though as interesting bit. i signed up for a store's 0% financing over 4 years. what they don't tell you is the interest after that 3 years, if it's not fully paid up is 28.5% !/not dumb enough to go beyond the 3 years
yes, it's called the bill of rights however there's also laws against certain groups' free speech, because some other groups got their ways (black, jews, women, etc..)
did you know that in canada, it is illegal to deny that the holocost happened ? even if it doesn't make sense to deny it, it's still illegal, and you can be sent to jail for denying it
the right to fuck over anyone you damn well feel to, anytime you object to what they are saying the right of judges not to use their brains the right of lawyers to make money
i've posted the errors to quagga's list a few months ago. someone suggested a fix that partially fixed the problem and i changed my network around so whatever bug is in quagga doesn't trigger as often (once a month down from 5-6 times a day) so im reluctant to change anything. it work, but it isn't exactly what i'd call a solid network anymore. i might dig more someday when i get some time to schedule an overnight outage
and it's running debian sarge + recompiled quagga (the one shipping by default is bugged, that's what i was running at first)
the problem is with ospfd crashing, i think at some point i had a stack trace but im not sure if that was the previous build or the current one. ill see if i have one in the logs tomorrow
if you need any kind of reliability, you buy 2 used cisco routers on ebay. quagga just doesnt cut it (to be polite)
yes im pissed yes i have multiple quagga routers and yes ill buy something that actually work next time and won't crash randomly with no error messages
rfc states (don't rember which one, sorry) that hostname.com MUST point to an A. a CNAME is illegal.
it is also Good Practice to have an A record on your hostname. for legacy reasons. some mail systems will refuse to send and/or receive mail if the A is absent (although they may check for MX, there's no garantee)
my experience with scanners is opposite. a couple of days to get it working on windows (and then, only on a particular version, on odd numbered weekdays) and instant gratification with linux..
not to say linux doesn't have its faults, but scanners isn't one i've seen
as others have pointed out, he had a "record of successes" at the company, for 11 years. no one had to question his motives.
don't look at this as anything else than a way to justify firing him (or making him resign). "hey guys, CEO screwed up. lets dig up some dirt so we can fire him and get a better one". his actual record don't matter one bit
what does it do? you mean beside hosing computers?
i work for an isp, and the checklist the tech monkeys use now has "do you have any norton products installed?" at the top of it. it's the single biggest cause of connection and email troubles we get. it randomly blocks outgoing and incoming connection to the email server. also does the same for web, but it's much rarer.
mac doesnt get viruses because it's not worth the time to write one
but a mac is still more secure than windows. it has a proper (DEFAULT) security model for one. here's hoping vista will have it too.
also, it doesn't run (as far as i remember) all of the useless services windows run, and there isn't as much badly designed backward compatibility cruft by default (SMB anyone?).
im not saying you can't make macosx insecure, but at least it is by default... more than windows in any case (don't forget to patch)
Hmmm....maybe I should start a new type of "ultra fine foods", which tastes like crap and when people say they don't like it, I can charge them $200 a plate and simply inform them their pallet isn't sophisticated enough to appreciate the fine and complex flavors of their meal....but they could if they decided they wanted to pretend they knew more then everyone else. Some could then go on to become "ultra fine food" snobs...which the rest of us can laugh at...just like any of us do with "wine snobs"....please don't tell me you smell the cork...
someone recently did just that in (i think) new york. you got the "privilege" to pay 200$ for a.. picture of a meal printed on edible paper, which you would then eat as if it was food. the news clipping i saw said it was a real hit! (i can't find the article now, obviously).
in some applications this is actually not a factor.
i could even see myself replacing my OS disk with a flash based one, and have a secondary larger hard drive for the less-accessed files with gobs of ram. that would be a real blessing to my poor ears! give me a 4gb flash drive and i'll be all over it!
it does way more than slow the machine to a crawl. it prevents it from working properly.
working for an ISP, we get a surprising number of users that can connect to the net (as in, the modem dial), but nothing works, no web, no email, nothing. everything checks out, configs are fine and all.
but they have norton antivirus with their crap security. the configs to that seems fine. as soon as you uninstall that crap, everything work.
do your users a favor, have them install AVG (www.grisoft.com)
this wouldn't hold up, but they can use it as a refutation
"your honor, the defendant rightfully linked to the school's website. but as evidenced by the second wave of traffic, the school servers were simply not up to the task they were intended for, my client should be found innocent as he merely linked to a site, which is the internet*'s primary purpose and its intended purpose"
can you see the judge ruling the internet an "illegal tool" as a whole? i don't:)
*yes i know, it's not. but lets not confuse the judge here
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sysadmin here, but i tend to agree with you.
most of our developpers have full access to all the databases they need. they also have a bit more access than they really should have, usually because they're debugging something which requires it. most of the time it's not a huge problem,
but sometimes it can come back to bite your ass. recently, one service crashed. and none of the admins were there to fix it. one of our brillant developper (which also happen to be a manager) decided he'd "fix" it himself, and he ended up turning what would have been a 5 minutes fix into a 3 hours outage for 4000 customers, if he had just waiting 10 more minutes. he doesn't have access anymore.
just saying, security is always a risk balance. him having extra access was a acceptable risk for what he was doing. by crashing the server he shifted the balance the other way and we revised it accordingly. there's no one-size-fit-all security, it must adapt to changing situations
actually, as far as im aware apple pretty much launched the fad of those little icky sticky stickers. there's some freaks out there that collect original apple stickers.
i don't futz with the innards of my car either, and i'm not so demanding as to ask that people be able to reinstall windows and understand what an exploit is.
what i DO expected them to understand is how to read things presented right in front of them. my sister called me recently because people couldn't open her documents. turns out she just pressed the save button (in openoffice) instead of selecting the DOC format. that, after i TOLD her she had to do it. and somehow it's my fault that she didn't listen to me and didn't read what she was doing.
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/not dumb enough to go beyond the 3 years
though as interesting bit. i signed up for a store's 0% financing over 4 years. what they don't tell you is the interest after that 3 years, if it's not fully paid up is 28.5% !
yes, it's called the bill of rights
however there's also laws against certain groups' free speech, because some other groups got their ways (black, jews, women, etc..)
did you know that in canada, it is illegal to deny that the holocost happened ? even if it doesn't make sense to deny it, it's still illegal, and you can be sent to jail for denying it
the right to fuck over anyone you damn well feel to, anytime you object to what they are saying
the right of judges not to use their brains
the right of lawyers to make money
see, plenty of rights
that cache is only part of the problem, no matter what the monkeys at mozilla says.
disabling the caching (in about:config) doesn't solve the problem. just yesterday i had firefox with 1 tab consumming 350 megs of memory.
don't be misled by the coders, firefox is still leaking like a bottomless bucket
i've posted the errors to quagga's list a few months ago. someone suggested a fix that partially fixed the problem and i changed my network around so whatever bug is in quagga doesn't trigger as often (once a month down from 5-6 times a day) so im reluctant to change anything. it work, but it isn't exactly what i'd call a solid network anymore. i might dig more someday when i get some time to schedule an overnight outage
and it's running debian sarge + recompiled quagga (the one shipping by default is bugged, that's what i was running at first)
the problem is with ospfd crashing, i think at some point i had a stack trace but im not sure if that was the previous build or the current one. ill see if i have one in the logs tomorrow
if you need any kind of reliability, you buy 2 used cisco routers on ebay. quagga just doesnt cut it (to be polite)
yes im pissed
yes i have multiple quagga routers
and yes ill buy something that actually work next time and won't crash randomly with no error messages
rfc states (don't rember which one, sorry) that hostname.com MUST point to an A. a CNAME is illegal.
it is also Good Practice to have an A record on your hostname. for legacy reasons. some mail systems will refuse to send and/or receive mail if the A is absent (although they may check for MX, there's no garantee)
most routers/switches also come with a DC plug on the back. cisco does at least, and edgecore (aka, Dell). i think i've seem 3com with those plugs too
Welcome to the cryptography world, where "an army of scientist" is often just a guy in a suit, with no background in the field and no technical clues
nop, that was windows 2000 pro. the driver for the scanner is crippled and wouldn't run on windows XP (neither would it run on windows 2000 server)
my experience with scanners is opposite. a couple of days to get it working on windows (and then, only on a particular version, on odd numbered weekdays) and instant gratification with linux..
not to say linux doesn't have its faults, but scanners isn't one i've seen
that was my mother's birthday candle
as others have pointed out, he had a "record of successes" at the company, for 11 years. no one had to question his motives.
don't look at this as anything else than a way to justify firing him (or making him resign). "hey guys, CEO screwed up. lets dig up some dirt so we can fire him and get a better one". his actual record don't matter one bit
what does it do? you mean beside hosing computers?
i work for an isp, and the checklist the tech monkeys use now has "do you have any norton products installed?" at the top of it. it's the single biggest cause of connection and email troubles we get. it randomly blocks outgoing and incoming connection to the email server. also does the same for web, but it's much rarer.
by definition, anything made by a government is broken in some ways
mac doesnt get viruses because it's not worth the time to write one
but a mac is still more secure than windows. it has a proper (DEFAULT) security model for one. here's hoping vista will have it too.
also, it doesn't run (as far as i remember) all of the useless services windows run, and there isn't as much badly designed backward compatibility cruft by default (SMB anyone?).
im not saying you can't make macosx insecure, but at least it is by default... more than windows in any case (don't forget to patch)
From TA, they sold 6 millions shares, but they still own 30 millions. so they still have an interest in Doing Good (stock-price wise)
Hmmm....maybe I should start a new type of "ultra fine foods", which tastes like crap and when people say they don't like it, I can charge them $200 a plate and simply inform them their pallet isn't sophisticated enough to appreciate the fine and complex flavors of their meal....but they could if they decided they wanted to pretend they knew more then everyone else. Some could then go on to become "ultra fine food" snobs...which the rest of us can laugh at...just like any of us do with "wine snobs".
someone recently did just that in (i think) new york. you got the "privilege" to pay 200$ for a.. picture of a meal printed on edible paper, which you would then eat as if it was food. the news clipping i saw said it was a real hit! (i can't find the article now, obviously).
as someone else pointed out, that's not the case.
but either way, my main OS is linux so it's not an issue
in some applications this is actually not a factor.
i could even see myself replacing my OS disk with a flash based one, and have a secondary larger hard drive for the less-accessed files with gobs of ram. that would be a real blessing to my poor ears! give me a 4gb flash drive and i'll be all over it!
it does way more than slow the machine to a crawl. it prevents it from working properly.
working for an ISP, we get a surprising number of users that can connect to the net (as in, the modem dial), but nothing works, no web, no email, nothing. everything checks out, configs are fine and all.
but they have norton antivirus with their crap security. the configs to that seems fine. as soon as you uninstall that crap, everything work.
do your users a favor, have them install AVG (www.grisoft.com)
this wouldn't hold up, but they can use it as a refutation
:)
"your honor, the defendant rightfully linked to the school's website. but as evidenced by the second wave of traffic, the school servers were simply not up to the task they were intended for, my client should be found innocent as he merely linked to a site, which is the internet*'s primary purpose and its intended purpose"
can you see the judge ruling the internet an "illegal tool" as a whole? i don't
*yes i know, it's not. but lets not confuse the judge here
sysadmin here, but i tend to agree with you.
most of our developpers have full access to all the databases they need.
they also have a bit more access than they really should have, usually because they're debugging something which requires it. most of the time it's not a huge problem,
but sometimes it can come back to bite your ass. recently, one service crashed. and none of the admins were there to fix it. one of our brillant developper (which also happen to be a manager) decided he'd "fix" it himself, and he ended up turning what would have been a 5 minutes fix into a 3 hours outage for 4000 customers, if he had just waiting 10 more minutes. he doesn't have access anymore.
just saying, security is always a risk balance. him having extra access was a acceptable risk for what he was doing. by crashing the server he shifted the balance the other way and we revised it accordingly. there's no one-size-fit-all security, it must adapt to changing situations
actually, as far as im aware apple pretty much launched the fad of those little icky sticky stickers. there's some freaks out there that collect original apple stickers.
i don't futz with the innards of my car either, and i'm not so demanding as to ask that people be able to reinstall windows and understand what an exploit is.
what i DO expected them to understand is how to read things presented right in front of them. my sister called me recently because people couldn't open her documents. turns out she just pressed the save button (in openoffice) instead of selecting the DOC format. that, after i TOLD her she had to do it. and somehow it's my fault that she didn't listen to me and didn't read what she was doing.
yeah right!