"You have nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong."
Sad how many people believe somehow justify the erosion of our rights with idiotic, short-sighted mantras such as the above.
If only I had mod points left.
I've always been in the vein of those who have a strong affection for science, only surpassed by their affection for God. Good to see I'm not alone on this site, though I usually stay away from the subject when it's presented here.
Agreed. Sadly, we Opera users will [seemingly] ALWAYS be in the minority. Shame, really. It's really a phenomenal browser. If we could somehow get signing/encryption included for the email client, it would be fully golden, IMHO.
SimCity was a CITY SIMULATOR as much as it was a game. By developing the game for the lowest common denominator, it IS just a "game", as you've put it -- no longer the comprehensive CITY SIMULATOR that it was, which is why I, along with others, are angry.
It's so sad what EA has done to the series. No "true" SimCity since SC4, each iteration seems to pander to the lowest common denominator rather than the true enthusiasts, which is understandable since they're in business to make money, not satisfy an enthusiastic fanbase. It's just sad that it's ended up this way.
They could've built of SC4, added curved roads and much better pathfinding, and the majority of us enthusiasts would've been very happy, I'm sure. Oh well, haven't bought SimCity since SC4, and it looks like that shall continue. Won't even go into the pitfalls and idiocies that I read about in a few reviews (small map size, bugs, etc.).
If the update causes the business to shutdown, then the business may go out of business before the "some extra work to fix bugs" can be completed against some third party proprietary application that the busness cannot fix....
So no. bosses that don't want push updates because "it can break our systems" are correct. Pushing the update could put the company out of business.
Hey, I'm all for this as long as when the inevitable occurs, I'm not held responsible. We all know how that will go though, don't we?
Even worse are bosses who don't want to push updates because "it can break our systems." Surely being cracked is orders of magnitudes worse than having to do some extra work to fix bugs, no?
as the degree does not give the right skills and is loaded with theory.
Which is why people like myself with no college degree and hardly any relevant post-secondary training are still able to hold high-level systems administrator jobs with high-pay, and only going up from this point. Self-taught is a legitimate the way to go in this industry, in my opinion, if you can put up with the years of monkey you have to do at first. Not only do you learn through experience, but you also are not so bound by what you were taught in the classroom which does not always translate to the real world. Hell, you'd have to do the monkey work even with a degree.
Except, you can't use an email client with Yahoo's service unless you have the paid-Yahoo crap, Yahoo+, or whatever the hell it is they call it. Rather, you don't have access to IMAP/POP3 without the paid account -- unless they've changed this recently...?
Exactly. In fact I see so often how people are wary of the things they see and people they interact with on the internet...you'd think this would also be a no-brainer.
And thus lies another example of IT being put between a rock and a hard place. SMH -____-
I'd laugh at your story if I didn't think it was completely true. It's a shame, really.
Hear, hear. I run KDE 4.9.5 at my workplace and I always have the devs asking what OS I'm using and how can they do that windows 7. I really love KDE and don't understand why it gets such hate.
Not really "by far." I have 0 issues running my Arch Desktop in a complete RHEL 5/6 environment -- as far as the production side is concerned. Hell, even for the internal Windows network (that I unfortunately also administer; also includes RHEL staging/testing machines), Arch works beautifully with it. Wine runs most of the trash I need it to, and otherwise I spin up my W7 VM once in a blue moon. I can concede that it's perhaps "easier" to run Fedora in an RHEL environment, but why would you want to deal with fluff and/or reinstalls [at least] every 18 months -- or at all -- when you don't have to?
What's 1337 about Arch Linux -- even perception-wise? You can't use Arch just for the fact that it doesn't install 100's of useless things that you'll never use? Hell even Arch is "easy", if that's what you're looking for. One would think you were referring to a *BSD or something...
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"You have nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong." Sad how many people believe somehow justify the erosion of our rights with idiotic, short-sighted mantras such as the above.
You lucky bastige!
Lol, mine too! It's the though that counts, I suppose, hahaha.
They are, however, looking for new members, and want THEM to add the alert code.
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If only I had mod points left. I've always been in the vein of those who have a strong affection for science, only surpassed by their affection for God. Good to see I'm not alone on this site, though I usually stay away from the subject when it's presented here.
Agreed. Sadly, we Opera users will [seemingly] ALWAYS be in the minority. Shame, really. It's really a phenomenal browser. If we could somehow get signing/encryption included for the email client, it would be fully golden, IMHO.
SimCity was a CITY SIMULATOR as much as it was a game. By developing the game for the lowest common denominator, it IS just a "game", as you've put it -- no longer the comprehensive CITY SIMULATOR that it was, which is why I, along with others, are angry.
It's so sad what EA has done to the series. No "true" SimCity since SC4, each iteration seems to pander to the lowest common denominator rather than the true enthusiasts, which is understandable since they're in business to make money, not satisfy an enthusiastic fanbase. It's just sad that it's ended up this way. They could've built of SC4, added curved roads and much better pathfinding, and the majority of us enthusiasts would've been very happy, I'm sure. Oh well, haven't bought SimCity since SC4, and it looks like that shall continue. Won't even go into the pitfalls and idiocies that I read about in a few reviews (small map size, bugs, etc.).
If the update causes the business to shutdown, then the business may go out of business before the "some extra work to fix bugs" can be completed against some third party proprietary application that the busness cannot fix....
So no. bosses that don't want push updates because "it can break our systems" are correct. Pushing the update could put the company out of business.
Hey, I'm all for this as long as when the inevitable occurs, I'm not held responsible. We all know how that will go though, don't we?
Even worse are bosses who don't want to push updates because "it can break our systems." Surely being cracked is orders of magnitudes worse than having to do some extra work to fix bugs, no?
Would not surprise me in the slightest. Unfortunately my curse is that I'm not a huge believer in coincidences on such a scale...
While your statement is completely true, perception is reality for a large segment of the population, unfortunately.
Tech / IT needs a apprenticeship system
as the degree does not give the right skills and is loaded with theory.
Which is why people like myself with no college degree and hardly any relevant post-secondary training are still able to hold high-level systems administrator jobs with high-pay, and only going up from this point. Self-taught is a legitimate the way to go in this industry, in my opinion, if you can put up with the years of monkey you have to do at first. Not only do you learn through experience, but you also are not so bound by what you were taught in the classroom which does not always translate to the real world. Hell, you'd have to do the monkey work even with a degree.
Except, you can't use an email client with Yahoo's service unless you have the paid-Yahoo crap, Yahoo+, or whatever the hell it is they call it. Rather, you don't have access to IMAP/POP3 without the paid account -- unless they've changed this recently...?
They are bought and paid for, friend.
Exactly. In fact I see so often how people are wary of the things they see and people they interact with on the internet...you'd think this would also be a no-brainer.
And thus lies another example of IT being put between a rock and a hard place. SMH -____- I'd laugh at your story if I didn't think it was completely true. It's a shame, really.
Exactly. In fact I'm surprised people DO use Chrome when there's a perfectly suitable, upstream, open source version of it to be had.
Chrome is built on good technology, but since it is proprietary closed source I prefer Firefox.
Use chromium? I don't think I've ever actually used Chrome itself. Chromium is the open source version with the "phone home" crap stripped out.
lol!
Hapless management. Sad, really.
Hear, hear. I run KDE 4.9.5 at my workplace and I always have the devs asking what OS I'm using and how can they do that windows 7. I really love KDE and don't understand why it gets such hate.
Not really "by far." I have 0 issues running my Arch Desktop in a complete RHEL 5/6 environment -- as far as the production side is concerned. Hell, even for the internal Windows network (that I unfortunately also administer; also includes RHEL staging/testing machines), Arch works beautifully with it. Wine runs most of the trash I need it to, and otherwise I spin up my W7 VM once in a blue moon. I can concede that it's perhaps "easier" to run Fedora in an RHEL environment, but why would you want to deal with fluff and/or reinstalls [at least] every 18 months -- or at all -- when you don't have to?
What's 1337 about Arch Linux -- even perception-wise? You can't use Arch just for the fact that it doesn't install 100's of useless things that you'll never use? Hell even Arch is "easy", if that's what you're looking for. One would think you were referring to a *BSD or something...