Unless developers assume responsibility for the security for the infrastructure they are working with, then they should not be given admin rights.
My ass in the fire? Then the admin password is mine only.
When developers join a firm there should be a standard set of utilities used internally which the developers must use. Developers should not pick and choose whatever they want, that is a recipe for disaster and a technological nightmare. And what about the licensing? Are the developers going to report all the software they install accurately for licensing purposes (even good admins have problems with this at times).
In return development teams should have speedy service, and once a tool is identified as essential it should be installed promptly.
They should understand about resource constraints but that is all.
They don't need to understand all the intricacies of configuring systems in a complex environment, most silently security, or know about the latest and greates patches and gotchas going on on the system.
If I have got a penny for every time an application required to run with a privileged account unjustifiably, only because the developer worked as a privileged user all the time, I would have quite a bit of extra money by now.
That is the reason the two specialisms have evolved.
Development environments are often shared, then please do tell me how ensuring those environments are available for everybody is all of the sudden an act of selfishness.
Sys Admins are paid to pay attention to the big picture, developers in general have a narrow point of view of things and often fail to appreciate how their actions can affect others.
Every major work of art borrows from many other influences.
Name any piece of creative work and all the influences can be identified without difficulty (that is part of the routine work of the critics in the respective creative fields).
Creativity is transformation, Picasso learned by emulating Goya, Andy Warhol literally ripped off publicists, musicians all around the world use themes from other musicians for their own work.
It is a testament to the pernicious cunning of the lawyers of the cartels in the Music and Movie industries, that many people like you conceive creativity like existing in a perfect vacuum, when the reality is that nobody can create anything without learning and copying from others.
The other day I was watching a nature program in which an older chimp was teaching a younger one how to use a stick to get ants for a delicious meal.
In the derided world of the "creative" industries, the first chimp should withhold the information for its own benefit instead of spreading the knowledge as widely as possible. This is clearly perverse, but is this perversity where the cartels want us for their own benefit.
These asinine restrictions on creativity are against human nature, and it is sad to see a father misunderstanding so completely the creative process and indicting, horribly, wrongly, his own daughter as non creative for doing what creative minds do: copying.
The article is asking which other discoveries are worth considering, and you both are turning the discussion into a wish-list of what we would like to be discovered.
All very worthy, since I agree all medical conditions should be treated, but completely irrelevant to the original article (so the Moderators should let their knees jerk freely).
I managed DNS service for a region (many countries), It was only 8 machines. It was thousands of users (8000, perhaps more), there were 3 of us (not exclusively doing this, but I mention it this way for contrasting purposes).
In another job I had only 8 users, and 16 machines, but the software was highly specialized, that was more time consuming than the example above.
So are you understaffed? You are the only one that has a chance at knowing this.
Are you constantly staying late and working out of hours? Then you are understaffed, disorganized or both It is that simple really.
I have been in shops where they expected exponential growth could be managed without extra personnel, you should learn to identify those situation and plan accordingly (either reduce growth if you can't hire more people, or hire more people).
So it seems AT&T did a great job in the US contract with Apple, here in the UK we have now 3 carriers selling the iPhone (and you can get unlocked 2nd hand iPhones in reputable stores everywhere).
So the "Wireless data hogs" (so you give consumers a service, with a device that encourages your users to use your service, and when they buy too much of it, you get angry at them. Wow, just wow) will eventually be less of a problem, when good old fashioned competition kicks in.
Flash is working for me, in Ubuntu 9.10, out of the box, no need to fix anything (Opera mostly works, but misses clicks of the mouse, it makes Flash unusable, I haven't seen this solved or even reported yet).
Two minor gripes:
- Bookmark management is crap. In both Firefox and Opera you can list bookmarks by different criteria (alphabetically, by last time of access, by time created).
- There should be a setting to start in Incognito mode by default.
Otherwise it looks like a very capable piece of software.
So answering the posed questing, most likely Chrome OS will be a great operating system (a conclusion any sane person would arrive at by looking dispassionately at the quality of Google's release software so far).
If that helps you to sleep at night, all the power to you.
The fact is that the US intended to control the flow of oil, and the Bush administration initially allowed only US companies to bid for contracts for Iraqi infrastructure (to the chagrin of the British and other US allies on the Iraq adventure).
Of course all these grandiose plans came falling down like a house of cards when the little pesky problem of Iraqi insurgency replaced the dreams of a population receiving invaders with honey and flowers....
It is astounding that there are people still defending the band of vagrants that allowed Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia to become ever bigger problems while wasting resources and lives in decapitating a regime that was all tied up anyway and that had nothing to do with terrorism and that posed no threat to anybody's security anymore
As for liberating 30 million of Iraqis, well, obviously many of them don't feel liberated, and unfortunately we can't ask the opinions of the hundreds of thousands of dead people and we can't even project statistically their opinions because the invading forces didn't put an effort to count the Iraqi casualties.
Selective breeding allows us to see the long term results of following a certain path of specialization.
Genetic engineering (not selection, there is no natural selection involved) is too risky since it parachutes species without due care of the consequences in the environment.
Two completely different ways to approach the same problem.
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For applications that unwillingly (or willingly) stage DOS attacks (I have seen this against services as varied as NTP, NIS+, DNS and DHCP).
Can you swear that no developer will start a little DHCP or boot server of their own.
Guys, some of you are far too naive to be working with computers. At times I think it is a real miracle IT infrastructure works at all.
Unless developers assume responsibility for the security for the infrastructure they are working with, then they should not be given admin rights.
My ass in the fire? Then the admin password is mine only.
When developers join a firm there should be a standard set of utilities used internally which the developers must use. Developers should not pick and choose whatever they want, that is a recipe for disaster and a technological nightmare. And what about the licensing? Are the developers going to report all the software they install accurately for licensing purposes (even good admins have problems with this at times).
In return development teams should have speedy service, and once a tool is identified as essential it should be installed promptly.
But give admin rights to developers? Nope.
Which ones?
The limitations were in the developer's side for not knowing the implication of running everything using privileged access.
Developers write software. That is it.
They should understand about resource constraints but that is all.
They don't need to understand all the intricacies of configuring systems in a complex environment, most silently security, or know about the latest and greates patches and gotchas going on on the system.
If I have got a penny for every time an application required to run with a privileged account unjustifiably, only because the developer worked as a privileged user all the time, I would have quite a bit of extra money by now.
That is the reason the two specialisms have evolved.
"Developers DO need full admin rights on their dev boxes"
Nope. That is not needed, many big companies can and do internal development with full segregation of duties between developers and administrators.
There is no reason for a developer to be restarting a server, if he is developing on that basis you need a better developer.
Development environments are often shared, then please do tell me how ensuring those environments are available for everybody is all of the sudden an act of selfishness.
Sys Admins are paid to pay attention to the big picture, developers in general have a narrow point of view of things and often fail to appreciate how their actions can affect others.
Back then, my first gig in the UK was dealing with Y2K issues.
We had a substantial group of people in an isolated environment moving dates to 1/1/2000 and beyond and finding what was breaking.
I was witness of Perl scripts that failed to calculate dates correctly and SunOS and Solaris widespread patching due to specific Y2K issues.
Whoever says that Y2K was a hoax or myth does not know what he is talking about.
Nobody is 100% creative. Nobody.
Every major work of art borrows from many other influences.
Name any piece of creative work and all the influences can be identified without difficulty (that is part of the routine work of the critics in the respective creative fields).
Creativity is transformation, Picasso learned by emulating Goya, Andy Warhol literally ripped off publicists, musicians all around the world use themes from other musicians for their own work.
It is a testament to the pernicious cunning of the lawyers of the cartels in the Music and Movie industries, that many people like you conceive creativity like existing in a perfect vacuum, when the reality is that nobody can create anything without learning and copying from others.
The other day I was watching a nature program in which an older chimp was teaching a younger one how to use a stick to get ants for a delicious meal.
In the derided world of the "creative" industries, the first chimp should withhold the information for its own benefit instead of spreading the knowledge as widely as possible. This is clearly perverse, but is this perversity where the cartels want us for their own benefit.
These asinine restrictions on creativity are against human nature, and it is sad to see a father misunderstanding so completely the creative process and indicting, horribly, wrongly, his own daughter as non creative for doing what creative minds do: copying.
The article is asking which other discoveries are worth considering, and you both are turning the discussion into a wish-list of what we would like to be discovered.
All very worthy, since I agree all medical conditions should be treated, but completely irrelevant to the original article (so the Moderators should let their knees jerk freely).
I want a small one that is easy to carry.
I am sure I am not alone.
I don't need 15inch screen, neither do I need CD/DVD drive!
"We have failed the consumer because we have imposed constraints on them,'"
Absolutely.
Instead of investing heavily in lightweight operating systems for these machines, you took away Linux and installed Microsoft sloware.
That is the biggest constraint with which consumers have been burdened.
Hiding sharpies in a plane requires mad Engineering skillz....
I managed DNS service for a region (many countries), It was only 8 machines. It was thousands of users (8000, perhaps more), there were 3 of us (not exclusively doing this, but I mention it this way for contrasting purposes).
In another job I had only 8 users, and 16 machines, but the software was highly specialized, that was more time consuming than the example above.
So are you understaffed? You are the only one that has a chance at knowing this.
Are you constantly staying late and working out of hours? Then you are understaffed, disorganized or both It is that simple really.
I have been in shops where they expected exponential growth could be managed without extra personnel, you should learn to identify those situation and plan accordingly (either reduce growth if you can't hire more people, or hire more people).
How decades are counted is a bloody convention, not a law of nature.
Just saying.
I fail to see why people should stop working if a file server fails.
So it seems AT&T did a great job in the US contract with Apple, here in the UK we have now 3 carriers selling the iPhone (and you can get unlocked 2nd hand iPhones in reputable stores everywhere).
So the "Wireless data hogs" (so you give consumers a service, with a device that encourages your users to use your service, and when they buy too much of it, you get angry at them. Wow, just wow) will eventually be less of a problem, when good old fashioned competition kicks in.
Referring to the unremarkable?
A list of this kind must be predictable by definition, otherwise is of no real use.
Mate, the unemployed don't waste money on laptops, unless they had good redundancy packages from their ex employers in the financial industry.
I have, or have had, Palm devices from the original one, then Palm III Colour, Vx, Tungsten, Treo....
None of them got scratched screen.
Call it anecdote, but my sample size is bigger than most.
Flash is working for me, in Ubuntu 9.10, out of the box, no need to fix anything (Opera mostly works, but misses clicks of the mouse, it makes Flash unusable, I haven't seen this solved or even reported yet).
Two minor gripes:
- Bookmark management is crap. In both Firefox and Opera you can list bookmarks by different criteria (alphabetically, by last time of access, by time created).
- There should be a setting to start in Incognito mode by default.
Otherwise it looks like a very capable piece of software.
So answering the posed questing, most likely Chrome OS will be a great operating system (a conclusion any sane person would arrive at by looking dispassionately at the quality of Google's release software so far).
If that helps you to sleep at night, all the power to you.
The fact is that the US intended to control the flow of oil, and the Bush administration initially allowed only US companies to bid for contracts for Iraqi infrastructure (to the chagrin of the British and other US allies on the Iraq adventure).
Of course all these grandiose plans came falling down like a house of cards when the little pesky problem of Iraqi insurgency replaced the dreams of a population receiving invaders with honey and flowers....
It is astounding that there are people still defending the band of vagrants that allowed Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia to become ever bigger problems while wasting resources and lives in decapitating a regime that was all tied up anyway and that had nothing to do with terrorism and that posed no threat to anybody's security anymore
As for liberating 30 million of Iraqis, well, obviously many of them don't feel liberated, and unfortunately we can't ask the opinions of the hundreds of thousands of dead people and we can't even project statistically their opinions because the invading forces didn't put an effort to count the Iraqi casualties.
Many of us are no longer burdened by inhumane jobs.
We no longer have to walk for hours in order to trade.
We no longer die due to treatable diseases (we as in "we living in rich countries, aren't we lucky bastards?").
I frankly fail to see how technology has made our live more difficult.
Complex perhaps, but difficult? Nope.
"I don't dislike historical movies. I saw about half of 300, but wasn't particularly impressed with it. "
Of all the movies that could be considered "historical" you chose 300?
Are you serious?
Is is a form of art, communication and even propaganda.
Anybody claiming that films are only entertainment should be classed as ignorant.
Selective breeding allows us to see the long term results of following a certain path of specialization.
Genetic engineering (not selection, there is no natural selection involved) is too risky since it parachutes species without due care of the consequences in the environment.
Two completely different ways to approach the same problem.