I worked for a large (Fortune 500) company once that kept all the servers, backup devices, disk arrays, etc. in a very secure room. The doors required a keycard and palm scan to open, and there were CCTV cameras monitoring both the doorway and the inside room at all times. The network was closely monitored, everything was firewalled, system administrators were not given the root password but had to use sudo, and every minor incident of any kind required a full writeup and report.
However, due to space issues, the nightly backup tapes were kept on a row of shelves in a hallway between cubicles, in an area completely free of cameras and about twenty paces from an exit.
Paranoia regarding F/OSS software is already in full swing where I work -- and I work for a small company (35 employees.) Last month, I was tasked with drawing up a list of services that depend on F/OSS software, and a "migration plan" to move them to non-F/OSS software should SCO win. My PHB seems to think they will, and is running scared, in particular since we're a 100% LAMP server shop. He seems to believe he'd sleep better at night if we were a 100% IIS shop. Ugh.
If you have management that will actually allow you to do this, then it's real simple. The project manager will take projected timelines for your required projects, and add 20%. If you work efficiently, you'll end up with 20% of your time free to work on independent projects.
Sadly, you stated that wrong. I think what you meant was:
If you have management that will actually allow you to do this, then it's real simple. The project manager will take projected timelines for your required projects, and subtract 20%. No matter how efficiently you work, you'll still end up at least 40% over budget and past due, and have 0% of your time free to work on independent projects.
You do, of course, realize that your company will own the fruit of your labor, including whatever it is you produce in your 20% time window. This means forget the GPL license and other open source licenses; your company will be free to patent and otherwise sell "your" ideas and products.
Perhaps this 20% idea is not the utopian ideal that it seems?
I agree with you that it's OK to have a hard test, but this guy was just being a dick.
Have you ever met DJB? I have. He's a total asshole who writes crap software. I've written custom add-ons for qmail (RADIUS authentication replacement for chkpasswd, etc.) and can state that qmail is one massive collection of horribly cobbled-together C code. Very few comments, missing and inconsistent indentation, and lots of files that don't seem to have a valid purpose in life. Various binaries simply expect to find streams already open, don't close file handles, etc. It's a horrible mess, it's a wonder it works at all, and it's why I switched to Exim.:-)
Take photograph of console. Be sure the flash glare whites out the image.
Punch the reset button on the compromised server multiple times (even better, tape the button pressed down.)
Login to server after reboot, and run FORMAT C:/U (on Linux, try dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda)
Drop server to floor from a minimum height of six meters.
While computer is powered on, pour water in to the power supply (be sure to stand at a safe distance, and wear non-conductive gloves.)
Extend retractable coffee-cup holder, and break off using a sharp downward motion.
Securely tie the server to your PHB using multiple power cords, then drop in a sufficiently deep lake or other body of water.
Douse running server with a flammable liquid, and then apply a match or lighter to it. Be sure to stand at a safe distance and wear asbestos gloves.
Fill the CD-ROM drive with iron shavings, and then use My Computer to eject the drive (in Linux, run eject cdrom).
Repeatedly unplug and plug back in the hard drive while the system is powered up.
Use a small ballpeen hammer to bang a cute smilely face in to the top surface of the hard drive. The server should be powered on during this proceedure.
I have a 11th month old who often watches my while I work on the computer. One day he came over and started expressing an interesting in what I was doing. I decided to give him one of my spare keyboards to "bang" on, and he immediately got to work. Now whenever I am working in the office, he wants to come in, bang on his keyboard, and work too!
Is that you, Mike? Hey asshole, that was my keyboard you gave your kid. Now, to finish the project that is due in less than a week, I have to use a keyboard that is missing a bunch of keys and is covered with spit!
Get two PCs, a powerful one to act as the backend server, and an all-in-one-with-monitor kind to act as the semi-dumb terminal. Install Gentoo Linux on both, and use FreeS/WAN to secure the connection between the two. Run X on the terminal, and connect to the backend server to run your desktop and apps. You can make the whole thing wireless.
By the time you're done compiling and installing Gentoo, and have finished getting FreeS/WAN and the related software to actually work, your child will be at least 18 years old, and you can kick them out of the house a buy a real computer -- like, say, an Apple eMac or iMac.
First, the turret gun hoses the intruder down with napalm, and then fires the heat-seeking missile. At that point, the target is more than fully illuminated by the gelled gasoline, so the missile should have no problems finding and hitting the target.
I do foresee problems with the Home Owners' Association, however. Upgrading a simple B&E to a smoking crater half a city block wide, well....
Is that you, Mike? Quit fucking around on Slashdot and get back to work! My stock options' value is slipping since you're not doing your job, you lazy bastard!
Thankfully, all DDoS and DoS attack packets come with the Evil Bit set. You simply update your router to drop all packets that contain the Evil Bit, and you're good to go!
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However, due to space issues, the nightly backup tapes were kept on a row of shelves in a hallway between cubicles, in an area completely free of cameras and about twenty paces from an exit.
And a thirty-character password? Is the author smoking crack?
Paranoia regarding F/OSS software is already in full swing where I work -- and I work for a small company (35 employees.) Last month, I was tasked with drawing up a list of services that depend on F/OSS software, and a "migration plan" to move them to non-F/OSS software should SCO win. My PHB seems to think they will, and is running scared, in particular since we're a 100% LAMP server shop. He seems to believe he'd sleep better at night if we were a 100% IIS shop. Ugh.
Yeah, but it is made by HP. HP! It's crap, so your comparison is worthless.
If you have management that will actually allow you to do this, then it's real simple. The project manager will take projected timelines for your required projects, and subtract 20%. No matter how efficiently you work, you'll still end up at least 40% over budget and past due, and have 0% of your time free to work on independent projects.
Perhaps this 20% idea is not the utopian ideal that it seems?
Your ideas regarding your new Chutney flavored Slushy intrigue me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Thanks! I now have clam chowder soup all over my keyboard, and my nose feels weird. :-D
Moron.
By the time you're done compiling and installing Gentoo, and have finished getting FreeS/WAN and the related software to actually work, your child will be at least 18 years old, and you can kick them out of the house a buy a real computer -- like, say, an Apple eMac or iMac.
Frat! Frat! Frat! Frat! Frat! Frat!
I do foresee problems with the Home Owners' Association, however. Upgrading a simple B&E to a smoking crater half a city block wide, well....
Is that you, Mike? Quit fucking around on Slashdot and get back to work! My stock options' value is slipping since you're not doing your job, you lazy bastard!
1) Use OS X
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Thankfully, all DDoS and DoS attack packets come with the Evil Bit set. You simply update your router to drop all packets that contain the Evil Bit, and you're good to go!
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