The software is specifically designed to make it easy for *anyone* to set up a database. Even an "Internet Database". No thought required, just point and drool.
Why are we surprised that any moron who thinks they know what they are doing can set themselves up as "Internet Consultancies" and sell "Web Solutions" to Credulous Customers? Or that the resulting systems are criminally insecure?
Security is difficult. It has to be thought about. That's expensive, it takes experience and the Credulous Customer wants to save £5,000 so they look at the shiny new MCSE's and get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
I wouldn't blame the sysadmins too much either. They probably had absolutely no say in the design or implementation or continual running of the systems. Of course any attempts to improve the security and add patches, break the application horribly and the wrath of the CIO comes from on high to put it back the way it was.
The horse has bolted. These guys are *way* too late. They obviously don't think in "Internet Time"
BTW, has anyone else noticed that they have only one email address on their web site. That of a "pegge@mpaa.org" who might be a one "Paul Egge - Vice President - Information Services"
Hmmm. I wonder what the email addresses of the other "MPAA Oficers" at this web page are:
http://www.mpaa.org/about/mpaofficers/content.ht m
1: You need to know that CD's can be copied easily.
2: You need to know that you need a CDR.
3: You need to know that you can buy a CDR for £200 from XYZsystems.
4: You need to pay the £200.
5: You need to pat £0.1 per blank.
Then copying CD's is drag and drop. OK, none of this is rocket science, but you've cut out 99% of the population already.
With MP3, copying is drag and drop.
Of course, it's too late for the record industry as it stands. The instant that personal MP3 players appeared, it was too late.
The money will go to an Amazon type company selling individual MP3 files and collections for download for £1 or custom burned collections for £3. Hey, who want's to be a billionaire?
Ooh I don't think I like the sound of this. Nest they'll be telling you that you must upgrade twice per year and give them kickbacks (on top of the licenses) to be allowed to run their software.
It'd be worth mentioning to them that in order to run NT/SQL server 7, you would have to employ an NT sysadmin, a SQL server admin, buy hardware for PDC, BDC and SQL server system, upgrade the network to cope with the additional load, consultancy on the topology, training, PC upgrades to run the new clients etc etc.
Sounds like it might be cheaper for you to go with someone else's "more expensive?" accounting software...
1: Linux will be everywhere in little black boxes performing specific tasks - not quite embedded applications. Everything that doesn't need Windows will try Linux first. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000106/22/d5no.html
2: MP3 will be massive, record labels will start to become simply marketing organisations. Web sites will spring up to perform a similar task. You'll be able to download individual MP3 files in Virgin and HMV. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000106/22/d5no.html
At work - of course - until 3am, missing the biggest party the world has ever seen - bored out of my skull - , or will every see (unless aliens say hello).
Drove home, car broke down 5 miles from home - Recovery services? Hahaha Not likely. - Had to walk the rest of the way and of course I'm thinking well it can't really get any worse... Yup, you guessed, it started raining - pissing down -. Almost enough for me to believe in an almighty.
The *only* redeeming feature of the night for me was the fact that I'm getting a months pay for a single nights work, though it isn't like i'm desperately short of cash.
The limit's 70, but most people drive at about 80-95mph.
That however is nothing. Germans drive at 150mph on 2 lane autobahns. Now, *that* is some scary shit. Cruisin along at 130mph, look in the mirror - nothing, next second there's a Mercedes screaming up behind you at 190mph.
Why do you think the best Formula 1 drivers are German?
Most accidents happen in leafy suburban roads with people accelerating to 40 in a 30 zone mowing down pedestrians on the way. Motorway accidents account for relatively few deaths as a percentage.
A satellite based system would be dumb. It'll take 2 seconds for a signal to get to the satellite, another 2 seconds to be beamed back down to the processing centre, X seconds of processing time (say 2), another 2 seconds to be beamed back up to the satellite and another 2 seconds to be beamed back to the car telling it to slow down.
That's 10 seconds, about 5 seconds too late. Then you've got launch costs, operating centre costs, single point of failure with a satellite.
Basically, it isn't going to happen.
In any event a better solution would be a mandatory acceleration and top speed limiter. Some people would try to get arround it, but make it part of the MOT checks etc.
No, it's not wrong at all, what bullshit, what a munchkin.
Some points I'd like to make:
Tech support is *not* just memorisation. If it was, then any spud would be able to be paid £50,000($80,000)/year to do it.
The first and foremost skill require is problem solving, that requires analytical, logical thought. In addition to a problem solving mind, you need a detailed *understanding* of the how and why of the systems you are tech support for. Basically you just need to be smart.
Sure, any spud can be a first line human dictaphone for the call logging system and it sounds like that's approximately what Mr Kurtz did during his time working "tech support for 4 years". But that's not really "tech support".
Tech support people don't laugh at the genuine calls; The call where there *is* some problem or there is some difficult technical challenge that might cost the business.
The people we laugh at are the stupid and the time wasters; The people who raise calls about their monitor being broken when all they needed to do was turn the brightness back up to normal... They go on "The plank" - a plank of wood with the names of those who have raised the dumbest calls.
These people need to be laughed at, and they need to know that we laugh at them, and their bosses need to know that we laugh at them. That way they might well think a little and try the brightness control before calling the support line and tying up a very busy, very highly paid technical support person over inane crap!
Aaaaaaahhh!!!! Bloody morons!
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The reason everything worked is that I and people like me have spent years going over hardware and software - REPLACING EVERYTHING WHICH WOULD HAVE FAILED!!!!!
I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars replacing systems which I HAVE TESTED AND KNOW WOULD FAIL WITH SYSTEMS WHICH IHAVE TESTED AND KNOW WOULD PASS!! BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE!
Excuse me for shouting, but some people are so STUPID!
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Think of it as a response cache. You'll get a hit 99% of the time.
Why are we at all surprised?
The software is specifically designed to make it easy for *anyone* to set up a database. Even an "Internet Database". No thought required, just point and drool.
Why are we surprised that any moron who thinks they know what they are doing can set themselves up as "Internet Consultancies" and sell "Web Solutions" to Credulous Customers? Or that the resulting systems are criminally insecure?
Security is difficult. It has to be thought about. That's expensive, it takes experience and the Credulous Customer wants to save £5,000 so they look at the shiny new MCSE's and get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
I wouldn't blame the sysadmins too much either. They probably had absolutely no say in the design or implementation or continual running of the systems. Of course any attempts to improve the security and add patches, break the application horribly and the wrath of the CIO comes from on high to put it back the way it was.
Go search on any search engine.
Americans can't even spell "colour" or "aluminium" correctly.
The english language continues to evolve just like a living thing. Ha, tenuously on topic or what?
If enough people say that "virii" is a real word and is the plural for "virus", then so it is.
Course, sometimes bad spelling or grammar make it difficult to read.
I guess this means that the code will have to be stored outside the US... In a free country. :)
Just how legal is it to sell hardware which is known not to be fully functional?
The horse has bolted. These guys are *way* too late. They obviously don't think in "Internet Time"
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BTW, has anyone else noticed that they have only one email address on their web site. That of a "pegge@mpaa.org" who might be a one "Paul Egge - Vice President - Information Services"
Hmmm. I wonder what the email addresses of the other "MPAA Oficers" at this web page are:
http://www.mpaa.org/about/mpaofficers/content.h
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1: You need to know that CD's can be copied easily.
2: You need to know that you need a CDR.
3: You need to know that you can buy a CDR for £200 from XYZsystems.
4: You need to pay the £200.
5: You need to pat £0.1 per blank.
Then copying CD's is drag and drop. OK, none of this is rocket science, but you've cut out 99% of the population already.
With MP3, copying is drag and drop.
Of course, it's too late for the record industry as it stands. The instant that personal MP3 players appeared, it was too late.
The money will go to an Amazon type company selling individual MP3 files and collections for download for £1 or custom burned collections for £3. Hey, who want's to be a billionaire?
A much more interesting article would be to discuss the use of bacteria in terraforming Mars.
Sorry, I've been through the pain. PDC, BDC and SQL server as separate boxes, preferably have the PDC at a separate site.
Also, with accounting systems, you don't
, you .Ooh I don't think I like the sound of this. Nest they'll be telling you that you must upgrade twice per year and give them kickbacks (on top of the licenses) to be allowed to run their software.
It'd be worth mentioning to them that in order to run NT/SQL server 7, you would have to employ an NT sysadmin, a SQL server admin, buy hardware for PDC, BDC and SQL server system, upgrade the network to cope with the additional load, consultancy on the topology, training, PC upgrades to run the new clients etc etc.
Sounds like it might be cheaper for you to go with someone else's "more expensive?" accounting software...
I'm having difficulty getting past the spelling.
I've got a Cyrix 150MHz CPU (not even MMX), 64Mb of RAM and 2x 10,000 RPM SCSI disks.
If I ever find I'm hitting my system really hard (I'm not)
1: First thing I'll upgrade is the disks, not the CPU; I'll go for fibre channel disks if I can find them.
2: Second, I'll upgrade the RAM , not the CPU so I have plenty of cache and no swapping.
3: Then the bus architecture (new motherboard will probable force a CPU upgrade).
4: Next my video card.
5: Last of all, I'll upgrade the CPU.
1: Linux will be everywhere in little black boxes performing specific tasks - not quite embedded applications. Everything that doesn't need Windows will try Linux first.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000106/22/d5no.html
2: MP3 will be massive, record labels will start to become simply marketing organisations. Web sites will spring up to perform a similar task. You'll be able to download individual MP3 files in Virgin and HMV.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000106/22/d5no.html
At work - of course - until 3am, missing the biggest party the world has ever seen - bored out of my skull - , or will every see (unless aliens say hello).
Drove home, car broke down 5 miles from home - Recovery services? Hahaha Not likely. - Had to walk the rest of the way and of course I'm thinking well it can't really get any worse... Yup, you guessed, it started raining - pissing down -. Almost enough for me to believe in an almighty.
The *only* redeeming feature of the night for me was the fact that I'm getting a months pay for a single nights work, though it isn't like i'm desperately short of cash.
There was an article on /. recently.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/22/211
Their prototypes were Linux based, but went wince when the MS marketting machine jumped all over them.
Sounds like Intel are coming up with a very similar box.
Too expensive though, people will only pay £50 for a phone.
That's what it says in the article.
The limit's 70, but most people drive at about 80-95mph.
That however is nothing. Germans drive at 150mph on 2 lane autobahns. Now, *that* is some scary shit. Cruisin along at 130mph, look in the mirror - nothing, next second there's a Mercedes screaming up behind you at 190mph.
Why do you think the best Formula 1 drivers are German?
Most accidents happen in leafy suburban roads with people accelerating to 40 in a 30 zone mowing down pedestrians on the way. Motorway accidents account for relatively few deaths as a percentage.
A satellite based system would be dumb. It'll take 2 seconds for a signal to get to the satellite, another 2 seconds to be beamed back down to the processing centre, X seconds of processing time (say 2), another 2 seconds to be beamed back up to the satellite and another 2 seconds to be beamed back to the car telling it to slow down.
That's 10 seconds, about 5 seconds too late. Then you've got launch costs, operating centre costs, single point of failure with a satellite.
Basically, it isn't going to happen.
In any event a better solution would be a mandatory acceleration and top speed limiter. Some people would try to get arround it, but make it part of the MOT checks etc.
No, it's not wrong at all, what bullshit, what a munchkin.
Some points I'd like to make:
Tech support is *not* just memorisation. If it was, then any spud would be able to be paid £50,000($80,000)/year to do it.
The first and foremost skill require is problem solving, that requires analytical, logical thought. In addition to a problem solving mind, you need a detailed *understanding* of the how and why of the systems you are tech support for. Basically you just need to be smart.
Sure, any spud can be a first line human dictaphone for the call logging system and it sounds like that's approximately what Mr Kurtz did during his time working "tech support for 4 years". But that's not really "tech support".
Tech support people don't laugh at the genuine calls; The call where there *is* some problem or there is some difficult technical challenge that might cost the business.
The people we laugh at are the stupid and the time wasters; The people who raise calls about their monitor being broken when all they needed to do was turn the brightness back up to normal... They go on "The plank" - a plank of wood with the names of those who have raised the dumbest calls.
These people need to be laughed at, and they need to know that we laugh at them, and their bosses need to know that we laugh at them. That way they might well think a little and try the brightness control before calling the support line and tying up a very busy, very highly paid technical support person over inane crap!
The reason everything worked is that I and people like me have spent years going over hardware and software - REPLACING EVERYTHING WHICH WOULD HAVE FAILED!!!!!
I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars replacing systems which I HAVE TESTED AND KNOW WOULD FAIL WITH SYSTEMS WHICH IHAVE TESTED AND KNOW WOULD PASS!! BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE!
Excuse me for shouting, but some people are so STUPID!
I'm afraid that according to slashdot you're at:
12:09 PM December 31st, 1999 GMT
Hahahaa.
And I say again!
Hahahhahha!
Hahahhahha!
Hahhahaha!
Hahahahahah!