Who is going to fix the sewer when things get backed up? Some folks who do it just for the "reputation" as the best sewer jockey?
The sewer is getting backed up because it is defective. Some folks would gladly attain the "reputation" for being the Engineer that solved that problem.
Lamplighters used to light the gas lights every night but then someone came along with an electric light that did not require a Lamplighter. If your vision was correct we would all be in the dark too!
If your Windows Admins are managing your firewalls, then you are in trouble... Usually it's either the network engineers or firewall Admins.
It always strikes me as odd that people assume businesses have the resources to deploy "best practices" ~ aka having one specialist team member for every IT position (Net, Admin, DBA, analyst, help desk, etc). Most businesses (ie small / medium ones) can only scrape together the means to employ one person (if any) and hope they have the skills to keep the business applications running ~ pretty much _everything_ else is secondary.
Does this "best practice" mantra attempt to coach SME's to do the right thing or is it just arrogance that people pontificate that the default assumption is that every business has the resources of the Enterprise?
...... in the hope that the rest of us civil beings can live normal, happy lives without them.
Firstly there is nothing civil about killing other humans as a punishment.
Secondly - what if a person confesses to a crime they did not commit and is executed? People sharing your position a gravely unaware of the danger they are in having the guilty walking free. This is just one of many examples that once you go beyond the the point of no return you introduce greater risks and unknowns.
How about instead of killing these broken people we study them and see if we can learn more about what caused the issues in the first place.....I dunno - maybe we could look to *fix* problems rather than kill off symptoms...?
Its a law of nature is that everything is free in the monetary sense until a being decided to assign it ownership and set a price on it......unless you are paying for a different sun than I am (in which case your Internet Connection is awesome from whatever sun you are orbiting)
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it.
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it haven't they?
Nothing `odd' about it. Canadian Rangers aren't involved in an arms race. Bears and whatnot haven't evolved much since 1914, and they haven't been issued bear shaped body armor or fully automatic laser claws.
California had a massive reduction in prison population due to courts deeming that holding people under severely crowded conditions was unconstitutional.
Why don't they rotate them? Prisoners coul spend 3 out of 4 weeks inside meaning that for every 4 prisoners the prison could incareate one more ~ 120% occupancy without over crowding
Prisoners could choose to undertake rehabilitation activities (employment, volunteering, education, etc) in that could help them take time off their sentance (and for discresions they could have time added).
It always seems dumb to put criminals in a box full of other crinimals (of potetnatlly greater expereince or ambission) and call it rehabilitation. Effective leading two lives side by side will give the person the ability to reconcile the cost/benefits of a life of crime
".....The "correcthorsebatterystaple" is actually pretty good advice at this point, all things considered....."
One suggestion - right out a grid of infomation you know like the date your team one the cup, a numberplate from and old car, the clothing label & lift weight on the best day at the gym (*)
I simple way to always be able to work out a password without having to remember it. After a few accounts (depending on the size of your grid) you are going to remember 24+ character passwords with relative ease.
You can vary the size and orentation of your columns and number of rows. Also you can flavour your characters with rules like "every second letter in caps" and all that other stuff people do.
There is ONE thing that matters, and that is : who does the best work.
This is a great idea right up until you hit the recruiter / HR / hiring manager and expereinces their preferences / beliefs / dispositions / biases.
Me I can't prononunce many names from other cultures. I feel more more comfortable saying "John" than "Akshayakeerti".
Recruiters talk about "Cultural Fit" which in basic terms translates to "How do they fit in?" / "How do they compliment?" the group. It doesn't take too much for a HR dept - group - organisation to keep placing "Johns" with other "Johns" because they are an easy fit. Keeping personal bias out of the recruitment process is a difficult/impossible thing to do but as a society we need fundamental goals to strive for to jam that door open to all people. Quota's are a crap system but they are better than shutting the door on talent through diversity.
Because despite recent bad press, they are interested in security. If we can write stuff with fewer bugs, we are more secure.
I'm confused, if things that make things more secure for "us" don't they make them more secure for "them"? Isn't that why some technologies like encryption are not allowed to be exported to certain corners of the Internet?
If a government agency wants to insert itself into such a project - Cui bono? Its more like an action to stir the pot than to bring about conclusion. They only have power if there is an enemy so winning the war is not an option.
Have to say I am in this place right now. We have 10RU for a small buisness and the only compelling reasons to go 100% cloud is:
1) aviod playing with hardware and phyisical failures 2) Cheeper storage w/o buying disks 3) Cheeper bandwidth
From a compute / storage / flexibility POV @ $800 / month we have 40 cores, baremetal speed for DB, 48 GB RAM and a relationship with the owner of the facility.
Priced up the same way we would get ~ 7GB RAM, 2 Cores + 4GB RAM MySQL Server + data and storage in the cloud (Thats a rough Google cost but I spent 4 hours reading sites yesterday).
If I way a lone dev wanting to start somewhere or had a budget that I could/wanted to increase then it would be cloud all the way. But while I still know how to admin my servers, have a real business and the cost is on par with moving (excluding any outage / client relations costs) then there is nothing compelling about going to cloud (yet).
...looks nothing like the Pentagon or other 911 crash sites. It looks like a plane was there.
Where is this arms race taking us? Would it not be safer to go back to shields and knives rather than the data and drones and missiles that are wielded without conscience?
There are many jobs in IT that benefit from formal education as much as they benefit from experience and attitude. Not every company has the budget for external expertise and that "girl in accounts" who "learnt the system" has more coal face and systems knowledge that is _relevant to the business_ than any of the shelf grad or expert they can afford.
Not every business is aware of industry best practices but they just want their problem solved with the means they have. The trick is if you have great quals or great attitude / drive then in the business case "just be useful"
If the US cashes out the bit coins then it is endorsing it as a legitimate world currency. If it deletes them then it reduces supply and increases the value for all the "criminals" that trade with them.....
By posting information you influence others. If everyone was like you then all it would take would be for one person to post an erroneous claim only to have you and your kind repeat it.
"Citation needed" is a polite way to point out that whatever information was posted it should probably be disregarded unless evidence is provided.
So either you made a mistake or tried to influence people's perspective with information that was not factual.
I you choose to be offended then that is your choice.
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Who is going to fix the sewer when things get backed up? Some folks who do it just for the "reputation" as the best sewer jockey?
The sewer is getting backed up because it is defective. Some folks would gladly attain the "reputation" for being the Engineer that solved that problem.
Lamplighters used to light the gas lights every night but then someone came along with an electric light that did not require a Lamplighter. If your vision was correct we would all be in the dark too!
If your Windows Admins are managing your firewalls, then you are in trouble... Usually it's either the network engineers or firewall Admins.
It always strikes me as odd that people assume businesses have the resources to deploy "best practices" ~ aka having one specialist team member for every IT position (Net, Admin, DBA, analyst, help desk, etc). Most businesses (ie small / medium ones) can only scrape together the means to employ one person (if any) and hope they have the skills to keep the business applications running ~ pretty much _everything_ else is secondary.
Does this "best practice" mantra attempt to coach SME's to do the right thing or is it just arrogance that people pontificate that the default assumption is that every business has the resources of the Enterprise?
...... in the hope that the rest of us civil beings can live normal, happy lives without them.
Firstly there is nothing civil about killing other humans as a punishment.
Secondly - what if a person confesses to a crime they did not commit and is executed? People sharing your position a gravely unaware of the danger they are in having the guilty walking free. This is just one of many examples that once you go beyond the the point of no return you introduce greater risks and unknowns.
How about instead of killing these broken people we study them and see if we can learn more about what caused the issues in the first place.....I dunno - maybe we could look to *fix* problems rather than kill off symptoms...?
Its a law of nature is that everything is free in the monetary sense until a being decided to assign it ownership and set a price on it. .....unless you are paying for a different sun than I am (in which case your Internet Connection is awesome from whatever sun you are orbiting)
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it.
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it haven't they?
I just forked your comment
What about the 99% ppl who are not Tech Heads?
Encouraging this sort of thing just means they have to learn or pay for things that have been common sense for a very long time.
A tax on non geeks?
Nothing `odd' about it. Canadian Rangers aren't involved in an arms race. Bears and whatnot haven't evolved much since 1914, and they haven't been issued bear shaped body armor or fully automatic laser claws.
Yet!
I'm faaarrrking Aussie you inensitive clod!
California had a massive reduction in prison population due to courts deeming that holding people under severely crowded conditions was unconstitutional.
Why don't they rotate them? Prisoners coul spend 3 out of 4 weeks inside meaning that for every 4 prisoners the prison could incareate one more ~ 120% occupancy without over crowding
Prisoners could choose to undertake rehabilitation activities (employment, volunteering, education, etc) in that could help them take time off their sentance (and for discresions they could have time added).
It always seems dumb to put criminals in a box full of other crinimals (of potetnatlly greater expereince or ambission) and call it rehabilitation. Effective leading two lives side by side will give the person the ability to reconcile the cost/benefits of a life of crime
".....The "correcthorsebatterystaple" is actually pretty good advice at this point, all things considered....."
One suggestion - right out a grid of infomation you know like the date your team one the cup, a numberplate from and old car, the clothing label & lift weight on the best day at the gym (*)
n-o-r-t-h-s-2-0-0-1
t-o-y-o-t-a-7-8-3-1
a-d-i-d-a-s-0-0-9-0
Now pick four columns:
ntahta039
I simple way to always be able to work out a password without having to remember it. After a few accounts (depending on the size of your grid) you are going to remember 24+ character passwords with relative ease.
You can vary the size and orentation of your columns and number of rows. Also you can flavour your characters with rules like "every second letter in caps" and all that other stuff people do.
No you just change mysql_escape_string to mysql_real_escape_string Perfect!
Don't forget LRP - Linux Router Project - I had a headless P1 connection to the dial up modem with 3 PC's hanging off
One of us would play Quake and the other two browse the web.
LRP had modules for the network cards I had (and many others).
@ that time many providers in AU wanted to sell you one phone line / ADSL line per PC.
THANK YOU LRP!
A few days ago it was a story about how trolls are here to stay. Today it is about paying to get rid of them.
/.?
Is Slashdot about to launch a *premium product* - a sanitised version of
There is ONE thing that matters, and that is : who does the best work.
This is a great idea right up until you hit the recruiter / HR / hiring manager and expereinces their preferences / beliefs / dispositions / biases.
Me I can't prononunce many names from other cultures. I feel more more comfortable saying "John" than "Akshayakeerti".
Recruiters talk about "Cultural Fit" which in basic terms translates to "How do they fit in?" / "How do they compliment?" the group. It doesn't take too much for a HR dept - group - organisation to keep placing "Johns" with other "Johns" because they are an easy fit. Keeping personal bias out of the recruitment process is a difficult/impossible thing to do but as a society we need fundamental goals to strive for to jam that door open to all people. Quota's are a crap system but they are better than shutting the door on talent through diversity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because despite recent bad press, they are interested in security. If we can write stuff with fewer bugs, we are more secure.
I'm confused, if things that make things more secure for "us" don't they make them more secure for "them"? Isn't that why some technologies like encryption are not allowed to be exported to certain corners of the Internet?
If a government agency wants to insert itself into such a project - Cui bono? Its more like an action to stir the pot than to bring about conclusion. They only have power if there is an enemy so winning the war is not an option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
H.A.L -> I.B.M
?
M.S -> N.T
Spooky.......!
Have to say I am in this place right now. We have 10RU for a small buisness and the only compelling reasons to go 100% cloud is:
1) aviod playing with hardware and phyisical failures
2) Cheeper storage w/o buying disks
3) Cheeper bandwidth
From a compute / storage / flexibility POV @ $800 / month we have 40 cores, baremetal speed for DB, 48 GB RAM and a relationship with the owner of the facility.
Priced up the same way we would get ~ 7GB RAM, 2 Cores + 4GB RAM MySQL Server + data and storage in the cloud (Thats a rough Google cost but I spent 4 hours reading sites yesterday).
If I way a lone dev wanting to start somewhere or had a budget that I could/wanted to increase then it would be cloud all the way. But while I still know how to admin my servers, have a real business and the cost is on par with moving (excluding any outage / client relations costs) then there is nothing compelling about going to cloud (yet).
YMMV
...looks nothing like the Pentagon or other 911 crash sites. It looks like a plane was there.
Where is this arms race taking us? Would it not be safer to go back to shields and knives rather than the data and drones and missiles that are wielded without conscience?
"....send more copssss..."
Perspective is such a wonderful thing
People should get out and about more
Don't get me wrong I'm a big techie
Fatso!
...that is all
There are many jobs in IT that benefit from formal education as much as they benefit from experience and attitude. Not every company has the budget for external expertise and that "girl in accounts" who "learnt the system" has more coal face and systems knowledge that is _relevant to the business_ than any of the shelf grad or expert they can afford.
Not every business is aware of industry best practices but they just want their problem solved with the means they have. The trick is if you have great quals or great attitude / drive then in the business case "just be useful"
If the US cashes out the bit coins then it is endorsing it as a legitimate world currency. If it deletes them then it reduces supply and increases the value for all the "criminals" that trade with them.....
You just don't get it do you?
By posting information you influence others. If everyone was like you then all it would take would be for one person to post an erroneous claim only to have you and your kind repeat it.
"Citation needed" is a polite way to point out that whatever information was posted it should probably be disregarded unless evidence is provided.
So either you made a mistake or tried to influence people's perspective with information that was not factual.
I you choose to be offended then that is your choice.
So if "enterprise" moved apps to the "cloud" then everything you said is moot no?