I was building a website to do some pretty basic order entry. At the time of this story the software was still in alpha, but it was running on the clients intranet webserver. It was running there so the clients project team could give some feedback on graphics and layout, and things like that. It did have some rudimentary order processing that worked, more or less:-)
Well, you can imagine my surprise when I got a call from a trade-show, some marketing-type threw all kinds of insults at me because the software was failing while he demonstrated it for customers.
I think they should have told me they where going to use the test-environment for some critical demo. If I had known I wouldn't have killed the database servers for that small schema update...:-)
Taco received those emails because SirCam scans the webbrowser cache of infected machines. The people who send the worm to Taco have probably visited slashdot recently, or another webpage that has cmdrTaco's email address on it. --
Can't anyone write a simple memo or office communication without using four different fonts and imbedded graphics any more?
I do that all the time. I fill in the to: field, add some names to the cc: field, and type the rest of the short and concise email. Clean ascii.:-)
In our company such an email actually gets read. Document-attachments are only quickly opened, first line read, last line read, and subsequently ignored. --
Since your email address is shown in the header, some "helpful" slashdot reader might have decided to welcome you into the wonderful world of SirCam by sending you a copy manually... --
I have also been using them for years. Especially in the pre-cdrom-writer era, because that was really the only way to transport more than a couple of megabytes from work to home. I could not afford a laptop in those days, and unfortunately the boss wouldn't give me one:)
IMHO the biggest problem with these things is that the drives are not hot-swapable, you need to turn off your machine to swap drives. For many applications this will be no problem, however this is the reason that I don't swap drives as often as I had imagined when I bought the trays.
The only time I use it now is when I have to quickly diagnose or backup some elses harddrive (e.g. from a defective machine), or if I need to setup an OS for a machine that does not have a cdrom drive.
let me correct myself before I really get flamed: the series on Discovery is ofcourse the British version of the show: Scrapheap, as
comment #26 already mentioned. Anyway, this version is great, following in a long tradition of British humor.
For a better understanding of this situation it may be good to know that NuSphere is a product that is either made by, or initiated by (can't remember..;) The Progress Company, which is a closed source company.
They have been in business for a long time, primarely with their RDBMS&4GL environment. At work we mainly use this product for development. Red Hat Linux is a supported platform. It's a pretty decent product, while the RDBMS may not be the fastest around, it is quite robust. Another adventure into the world of open source is the creation of an open sourced framework for the development of internet applications,
POSSE
It's really sad to see the company whose software you use at work involved in this kind of mess. I surely hope that the issues can be resolved, this is not what we need in the fight against Bill of Borg:-)
While this background info may or may not help in clarifying the dispute itself, it may help understanding the NuSphere post Michael posted a link to. Meaning: I think that MySQL AB are the good guys in this situation, and the closed source background of the Nusphere people may have something to do misunderstandings that appearantly exist...
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Well, you can imagine my surprise when I got a call from a trade-show, some marketing-type threw all kinds of insults at me because the software was failing while he demonstrated it for customers.
I think they should have told me they where going to use the test-environment for some critical demo. If I had known I wouldn't have killed the database servers for that small schema update ... :-)
Must have been a bitch to hide its infra-red signature...
eleven hundred megabytes :-)
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Taco received those emails because SirCam scans the webbrowser cache of infected machines. The people who send the worm to Taco have probably visited slashdot recently, or another webpage that has cmdrTaco's email address on it.
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I do that all the time. I fill in the to: field, add some names to the cc: field, and type the rest of the short and concise email. Clean ascii. :-)
In our company such an email actually gets read. Document-attachments are only quickly opened, first line read, last line read, and subsequently ignored.
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Since your email address is shown in the header, some "helpful" slashdot reader might have decided to welcome you into the wonderful world of SirCam by sending you a copy manually...
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Or worse: what could happen to the worm... :-)
An excellent example of a post that is both incredibly funny, and scary as well....
No worries, by that time we'll either be telepathic or we will have invented something that will probably be called 'NAT'
Was it not Bill Gates who said "640Kb RAM should be enough for everyone"? :-)
IMHO the biggest problem with these things is that the drives are not hot-swapable, you need to turn off your machine to swap drives. For many applications this will be no problem, however this is the reason that I don't swap drives as often as I had imagined when I bought the trays.
The only time I use it now is when I have to quickly diagnose or backup some elses harddrive (e.g. from a defective machine), or if I need to setup an OS for a machine that does not have a cdrom drive.
15. :-)
script.kids ! :-)
Read the link that Carnage4Life supplied in comment #36. Something about using cryptic assembly code. AFAIK that might work...
btw, impressive site! Don't worry, not an image to be seen, fortunately :-)
In that case: -1; redundant :-)
HOT TEENS with incredible resolution! Hotter than you've ever seen before!
No more squinting at tiny Media Player windows!
I'll crawl back under a rock now :-)
<whisper>Here in Holland it is on the Discovery Channel... </whisper>
Snake_dad (desperately holding on to his karma...)
The ISS was launched? Hot damn... wish i'd seen that! :-)
otoh, a little pride in what your nation contributes to the iss may generate extra support for a government which may or may not increase spending...
Hell, no, they just consulted this very experienced 15 year old lawyer :-)
They have been in business for a long time, primarely with their RDBMS&4GL environment. At work we mainly use this product for development. Red Hat Linux is a supported platform. It's a pretty decent product, while the RDBMS may not be the fastest around, it is quite robust. Another adventure into the world of open source is the creation of an open sourced framework for the development of internet applications, POSSE
It's really sad to see the company whose software you use at work involved in this kind of mess. I surely hope that the issues can be resolved, this is not what we need in the fight against Bill of Borg :-)
While this background info may or may not help in clarifying the dispute itself, it may help understanding the NuSphere post Michael posted a link to. Meaning: I think that MySQL AB are the good guys in this situation, and the closed source background of the Nusphere people may have something to do misunderstandings that appearantly exist...
Cheers!