposes.
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I second this. I've done PERL BASH, a couple crappy C, yadda yadda. and I was able to pick PHP in an afternoon. Especially with it's similar structure to PERL.
I use php for most everything now, especially since php-cli came out. I even write my shell scripts in it now.
A few weeks ago I had to write a site that would allow users to input obituaries (I work in newspapers) and send off an XML feed and any binary images to an FTP server. The cool part is that the SAME script can be run from a command line or a web browser. Need the (l)users to input the obits? give them the website. If they need to send off a feed immediately (say for instance there is a typo on the website) it's a 1 click option for them. The script creates thubnails in png format from jsut about format you can think of. They can upload EPS, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, or even a PDF, or anything else support by imagemagick
Need to purge the database? run./index.php --purge (this is also in a cron), need to troubleshoot an XML file? run./index.php --xml to create a new file. Sending off a new feed from the command line?./index.php --xml --ftp.
The users love it because they can edit the obits in real time on the website, removing extra line breaks changing the photo or whatever else they need to do with a live preview.
Time to build it? roughly 4 hours and that includes setting up the PostgreSQL database.
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I didn't mean authenticate everyones' service to LDAP, I just meant store it there, and they can use any old ldap client to look them up.
Something perhaps like LDAP? :-) I think this sounds like a good use.
Funny little known fact. Microsoft runs Linux. My predecessor here at my job, left to go work for Microsofts Xbox division managing their Linux developer stations, because a lot of the Xbox developers wanted to develop on Linux (note: this wasn't MS developers wanted to run Linux but third party and so MS had to support it becuase they wanted the developers more than they wanted a pissing match.
I can summarize it all in one word (well acrnoym really). Here goes, ready?
BFD.
So that's 100% of ND reads /.? ;)
10 print "Derek likes Lisa!! ";
:-)
20 goto 10
run
ahh the joys of elementary school in the 80's.
US West over here in the Seattle area had those problems. They eventually got bought (I'm not sure of the details mabye it was a merger?) and they were able to fix it. There was widespread 911 outages. Constant "fast-busy" signals. I did support for a couple ISP's and one day we had a phone guy from another CLEC come in and he told us that if we dialed the area code even for numbers that were in our area code then we got routed through the long distance lines at US West (which was the local ILEC).
That saved our asses big time because people would cancel and move to another ISP (that of course wouldn't work either) because they associated busy signals with our banks being busy.
This went on for several months before US West became QWEST and the problems almost immediately went away.
Go download scummvm for mac os x, and then you can run those older lucasarts games. :-D I played Monkey Island 3 on my mac. :-p
as for the newer ones, I dunno. I mostly use my gamecube, and the only ones that I have that are similar is my collection of zelda games.
If you're talking about classic games you'd like to see again, AND lucasarts in the same paragraph, you MUST always talk of Monkey Island and nothing else. :-D
hrmmm maybe I'm remembering it backwards then? It was a long time ago.
Ya I just meant before. Of course they did it after or the problem would still exist :-p.
who's KB?
if it had ix in the email address you could have used the shell. :-)too bad you didn't keep it.
I can't give names because I don't remember them. That's what I was told by my manager (in Ogden). He was an Asian guy if that helps you any. We were told not to tell the customers on the phone that though. Perhaps your vantage point was different but if they spent all that effort BEFORE hell broke loose then why did hell break loose?
The reason I quit was not because I didn't want to help, it was because I wanted to work in technology, this wasn't a "ok we're going to transfer calls from the cancel/save to you for awhile" which did happen on occasion for other queues, that was to be my new permanent posistion.
As for MY vantage point I was tired of getting yelled at. In those days you answered the phone to get screamed at. Customers were LUCKY to have an hour of hold time on the phone. I can't tell you how many times we answered the phones to people snoring because they fell asleep. We'd try and try and try to wake them up (typically it was futile) and that happened several times a day. I can see you are loyal to them but I wasn't. It was a means to an end. Get the college credit for taking AOL's training course work in the support field for a bit and jet. As soon as they said my new posistion was going to be cancel/save, I was gone. There were lots of other crappy non-tech jobs in Ogden.
Netscape is AOL so that makes sense.
I miss netcom. See anyone around on the 'net with an @ix.netcom.com email address, pay attention to them. Those accounts are from the 90's and are legacy shell accounts. Mindspring bought netcom, and stopped offering new shell but supporting the old shells. Earthlink then merged with mindspring and same thing. Old shells supported, no new signup though.
Typically those guys know their way around a computer.
I actually worked at AOL about 1996-ish. It was right when they did that infamous switch from version 2-3 and they switched from charging hourly to unlimited monthly. I happen to knopw for a fact they did not upgrade ONE SINGLE MODEM, contrary to what they told the press.
One day they sent a crew through the office to randomly pick people from tech-support and move them into what they call the "Cancel/Save Queue" because so many people were calling to cancel because they couldn't get through. I refused and was "forced to resign".
The point of this is the "Cancel/Save Queue" part. The only people that have authority to actually cancel someones account are those people, and their sole job is to talk you out of it. It *is* hard. They are told they have authority to do whatever it takes to keep you from canceling free months extra whatever else, webcam deal going on? How about a webcam then? Anything they can do to keep you even if your service is broken they will do, and they are told to not take no for an answer.
The whole reason I "resigned" (read: fired without unemployment benefits) was because I couldn't stand them and couldn't stomach the idea of kissing peoples ass when AOL was clearly at fault.
I'd say mirrordot, but they didn't even link TFA which means mirror dot won't catch it. If an editor would update that, then perhaps we will be able to get there, except that mirrordot probably won't get it now that the site has been crushed.
Chapter 1: Meet Sam
Chapter 1: Sam sets up NTP on Linux
Section1: Sam meets the man in the Red Hat: In this chapter Sam types rpm -i ntp.rpm && ntpd
Section2: Sam meets Mandrake: In this chapter Sam types urpmi ntp && ntpd
Section3: Sam meets Gentoo: In this chapter Sam types emerge ntp && ntpd
Section 4: Sam meets Debian and battles the GNU: In this chapter Sam types apt-get install ntp && ntpd
Chapter 2: Sam set up NTP on other Unixes
Section 1: In this chapter Sam meets puffy the blowfish and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
Section 2: In this chaper Sam meets Beastie and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
Section 3: In this chapter Sam battles his way to the Oracle at Solaris and types pkg_add ntp.tgz && ntpd
It would be your fault because the government DID outlaw stabbing people.
Gives whole new meaning to a "leaking" battery.
hehe ya I remember the first commercial use of PHP and it kept spitting things out with escape chars (e.g. " became \") so i jsut created a counter and a loop that printed it out character by character and skipped printing the \. Very innefficient to say the least. Months later I learned about stripslashes(). oops. :-p
It's funny to look back at that ancient code in horror and wonder how I managed to get anything working at all. Some of my code you wouldn't know it worked if you read it before running it (but if you read it you would not have run it).
Ya the only way it could be any better is if they said which vulns actually had known exploits with links to the source. For, you know, testing purposes.
I second this. I've done PERL BASH, a couple crappy C, yadda yadda. and I was able to pick PHP in an afternoon. Especially with it's similar structure to PERL.
./index.php --purge (this is also in a cron), need to troubleshoot an XML file? run ./index.php --xml to create a new file. Sending off a new feed from the command line? ./index.php --xml --ftp.
I use php for most everything now, especially since php-cli came out. I even write my shell scripts in it now.
A few weeks ago I had to write a site that would allow users to input obituaries (I work in newspapers) and send off an XML feed and any binary images to an FTP server. The cool part is that the SAME script can be run from a command line or a web browser. Need the (l)users to input the obits? give them the website. If they need to send off a feed immediately (say for instance there is a typo on the website) it's a 1 click option for them. The script creates thubnails in png format from jsut about format you can think of. They can upload EPS, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, or even a PDF, or anything else support by imagemagick
Need to purge the database? run
The users love it because they can edit the obits in real time on the website, removing extra line breaks changing the photo or whatever else they need to do with a live preview.
Time to build it? roughly 4 hours and that includes setting up the PostgreSQL database.
Of course they do!! They've seen it a million times on various sites all across the internet.
I think you mean Darl Vader