Agreed. When I find interesting topic, the best stuff is reading comments at +4. Usually there's information on what is *actually* occurring, instead of whatever the summary/linked blog/linked popularized article says.
Actually, on subsequent viewings you can get kicks out of spotting the clues to the state of Willis' character.
For example, the scene where the kid make the long exposition "They don't know that they are dead...", camera zooms right on Willis, and you *still* didn't get it on the first time. Also, the way things play out (such as the restaurant scene) both ways (lonely, sad woman vs. couple having a crisis)..
Konsole does not let you name tabs and titles separately. There's plenty of screen estate in title and I don't mind applications setting window title however it likes via xterm. However, I'd like to have my tab title remain static.
As a counterpoint, there sometimes *are* drastic, major overhauls to an UI, yet the upgrade is still a step up even though the old version worked quite well. One example that comes to mind is MS Office and the Ribbon interface.
However, Ribbon still did the transition smoothly. You can still use your old menu-based shortcuts that you were familiar with. the menus are still available if you want them. And so on...
What is wrong with a desktop environment where everything is controllable with a GUI, and that GUI edits some config files in a system directory? What is wrong with a pretty desktop environment? If all we care about is "work", we might as well go back to using 256 colors.
Because in Gnome 3, everything is *not* controllable by GUI.
In KDE 3.5 things were such. It was pretty much perfect system. I love the way you can do application- or window-specific settings with a few clicks. KDE 4.6 and 4.7 have finally pretty much reached that (Konsole is still worse than in 3.5) level as well.
Simply because, as Duke Nukem Forever is an excellent example of, assets have a short shelf life. Once you have things ready to assemble in to a game, you have to do it fairly expediently, like a year, so that things don't get stale.
Yeah...that's why Valve is in such a rush to get Half-Life 2 Ep 3 out.
Osuuspankki (http://www.op.fi/) has introduced a "extra verification" for payments. It's not used on all payments, but if the bank detects something odd (for example, you wiring money to someone you've never done before, or large amounts), it sends an SMS to your cell phone with the information about the payment you just made and asks to type in the code you receive in the text message.
So basically, if you have a rooted box, and you access your bank and think you are paying â30 for electricity bill and then you receive SMS stating "you have just stated that you wish to send â5000 to prince of Nigeria, if you really mean it enter this code", you know that something nefarious is going on.
...if you are working for consultancy or reseller, which works as a partner. Typically, as the number of certified people a company has, the higher their partner status goes and that means, if nothing else, discounts => employer gets a better margin on the stuff they resell.
I have a CCIE, and if I go to a Cisco shop it pretty much means "hire me, and even if I don't do anything but stare at the wall all day you are still going to get more money out of this deal (provided you sell at least $X worth of hardware annually)". Same thing can be adapted to other high-level certs out there.
However, be careful. I've known some people who take that CCIE to mean that I don't know a damn thing on how to operate Juniper, HP, Enterasys or Siemens networking gear since I'm "specialized" in Cisco and apparently nothing else fits in my head. This goes double for any of the lower certs. So when you are portraying yourself to a potential employer be sure to somehow convey that you have generic knowledge of the subject matter as well.
Could you point me to such alternate repository, please? I'd really like to get some better source for Android software than the Google marketplace that is stuffed with crap.
Happens to be a heating device that conveniently fits into your standard E-27 lightbulb socket. As a waste product, it also gives off a bit of light.
I for one cannot stand standard CFLs. They throw white balance of my photographs completely off with their spiked spectrum. Now, I've replaced most lights in my home with Vivalite's full-spectrum 6000K color temperature lights (so they resemble sunlight), and I'm reasonably happy with those. I still think your old tungsten wire is next best thing - it has continuous spectrum, even if the spike is somewhere around 3000K (orange).
Anyway, I guess I'll be stockpiling some lightbulbs before they get phased out in the EU as well.
Getting a/64 basically means that no matter how large your organization is, you can fit within that numbering. Doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a transnational corporation, there's plenty of space in there for you.
No - organizations get/56's, or/48:s./64 is for individual LAN segment except in some rare cases (such as proposed/127 for Point-to-point links). The size is depending on the size of your network. If you only, truly, have a single LAN then that/64 is enough. However, even small business typically has at least 3 subnets - one for workstations, one for servers, and one DMZ that's facing Internet. There may be separate subnets for e.g. IP phones and so on. So instead of ordering addressing based on number of devices, you now do it based on number of networks you intend to have.
Having a/64 for a LAN segment allows for lots of tricks like cryptographically generated addresses, anonymity and so on that were simply not possible with v4.
A question about Android since you raised it - I myself have Nokia N900 (Maemo) and could immediately see that it's basically Debian. I could find alternate repository addresses and applications at maemo.org rather easily.
Now, my girlfriend bought a Samsung Galaxy 551 (Android 2.2). Android marketplace is there, sure, but where exactly are all these other repositories for software? I mean, in Android marketplace even finding basic stuff (RSS newsreader comes to mind as one of first things I tried to find for her) seemed rather tedious - you get dozens of apps but they seem to be loaded with ads. Where's the OSS/GNU repositories for Android and how do you access them (without rooting your phone)?
That's what ASDM essentially is. When you make a change, it basically just generates some commands and then sends them the box. If you tick an option, it even allows you to review those commands in advance (and manually copy-paste them in, if you prefer that instead.).
...if the GUI is well done and complements command line.. Some tasks actually ARE much better performed with Point&Click.
One example of a "good" GUI that I use a lot is the ASDM for Cisco ASA firewalls. Most of the simpler admin tasks are in fact *faster* via ASDM. If you have your network objects all properly set up and you need to add a firewall rule, it's far simpler to select it from a list (actually, in this case it's a combobox - just type first few letters to filter your choices and then click) than typing that stuff in manually. Packet tracer to check the rules is much nicer to use via the GUI. Setting up VPN profiles is simpler via ASDM. Handling network object groupings is simpler via ASDM.
Editing access-lists, doing routing configuration and most of the more "rudimentary" tasks are still something I do via command line, though.
"Piece of official paper" helps you clear some hurdles in placing you for that first job in your chosen field. It usually establishes what group of lowest common denominators you belong into. Without it, the other route is climbing the career path from menial jobs (e.g. tech support).
Now...certifications are a different thing and come in all kinds of flavors. I'm a CCIE. Even if I had cheated my way through all the tests and wouldn't in reality know jack about routers, it's still valuable for almost any business who uses Cisco stuff - if you employ someone with the cert you get better discounts. So with that in hand I can basically say in the interview "if you hire me, your infrastructure investment costs drop by X%, I require Y EUR of salary a month. Consider if it's worth it".
Now, that's a very vendor-specific thing. Highly-ranked but more generic ones like CISSP certification are in the same category as that university degree - helps you clear some hurdles and maybe helps convincing that you actually have some skills. Then there's of course all the entry-level stuff that are completely pointless (Microsoft certified solitaire experts come to mind)...
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Agreed. When I find interesting topic, the best stuff is reading comments at +4. Usually there's information on what is *actually* occurring, instead of whatever the summary/linked blog/linked popularized article says.
Actually, on subsequent viewings you can get kicks out of spotting the clues to the state of Willis' character.
For example, the scene where the kid make the long exposition "They don't know that they are dead...", camera zooms right on Willis, and you *still* didn't get it on the first time. Also, the way things play out (such as the restaurant scene) both ways (lonely, sad woman vs. couple having a crisis)..
They do.
Listen to the sounds of titan, recorded by Hyugens probe (fine, that was european, but piggybacked on Cassini).
Mars Polar Lander also had one (although it crashed).
For starters you can't Ctrl-Esc for the 'skull of death' ...
Use Ctrl-Alt-Esc (or rebind the key).
Konsole does not let you name tabs and titles separately. There's plenty of screen estate in title and I don't mind applications setting window title however it likes via xterm. However, I'd like to have my tab title remain static.
As a counterpoint, there sometimes *are* drastic, major overhauls to an UI, yet the upgrade is still a step up even though the old version worked quite well. One example that comes to mind is MS Office and the Ribbon interface.
However, Ribbon still did the transition smoothly. You can still use your old menu-based shortcuts that you were familiar with. the menus are still available if you want them. And so on...
What is wrong with a desktop environment where everything is controllable with a GUI, and that GUI edits some config files in a system directory? What is wrong with a pretty desktop environment? If all we care about is "work", we might as well go back to using 256 colors.
Because in Gnome 3, everything is *not* controllable by GUI.
In KDE 3.5 things were such. It was pretty much perfect system. I love the way you can do application- or window-specific settings with a few clicks. KDE 4.6 and 4.7 have finally pretty much reached that (Konsole is still worse than in 3.5) level as well.
Usually the first class passengers' luggage arrives at the conveyor first as well.
Simply because, as Duke Nukem Forever is an excellent example of, assets have a short shelf life. Once you have things ready to assemble in to a game, you have to do it fairly expediently, like a year, so that things don't get stale.
Yeah...that's why Valve is in such a rush to get Half-Life 2 Ep 3 out.
...and of course Slashdot doesn't support euro symbol when typed. I think you get the point anyway. Should have used HTML escape I guess for €
Osuuspankki (http://www.op.fi/) has introduced a "extra verification" for payments. It's not used on all payments, but if the bank detects something odd (for example, you wiring money to someone you've never done before, or large amounts), it sends an SMS to your cell phone with the information about the payment you just made and asks to type in the code you receive in the text message.
So basically, if you have a rooted box, and you access your bank and think you are paying â30 for electricity bill and then you receive SMS stating "you have just stated that you wish to send â5000 to prince of Nigeria, if you really mean it enter this code", you know that something nefarious is going on.
Well, they just acquired Tandberg, so they are hoping to sell a *lot* of HD-quality videoconferencing hardware :)
...if you are working for consultancy or reseller, which works as a partner. Typically, as the number of certified people a company has, the higher their partner status goes and that means, if nothing else, discounts => employer gets a better margin on the stuff they resell.
I have a CCIE, and if I go to a Cisco shop it pretty much means "hire me, and even if I don't do anything but stare at the wall all day you are still going to get more money out of this deal (provided you sell at least $X worth of hardware annually)". Same thing can be adapted to other high-level certs out there.
However, be careful. I've known some people who take that CCIE to mean that I don't know a damn thing on how to operate Juniper, HP, Enterasys or Siemens networking gear since I'm "specialized" in Cisco and apparently nothing else fits in my head. This goes double for any of the lower certs. So when you are portraying yourself to a potential employer be sure to somehow convey that you have generic knowledge of the subject matter as well.
VIP mode would be probably best, although I think it's usually the CT's who have the VIP..
Bomb would work too (for the helicopter that went down due to mechanical failure), although usually it's the terrorists doing that :)
Role reversal indeed.
I've been running using dmraid in RAID 5 configuration - I need to use Intel's fakeraid to facilitate dual-booting to Windows. Does this commit
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d09e663d5502c46f2d9481c04c1087e1c2da698
mean that I no longer need to hunt patches for dmraid5 but can just use vanilla kernel from now on?
Thanks a lot!
Could you point me to such alternate repository, please? I'd really like to get some better source for Android software than the Google marketplace that is stuffed with crap.
http://heatball.de/en/
Happens to be a heating device that conveniently fits into your standard E-27 lightbulb socket. As a waste product, it also gives off a bit of light.
I for one cannot stand standard CFLs. They throw white balance of my photographs completely off with their spiked spectrum. Now, I've replaced most lights in my home with Vivalite's full-spectrum 6000K color temperature lights (so they resemble sunlight), and I'm reasonably happy with those. I still think your old tungsten wire is next best thing - it has continuous spectrum, even if the spike is somewhere around 3000K (orange).
Anyway, I guess I'll be stockpiling some lightbulbs before they get phased out in the EU as well.
Getting a /64 basically means that no matter how large your organization is, you can fit within that numbering. Doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a transnational corporation, there's plenty of space in there for you.
No - organizations get /56's, or /48:s. /64 is for individual LAN segment except in some rare cases (such as proposed /127 for Point-to-point links). The size is depending on the size of your network. If you only, truly, have a single LAN then that /64 is enough. However, even small business typically has at least 3 subnets - one for workstations, one for servers, and one DMZ that's facing Internet. There may be separate subnets for e.g. IP phones and so on. So instead of ordering addressing based on number of devices, you now do it based on number of networks you intend to have.
Having a /64 for a LAN segment allows for lots of tricks like cryptographically generated addresses, anonymity and so on that were simply not possible with v4.
Huh? There's KDE 4 version of kuickshow, and has been on quite some time. At least Gentoo provides a package for it...
A question about Android since you raised it - I myself have Nokia N900 (Maemo) and could immediately see that it's basically Debian. I could find alternate repository addresses and applications at maemo.org rather easily.
Now, my girlfriend bought a Samsung Galaxy 551 (Android 2.2). Android marketplace is there, sure, but where exactly are all these other repositories for software? I mean, in Android marketplace even finding basic stuff (RSS newsreader comes to mind as one of first things I tried to find for her) seemed rather tedious - you get dozens of apps but they seem to be loaded with ads. Where's the OSS/GNU repositories for Android and how do you access them (without rooting your phone)?
That's what ASDM essentially is. When you make a change, it basically just generates some commands and then sends them the box. If you tick an option, it even allows you to review those commands in advance (and manually copy-paste them in, if you prefer that instead.).
What version control tool do you use to track changes to your firewall configuration?
Ciscoworks RME?
...if the GUI is well done and complements command line.. Some tasks actually ARE much better performed with Point&Click.
One example of a "good" GUI that I use a lot is the ASDM for Cisco ASA firewalls. Most of the simpler admin tasks are in fact *faster* via ASDM. If you have your network objects all properly set up and you need to add a firewall rule, it's far simpler to select it from a list (actually, in this case it's a combobox - just type first few letters to filter your choices and then click) than typing that stuff in manually. Packet tracer to check the rules is much nicer to use via the GUI. Setting up VPN profiles is simpler via ASDM. Handling network object groupings is simpler via ASDM.
Editing access-lists, doing routing configuration and most of the more "rudimentary" tasks are still something I do via command line, though.
"Piece of official paper" helps you clear some hurdles in placing you for that first job in your chosen field. It usually establishes what group of lowest common denominators you belong into. Without it, the other route is climbing the career path from menial jobs (e.g. tech support).
Now...certifications are a different thing and come in all kinds of flavors. I'm a CCIE. Even if I had cheated my way through all the tests and wouldn't in reality know jack about routers, it's still valuable for almost any business who uses Cisco stuff - if you employ someone with the cert you get better discounts. So with that in hand I can basically say in the interview "if you hire me, your infrastructure investment costs drop by X%, I require Y EUR of salary a month. Consider if it's worth it".
Now, that's a very vendor-specific thing. Highly-ranked but more generic ones like CISSP certification are in the same category as that university degree - helps you clear some hurdles and maybe helps convincing that you actually have some skills. Then there's of course all the entry-level stuff that are completely pointless (Microsoft certified solitaire experts come to mind)...