I, too, am looking at returning for the PhD (in lovely, lovely medieval studies, not that anyone cares) and I confess that some of the attraction of academia is that no one will ever ask me again if I can turn a PDF into a MS Word document so they can email it.
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OK, I confess I've seen AoTC twice. But I have a good excuse -- I went to see it the second time in a theatre with digital projection. I was assured it was mnuch better, but damned if I could tell the difference. I guess looking at the world through perenially filthy glasses has gotten me so used to poor visual quality that I just screen it out...
The problem is that sometimes as a webmaster/designer/developer you have very little choice about what's on the site. I cannot count the number of times I have been told to do something, tried explaining that it was a bad idea, and then been told by management to do it anyway. And on the flip side, I am not supposed to update any page or make any change without permission, even if I can't get the manager responsible for that page to communicate with me. Thus there are pages that are outdated and wrong that I am not permitted to do anything about. Makes me nuts, but they are about to pay me to telecommute so I can go back to grad school, so I don't quit.
Yes, but a lot of sites simply won't work without cookies. You could argue that this is due to poor design (and you'd be right) and you could argue that if a company can't be bothered to make its site accessible to the non-cookied why bother going there (and you'd have a good point) but sometimes one just doesn't want to be bothered to log in ALL the time on a site one goes to everyday, or sometimes one just wants to buy cheap airline tickets online...
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.
18 Sep 2001, 11:18 AM CST
A new, malicious worm targeting Microsoft Web servers is in the wild and is frenetically scanning the Internet, security experts said today.
Starting this morning, numerous system administrators have observed a dramatic increase in probes from remote systems, according to reports on several mailing lists. The probes, coming sometimes hundreds per minute, appear to be attempting to access several commonly exploited files on sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
According to Johannes Ullrich, operator of the Dshield.org intrusion reporting service, the scans are already tying up some networks.
"For the last few hours, systems are getting hammered with every IIS exploit on the book. Even though most of these exploits are useless, the bandwidth consumed is large," said Ullrich.
Anti-virus researchers at Symantec have released a preliminary analysis of the worm, which they have dubbed "W32.Nimda.A@mm." According to the firm, besides scanning for vulnerable IIS systems, the worm appears to use e-mail to propagate itself, arriving in a file attachment named "readme.exe." The worm also opens up the computer's hard disk as a network share.
According to Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus, the new worm is "very aggressive" and appears to be using elements of several earlier worms.
Log files posted by participants in one mailing list reveal that infected systems attempt "Get" requests to more than a dozen files on target servers. Among the files is root.exe, a program created by two previous worms, Sadmind and Code Red II. Also targeted is cmd.exe, the command program or "shell" installed on all Windows NT systems. The scans also access a file called "admin.dll" which is used by Microsoft's FrontPage product.
While the worm is likely only to infect IIS systems, its probes are consuming resources and bandwidth of all types of Internet-connected devices, according to reports from administrators.
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said it has begun receiving reports today of a "massive increase in scanning directed at port 80."
Ten days ago, malicious code experts identified a new self-propagating worm which they dubbed Code Blue. Because it exploits a nearly year-old flaw in Microsoft's IIS software known as the Web Server Folder Traversal vulnerability, experts said they did not expect Code Blue to spread widely.
Symantec said Nimda appears to attempt to spread using the same vulnerability as Code Blue.
In an advisory released Monday, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned that it expects an increase in denial of service attacks from pro-American vigilantes in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., last week.
Why did it take Slashdot so long to post this story? I used to come to Slashdot to get news before I could get it elsewhere, but I heard this at 7 AM on NPR! Sheesh.
No, I had an experience similar to yours. I fought with Linux (I only tried Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2, and cannot speak about other distros) until I was convinced I was an utter idiot. (Which may still be true). But when I installed OpenBSD it was so easy.
I seem to recall that suspicious papers are being reviewed to try and figure out who copied what from where. The suspected students aren't being automatically expelled.
Actually, in TINKER v. DES MOINES SCHOOL DIST., 393 U.S. 503 (1969) the supreme court ruled that "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." which would suggest that the First Amendment most certainly does apply to 8-year-olds.
Of course, nothing beats handing out RedHat cds and making 'em install linux at home.
I can install RedHat in my sleep, and would still hesitate to say I know how to use linux. Installation by itself isn't all that helpful a learning tool.
Of course, it sounds like these lucky bastards will get to use it at work. *grumble* If I got to use linux at work...
There was a panel of 5 teachers at my HS, and one of them blackballed me off NHS. Never did find out who. My Jr. year I actually applied and was shocked I didn't get in. (I had almost perfect grades in high school. I was just...quirky.) My senior year I was pressured to apply, didn't, didn't get in.
BUT a guy in my class whom (I must admit) I had never thought more of than "popular pretty boy" refused the whole thing when they asked him in because it had become a popularity contest rather than an academic honor society. I was impressed.
And, like everyone else, my life has gone just fine without being in NHS.
Hey -- I know it's bloody hard to stop working and say "I can't do this -- my wrists hurt too much" but STOP and rest until you don't hurt AT ALL. You could cause yourself permanant injury, and avoiding that is worth a little embarrassment. Don't wait until you can't type.
I waited until I was in so much pain all day I was almost in tears, and then insisted to my boss that I get the mouse (actually, trackball in my case -- I can type for hours with no problem, but using a conventional mouse puts me in agony) I wanted. Yesterday, when I turned in my receipt for reimbursement he got all snotty about "pretty snazzy mouse". Asshole.
But I'd rather deal with his being a jerk than be in pain all the time.
I write Cold Fusion all the time, every day, and I have to say it's damn easy to learn and use (and write badly, but that's something else). If all you know is HTML the tag structure won't confuse you and so on. BUT...I just picked up PHP a few months ago and I love it. So much nicer. So much easier to read. Even though my Cold Fusion is still much stronger than my PHP, I would never recommend using Cold Fusion.
The first time I went to my local users group meeting there was a wonderful presentation on shell scripting. So far so good. That was followed by this AWFUL social gathering where no one made any attempt to socialize with anybody new. (Except for this fat man in a purple shirt who kept hitting on me. Ugh.) I didn't go back for months, and now I only go to the meeting and I skip the social thing afterward.
I mean, sure geek, sure poorly socialized, but the first meeting was as close to hazing as I ever want to see.
Please ask yourself the question: "How did these seniors and disadvantaged get into a situation where they 'don't have ANY money?'" You'll have to include yourself in at least one answer, since it's your grandma and grandpa who need your support. Why should you force some struggling family with four kids to support your grandma and grandpa?
If my parents (or grandparents) needed support, I would happily support them. That seems a fair trade off given that they educated me, clothed and housed me for years, and so on. Like you though, I get furious at the idea that I will end up paying for the support of people who couldn't be bothered to save for retirement.
Baby Boomers have an appallingly low savings rate. You know who, in the end, is gonna pay for all their senior years, since they were too busy buying toys to save? Me. (among others) Makes me crazy.
Yes, I at least understood your point. In fact, I was glad to see someone make it when any discussion about pay inequity tends to get bogged down in irrelevant "but women tend to have lower paying jobs/trade off a better personal life for lower pay" and so on.
I just think its funny (odd funny, not haha funny) that whenever we discuss this, moat women feel compelled to state whether they self define as a feminist. I mean, no one ever feels the need to say "2+2=4 (btw, I'm a feminist"
Hmm. Well, I live in Connecticut, where the immense popularity of Lieberman seems to pretty much guarantee that Gore will carry this state, so as far as I can tell (for me at least) a vote for Nader is a vote for Nader.
Yes, if you start comparing men and women's salaries across the board the pay difference is much more drastic than if you compare equivalent jobs.
Thank god someone else pointed it out, although, why do you need to mention that you are a feminist when you are clarifying data from a study? What does being a feminist have to do with making sure we all know where the numbers are coming from?
Well, as a dutiful ICANN "member at large" I researched the candidates, voted, and am done. (Incidentally, I didn't have any problems voting -- whatever they were doing wrong they had fixed when I voted (I hope))
Note the past tense. I voted. Already. This "voting guide" is a little late. Sheesh -- get on the ball guys.
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I, too, am looking at returning for the PhD (in lovely, lovely medieval studies, not that anyone cares) and I confess that some of the attraction of academia is that no one will ever ask me again if I can turn a PDF into a MS Word document so they can email it.
OK, I confess I've seen AoTC twice. But I have a good excuse -- I went to see it the second time in a theatre with digital projection. I was assured it was mnuch better, but damned if I could tell the difference. I guess looking at the world through perenially filthy glasses has gotten me so used to poor visual quality that I just screen it out...
We're too small to have a CTO, but the Tech Manager was the only person to open "I Love You" when that went around my company.
And he gets a door and a window. Life is SO unfair.
The problem is that sometimes as a webmaster/designer/developer you have very little choice about what's on the site. I cannot count the number of times I have been told to do something, tried explaining that it was a bad idea, and then been told by management to do it anyway. And on the flip side, I am not supposed to update any page or make any change without permission, even if I can't get the manager responsible for that page to communicate with me. Thus there are pages that are outdated and wrong that I am not permitted to do anything about. Makes me nuts, but they are about to pay me to telecommute so I can go back to grad school, so I don't quit.
Yes, but a lot of sites simply won't work without cookies. You could argue that this is due to poor design (and you'd be right) and you could argue that if a company can't be bothered to make its site accessible to the non-cookied why bother going there (and you'd have a good point) but sometimes one just doesn't want to be bothered to log in ALL the time on a site one goes to everyday, or sometimes one just wants to buy cheap airline tickets online...
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.
18 Sep 2001, 11:18 AM CST
A new, malicious worm targeting Microsoft Web servers is in the wild and is frenetically scanning the Internet, security experts said today.
Starting this morning, numerous system administrators have observed a dramatic increase in probes from remote systems, according to reports on several mailing lists. The probes, coming sometimes hundreds per minute, appear to be attempting to access several commonly exploited files on sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
According to Johannes Ullrich, operator of the Dshield.org intrusion reporting service, the scans are already tying up some networks.
"For the last few hours, systems are getting hammered with every IIS exploit on the book. Even though most of these exploits are useless, the bandwidth consumed is large," said Ullrich.
Anti-virus researchers at Symantec have released a preliminary analysis of the worm, which they have dubbed "W32.Nimda.A@mm." According to the firm, besides scanning for vulnerable IIS systems, the worm appears to use e-mail to propagate itself, arriving in a file attachment named "readme.exe." The worm also opens up the computer's hard disk as a network share.
According to Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus, the new worm is "very aggressive" and appears to be using elements of several earlier worms.
Log files posted by participants in one mailing list reveal that infected systems attempt "Get" requests to more than a dozen files on target servers. Among the files is root.exe, a program created by two previous worms, Sadmind and Code Red II. Also targeted is cmd.exe, the command program or "shell" installed on all Windows NT systems. The scans also access a file called "admin.dll" which is used by Microsoft's FrontPage product.
While the worm is likely only to infect IIS systems, its probes are consuming resources and bandwidth of all types of Internet-connected devices, according to reports from administrators.
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said it has begun receiving reports today of a "massive increase in scanning directed at port 80."
Ten days ago, malicious code experts identified a new self-propagating worm which they dubbed Code Blue. Because it exploits a nearly year-old flaw in Microsoft's IIS software known as the Web Server Folder Traversal vulnerability, experts said they did not expect Code Blue to spread widely.
Symantec said Nimda appears to attempt to spread using the same vulnerability as Code Blue.
In an advisory released Monday, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned that it expects an increase in denial of service attacks from pro-American vigilantes in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., last week.
Symantec's information on Nimbda is at
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.
NIPC's advisory on potential denial of service attacks is at http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-0
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com .
11:18 CST
Reposted 11:47 CST
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Why did it take Slashdot so long to post this story? I used to come to Slashdot to get news before I could get it elsewhere, but I heard this at 7 AM on NPR! Sheesh.
No, I had an experience similar to yours. I fought with Linux (I only tried Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2, and cannot speak about other distros) until I was convinced I was an utter idiot. (Which may still be true). But when I installed OpenBSD it was so easy.
I seem to recall that suspicious papers are being reviewed to try and figure out who copied what from where. The suspected students aren't being automatically expelled.
Whereas those with religious faith have figured it out? Oh yeah, that's not arrogant at all.
Actually, in TINKER v. DES MOINES SCHOOL DIST., 393 U.S. 503 (1969) the supreme court ruled that "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." which would suggest that the First Amendment most certainly does apply to 8-year-olds.
Of course, nothing beats handing out RedHat cds and making 'em install linux at home.
I can install RedHat in my sleep, and would still hesitate to say I know how to use linux. Installation by itself isn't all that helpful a learning tool.
Of course, it sounds like these lucky bastards will get to use it at work. *grumble* If I got to use linux at work...
Help penguins caught in oil spills.
SANCOOB South African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds.
Yay! I'm not the only one.
There was a panel of 5 teachers at my HS, and one of them blackballed me off NHS. Never did find out who. My Jr. year I actually applied and was shocked I didn't get in. (I had almost perfect grades in high school. I was just...quirky.) My senior year I was pressured to apply, didn't, didn't get in.
BUT a guy in my class whom (I must admit) I had never thought more of than "popular pretty boy" refused the whole thing when they asked him in because it had become a popularity contest rather than an academic honor society. I was impressed.
And, like everyone else, my life has gone just fine without being in NHS.
Hey -- I know it's bloody hard to stop working and say "I can't do this -- my wrists hurt too much" but STOP and rest until you don't hurt AT ALL. You could cause yourself permanant injury, and avoiding that is worth a little embarrassment. Don't wait until you can't type.
I waited until I was in so much pain all day I was almost in tears, and then insisted to my boss that I get the mouse (actually, trackball in my case -- I can type for hours with no problem, but using a conventional mouse puts me in agony) I wanted. Yesterday, when I turned in my receipt for reimbursement he got all snotty about "pretty snazzy mouse". Asshole.
But I'd rather deal with his being a jerk than be in pain all the time.
DON'T RISK YOUR HEALTH.
Sometimes it is nice to discuss problems with peers, face to face.
*Grumble* This assumes you aren't the only coder in a small office, and HAVE peers around to discuss problems with.
I write Cold Fusion all the time, every day, and I have to say it's damn easy to learn and use (and write badly, but that's something else). If all you know is HTML the tag structure won't confuse you and so on. BUT...I just picked up PHP a few months ago and I love it. So much nicer. So much easier to read. Even though my Cold Fusion is still much stronger than my PHP, I would never recommend using Cold Fusion.
oh gods yes!
The first time I went to my local users group meeting there was a wonderful presentation on shell scripting. So far so good. That was followed by this AWFUL social gathering where no one made any attempt to socialize with anybody new. (Except for this fat man in a purple shirt who kept hitting on me. Ugh.) I didn't go back for months, and now I only go to the meeting and I skip the social thing afterward.
I mean, sure geek, sure poorly socialized, but the first meeting was as close to hazing as I ever want to see.
Please ask yourself the question: "How did these seniors and disadvantaged get into a situation where they 'don't have ANY money?'" You'll have to include yourself in at least one answer, since it's your grandma and grandpa who need your support. Why should you force some struggling family with four kids to support your grandma and grandpa?
If my parents (or grandparents) needed support, I would happily support them. That seems a fair trade off given that they educated me, clothed and housed me for years, and so on. Like you though, I get furious at the idea that I will end up paying for the support of people who couldn't be bothered to save for retirement.
Baby Boomers have an appallingly low savings rate. You know who, in the end, is gonna pay for all their senior years, since they were too busy buying toys to save? Me. (among others) Makes me crazy.
Yes, I at least understood your point. In fact, I was glad to see someone make it when any discussion about pay inequity tends to get bogged down in irrelevant "but women tend to have lower paying jobs/trade off a better personal life for lower pay" and so on.
I just think its funny (odd funny, not haha funny) that whenever we discuss this, moat women feel compelled to state whether they self define as a feminist. I mean, no one ever feels the need to say "2+2=4 (btw, I'm a feminist"
Hmm. Well, I live in Connecticut, where the immense popularity of Lieberman seems to pretty much guarantee that Gore will carry this state, so as far as I can tell (for me at least) a vote for Nader is a vote for Nader.
Yes, if you start comparing men and women's salaries across the board the pay difference is much more drastic than if you compare equivalent jobs.
Thank god someone else pointed it out, although, why do you need to mention that you are a feminist when you are clarifying data from a study? What does being a feminist have to do with making sure we all know where the numbers are coming from?
I dunno. To me a "naked PC" is one with the cover off, not one without an OS. Maybe I'm just wierd.
Well, as a dutiful ICANN "member at large" I researched the candidates, voted, and am done. (Incidentally, I didn't have any problems voting -- whatever they were doing wrong they had fixed when I voted (I hope))
Note the past tense. I voted. Already. This "voting guide" is a little late. Sheesh -- get on the ball guys.