Maybe it's time Gartner got out of the gratuious advice business? my (admittedly selective) memory tells me the things they say seem to be nutty like this story, or blatently obvious.
Our electronic voting solution deliberately used a number pad instead of a touch screen to avoid a halo of finger grease accumilating over the most popular candidate's box. An alternative might be to rotate candidates across the screen to avoide "burn in" that might influence voting.
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood because my pet just died, but isn't it depressing that all of the medical technology in the world can't give one of the greatest minds in the world a semblence of a healthy body?
Further, this sort of intelligence would be impossible to collect for traditional office time wasters like water coolers. People are as productive as they usually are, at least Internet activity can be logged and monitored.
The Australian Dept. of Social Security or Centrelink recently implemented 100% electronic files. Shortly after this, they had a bunch of staff fired for in-appropriately accessing confidential material. Did computers create this problem? No. Computer based systems meant that staff were no-longer able to grab paper files and read them without leaving a trace of them doing so.
...the study looked for a link between owning a computer and decreased CD purchases."
This is baseless, inane trash with no grip on reality. The "study" is 100% pure crap.
What's a simpler answer that would *also* match the observations (assuming that ther's a significant correlation)? Let's see, maybe people with computers buy computer games, War Crack, Ever Crack and other things with their disposable income.
They should bring back medieval style public humilation for people who mis-represent and distort the scientific method.
It is doubtful that any amateur will have enough power to drown out a licenced station. The teeny-weeny transmitter (compared to the commercial stations) we have for our community station still cost us over $30k (granted, it gets us a couple of hundred clicks on most days). Even a big amateur transmitter would struggle to do more than a few city blocks unless they tried filling in space between extsiting broadcasters. The IP address analogy is a lousy one.
i) any transmitter big enough to go toe-to-toe with a regular broadcaster is going to be picked up by the authorities in maybe a couple of hours; and ii) anything that big is not set up for a quick getaway. In major cities here (.au), there is *permanent* monitoring and direction finding. Oh, and iii) anything that big will also get you nailed for workplace safety for zapping people with large amounts of EM radiation.
Perhaps if you guys had more community radio, people wouldn't feel the need to set up their own stations.
For at least a couple of years now, I have wanted my PDA, heandfree headset and laptop to be Bluetooth paired so that the other devices make noise if one of them is left behind or stolen. It's probably already been done, but at least putting it here may stop Lawsuits In Motion from patenting the idea.
Actually, it'd sort of be like Rogue Tropper's helmet, gun and back-pack.
The world has changed, and will continue to do so. The "problem" presented in the original article reflects on the static nature of academia, not the current generation of students. Until academia evolves, students can hardly be blamed for solving old-world problems with new-world approaches.
My degree (many years ago) had portions of assessment that used individual and group skills in assignments. Stuff that was easy to plagiarise was assessed in controlled conditions (practical exams). My opinion is that the article is BS and/or FUD. If the assessment is properly structured, staff will notice, and already have ample means of dealing with people side-stepping the intent of the exercise; "Hmmm... Jimmy wrote a 3000 word essay on topic X, but wasn't able to list the five basic groups in the exam...".
Normally they pop the media (hard drive, floppy disks, CDs) into a known system and image the media using dd or similar. The trouble is that the C= 64 usually uses a 1541 floppy drive (serial bus) with single sided 170 Kb 5.25" disk, and I'm guessing that some of the geometry may also cause headaches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541. In order to read the disks into your forensic system you would need to build:
- a floppy drive capable of reading said disks to use with your certified/accepted imaging tool
- a 1541 drive interface to work with your certified/accepted imaging tool
That or get an accepted forensic imaging system that works on the C= 64.
It's not a show stopper, but they can't just gloss over the details in court; you have to be able to show that your imaging did not alter the data. They'll probably then use an emulator to access any stored files using the correct applcations rather than attempting to interpret PetASCII.
I want a routine to simply write my selection to the DVD writer and spread it across however many discs are required (rather than me manually approximating and copying to each disc). I want the files on the disc readable from any system, so no proprietary backup wrapper or DAT files, please.
Here would be one I stole earlier, but this is what Slashdot said about my 90 line Perl script:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
But it's basically:
create 20 Mb multi part tar archives until you reach a DVD's worth, then write.
While data: Lather, rinse, repeat.
Xix.
I'm not seeing too many other database filesystems, about the only one that I recall shipping was the one for BeOS.
My own theory is that WinFS was to an extent a windmill to be mistaken for a dreagon. How much time has been wasted by people trying to build Gonkulators of their own?
Or a passive receiver that can be used to periodically reset a counter on the mines. Once the time expires, it (hopefully) becomes (relatively) inert. As a plus, you can poll the field to see how many mines the VC have nicked/relocated overnight. Mind you, people still get killed by random crap left over from the Somme.
It's like the entry paperwork for the USA where they ask if you are visiting to assasinate the president. The goal is to help establish that you are a lying, conniving individual if for some reason you end up in court on such charges.
You are buying:
Chemicals:Semtex
Clothing:Balaclava
Other customers who have bought these items also bought
detonators
AK-47
hand grenades
bulk ammounium nitrate fertiliser
anthrax
sarin gas
religious items:
You can achieve a similar effect in a large organisation by keeping an eye out for intelligent people who are seeking to achieve meaningful things. Every large organisation is made up of smaller groups and the dynamics and suck/un-suck factor varies between them. My old boss is working for a different government department entirely, but has managed to attract a pool of taleneted, motivated people and they have a good project to work on where they reall have a chance to make the country a better place (I'd go join him, but I'm already working in quite a nice team on some rather cool stuff).
The goal is to work for people who appreciate your skills and talents so that when you apply for work elsewhere, you have a cool resume and a bunch of people who really like the work you do.
Similarly, there are also wastelands filled with disillusioned people who spend 12 hours each day stressing over pointless management failures. If you end up in one of those, consider it a platform from which to find something less awful.
it is an unfortunate fact that it IS pretty much impossible for anyone to confidently "repair" a PC that has been infected with large volume of spyware for a long time, and which wasn't getting security patches
Agreed. How many people try to fix a compromised computer on *any* sort of OS? You either restore from a known good backup or re-install from scratch. Some people might have checksums of all their system files, but for most desktop users a clean install will probably be quicker and easier.
The intersting aspect is the change in the marketing. Subscription revenues are something that they have been chasing for a while now that there have been conspicously few new "must have" block buster products.
Many years ago I had lower back problems that were (fortunately) identified and fixed by getting good typist chairs (high back, arm rests) instead of the usual commodity office chair. Anyone in our area whose predominant activity is coding gets shipped off to a local office furniture place and gets *fitted* for a chair. Since then, I have also ditched my crummy foam mattress for a futon and taken up indoor rock climbing, both of which help a bunch (IMHO). Swimming is also good for body tone, and I am also trying out archery.
A friend of mine works for an engineering firm that churns out software tools for their kit in all sorts of languages, none of which I'd classify as cutting edge, neat or elegant. While I rib him about it, there's no denying that it all works and their customers nevver complain. The boss has no problem attracting good people since that all view software as a means to an end, and if it ain't broke...
So I am guessing that the boss:
- doesn't care about portability
- figures the VB black box is small enough to grok
- figures he has had no problem retaining good staff
Xix. P.S. conversely, I have spent the afternoon wading through La Brea tarpits of undocumented MFC spaghetti and decided to replace it with half a page of PHP socket calls.
In around the mid 90's did procurement for a mixed Apple/Windows shop.
Yes, you could by a yum-cha beige box PC for less, but as soon as you start talking comparable quality desktops (HP, Compaq, IBM) there was very little difference.
A bit later the parent organisation standardisd on WinNT, mostly to simplify support and desktop training.
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Maybe it's time Gartner got out of the gratuious advice business? my (admittedly selective) memory tells me the things they say seem to be nutty like this story, or blatently obvious.
Our electronic voting solution deliberately used a number pad instead of a touch screen to avoid a halo of finger grease accumilating over the most popular candidate's box. An alternative might be to rotate candidates across the screen to avoide "burn in" that might influence voting.
Xix.
The Australian Dept. of Social Security or Centrelink recently implemented 100% electronic files. Shortly after this, they had a bunch of staff fired for in-appropriately accessing confidential material. Did computers create this problem? No. Computer based systems meant that staff were no-longer able to grab paper files and read them without leaving a trace of them doing so.
Xix.
This is baseless, inane trash with no grip on reality. The "study" is 100% pure crap.
What's a simpler answer that would *also* match the observations (assuming that ther's a significant correlation)? Let's see, maybe people with computers buy computer games, War Crack, Ever Crack and other things with their disposable income.
They should bring back medieval style public humilation for people who mis-represent and distort the scientific method.
Xix.
It is doubtful that any amateur will have enough power to drown out a licenced station. The teeny-weeny transmitter (compared to the commercial stations) we have for our community station still cost us over $30k (granted, it gets us a couple of hundred clicks on most days). Even a big amateur transmitter would struggle to do more than a few city blocks unless they tried filling in space between extsiting broadcasters. The IP address analogy is a lousy one.
i) any transmitter big enough to go toe-to-toe with a regular broadcaster is going to be picked up by the authorities in maybe a couple of hours; and ii) anything that big is not set up for a quick getaway. In major cities here (.au), there is *permanent* monitoring and direction finding. Oh, and iii) anything that big will also get you nailed for workplace safety for zapping people with large amounts of EM radiation.
Perhaps if you guys had more community radio, people wouldn't feel the need to set up their own stations.
Maybe Hurd figures he is the Reagan in this piece?
Actually, it'd sort of be like Rogue Tropper's helmet, gun and back-pack.
Xix.
My degree (many years ago) had portions of assessment that used individual and group skills in assignments. Stuff that was easy to plagiarise was assessed in controlled conditions (practical exams). My opinion is that the article is BS and/or FUD. If the assessment is properly structured, staff will notice, and already have ample means of dealing with people side-stepping the intent of the exercise; "Hmmm... Jimmy wrote a 3000 word essay on topic X, but wasn't able to list the five basic groups in the exam...".
Xix.
I stuck the enamel "Ready for Windows NT" badges that were on my laptop onto
one of these and left it into the server room toolkit at work.
Xix.
Normally they pop the media (hard drive, floppy disks, CDs) into a known system and image the media using dd or similar. The trouble is that the C= 64 usually uses a 1541 floppy drive (serial bus) with single sided 170 Kb 5.25" disk, and I'm guessing that some of the geometry may also cause headaches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541. In order to read the disks into your forensic system you would need to build:
- a floppy drive capable of reading said disks to use with your certified/accepted imaging tool
- a 1541 drive interface to work with your certified/accepted imaging tool
That or get an accepted forensic imaging system that works on the C= 64.
It's not a show stopper, but they can't just gloss over the details in court; you have to be able to show that your imaging did not alter the data. They'll probably then use an emulator to access any stored files using the correct applcations rather than attempting to interpret PetASCII.
Canada is a Commonwealth country, maybe offshore your parliamentary reporting to them?p
p
http://www.commonwealth-hansard.org/chea_index.as
The other option would be for a group to privately transcribe all or part of the actual proceedings and see what happens:
http://www.commonwealth-hansard.org/chea_story.as
Xix.
So it's truer than ever, "Never poke fun at someone who can authorise a cavity search"
I'm not seeing too many other database filesystems, about the only one that I recall shipping was the one for BeOS.
My own theory is that WinFS was to an extent a windmill to be mistaken for a dreagon. How much time has been wasted by people trying to build Gonkulators of their own?
So I suppose the purpose of having a road map is so that we can see where we didn't go.
Xix.
Or a passive receiver that can be used to periodically reset a counter on the mines. Once the time expires, it (hopefully) becomes (relatively) inert. As a plus, you can poll the field to see how many mines the VC have nicked/relocated overnight. Mind you, people still get killed by random crap left over from the Somme.
It's like the entry paperwork for the USA where they ask if you are visiting to assasinate the president. The goal is to help establish that you are a lying, conniving individual if for some reason you end up in court on such charges.
Xix.
You are buying:
Chemicals:Semtex
Clothing:Balaclava
Other customers who have bought these items also bought
detonators
AK-47
hand grenades
bulk ammounium nitrate fertiliser
anthrax
sarin gas
religious items:
You can achieve a similar effect in a large organisation by keeping an eye out for intelligent people who are seeking to achieve meaningful things. Every large organisation is made up of smaller groups and the dynamics and suck/un-suck factor varies between them. My old boss is working for a different government department entirely, but has managed to attract a pool of taleneted, motivated people and they have a good project to work on where they reall have a chance to make the country a better place (I'd go join him, but I'm already working in quite a nice team on some rather cool stuff).
The goal is to work for people who appreciate your skills and talents so that when you apply for work elsewhere, you have a cool resume and a bunch of people who really like the work you do.
Similarly, there are also wastelands filled with disillusioned people who spend 12 hours each day stressing over pointless management failures. If you end up in one of those, consider it a platform from which to find something less awful.
Xix.
Agreed. How many people try to fix a compromised computer on *any* sort of OS? You either restore from a known good backup or re-install from scratch. Some people might have checksums of all their system files, but for most desktop users a clean install will probably be quicker and easier.
The intersting aspect is the change in the marketing. Subscription revenues are something that they have been chasing for a while now that there have been conspicously few new "must have" block buster products.
Xix.
Many years ago I had lower back problems that were (fortunately) identified and fixed by getting good typist chairs (high back, arm rests) instead of the usual commodity office chair. Anyone in our area whose predominant activity is coding gets shipped off to a local office furniture place and gets *fitted* for a chair. Since then, I have also ditched my crummy foam mattress for a futon and taken up indoor rock climbing, both of which help a bunch (IMHO). Swimming is also good for body tone, and I am also trying out archery.
Xix.
A friend of mine works for an engineering firm that churns out software tools for their kit in all sorts of languages, none of which I'd classify as cutting edge, neat or elegant. While I rib him about it, there's no denying that it all works and their customers nevver complain. The boss has no problem attracting good people since that all view software as a means to an end, and if it ain't broke...
So I am guessing that the boss:
- doesn't care about portability
- figures the VB black box is small enough to grok
- figures he has had no problem retaining good staff
Xix.
P.S. conversely, I have spent the afternoon wading through La Brea tarpits of undocumented MFC spaghetti and decided to replace it with half a page of PHP socket calls.
I agree totally, the testimony of a Samba project leaders is not a court accusation.
The larger problem is that the truth ends up being what we publicise as being the truth. The Samba PoV suits me better than MS's.
In around the mid 90's did procurement for a mixed Apple/Windows shop.
Yes, you could by a yum-cha beige box PC for less, but as soon as you start talking comparable quality desktops (HP, Compaq, IBM) there was very little difference.
A bit later the parent organisation standardisd on WinNT, mostly to simplify support and desktop training.
Xix.