Thanks for this! Yeah, I've got the backup side of things fully covered (and virus checkers, firewall, etc.), but I had never heard of CryptoPrevent before. I'll check it (and MalwareBytes) out
Ok, so I've done all this stuff. I unfortunately have to use Windows for a lot of things (eg. work), but I have full sets of redundant backups, and always at least one giant backup drive offsite. But there are always going to be gaps in the schedule where I'll potentially lose a couple days. With the pain of full system restores, and losing some continuity, however small, it would be far better to protect against this kind of thing. I'm pretty safe about blocking ads, turning off scripting, not clicking on evil things, but I'm wondering if there's more I can do? What about something like Sandboxie, or doing my web surfing from a VM? Anybody have any advice on best practices?
Ok, maybe I'm mis-remembering, and the client didn't tap into my video card back then, since now that you mention it, I didn't check out CGminer until about a year later. But looking at my wallet, I can see that it was July 2010, and I got my blocks on July 13th and 15th. Either way, the point is that I was lucky enough to check this thing out when it first started, and for once, simply being a curious geek paid off.
Doesn't matter to me what you think really, but I just wanted to mention that all I did was notice an article here on slashdot about bitcoin when it was first launching, said to myself "huh, this looks like an interesting concept", grabbed the client, mined a couple blocks of 50 coins in a matter of days with a mediocre video card, then turned it off and forgot about it. When the price skyrocketted, I knew it wasn't sustainable, and this neat little experiment had gone too far, so I sold most of them at that point, on an exchange. What part of that was me being a scammer?
I know, right? I got a pretty good crash course in Spanish after moving to Mexico for a year in 2000, to a city where almost no-one spoke English. So now I'm fairly fluent in English, French and Spanish. Since leaving Quebec almost 30 years ago, I only speak French with anyone once every few years as a bit of a novelty. Spanish? Absolutely never in the main cities in Canada. I work in IT, and I've only ever met one guy who spoke Spanish. The order is, and has been English, Chinese, Russian, and German, with Hindi floating around on either side of Russian, and Japanese down near the bottom (but still way above Spanish) more or less exactly as you stated, in every corporate environment I've working in for the last 20 years. That includes the teams several other countries.
Conclusion: The secondary languages I've learned have absolutely no use in any business I've conducted throughout my entire career in IT.
You mean like this? http://hexus.net/tech/news/dis...
I don't care what anyone else says about what's "right", because people are idiots. I'm buying one of these.
Wait...you're asking for a boycott on Samsung, but not Apple?...and you think that Apple hasn't tried (and succeeded) in lawsuits defending their frivolous patents by outspending their competition on fancy lawyers?
While I agree that Samsung has pulled a lot of crap that is boycott-worthy, the way you've stated the case is, to put it nicely, disingenuous.
Well, there are reasons beyond that to be fair. Thinking of the reasons why some of my previous jobs were in large corporations:
- More likely to get training when you're starting out and wet behind the ears, be surrounded by people with more experience you can learn from, and not have to be the guy with all the answers when you're so junior.
- A certain level of job stability and good benefits when you have bills to pay, and people you're supporting.
- Something recognizable to other employers for your future job hunting.
Having said all that, you're right about one thing. If you stay in IT long enough, and you're good at what you do, there does come a point where, if you've worked for large companies for a while, you realize how crap it is, and that you deserve better and can get it in a smaller shop, or startup.
[citation needed]
Specifically I'm saying, citation of someone with no domain experience in a type of business starting one, and becoming wildly successful that wasn't due to either luck or downright unethical practices. One example please...just one. Thanks.
My favorite one was the space/sci-fi one. My memory is fuzzy, but there was a page where something really cool happens, but it was an unreachable, unlinked page that you couldn't normally get to. I found it because I had a practice of putting a little pencil mark on the corner of every page I read, so I could see which pages I hadn't read, and try to figure out how to get to them.
As phantomfive also said, thanks. I have a copy of Einstein's Relativity right here that I was planning to re-read soon, but I think I'll take your advice and read up on tensors first, to enhance my understanding. You've given me a reason for looking forward to this more than I already was. Wish I had mod points for ya!
I love bitcoin. I've mined them, bought them, sold them, bought real tangible (completely legal) things with them, donated to worthwhile causes with them, and have read enough to understand how the whole system works...and even I think this is a downright retarded idea.
I'll add, if it was me, I'd bring the couple of Raspberry Pi kits I've had kicking around for months and never had the time to play with, plus the handful of soft copy guides I've got kicking around on a laptop, and finally do something with them, like I've been meaning to for ages. You will have access to electricity, I assume?
I came here to say this. People commenting here don't seem to have the experience to back it up. I spent a year in a beautiful place where the climate and culture were a 180 from where I'd spent most of the rest of my life up to that point, and hardly anybody spoke a word of English. It was an awesome adventure, but I still had a whole heap of Cisco training materials on a laptop, and managed to write my CCNA exam when I came back. I had enough downtime over the course of the year, and sometimes I just wanted use the time to learn something radically different from my current surroundings, and more related to my former life. It helped me stay sane when I started to feel like a stranger in a strange land, and it made me remember that I'm not an idiot. When you spend a year trying to function in a place where you don't speak the language too well (especially at first), you can start to feel like you've lost too many brain cells.
As for what to bring, that's hard to say, but I'd recommend something that's formatted as a course with study guides and practice tests, just because then you can gauge how well you're absorbing the material without needing to be online to confirm it.
Totally this. I work for a company that has a 5TB database that's currently holding all granular transaction data for a few thousand companies over 10 years. The main transaction detail table grows by 1-200k records per hour on average (around 50 new inserts a second), which amounts to about 1-2 GB a day. With the way things are ramping, we're on track to increase by around 1 TB a year on that database. We allow several levels of reporting to those companies, with details vs. aggregation, and all kinds of data warehouse slicing and dicing for everything they could possibly want. There are issues with some reports being slow sometimes, and data warehouse problems occasionally making it fall as much as a whole day behind (oh, the horror!), but it generally works.
As a rule of thumb, we don't consider this anywhere near big data. A large Oracle database, and some standard (by now we could call them "traditional") tools for cubes and data warehouses is all we need.
I know right? I actually have 3 copies of it, 2 of which were thrown into those "buy this whole shoebox full of 2600 carts for $10, but you have to take them all" garage sale deals, and 1 of which is still in the original packaging (although not sealed).
Yeah, I wonder about this. It's extremely hard to come up with numbers. You typically end up with specific cases hitting the news in chunks, like this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Then there's my own anecdotal evidence from copper mining, where my friend left his management position at one Canadian mining company shortly after a Chinese company acquired 51%, only to have another Chinese company buy a 40% stake in the next company he ended up at. Now he's waiting for the other shoe to drop, when the additional 11% acquisition quietly happens with no press. I've heard the same stories in every natural resource sector I know people in, but I just spent an hour googling this, and I can't find any top line number for just how much of Canada is actually owned by China. I suspect it's truly shocking.
I think maybe "money spent" would be a better metric. If you buy AAA titles, consoles, surround sound systems, projectors, liquid-cooled rigs with dual video cards, gaming headsets, specialized controllers, keyboards, and mice...in short, if some non-trivial percentage of your household's disposable income goes towards gaming, then you are a gamer. Does it not make economic sense to target the demographic that is spending outrageous amounts of money on this stuff. Otherwise you're chasing a very thin, long tail. Good luck keeping your game dev company afloat with that plan.
Too bad you posted AC, otherwise I could make sure I never hire you. Sorry man, but the last 10 companies I worked for got pretty big things done with Oracle DBs, and were able to host several-terabyte databases doing things that even DB2 would choke on, never mind MySQL or SQL Server, or any other DB I've worked with. I've worked with more companies that have migrated *to* Oracle because they outgrew what they were using, than the other way around. There's always much gnashing of teeth, and angst over going with such a reprehensible company's product...but that's been my experience at least.
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Why was this modded troll. It's 100% true, and anybody who thinks it isn't either doesn't live here in Canada, or really has no clue.
That letter includes the work address and phone number of the CEO of Rightscrap. Good times are ahead, I'm thinking.
Thanks for this! Yeah, I've got the backup side of things fully covered (and virus checkers, firewall, etc.), but I had never heard of CryptoPrevent before. I'll check it (and MalwareBytes) out
Ok, so I've done all this stuff. I unfortunately have to use Windows for a lot of things (eg. work), but I have full sets of redundant backups, and always at least one giant backup drive offsite. But there are always going to be gaps in the schedule where I'll potentially lose a couple days. With the pain of full system restores, and losing some continuity, however small, it would be far better to protect against this kind of thing. I'm pretty safe about blocking ads, turning off scripting, not clicking on evil things, but I'm wondering if there's more I can do? What about something like Sandboxie, or doing my web surfing from a VM? Anybody have any advice on best practices?
Even better, the linked article actually states "by all indications the economy’s doing pretty well". I didn't read past that.
"and by at least some indications the economy's doing pretty well"
Which indications are those? Forgive me, but I don't watch CNBC.
Ok, maybe I'm mis-remembering, and the client didn't tap into my video card back then, since now that you mention it, I didn't check out CGminer until about a year later. But looking at my wallet, I can see that it was July 2010, and I got my blocks on July 13th and 15th. Either way, the point is that I was lucky enough to check this thing out when it first started, and for once, simply being a curious geek paid off.
Doesn't matter to me what you think really, but I just wanted to mention that all I did was notice an article here on slashdot about bitcoin when it was first launching, said to myself "huh, this looks like an interesting concept", grabbed the client, mined a couple blocks of 50 coins in a matter of days with a mediocre video card, then turned it off and forgot about it. When the price skyrocketted, I knew it wasn't sustainable, and this neat little experiment had gone too far, so I sold most of them at that point, on an exchange. What part of that was me being a scammer?
I know, right? I got a pretty good crash course in Spanish after moving to Mexico for a year in 2000, to a city where almost no-one spoke English. So now I'm fairly fluent in English, French and Spanish. Since leaving Quebec almost 30 years ago, I only speak French with anyone once every few years as a bit of a novelty. Spanish? Absolutely never in the main cities in Canada. I work in IT, and I've only ever met one guy who spoke Spanish. The order is, and has been English, Chinese, Russian, and German, with Hindi floating around on either side of Russian, and Japanese down near the bottom (but still way above Spanish) more or less exactly as you stated, in every corporate environment I've working in for the last 20 years. That includes the teams several other countries. Conclusion: The secondary languages I've learned have absolutely no use in any business I've conducted throughout my entire career in IT.
You mean like this? http://hexus.net/tech/news/dis... I don't care what anyone else says about what's "right", because people are idiots. I'm buying one of these.
Wait...you're asking for a boycott on Samsung, but not Apple? ...and you think that Apple hasn't tried (and succeeded) in lawsuits defending their frivolous patents by outspending their competition on fancy lawyers?
While I agree that Samsung has pulled a lot of crap that is boycott-worthy, the way you've stated the case is, to put it nicely, disingenuous.
Well, there are reasons beyond that to be fair. Thinking of the reasons why some of my previous jobs were in large corporations:
- More likely to get training when you're starting out and wet behind the ears, be surrounded by people with more experience you can learn from, and not have to be the guy with all the answers when you're so junior.
- A certain level of job stability and good benefits when you have bills to pay, and people you're supporting.
- Something recognizable to other employers for your future job hunting.
Having said all that, you're right about one thing. If you stay in IT long enough, and you're good at what you do, there does come a point where, if you've worked for large companies for a while, you realize how crap it is, and that you deserve better and can get it in a smaller shop, or startup.
[citation needed] Specifically I'm saying, citation of someone with no domain experience in a type of business starting one, and becoming wildly successful that wasn't due to either luck or downright unethical practices. One example please...just one. Thanks.
My favorite one was the space/sci-fi one. My memory is fuzzy, but there was a page where something really cool happens, but it was an unreachable, unlinked page that you couldn't normally get to. I found it because I had a practice of putting a little pencil mark on the corner of every page I read, so I could see which pages I hadn't read, and try to figure out how to get to them.
As phantomfive also said, thanks. I have a copy of Einstein's Relativity right here that I was planning to re-read soon, but I think I'll take your advice and read up on tensors first, to enhance my understanding. You've given me a reason for looking forward to this more than I already was. Wish I had mod points for ya!
I love bitcoin. I've mined them, bought them, sold them, bought real tangible (completely legal) things with them, donated to worthwhile causes with them, and have read enough to understand how the whole system works...and even I think this is a downright retarded idea.
I'll add, if it was me, I'd bring the couple of Raspberry Pi kits I've had kicking around for months and never had the time to play with, plus the handful of soft copy guides I've got kicking around on a laptop, and finally do something with them, like I've been meaning to for ages. You will have access to electricity, I assume?
I came here to say this. People commenting here don't seem to have the experience to back it up. I spent a year in a beautiful place where the climate and culture were a 180 from where I'd spent most of the rest of my life up to that point, and hardly anybody spoke a word of English. It was an awesome adventure, but I still had a whole heap of Cisco training materials on a laptop, and managed to write my CCNA exam when I came back. I had enough downtime over the course of the year, and sometimes I just wanted use the time to learn something radically different from my current surroundings, and more related to my former life. It helped me stay sane when I started to feel like a stranger in a strange land, and it made me remember that I'm not an idiot. When you spend a year trying to function in a place where you don't speak the language too well (especially at first), you can start to feel like you've lost too many brain cells. As for what to bring, that's hard to say, but I'd recommend something that's formatted as a course with study guides and practice tests, just because then you can gauge how well you're absorbing the material without needing to be online to confirm it.
Totally this. I work for a company that has a 5TB database that's currently holding all granular transaction data for a few thousand companies over 10 years. The main transaction detail table grows by 1-200k records per hour on average (around 50 new inserts a second), which amounts to about 1-2 GB a day. With the way things are ramping, we're on track to increase by around 1 TB a year on that database. We allow several levels of reporting to those companies, with details vs. aggregation, and all kinds of data warehouse slicing and dicing for everything they could possibly want. There are issues with some reports being slow sometimes, and data warehouse problems occasionally making it fall as much as a whole day behind (oh, the horror!), but it generally works.
As a rule of thumb, we don't consider this anywhere near big data. A large Oracle database, and some standard (by now we could call them "traditional") tools for cubes and data warehouses is all we need.
I know right? I actually have 3 copies of it, 2 of which were thrown into those "buy this whole shoebox full of 2600 carts for $10, but you have to take them all" garage sale deals, and 1 of which is still in the original packaging (although not sealed).
Yeah, I wonder about this. It's extremely hard to come up with numbers. You typically end up with specific cases hitting the news in chunks, like this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Then there's my own anecdotal evidence from copper mining, where my friend left his management position at one Canadian mining company shortly after a Chinese company acquired 51%, only to have another Chinese company buy a 40% stake in the next company he ended up at. Now he's waiting for the other shoe to drop, when the additional 11% acquisition quietly happens with no press. I've heard the same stories in every natural resource sector I know people in, but I just spent an hour googling this, and I can't find any top line number for just how much of Canada is actually owned by China. I suspect it's truly shocking.
...and here I thought this article was going to be about text adventure game engines. :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z...
I don't think you know who Jeff Gerstmann is. Other than that though, I agree with you.
I think maybe "money spent" would be a better metric. If you buy AAA titles, consoles, surround sound systems, projectors, liquid-cooled rigs with dual video cards, gaming headsets, specialized controllers, keyboards, and mice...in short, if some non-trivial percentage of your household's disposable income goes towards gaming, then you are a gamer. Does it not make economic sense to target the demographic that is spending outrageous amounts of money on this stuff. Otherwise you're chasing a very thin, long tail. Good luck keeping your game dev company afloat with that plan.
Too bad you posted AC, otherwise I could make sure I never hire you. Sorry man, but the last 10 companies I worked for got pretty big things done with Oracle DBs, and were able to host several-terabyte databases doing things that even DB2 would choke on, never mind MySQL or SQL Server, or any other DB I've worked with. I've worked with more companies that have migrated *to* Oracle because they outgrew what they were using, than the other way around. There's always much gnashing of teeth, and angst over going with such a reprehensible company's product...but that's been my experience at least.