Even the summary states: '..using 5 year old laptops because they had been tested to handle the stresses of space travel'
Just think about that. You can design/engineer for conditions expected in space, but to prove the thing, it's gotta go up there and do it. And you ought to send three, this being NASA. What's it cost to send a laptop into space (rhetorical)?
Anyone still wonder why they're not running quad core AMD-64 w SSDs?
Oh yeah, has it survived a coronal mass ejection recently? And does it suck less than my HP dv4 that insists on burning itself up at avg. 70 C cpu temp?
We can't even get this right down here. Lives depend on it working up there.
You're aware that PRC imprisons and persecutes Nobel Prize winners and their families, among vast numbers of other state perceived crimes against its lesser citizens (I use the term loosely)?
Comparing illegalities like kiddie porn to the crimes of totalitarian regimes. Slick.
Holy hyperbole, Batman. JD cf. "Hah! The potential next VP of the USA uses $blah for a pword on her personal/commercial/unsecured web acct! Ha, ha, ha,..."
== jail time? Yah, it was dumb; kids do dumb things all the time. Jail time?!? That's cruel and unusual...
Actually asshole, it was only part of the BOFH article.
Ah, an excellent riposte, sir. So, you only ripped them off for half of their article, and couldn't be bothered to educate the unwashed masses as to where you stole it from. I stand corrected.
I'm saying you're just freaking lazy, and ought to do better in the future. You're not damned for all time. Just get it right. Constructive criticsm?
Nice work with the A-word there. I think you've got that down.
On/., asking how to find info (http://slashdot.org/help) on a website; "Brillant" [sic]. Their current user docs list mysql, but it's dated 2000.
Oh, and while I'm at it, that jerk who posted a complete ripoff of a BOFH http://www.theregister.co.uk/ article on with no attribution ought to be strung up by his earbeads (in comments on "Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home"; I was moderating so couldn't complain inthread).
Blockqote [sic] What you said. Pthoo. [sorry, not even trying to be civil atm]
Can we have a "Party Line" thumbnail please? I'm so fscking bored of hearing about Apple tech I never intend to fall for./. doesn't consider Apple high tech, from what I've seen, so why such a big Apple footprint?!? Tell Bing about all the wonderful stuff Apple things can do. They might like to hear about it. Seeing it here just irritates me. Nice hardware and user interface, but user, developer, and universe is a walled garden/fascist/oligargichal/corporatist dictatorship ! @#$ Or whatever, and I'd rather stay away from that sort of thing (poor; can't afford anyway).
Sorry,/rant
I don't even recommend Apple to family any more. I build 'em a FLOSS laptop of some sort. Solved.
Yeah, WiFi is what takes care of that pesky air gap for me! Do you recommend 802.11g or 802.11n for SCADA systems?
I recommend you have a laptop with a modern version of Linux on site with wifi enabled. You'll have no trouble tracking down promiscuous APs. WiFi access should never be let near critical infra (that's NOT "air gap").
Sheesh. I avoid wifi like the plague (& facebook & twitter & 4chan...). Don't blame that mess on me.
The manager *ought* to be demonstating his competence in this area to his boss (OP), which he is apparently not doing. Mgr.'s who can't comunicate are doing it wrong.
I assume OP is attempting to do due diligence (watching the watchers/doers?), so if he doesn't feel up to trusting his subordinates, damned right, he ought to find out what's really going on.
It's his job to stay on top of this, yes?
I'm not accusing the engineers of incompetence, but if one side doesn't trust what the other's doing, it's time to educate each other, at the least.
I find it funny that every Tom, Dick, and Harry without a high school education thinks that they're a brilliant engineer whenever they read about some problem that hundreds of experienced engineers couldn't solve. Seriously, take ten seconds and go google your idea BEFORE touting it as the magical solution that all of these foolish NASA engineers didn't think of.
You've no understanding of history. Wizards come from out of the shadows all the time. You don't NEED a PHd to create magic. It just makes you look more publishable when you do have one.
Most Americans' understanding of the Internet is likely limited to email, social networking, and Youtube.
Many human's understanding of their own computer is likely limited to a web browser. I've watched accountants punch a column of numbers in a spreadsheet into a calculator, not knowing they could sum the column with a couple of mouse clicks. There's Sun Certified engineers out there who can't do a directory listing.
Incompetence, ignorance, and "What? When did that happen?!?" seem to be endemic recently.
Frankly, you can pump a lot of info through the frequency spectrum (easily represented by floating point values). WTF do you get over that by bolting on QM?
Software can do the evaluating.
I'll finish reading the article; maybe he 'splains.
I'm not a professional scientist. I'm a CS geek. I've also only made it through page one so far.
This struck me as very underwhelming, even disappointing:
Instead of having bits, as a classical computer does, which represent either a one or a zero, a quantum computer has quantum bits - qubits - which can represent zero, one, or a superposition of both - that is, any amount of either zero and one simultaneously. As a result, unlike a traditional computer which can only store one number in a single register at any one time, a quantum computer can store more than one.
Doesn't that mean going from bits that hold either one or zero, to bits that hold floating point values of anywhere between zero and one, containing "percentages" of the present value between 0 and 1? What's so Earth shaking about that? Those are bytes, yes?
I'm sure I'm biased against Apple products though, because I'm a heterosexual.
Hetero here. That joke's not funny. Are you really, or just making a joke acting like one? "On the Internet, no-one knows you're a dog."
Jeebus, I wish fifteen year old intellects suffering from testosterone overdoses would leave the fags alone. They're leaving the chicks to straights! Isn't that what we want? Yeah, they'd like to play with us instead. So what? How does that threaten our "manhood", if we're not interested?
To all the heteros out there, leave them alone. They're not hurting us. We ought to be protecting them.
Why would straights bully fags, when fags are expressly NOT after straight's women?!? I don't get it. This is anti-evolutionary behaviour. They're setting up the fags to win over themselves.
[meta: I think I'm offended by the general level of anti-GBLT hatred I've heard of lately, and seriously wondering why it's going on. I smell a Pogrom. Democracy is not good at protecting minorities. Meanwhile, I'm such a "straight" that I feel a little icky just using "GBLT" in a post. Sigh. Prejudice dies hard.]
That sounds a lot like my last (brilliant, if I may say) four day perl hackathon. It worked! It was brilliant.
Then ensued a year long, "You're fired, you didn't do anything." "Uh, pardon me, yes I did, here's my documentation (logs, screenshots, archived mail)"; another (incompetent) admin "pushed me under a bus,..." No @#$%, and I've since been vindicated ("Sorry, here's your shares back.").
The problem was, they didn't even know why they were in the business, or what they were trying to sell. They had no idea what problem they were attempting to solve. "We've got some cool tech, which this guy (me) is implementing for us."
... and then you will need a project manager to coordinate them.
You may consider adding bureaucracy to a problem inherently guides it along to fruition.
My experience watching managers is the best ones were the ones who best shielded me from mgmt. Competent mgmt. is not the norm; obstructive, ignorant, poorly focused, over-meeting'ed,... is far more prevalent.
Actually managing to get stuff done in the face of all that can seem a miracle at times. I failed getting an outage to just add RAM to a backup server, and that after 1.25 a. trying. "Sorry, can't take the risk this time; have to put off your change for later, too much other stuff needs doing."
fsck.
Me, I'd prefer to just try to hire the right people who want to do neat stuff, and encourage them to mentor along anyone else you manage to drag in. If they need anything else, listen.
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May we please bury this stupid, "In Soviet Russia ..." meme, as it hasn't existed for some time now.
Pick on Kyrgyzstan. Or PRC, or N. Korea, ...
Just think about that. You can design/engineer for conditions expected in space, but to prove the thing, it's gotta go up there and do it. And you ought to send three, this being NASA. What's it cost to send a laptop into space (rhetorical)?
Anyone still wonder why they're not running quad core AMD-64 w SSDs?
Oh yeah, has it survived a coronal mass ejection recently? And does it suck less than my HP dv4 that insists on burning itself up at avg. 70 C cpu temp?
We can't even get this right down here. Lives depend on it working up there.
I prefer my old Dell i4k.
You're aware that PRC imprisons and persecutes Nobel Prize winners and their families, among vast numbers of other state perceived crimes against its lesser citizens (I use the term loosely)?
Comparing illegalities like kiddie porn to the crimes of totalitarian regimes. Slick.
Holy hyperbole, Batman. JD cf. "Hah! The potential next VP of the USA uses $blah for a pword on her personal/commercial/unsecured web acct! Ha, ha, ha, ..."
== jail time? Yah, it was dumb; kids do dumb things all the time. Jail time?!? That's cruel and unusual ...
Me too. Isn't this an example of a "mesh network", a la OLPC?
Ah, an excellent riposte, sir. So, you only ripped them off for half of their article, and couldn't be bothered to educate the unwashed masses as to where you stole it from. I stand corrected.
I'm saying you're just freaking lazy, and ought to do better in the future. You're not damned for all time. Just get it right. Constructive criticsm?
Nice work with the A-word there. I think you've got that down.
Idiot.
On /., asking how to find info (http://slashdot.org/help) on a website; "Brillant" [sic]. Their current user docs list mysql, but it's dated 2000.
Oh, and while I'm at it, that jerk who posted a complete ripoff of a BOFH http://www.theregister.co.uk/ article on with no attribution ought to be strung up by his earbeads (in comments on "Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home"; I was moderating so couldn't complain inthread).
Sigh, fsck. Carry on you shallow posters.
Blockqote [sic] What you said. Pthoo. [sorry, not even trying to be civil atm]
Can we have a "Party Line" thumbnail please? I'm so fscking bored of hearing about Apple tech I never intend to fall for. /. doesn't consider Apple high tech, from what I've seen, so why such a big Apple footprint?!? Tell Bing about all the wonderful stuff Apple things can do. They might like to hear about it. Seeing it here just irritates me. Nice hardware and user interface, but user, developer, and universe is a walled garden/fascist/oligargichal/corporatist dictatorship ! @#$ Or whatever, and I'd rather stay away from that sort of thing (poor; can't afford anyway).
Sorry, /rant
I don't even recommend Apple to family any more. I build 'em a FLOSS laptop of some sort. Solved.
And we've been warning about USB drives/sticks since the existence of G3!
Malware, if allowed, will use any vector it can. Quelle surprise? It walks in off the street if allowed. USB key!
You're going to install critical infra. with *anybody can plug anything they want to into your server* functionality?
At least get your admins to look into locking it down.
If your servers run Win*, you're hosed on bootup.
I recommend you have a laptop with a modern version of Linux on site with wifi enabled. You'll have no trouble tracking down promiscuous APs. WiFi access should never be let near critical infra (that's NOT "air gap").
Sheesh. I avoid wifi like the plague (& facebook & twitter & 4chan ...). Don't blame that mess on me.
The manager *ought* to be demonstating his competence in this area to his boss (OP), which he is apparently not doing. Mgr.'s who can't comunicate are doing it wrong.
I assume OP is attempting to do due diligence (watching the watchers/doers?), so if he doesn't feel up to trusting his subordinates, damned right, he ought to find out what's really going on.
It's his job to stay on top of this, yes?
I'm not accusing the engineers of incompetence, but if one side doesn't trust what the other's doing, it's time to educate each other, at the least.
Seriously though, heard of "air gap"?
You most certainly should be concerned about that. Incompetent/oblivious mgmt? In the 21st Century?!?
[I'm a Unix/FLOSS guy.]
Damn, this reads like sado-masochistic self-mutilation. Why buy that crap when the manufacturer hates you?
Damn.
You've no understanding of history. Wizards come from out of the shadows all the time. You don't NEED a PHd to create magic. It just makes you look more publishable when you do have one.
Oh, fsck off. Damn, I'm tired of puerile replies like this.
Think harder! Think deeper! Think nuance! Improve the human condition, or shut up. Try to not follow the party line, is the first step.
It was not in the least bit "funny." Yes, I'm a curmudgeon (whatever). Bite me.
Why does this remind me of such gripping issues such as *buntu changing its desktop background or default font?
"Black? White? Hmm. So many choices. Nah, I'll wait six months until the white one comes out."
Nuts. Absolutely nuts. BTW, no, I don't want one. I'm just astonished by this phenom. It's the color of the case, not the tech., that's important?
Whoosh.
Many human's understanding of their own computer is likely limited to a web browser. I've watched accountants punch a column of numbers in a spreadsheet into a calculator, not knowing they could sum the column with a couple of mouse clicks. There's Sun Certified engineers out there who can't do a directory listing.
Incompetence, ignorance, and "What? When did that happen?!?" seem to be endemic recently.
Sorry, I meant probabilities.
Frankly, you can pump a lot of info through the frequency spectrum (easily represented by floating point values). WTF do you get over that by bolting on QM?
Software can do the evaluating.
I'll finish reading the article; maybe he 'splains.
I'm not a professional scientist. I'm a CS geek. I've also only made it through page one so far.
This struck me as very underwhelming, even disappointing:
Instead of having bits, as a classical computer does, which represent either a one or a zero, a quantum computer has quantum bits - qubits - which can represent zero, one, or a superposition of both - that is, any amount of either zero and one
simultaneously. As a result, unlike a traditional computer which can only store one number in a single register at any one time, a quantum computer can store more than one.
Doesn't that mean going from bits that hold either one or zero, to bits that hold floating point values of anywhere between zero and one, containing "percentages" of the present value between 0 and 1? What's so Earth shaking about that? Those are bytes, yes?
WTF?!?
Which world is this you're speaking of? On my world, teenagers are killing each other over this crap.
Hetero here. That joke's not funny. Are you really, or just making a joke acting like one? "On the Internet, no-one knows you're a dog."
Jeebus, I wish fifteen year old intellects suffering from testosterone overdoses would leave the fags alone. They're leaving the chicks to straights! Isn't that what we want? Yeah, they'd like to play with us instead. So what? How does that threaten our "manhood", if we're not interested?
To all the heteros out there, leave them alone. They're not hurting us. We ought to be protecting them.
Why would straights bully fags, when fags are expressly NOT after straight's women?!? I don't get it. This is anti-evolutionary behaviour. They're setting up the fags to win over themselves.
[meta: I think I'm offended by the general level of anti-GBLT hatred I've heard of lately, and seriously wondering why it's going on. I smell a Pogrom. Democracy is not good at protecting minorities. Meanwhile, I'm such a "straight" that I feel a little icky just using "GBLT" in a post. Sigh. Prejudice dies hard.]
That sounds a lot like my last (brilliant, if I may say) four day perl hackathon. It worked! It was brilliant.
Then ensued a year long, "You're fired, you didn't do anything." "Uh, pardon me, yes I did, here's my documentation (logs, screenshots, archived mail)"; another (incompetent) admin "pushed me under a bus, ..." No @#$%, and I've since been vindicated ("Sorry, here's your shares back.").
The problem was, they didn't even know why they were in the business, or what they were trying to sell. They had no idea what problem they were attempting to solve. "We've got some cool tech, which this guy (me) is implementing for us."
Uh, what am I implementing?
Really shitty shit happens from time to time.
You may consider adding bureaucracy to a problem inherently guides it along to fruition.
My experience watching managers is the best ones were the ones who best shielded me from mgmt. Competent mgmt. is not the norm; obstructive, ignorant, poorly focused, over-meeting'ed, ... is far more prevalent.
Actually managing to get stuff done in the face of all that can seem a miracle at times. I failed getting an outage to just add RAM to a backup server, and that after 1.25 a. trying. "Sorry, can't take the risk this time; have to put off your change for later, too much other stuff needs doing."
fsck.
Me, I'd prefer to just try to hire the right people who want to do neat stuff, and encourage them to mentor along anyone else you manage to drag in. If they need anything else, listen.
It's a trap! Duh.
Some of them aren't terribly fond of any of the above. Yeah, busted.