A poor attitude certainly doesn't help things. Might I suggest reading some self help books on communication and people skills? You already figured out that there's a lot more to getting a job than being the best qualified candidate to perform that particular job function. Now that you've figured out what employers are looking for, why don't you work towards obtaining those qualities?
If your employer is oppressing your views, maybe you need to think about how you're presenting them. Passive bitching really doesn't do anything except make you look like a trouble maker. Instead, present your ideas to the decision makers like you're selling them the idea. Point out the benefits and give a list of reasons why your idea is better than their current process. Sell it hard.
"They do allow cigarettes, gum, and alcohol on the ISS, don't they?"
Actually, the cosmonauts have gotten away with pissing on the wheels of the bus that takes them to the launch pad before sneaking bottles of alcohol onto Mir. Here's a link
Another thing to take notice is that the survey didn't ask them if they want us out. It just asked how much confidence they have in us. There's a big difference between the two. Given the collateral damage and anti-western sentiment, I'd guess that the 95% figure I was hearing from those deployed is a little too optimistic.
Iraq is a country where the people have been raised to hate western society with a passion. You think our mainstream news is biased? Try reading Al-Jazeera. You don't even have to use a critical eye to see how biased they are. Iraq and some other muslim nations have been brainwashed to believe that we are evil dictators (Isn't that ironic?) that want to destroy the muslim religion and use them solely for our own economic gain. These nations use their religion in much the same way as the Roman Catholic Empire did. It's only natural that a small percentage of the population wants us out of there pronto. Like my mechanic (Migrated from Iraq after the first gulf war) and a few soldiers (They served in this war) that I've talked to said. 95% of the Iraqis want us there while things get stabalized.
Meanwhile, the wonderful country called France is making it illegal for them to wear head scarves and for Jews to wear skull caps.
Regardless of the literal meaning of the phrase, it has an implied meaning. They wouldn't have to use the fine print if they didn't mislead consumers into purchasing the service in the first place. They're covering their asses from a class action lawsuit.
Anybody who expects a company to provide support for a 5 year old piece of software (Sub $200) is a moron. If businesses provided support for their products as long as people were using them, they would lose money on their products. Even with a pay per incident support model, Microsoft loses money on support.
I used to be a HUGE mac evangelists. Now I just use it for personal use as a personal choice. I became a sysadmin for Microsoft run businesses (As well as a netadmin) and now I don't have to look very hard for potential employment opportunities. Cheerleaders would call that selling out. Grown ups would call it a wise career move.
All you MS bashers need to get over your alternative OS cheerleading, grow the hell up, and introduce yourself to the real world.
None. Dollars saved because the system runs quickly and efficiently? A lot. Dollars saved because all the data is secured and backed up regularly? The best answer I have for this is an example. How much money do you think Vivendi lost because the code for Half Life 2 was stolen? It was stolen because a workstation wasn't kept up to date on security patches. Another good example would be the company I'm currently working for. When my manager and myself started (I started a month after him), we couldn't find a single thing on the network that had been done right. I saw fires and potential disasters everywhere. We would go out of business if a certain two servers took a nose dive because they handle all of our client traffic. Those two servers are 95% of our revenue. Shortly after we started, one of them started resetting itself due to a dying motherboard that we would never be able to find a replacement for. Before this problem started, we created a new server and started the process of moving everything over to it. If everything were in the hands of the prior IT staff, the business would be completely fucked.
This is the perception, right or wrong and it's not going to change. Get used to it.
That's the perception that a poor management team has. It's also the perception that self-centered programmers that don't appreciate what the admins do for them have. The first time they lose something valuable as a result, that perception will change. Thankfully, there's been so much disaster in the news that most PHBs place a high value on a competent sysadmin.
Admins and coders are a dime a dozen. A talented individual with good work ethic in either job function is priceless to the company.
They also create websites like this [cuddleinternational.org], which was featured on the Cruel site of the day blog.
My ex-girlfriend's parents are first cousins. They're rednecks in a small white town in north Idaho. They hated me partly because I'm from California and partly because my formal education is limited to a GED and some college (Never mind the fact that I make more than both of them in a high-tech industry). Every time they gave me some elitist bullshit, I had to bite my tongue so as not to say, "At least we're not related."
If everybody at MS put on a technical/security hat instead of a marketing/public-relations hat, maybe they'd wouldn't have so many security problems.
Do you honestly think that one-sided bashing has any influence on decision makers? If someone came up to you and relentlessly bashed OSS, what would you think of that person?
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but to fight for the cause, we need to be more objective and present facts with data to back it up. Separate your hatred of Microsoft's aggressive business practices from your judgment of their software packages.
Take a look in Bugtraq and note all the OSS exploits being discovered along with the MS exploits. Programmers are programmers and they all make mistakes. One software package is not inherently more secure than other software since it only takes one unpatched exploit for an attacker to gain access. I don't think I've seen any packages that have not had any exploits found. It's up to the Sysadmin to keep systems as secure as possible by patching them, setting up firewalls, and configuring the systems in a locked-down state.
In regards to this article, the Guest account comes disabled for a reason. I'd assume that it's only included for legacy reasons. Old, crappy software that need it enabled perhaps? Regardless, if a worm infects a system and that system is important, best practice dictates that the administrator rebuild the system from scratch and import the data. If the administrator doesn't know that, then they aren't very good at their job and their employer should remedy the situation by hiring a competent employee.
While I agree with you that the only viable solution is a system where email is guilty until proven innocent, I don't believe that a "Data clearinghouse" is the answer. That idea is roughly the same thing as using digital signatures. If we take that route, spammers could buy one of them under a front business name for a total cost of $100 or so. They move quickly and pump out as much spam as possible until their certificate gets revoked. It'll make a dent in their bottom line, but everyone else also takes a hit because we now have to buy personal certificates.
Because of caching, sometimes some things resolve and some don't... so, if www.spamcop.net doesn't work, try spamcop.net minus the www. Of course, if your mail server can't resolve their mail server properly, then submitted spam is a much bigger pain.
The problem isn't outdated or incorrect information in the spamcop.net zone. The problem is the information on the.net zone. This means that everything under spamcop.net (Including mail records) cannot resolve until the.net servers are updated (Already done) and the SOA information for spamcop.net gets refreshed at your ISPs DNS servers (Sunday night at the latest). Like Julian said, the Time to Live for the SOA record is two days.
You know, everyone seems to love mentioning the FreeBSD to Windows 2000 switch and refer to it as a fiasco. I've been using Hotmail since 96 and I had very few problems during the "fiasco" I think the worst of it was the half dozen times I couldn't login to my account for a few hours. If that's the "fiasco" that everyone is referring to, then I throw in the towel when it comes to a complete platform migration for a 24/7 operation with an 80-something node cluster.
LOL THAT"S FUNNY... Considering that MS just recently dropped support for NT4, an OS that was released in 1996, I'd say that they are pretty good about providing extended product support.
Exactly, and that pullout was only for NT Workstaion. Server is still going to be supported for another year or so. Apple on the other hand only seems to support the latest/greatest. Not only in patches and bugfixes, but also in forward compatability. Every time a new major OS version is launched, people have to upgrade or face not being able to use newer applications.
Hell, of the people I know that have worked at Microsoft, two of them really like Linux, and one kept a Tux doll in his cubicle. MS doesn't really care about something like that -- they care about potential leaks, or precedent being set that could lead to future leaks.
I'll back you up on that statement. I was supporting Microsoft products (Windows 2000 Professional. Then NT Server, Services for Unix, Services for Macintosh, and Proxy 2.0.) through an outsourcer and had plenty of contact and meetings with regular employees as well as temps (a- accounts). There are several employees that are fans of other OSes. Heck, I personally had a big 20th Anniversary Macintosh poster in my cubicle. Microsoft understands diversity and embraces it in the company.
On the other hand, if you come to work taking pictures of internal affairs and publish them on the web with blatant intentions of making your employer look bad, how the fuck do you expect them to react!?!
Actually, with that girl, I never played games. When I met her, I had been out on my own for two years and she was a freshman in college. Keep in mind that the age difference was only about eight months. During the course of our relationship, she was struggling to find herself and more and more I discovered that the person she became was someone I could have no respect for. I think it was largely due to sorority influence, but I just don't know. Maybe it was the fact that she was still depending on her parents for financial support and still hadn't entered the workforce. Maybe I changed. In any case, we drifted apart tremendously and the two years of sustaining a long distance relationship didn't help us grow together either.
Upon further research, I stumbled upon this. Apparently, it's illegal to record copies (TV included), even for personal use unless the copyright holder gives explicit permission. Most companies give permission for customers to record for personal use.
When it comes to the topic of making copies of a copyrighted work, it all depends on what the court decides is "Fair Use".
Here's some information, straight from the EFF.
Under "Fair Use", it says, "A use will be less likely to be fair where it replaces or supersedes the demand for the original work, or a foreseeable derivative product (a product based on the original)."
Free copies floating around on the net obviously hurts demand for the original CD. Anyone who argues otherwise is only kidding himself. Hell, I'll admit that I have copied a CD whereas I would have purchased it if copying weren't possible.
Here's an article that covers what's allowed in regards to the radio.
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If your employer is oppressing your views, maybe you need to think about how you're presenting them. Passive bitching really doesn't do anything except make you look like a trouble maker. Instead, present your ideas to the decision makers like you're selling them the idea. Point out the benefits and give a list of reasons why your idea is better than their current process. Sell it hard.
-Lucas
You forgot to factor in the cost of living. Yeah, we're still well off, but not as much as your statement made us out to be.
-Lucas
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." -Eldridge Cleaver
Actually, the cosmonauts have gotten away with pissing on the wheels of the bus that takes them to the launch pad before sneaking bottles of alcohol onto Mir. Here's a link
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Meanwhile, the wonderful country called France is making it illegal for them to wear head scarves and for Jews to wear skull caps.
-Lucas
Sure you do! Make a wardialer that plays a prerecorded message. Input every telephone prefix in your area and let her rip!
-Lucas
Regardless of the literal meaning of the phrase, it has an implied meaning. They wouldn't have to use the fine print if they didn't mislead consumers into purchasing the service in the first place. They're covering their asses from a class action lawsuit.
-Lucas
Actually, China artificially lowers their export prices to create unfair competition in order to boost their own economy.
Before you go expressing your completely biased opinion, at least get your facts straight.
-Lucas
That's funny. This AP article says 20%.
Anybody who expects a company to provide support for a 5 year old piece of software (Sub $200) is a moron. If businesses provided support for their products as long as people were using them, they would lose money on their products. Even with a pay per incident support model, Microsoft loses money on support.
I used to be a HUGE mac evangelists. Now I just use it for personal use as a personal choice. I became a sysadmin for Microsoft run businesses (As well as a netadmin) and now I don't have to look very hard for potential employment opportunities. Cheerleaders would call that selling out. Grown ups would call it a wise career move.
All you MS bashers need to get over your alternative OS cheerleading, grow the hell up, and introduce yourself to the real world.
-Lucas
None. Dollars saved because the system runs quickly and efficiently? A lot. Dollars saved because all the data is secured and backed up regularly? The best answer I have for this is an example. How much money do you think Vivendi lost because the code for Half Life 2 was stolen? It was stolen because a workstation wasn't kept up to date on security patches. Another good example would be the company I'm currently working for. When my manager and myself started (I started a month after him), we couldn't find a single thing on the network that had been done right. I saw fires and potential disasters everywhere. We would go out of business if a certain two servers took a nose dive because they handle all of our client traffic. Those two servers are 95% of our revenue. Shortly after we started, one of them started resetting itself due to a dying motherboard that we would never be able to find a replacement for. Before this problem started, we created a new server and started the process of moving everything over to it. If everything were in the hands of the prior IT staff, the business would be completely fucked.
This is the perception, right or wrong and it's not going to change. Get used to it.
That's the perception that a poor management team has. It's also the perception that self-centered programmers that don't appreciate what the admins do for them have. The first time they lose something valuable as a result, that perception will change. Thankfully, there's been so much disaster in the news that most PHBs place a high value on a competent sysadmin.
Admins and coders are a dime a dozen. A talented individual with good work ethic in either job function is priceless to the company.
-Lucas
My ex-girlfriend's parents are first cousins. They're rednecks in a small white town in north Idaho. They hated me partly because I'm from California and partly because my formal education is limited to a GED and some college (Never mind the fact that I make more than both of them in a high-tech industry). Every time they gave me some elitist bullshit, I had to bite my tongue so as not to say, "At least we're not related."
-Lucas
Do you honestly think that one-sided bashing has any influence on decision makers? If someone came up to you and relentlessly bashed OSS, what would you think of that person?
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but to fight for the cause, we need to be more objective and present facts with data to back it up. Separate your hatred of Microsoft's aggressive business practices from your judgment of their software packages.
Take a look in Bugtraq and note all the OSS exploits being discovered along with the MS exploits. Programmers are programmers and they all make mistakes. One software package is not inherently more secure than other software since it only takes one unpatched exploit for an attacker to gain access. I don't think I've seen any packages that have not had any exploits found. It's up to the Sysadmin to keep systems as secure as possible by patching them, setting up firewalls, and configuring the systems in a locked-down state.
In regards to this article, the Guest account comes disabled for a reason. I'd assume that it's only included for legacy reasons. Old, crappy software that need it enabled perhaps? Regardless, if a worm infects a system and that system is important, best practice dictates that the administrator rebuild the system from scratch and import the data. If the administrator doesn't know that, then they aren't very good at their job and their employer should remedy the situation by hiring a competent employee.
-Lucas
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The problem isn't outdated or incorrect information in the spamcop.net zone. The problem is the information on the .net zone. This means that everything under spamcop.net (Including mail records) cannot resolve until the .net servers are updated (Already done) and the SOA information for spamcop.net gets refreshed at your ISPs DNS servers (Sunday night at the latest). Like Julian said, the Time to Live for the SOA record is two days.
-Lucas
The FBI agent was off-duty.
-Lucas
You think they might make it an option to not install explorer?
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Exactly, and that pullout was only for NT Workstaion. Server is still going to be supported for another year or so. Apple on the other hand only seems to support the latest/greatest. Not only in patches and bugfixes, but also in forward compatability. Every time a new major OS version is launched, people have to upgrade or face not being able to use newer applications.
-Lucas
I'll back you up on that statement. I was supporting Microsoft products (Windows 2000 Professional. Then NT Server, Services for Unix, Services for Macintosh, and Proxy 2.0.) through an outsourcer and had plenty of contact and meetings with regular employees as well as temps (a- accounts). There are several employees that are fans of other OSes. Heck, I personally had a big 20th Anniversary Macintosh poster in my cubicle. Microsoft understands diversity and embraces it in the company.
On the other hand, if you come to work taking pictures of internal affairs and publish them on the web with blatant intentions of making your employer look bad, how the fuck do you expect them to react!?!
-Lucas
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Here's some information, straight from the EFF.
Under "Fair Use", it says, "A use will be less likely to be fair where it replaces or supersedes the demand for the original work, or a foreseeable derivative product (a product based on the original)."
Free copies floating around on the net obviously hurts demand for the original CD. Anyone who argues otherwise is only kidding himself. Hell, I'll admit that I have copied a CD whereas I would have purchased it if copying weren't possible.
Here's an article that covers what's allowed in regards to the radio.
-Lucas