C'mon, let's bring back more "Internet *" stuff! Remember "Internet Time" from Swatch?
I didn't think it was that bad of an idea, actually... it'd be great to see it on tvguide.com so I know exactly which time my favourite shows start. Comcast's tv guide has screwed up time zones before. Imagine not having to worry about setting up a teleconference. Just say "@258" and not have end users that can barely use the "transfer" function on the phone saying "What? 2:00 my time or your time? What about Bob's time?" Ugh.
Huh? Uh, I understand the picture just fine. I was merely pointing out that Gentoo has a lot of the features that FreeBSD users gloat about.
And, it really depends on your organization. I have used Gentoo in a "corporate" environment before, and the managers/policyholders signed off on it. Everything went very smoothly. I even took the opportunity to train the "We know nothing about Linux except Red Hat/RPM" "admins" we had about Gentoo, and they picked it up very easily.
If you want corporate contracts & guaranteed compatibility with stuff like Oracle, then yeah, use Red Hat. This company wasn't interested in spending the $$$ on Red Hat, and Gentoo fit the bill quite nicely. One of the reasons that FreeBSD wasn't going well was previous issues with the Dell hardware.
Sarbanes-Oxley is all about making sure your financials are accurate.
I wish that I could say that equal attention was being paid to security, but sadly it's not. SOx compliance (to appease the shareholders) has become Priority #1.
*Everywhere* I know someone that's working on SOx, it's the same stuff. Making sure the shareholders are happy and the company is SOx compliant is taking priority over taking steps to protect the data in the first place. Sad but true.:(
If we should be profiling those that commit more crimes, we should be nailing every Mexican and black person that we see because they fit nicely into a profile.
Young black man in Oakland driving a car that was made within the past 5 years = fits the profile of a drug dealer.
If we all thought the way you propose (I'd rather harrass an innocent person that fits a profile..) then we'd be searching nearly everyone.
Isn't it illegal to possess a credit card number generator?
I tried that before with a site, but it actually verified that it was a correctly formatted VISA/Mastercard number (the first 4 digits, iirc) and rejected the crap that I was feeding it.
Pretty much says it all. CEOs gloat about "offshoring" and "global economy" but what's really happening is that the rest of us are just getting screwed so a few can make more money. Look at all of these companies that have offshored US jobs to save money. Have the savings been passed along to the consumers? I dunno, my cell phone bill isn't cheaper and buying a copy of Quark sure isn't cheaper.
... and they've been good. Nice folks to deal with. Every monday morning, my tape robot pukes tapes onto the floor, and I happily scoop them up and put them into a box and send them off to Iron Mountain.
Their facility is out in the central valley (I'm in the Silicon Valley) - not *too* far but far enough away from any "points of interest" and in a seismically stable area.
That's very true. In sue-happy America, it often doesn't happen that way. I was working on a contract gig just a few months ago and the manager said (literally) "Any female that even bothers to apply gets an interview scheduled before all others. Period."
So, simply because a FEMALE applies, she's immediately put at the top of the list, qualifications are secondary.
At a job I had last year (spammers, so they were already scum) I got "laid off" because "it just wasn't working out." I knew for a fact that it was because the manager a)didn't like me and b)wanted to hire some friends of his. They didn't need to consult lawyers or anything, just keep the reasons to a minimum and let me go. No wonder employees have no company loyalty anymore. Why be loyal to a company that's just going to stab you in the back? Sometimes small businesses are the *worst* at that, too.
"Employee laws have been shifted so far from out of the _employers_ control that employers can't do ANYTHING these days, such as lay off employees with good reason without good worry and checking with lawyers. It's a joke."
And then they only have to worry if the person is disabled, a woman, or black.
It's a sad but true fact: laying off any white man is dead easy, and you'll never know the true reasons. All the employer has to say is 'it's just not working out.' and you're *gone* - simple as that. The love of an 'at will employment' state.
myspace being bought out, the growing popularity of all these online "social networking" sites (read: online ego jerkoff sessions, basically) and now this?
Ugh. More & more 'tweeners that don't know squat about computers except how to click & install Napster and AIM.
Very simple. Buy a big ass UPS. Actually, it doesn't even have to be that big. My APC SmartUPS 1500 will keep my cable modem/vonage ATA/Netgear router up for *HOURS*
My power was off (maintenance issue, PG&E warned us about it) for 8 hours one time, and the UPS did just fine. It wasn't even down to 50% after 8 hours.
So, my internet access and phone stayed up just fine.
As for the intruder, I have several firearms. Phone or not, I'm shooting first and making phone calls later.
but I really don't give a flying FUCK what marketers think or how skipping cookies and advertising is "hurting" them.
I don't want advertising. I don't want to be marketed to. Leave me the FUCK alone.
Come to think of it, I'm not sorry to say it. We've put up with invasive advertising & tracking for "marketing purposes to increase our click-through ROI" crap for way too long.
A lot of those cute calendars & other glitsy marketing material is donated. The ad agency making the stuff gets a tax write off for it because it's a donation.
"I see all these unused rec rooms with couches, pool, foosball, etc, everybody is just sitting at their computer surfing or IMing instead of meeting up in those rooms to chill for a second. Heck, even without those, I barely see people hanging out near water coolers or coffee bars."... if people USE those, management will know that people are screwing off too much.;) Those are toys to use when you're off the clock.. on lunch, or in on a weekend. Sad but true. Place I worked at had a foosball table and within 6 weeks we all got a memo saying that people were spending too much time playing foosball. *sigh*
"When asked "Gosh, do you think that this is a moral thing for an American company do to?" they replied "Hey, we just sell the software, we can't be responsible for how people use it.""
So, sell software to cut an entire nation off from democracy: Good business, CEO rewarded, stockholders happy.
Sell software that can possibly be used to download a stupid mp3: You're evil and irresponsible and must be punished.
What screwed up priorities. Money talks, as usual.
Those are nice boxes. I know a couple people at Juniper/Netscreen (they're right down the street) - they take an active interest in making sure that you're happy with the product.
True. Very true. From what lawyer friends have told me, it seems that the vast majority of banking law was penned by the banks themselves and Congress merely signed off on it.
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C'mon, let's bring back more "Internet *" stuff! Remember "Internet Time" from Swatch?
I didn't think it was that bad of an idea, actually... it'd be great to see it on tvguide.com so I know exactly which time my favourite shows start. Comcast's tv guide has screwed up time zones before.
Imagine not having to worry about setting up a teleconference. Just say "@258" and not have end users that can barely use the "transfer" function on the phone saying "What? 2:00 my time or your time? What about Bob's time?"
Ugh.
Huh? Uh, I understand the picture just fine. I was merely pointing out that Gentoo has a lot of the features that FreeBSD users gloat about.
:)
And, it really depends on your organization. I have used Gentoo in a "corporate" environment before, and the managers/policyholders signed off on it. Everything went very smoothly. I even took the opportunity to train the "We know nothing about Linux except Red Hat/RPM" "admins" we had about Gentoo, and they picked it up very easily.
If you want corporate contracts & guaranteed compatibility with stuff like Oracle, then yeah, use Red Hat. This company wasn't interested in spending the $$$ on Red Hat, and Gentoo fit the bill quite nicely. One of the reasons that FreeBSD wasn't going well was previous issues with the Dell hardware.
Also, there is a gentoo-server project.
A lot of the FreeBSD plusses you listed also apply to Gentoo Linux.
:)
Both are decent operating systems.
Sarbanes-Oxley is all about making sure your financials are accurate.
:(
I wish that I could say that equal attention was being paid to security, but sadly it's not. SOx compliance (to appease the shareholders) has become Priority #1.
*Everywhere* I know someone that's working on SOx, it's the same stuff. Making sure the shareholders are happy and the company is SOx compliant is taking priority over taking steps to protect the data in the first place.
Sad but true.
If we should be profiling those that commit more crimes, we should be nailing every Mexican and black person that we see because they fit nicely into a profile.
Young black man in Oakland driving a car that was made within the past 5 years = fits the profile of a drug dealer.
If we all thought the way you propose (I'd rather harrass an innocent person that fits a profile..) then we'd be searching nearly everyone.
Isn't it illegal to possess a credit card number generator?
I tried that before with a site, but it actually verified that it was a correctly formatted VISA/Mastercard number (the first 4 digits, iirc) and rejected the crap that I was feeding it.
Pretty much says it all. CEOs gloat about "offshoring" and "global economy" but what's really happening is that the rest of us are just getting screwed so a few can make more money.
Look at all of these companies that have offshored US jobs to save money. Have the savings been passed along to the consumers? I dunno, my cell phone bill isn't cheaper and buying a copy of Quark sure isn't cheaper.
We'll be lucky if it's out by then at the rate things are going. ;)
There are DOZENS of drug deals happening on Craigslist all the time.
Check it out.. look for the names like "Crystal," "Tina," "Mary Jane," and any post that says "party tonight."
They're all dealing with drugs. People flag them, but more just pop up.
... and they've been good. Nice folks to deal with. Every monday morning, my tape robot pukes tapes onto the floor, and I happily scoop them up and put them into a box and send them off to Iron Mountain.
Their facility is out in the central valley (I'm in the Silicon Valley) - not *too* far but far enough away from any "points of interest" and in a seismically stable area.
That's very true. In sue-happy America, it often doesn't happen that way. I was working on a contract gig just a few months ago and the manager said (literally) "Any female that even bothers to apply gets an interview scheduled before all others. Period."
So, simply because a FEMALE applies, she's immediately put at the top of the list, qualifications are secondary.
At a job I had last year (spammers, so they were already scum) I got "laid off" because "it just wasn't working out." I knew for a fact that it was because the manager a)didn't like me and b)wanted to hire some friends of his. They didn't need to consult lawyers or anything, just keep the reasons to a minimum and let me go.
No wonder employees have no company loyalty anymore. Why be loyal to a company that's just going to stab you in the back? Sometimes small businesses are the *worst* at that, too.
From what I've seen, you're the exception, not the rule. ;)
BTW, have you use garageband.com at all for band stuff? They're pretty cool too.
"Employee laws have been shifted so far from out of the _employers_ control that employers can't do ANYTHING these days, such as lay off employees with good reason without good worry and checking with lawyers. It's a joke."
And then they only have to worry if the person is disabled, a woman, or black.
It's a sad but true fact: laying off any white man is dead easy, and you'll never know the true reasons. All the employer has to say is 'it's just not working out.' and you're *gone* - simple as that. The love of an 'at will employment' state.
myspace being bought out, the growing popularity of all these online "social networking" sites (read: online ego jerkoff sessions, basically) and now this?
Ugh. More & more 'tweeners that don't know squat about computers except how to click & install Napster and AIM.
I'm saddened at what the Internet has become.
The article was about "Internet fads" - not FARK fads. :)
Your typical office woman was likely to have seen/forwarded the link to hampsterdance, but as far as myspace & Homestar Runner? I don't think so.
One of the biggest pickup lines in the Bay Area for ages was "Hey.. are you on Friendster?"
(sad but true)
Very simple. Buy a big ass UPS. Actually, it doesn't even have to be that big. My APC SmartUPS 1500 will keep my cable modem/vonage ATA/Netgear router up for *HOURS*
My power was off (maintenance issue, PG&E warned us about it) for 8 hours one time, and the UPS did just fine. It wasn't even down to 50% after 8 hours.
So, my internet access and phone stayed up just fine.
As for the intruder, I have several firearms. Phone or not, I'm shooting first and making phone calls later.
but I really don't give a flying FUCK what marketers think or how skipping cookies and advertising is "hurting" them.
I don't want advertising. I don't want to be marketed to. Leave me the FUCK alone.
Come to think of it, I'm not sorry to say it. We've put up with invasive advertising & tracking for "marketing purposes to increase our click-through ROI" crap for way too long.
A lot of those cute calendars & other glitsy marketing material is donated. The ad agency making the stuff gets a tax write off for it because it's a donation.
"I see all these unused rec rooms with couches, pool, foosball, etc, everybody is just sitting at their computer surfing or IMing instead of meeting up in those rooms to chill for a second. Heck, even without those, I barely see people hanging out near water coolers or coffee bars." ... if people USE those, management will know that people are screwing off too much. ;)
Those are toys to use when you're off the clock.. on lunch, or in on a weekend. Sad but true. Place I worked at had a foosball table and within 6 weeks we all got a memo saying that people were spending too much time playing foosball. *sigh*
"When asked "Gosh, do you think that this is a moral thing for an American company do to?" they replied "Hey, we just sell the software, we can't be responsible for how people use it.""
So, sell software to cut an entire nation off from democracy: Good business, CEO rewarded, stockholders happy.
Sell software that can possibly be used to download a stupid mp3: You're evil and irresponsible and must be punished.
What screwed up priorities. Money talks, as usual.
... in about 10 minutes, after I finish this staff meeting I'm in.
What group initially raised a stink about this? Those pious asshats in the "Parents Television Council" again?
Oh, so.. "Ranch in North Dakota."
;)
I get it.
Those are nice boxes. I know a couple people at Juniper/Netscreen (they're right down the street) - they take an active interest in making sure that you're happy with the product.
Depends on where you are. Here, $410,000 is the median price for condo.
;)
:)
A house in Montana? A house in Egypt?
C'mon, tell us.. how much do those boxes cost?
"anti-DHCP server"
"Hey, Bob.. maybe it's this new motherboard we put in to the DHCP server that's causing the problems."
Just wait, it'll take out the DNS server next and maybe a mail server, just to show you who's boss.
True. Very true. From what lawyer friends have told me, it seems that the vast majority of banking law was penned by the banks themselves and Congress merely signed off on it.
:(
Sad.