"Here are 20 videos detailing stupid procedures you need to go through to request access to customers' systems/networks/databases to even think about doing your job"
Access request procedures change very fast and are tedious to contribute updates to.
Videos have a high friction to update. Out of date docmentation is worse than no documentation at all.
Wikis have a low friction to update. Even the new hire can fix things as they execute the procedures.
I don't know why people would use videos, but then I also think that videos are terrible learning tools. But then, maybe it's just me, there are some strong visual learners out there.
It's a contradiction I guess. A really good design looks obvious.
...and a company which purports to support creativity, and feels so strongly about rounded rectangles that they introduce them as a graphic primitive on early systems (per Isaacson?), sues another company for daring to use rounded rectangles.
I hope they get sued for infringing on Samsung's design. Samsung went out of their way to find a way to make something equally effective, distinct non-obvious but obvious looking. Now Apple seems to think their screen size and aspects of design are obvious.
Yes, that's why they had local events in other cities.
But I think it's kind of dumb to think that in a city with tens or hundreds of thousands of cars idling daily in traffic for the past 70 years, that 500 busses making a single trip is going to have a more negative impact than if leaders don't hear some kind of voice for change.
"Also, the over-65's have the shortest time stake in this. plus have had the trappings of gold plated pensions that the generation behind them cannot look forward to. It's a disgusting state of affairs and as a Scot I am embarrassed for my country."
Young people can always jump ship and leave the country if a 'yes' doesn't work out. Elderly people can't. In that way you could say that they have the most stake in this. Selfish? yes, but their ability to help themselves was in their youth. They did that and now, after playing by the rules of the U.K. for their lifetime, it's risking uncertainty to change the rules.
Citing the errors of celebrities, powerful politicians, authors, lobbyists, or influential policy advocates as evidence of the failings of science is... also jibberish.
Ignoring science is being ignorant. Pretty much by definition.
As for Gore being wrong, I'm not so sure about that:
Former Vice President Al Gore references computer modeling to suggest that the north polar ice cap may lose virtually all of its ice within the next seven years. “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” says Gore.
I'm sure you can find one instance where he spoke off the cuff and oversimplified, but whatever.
Are you supporting this conspiracy theory of a "global warming hoax?" If you know something, speak up, it could be one of the greatest upsets in the history of science.
"From the company’s point of view, the first implantation was a success. The patient survived for 74 days within the framework of a trial where the benchmark for success was 30 days."
The examples from the wiki describe situations where the initial source was legal, but protected. E.g., placing a sting in the path of a suspect on the word of a protected informant, then omiting the reason for their 'luck' in finding the suspect. Or e.g., withholding NSA wiretaps from DEA until the citizen or geography of the source is determined to be foreign (unethical, but not illegal).
In this case, they would be seizing servers (illegally), then searching them for a weakness to cover their asses, then lying to the judge about it(illegal), and hoping the logs agree with their probes (possibly revealing their lies), or altering them to match (illegal).
I might be naive, but I think the discovery of the IP source through the weakness in the captcha is totally plausible. I also think that Joe law enforcement officer doesn't want to end his career in disgrace over something like this.
I've backpacked around the world with it, slammed around without padding and ridden for over 2000km on the back of a motorcycle. Still running strong. I did have to replace the webcam under warranty, and it survived me replacing the thermal grease on the CPU. I'm curious if you've seen the same issues.
In a past life I supported lots of Thinkpads. There have been good models and bad. The x120 I'd put as pretty average.
I'm curious about your experiences with the x130e, it's a ruggedized x120e for k12. It should be *more* durable, albeit a little bigger.
I would be an idiot to waste my customer's time to save $100 on a disk.
"My guess is that somewhere along the line, you are doing something in the installation process that you think is necessary, but in fact is screwing things up"
Which means you don't actually konw how one could possibly reproduce such an issue, but you're going to offer your opinion that I don't know what I'm doing.
It's a foolish mistake to assume that somebody doesn't know what they're talking about because you don't understand their problem.
"Ubuntu? And you've 'administered Linux systems since 1995'? Bullshit."
What are you? Anti-knowledge ?
If you've never run Ubuntu, you don't know anything about it. If you're faulting somebody for loading Ubuntu, you're faulting them for learning about Ubuntu.
You think you know more than Canonical because you don't like the color brown or something?
...and you have no idea why I was running Ubuntu. But again. Your response is predictable. Have a look at my other answers.
The machine was an x120e. The Thinkpad X series has a good track record for well-supported hardware.
I was loading Ubuntu because I was working in a role where I was administering Ubuntu servers. Working in the same environment as the target environment helps you learn more about the systems you're administering.
As a professional, my goal is to be productive for the client during working hours. Mysterious hardware failures on an Ubuntu load on my consulting laptop aren't worth wasting the customer's time. I had a perfectly reasonable Windows image, and continued the job using Ubuntu under VirtualBox.
You don't know anything about the purpose of the machine at the time of purchase. Calling me stupid is, trollish. The x120e is smaller, lighter, and cheaper than the x201. The machine handled a lot of abuse in difficult travel situations, and had to be cheap enough to surrender to theives or customs officials if necessary. It supports Linux distros fine. To run Ubuntu properly, I know that I need to swap out the wireless and do some digging on the hibernation and suspend.
But you know what? I had to do work *then*, and it took 10 minutes to dump the drive, pop Windows back in and get to *work*. Any computer professional should be reasonably proficient in any given platform. I'm happy enough to run Windows. I'll save my troubleshooting for paid work.
I guess your post bothers me because it's predictable and very bad for the Linux community. Don't pretend that Linux is some kind of panacea platform when you don't know anything about the user or their job.
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I can take notes with it, read (and carefully send) texts and call people while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic.
It's not perfect, but better than nothing.
I'm considering jailbreaking my iPhone to be able to run git. Otherwise... I just haven't had the need.
Android's a different story. You need to root your phone so that you can firewall your flashlight app.
"Here are 20 videos detailing stupid procedures you need to go through to request access to customers' systems/networks/databases to even think about doing your job"
Access request procedures change very fast and are tedious to contribute updates to.
Videos have a high friction to update. Out of date docmentation is worse than no documentation at all.
Wikis have a low friction to update. Even the new hire can fix things as they execute the procedures.
I don't know why people would use videos, but then I also think that videos are terrible learning tools. But then, maybe it's just me, there are some strong visual learners out there.
It's a contradiction I guess. A really good design looks obvious.
...and a company which purports to support creativity, and feels so strongly about rounded rectangles that they introduce them as a graphic primitive on early systems (per Isaacson?), sues another company for daring to use rounded rectangles.
I hope they get sued for infringing on Samsung's design. Samsung went out of their way to find a way to make something equally effective, distinct non-obvious but obvious looking. Now Apple seems to think their screen size and aspects of design are obvious.
I think he/she means KDE Remote Desktop Sharing http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdenetwork/krfb/index.html and is talking about the concept of the X11 root window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window
Samsung needs to sue them for this innovation.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/316700/samsung-galaxy-round-and-5-other-curved-phones
Yes, that's why they had local events in other cities.
But I think it's kind of dumb to think that in a city with tens or hundreds of thousands of cars idling daily in traffic for the past 70 years, that 500 busses making a single trip is going to have a more negative impact than if leaders don't hear some kind of voice for change.
"Also, the over-65's have the shortest time stake in this. plus have had the trappings of gold plated pensions that the generation behind them cannot look forward to. It's a disgusting state of affairs and as a Scot I am embarrassed for my country."
Young people can always jump ship and leave the country if a 'yes' doesn't work out. Elderly people can't. In that way you could say that they have the most stake in this. Selfish? yes, but their ability to help themselves was in their youth. They did that and now, after playing by the rules of the U.K. for their lifetime, it's risking uncertainty to change the rules.
Spoken like a C programmer.
I do stand corrected, "gibberish" is spelled with a "j".
Now tell me what evidence there is that global warming is a hoax?
Citing the errors of celebrities, powerful politicians, authors, lobbyists, or influential policy advocates as evidence of the failings of science is... also jibberish.
Ignoring science is being ignorant. Pretty much by definition.
As for Gore being wrong, I'm not so sure about that:
I'm sure you can find one instance where he spoke off the cuff and oversimplified, but whatever.
Do you deny the opening of the arctic passage?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/us-shipping-coal-arctic-idUSBRE98Q0K720130927
Are you supporting this conspiracy theory of a "global warming hoax?" If you know something, speak up, it could be one of the greatest upsets in the history of science.
Ignoring science in favour of conspiracy theories is ignorant.
Citing the errors of celebrities as evidence of the failings of science is... jibberish.
The greatest flaw is that the person at the call center would understand what Tor is.
Compare the role of women in I Love Lucy to that of Star Trek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu_Productions
Truth can be strange.
http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/iphone/pricing/
From that source, the iPhone 5s was $649 in Sep 2013. Expired auctions on ebay show the 16G 5s selling regularly on ebay for $500.
People are still *paying* 80% of the value. Not sure why.
I admit, I shouldn't have said "iPhone 5" though, it's older and going for $400.
The same people who are selling their iPhone 5 on eBay for 80% of its original price.
"From the company’s point of view, the first implantation was a success. The patient survived for 74 days within the framework of a trial where the benchmark for success was 30 days."
Something must be lost in translation here.
Not holding my breath for My LotusScript skills to come back into style.
The examples from the wiki describe situations where the initial source was legal, but protected. E.g., placing a sting in the path of a suspect on the word of a protected informant, then omiting the reason for their 'luck' in finding the suspect. Or e.g., withholding NSA wiretaps from DEA until the citizen or geography of the source is determined to be foreign (unethical, but not illegal).
In this case, they would be seizing servers (illegally), then searching them for a weakness to cover their asses, then lying to the judge about it(illegal), and hoping the logs agree with their probes (possibly revealing their lies), or altering them to match (illegal).
I might be naive, but I think the discovery of the IP source through the weakness in the captcha is totally plausible. I also think that Joe law enforcement officer doesn't want to end his career in disgrace over something like this.
The assumptions make sense now... just a mistaken identity. Totally okay, thanks for saying so.
"you have not performed a single successful install of Ubuntu on Thinkpad"
I've backpacked around the world with it, slammed around without padding and ridden for over 2000km on the back of a motorcycle. Still running strong. I did have to replace the webcam under warranty, and it survived me replacing the thermal grease on the CPU. I'm curious if you've seen the same issues.
In a past life I supported lots of Thinkpads. There have been good models and bad. The x120 I'd put as pretty average.
I'm curious about your experiences with the x130e, it's a ruggedized x120e for k12. It should be *more* durable, albeit a little bigger.
"dump the drive and pop Windows back in"
dump the drive
drive
I.e., Two hard drives.
Remember, "professional"?
I would be an idiot to waste my customer's time to save $100 on a disk.
Which means you don't actually konw how one could possibly reproduce such an issue, but you're going to offer your opinion that I don't know what I'm doing.
It's a foolish mistake to assume that somebody doesn't know what they're talking about because you don't understand their problem.
"Ubuntu? And you've 'administered Linux systems since 1995'? Bullshit."
What are you? Anti-knowledge ?
If you've never run Ubuntu, you don't know anything about it. If you're faulting somebody for loading Ubuntu, you're faulting them for learning about Ubuntu.
You think you know more than Canonical because you don't like the color brown or something?
...and you have no idea why I was running Ubuntu. But again. Your response is predictable. Have a look at my other answers.
It's called "being a professional"
The machine was an x120e. The Thinkpad X series has a good track record for well-supported hardware.
I was loading Ubuntu because I was working in a role where I was administering Ubuntu servers. Working in the same environment as the target environment helps you learn more about the systems you're administering.
As a professional, my goal is to be productive for the client during working hours. Mysterious hardware failures on an Ubuntu load on my consulting laptop aren't worth wasting the customer's time. I had a perfectly reasonable Windows image, and continued the job using Ubuntu under VirtualBox.
You don't know anything about the purpose of the machine at the time of purchase. Calling me stupid is, trollish. The x120e is smaller, lighter, and cheaper than the x201. The machine handled a lot of abuse in difficult travel situations, and had to be cheap enough to surrender to theives or customs officials if necessary. It supports Linux distros fine. To run Ubuntu properly, I know that I need to swap out the wireless and do some digging on the hibernation and suspend.
But you know what? I had to do work *then*, and it took 10 minutes to dump the drive, pop Windows back in and get to *work*. Any computer professional should be reasonably proficient in any given platform. I'm happy enough to run Windows. I'll save my troubleshooting for paid work.
I guess your post bothers me because it's predictable and very bad for the Linux community. Don't pretend that Linux is some kind of panacea platform when you don't know anything about the user or their job.