Simple as that. Be better at what you (we) do. Keep going to school, at least take a class per year; if you have a BS, go for a Masters, if you have a Masters, go for a PHD. There is nothing better for job security as being able to do a job where it's very hard to find someone else who can do it, or can do it as well as you can. There's nothing that saves money like doing something right the first time. If you have confidence in the person you hired's ability to do something right the first time, then it doesn't make sense to take the risk of hiring someone else.
I would thing that the best thing a library could have is a copy, be it a mirror, dvd, cd, of Project Gutenberg. That way, if a book is out, or if you're looking for a specific quote, etc... you could either take the text file home, copy the cd, or print out the book.
By no means is this a complete list, just off the cuff:
your parents
your teachers
other students
town paper
the school principal/headmaster
the super-intendant of schools
the PTA
the school board
your mayor
your town selectmen
your congressman/woman
the EFF
the aclu
a lawyer
Jesus
Mary
Joseph
Seriously, though, I'm guessing you have a phone book. There are so many resources that you could use. I'm not meaning this as a knock against you, but you could try google, or ask take a second to think about the resources available to you.
If you are having reoccuring problems on your network, you might want to take a look at snort. While it's not what most people think of when they think of a packet sniffer, it has a large set of rules, which don't just identify potentially dangerous traffic, but "bad traffic" and policy violations as well. In addition, you can write your own rules to match packets against, so if the reoccuring problems are of a similar nature, you can set up rules on distributed sensors, and use the common tools to alert you when those conditions arise, and take a more preemptice approach.
I personally think that snort is one of the top 10-20 most usefull tools to come out of the open source movement and recommend it highly. It, in addition, falls into that mantra of using your resources wisely.
Good luck, and consider asking your company to pay for some classes. Having them equip you with some additional knowledge will end up saving them money in the long run.
... to get the new virus definitions from where exactly? What are they expecting people to do call symantic and have them snail mail them a floppy. Why don't they do the responsible thing, and partner with someone like sophos, and have free virus software as part of their install/update procedure.
That's like in Britten when they used to put paupers in jail for not paying their taxes. Not a lot of people got a lot of high paying jobs in prison, so they never paid the taxes.
I want to a highschool where literary critism was a normal event in literature classes. I've always been opposed to this nonsense, since I started out as an artist and have heard people reading things into paintings I've done, or paintings that have been done by people I know: paintings which in many cases mean absoultely nothing. In addition, a good percentage of the art teachers I've had have taught "tricks" like blind contour drawings as basis for paintings, and using color schemes that apply a meaning even when no meaning exists.
In any case, in my softmore year, we were assigned the hobbit which we had to read, and then explain what the book was really about. Aside from having read the book several times prior to the class, I happened to have the first official U.S. priting, which had a rather extensive introductory letter by tolkien. Aside from the very beginning, which talked about how this was the first printing, and not to purchase the book from other U.S. publishers (they did not have the rights to publish it and were not giving him residuals) he went on to discuss the meaning of the book -- speciffically, the entire lack thereof. He disavowed the book being a metaphore for anything, and asked the reader to accept it for what is was - a story, a flight of fancy, a fantasy which he wrote for nothing other than the purpose of enjoyment. I photocopied the introducion, wrote a quick appology for not disecting the meaning of the book considering that I felt it would be disrespectfull of the author to read meaning into it when he has specifically asked his readers not to. I got a D-.
Oh come on. Outsourcing sucks, and it is detrimental to the IT sector, but it's not killing us. The thing is making it so hard to get an IT job is the thousands of people who scratched "refrigeration repair" off of their ITT Tech application and decided to take and "exciting career in information technology." -- The market is flooded with people who don't know anything about the fundamentals of computer science and were there for the gold rush.
I know this for a fact because I did the same thing. I dropped out of college and went right to work. There were two other people in the class I took that were technically competent, all of the others were people who didn't know what they wanted to to, and were looking for a direction. They had seen all of the stories on the news about people in the ".com" industry making lots more money than they did, and decided they wanted some for themselves.
The only thing that really differentiated me was the fact that knew what the class taught going in - I figured I needed a certification to get the first job and I'd be fine after that. The only reason why I am still employed, and happily employed, is that I had a background going in. I started using unix when I was thirteen or so, back in the days before browser, when small furry animals ruled the internet and usenet was still clean.
I'd spend a couple of extra bucks for a box capable of running squid -- most of the people are going to do things like check their mail @ hotmail.com or read the nytimes or whatever: no need to download all of those images time after time.
My advice on this is very simple: use redhat/fedora, or another (mandrake perhaps) system that has authconfig. You can go the AD4Unix route -- which works nicely-- but that project seems abandoned. I've tried to contact the authors of projects related to it, but authconfig just works (pam_smb) and it takes all of ten seconds.
Newer versions of other distros may be as easy via other means, I know that suse (which would be my choice if using it for a desktop system) does not provide configuration via yast in 8.2, but according to the grapevine it does in 9.
Andy warhol was an amazing manipulator of people, and one of the best marketing minds of the 21st century. In terms of artistic abilities, however, he wasn't very good. His stuff is visually interesting, but in terms of skill & technique, he was not at the same level as a De Vinci, Vermer, or Escher. Hell, he traced most of the time.
I think that De Vinci would probably be using digital photography, and probably taking them apart; who really cares is Warhol would?
Solaris has lots of feature that are beginning to exist in linux (may exist, but not widely implemented) and the bsd's. One example dynamic reconfiguration. Getting some ram errors? Cool, swap it out. (while you're running) Real access controls work, i.e.: "setfacl -m user:mongo:r-- test"; the user mongo has specific (read only) access to the file test. yesm you can patch your kernel, but it's in solaris by default. Solaris containers are pretty cool too: think userspace linux w/ the expense of multiple kernels crossed w/ openmosix crossed w/ linux-HA.
Solaris may go a way. Solaris may become a legacy OS. There are some *really* cool things in solaris that do not exist in linux yet, though, and if they keep up the R&D, by the time mainsream linux has them, then they will have other really cool stuff. Does that mean that people will pay lots of $$ for them when they can install freebsd or linux for free? I don't know. I think that a lot of the stuff in there *is* worth it, and if the trend in the linux market place goes the way redhat wants it to, where you're going to be spending $300 for a copy of the os/server anyway, then I definitely think solaris is worth a look.
Absolutly; pentaxes are great for a starting camera. I got a job in a camera shop during part of the two years that I was out of "real" work, and this is also what I would reccomend.
Also, iirc, pentax is one of the few cameras that you can use manual lenses for the newer cameras - I don't think you need an adaptor, but you might. Anyway, they have very good optix, the k1000 should cost you somewhere between $95-$125, depending on condition and accessories.
I disagree with the assesment on sigma, they do make some good, and even some very good lenses.
And despite what the previous poster said:
DO NOT BUY A MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERA IF YOUR PRICE RANGE IS -lt $200.
It will be crap.
A cheap Medium format camera will cost $700 if you are *very* *lucky* -- you can get a *body* of an Pentax 645 or an old seagull or something, but it's not worth it. If you get into photography, save up and buy the $2k hassleblad or mayama, it will be worth it.
Really, if these parents are putting their careers ahead of their children, they should be tied up and severly beaten.
I don't really think it's about careers, I think it's about putting food on the table. Thailand is a poor country. The Average GDP per person is $6,900 i n thiland, as compared to $37,600 in the US. Also, considering the main employment sector is agriculture, I think the only ladder most thais are trying to climb is the one agains the barn.
Personally, I don't think that this is much of an issue, as those thais that I know generally have tradidional families and if their parents are not there to look over them, then their grandparents do, so it's not that much of a problem. However, the two thai families that I know are affluent and the grandparents do not need to work, so it may be, and quite probably is differnt in poorer families.
This is bullshit. If you can't handle the responsibility of parenthood, THEN DON'T HAVE KIDS!! Condider the fact that even in "Western" countries, many farmers had kids to help on the farm, and help with the work, not just because they felt like having kids.
That this is after deaths related to marathon videogame playing in Taiwan & South Korea. I'm not saying it's right, but I'm guessing that this might have something to do with the decision.
We have a highend 70" plasma TV at work that is hooked up to an xbox (yea, i know). The TV auto-adjusts the picture to fit it into the widescreen aspect ratio. It's a little strange for the first couple of minutes, but after that, you start to forget, and it looks fine. The people just look a little bulkier. I've played a wide variaty of games on it, and I have to say, it kicks ass. The best part about that aspect is splitscreen, or four screen multi-player games which the size really make s wonderfull.
I've never understood why people care about the iso thing. You can do a ftp install off of two floppies, or burn the ftp/http/etc install cdrom and use that.
Many people assume that the only reason to get an audit done is for responsible admins to double check their work and verify that their network is secure. This is a completely valid reason, and the best reason to do one, but there are also political motvations, like in your case. The IT department's stance is that they are secure. You beleive otherwise: have an infosec company do an audit. They can show the problems in the network, do so in an impartial way, and give it directly to management who can either exonerate you, or give you the tools needed to do your job.
Personally, I would consider Network segmentation, and access controls (both host and network)as the first thing I would think of. Also, read-only smart cards with an encrypted key on in and a strong encryption policy. Keys are checked in every night, and each user has a seperate password. You leave, you cant access the file. Then create a strong security policy for your department and have management sign off on it, so you can take immediate steps if anyone violates the policies (taking a key home, unauthorized laptop, etc.)
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Eduction, Education, Education.
Simple as that. Be better at what you (we) do. Keep going to school, at least take a class per year; if you have a BS, go for a Masters, if you have a Masters, go for a PHD. There is nothing better for job security as being able to do a job where it's very hard to find someone else who can do it, or can do it as well as you can. There's nothing that saves money like doing something right the first time. If you have confidence in the person you hired's ability to do something right the first time, then it doesn't make sense to take the risk of hiring someone else.
I would thing that the best thing a library could have is a copy, be it a mirror, dvd, cd, of Project Gutenberg. That way, if a book is out, or if you're looking for a specific quote, etc... you could either take the text file home, copy the cd, or print out the book.
Not too much of a good deal if realplayer can't play anything.
Seriously, though, I'm guessing you have a phone book. There are so many resources that you could use. I'm not meaning this as a knock against you, but you could try google, or ask take a second to think about the resources available to you.
Well, at least it's a pretty easy fix:
;
if ( $filetype.classic != $filetype.osx ) {
$filetype=`usr/bin/file $filename`
}
I personally think that snort is one of the top 10-20 most usefull tools to come out of the open source movement and recommend it highly. It, in addition, falls into that mantra of using your resources wisely.
Good luck, and consider asking your company to pay for some classes. Having them equip you with some additional knowledge will end up saving them money in the long run.
More information can be found here.
Lacintosh?
why don't you, you know, go to a store?
... to get the new virus definitions from where exactly? What are they expecting people to do call symantic and have them snail mail them a floppy. Why don't they do the responsible thing, and partner with someone like sophos, and have free virus software as part of their install/update procedure.
That's like in Britten when they used to put paupers in jail for not paying their taxes. Not a lot of people got a lot of high paying jobs in prison, so they never paid the taxes.
You used brackets in quotation wrong:
instead of:
it's [iTunes] the least fair use-hostile." --DVD Jon.
it should be:
[iTunes is] the least fair use-hostile. " --DVD....
Just and FYI.
I want to a highschool where literary critism was a normal event in literature classes. I've always been opposed to this nonsense, since I started out as an artist and have heard people reading things into paintings I've done, or paintings that have been done by people I know: paintings which in many cases mean absoultely nothing. In addition, a good percentage of the art teachers I've had have taught "tricks" like blind contour drawings as basis for paintings, and using color schemes that apply a meaning even when no meaning exists.
In any case, in my softmore year, we were assigned the hobbit which we had to read, and then explain what the book was really about. Aside from having read the book several times prior to the class, I happened to have the first official U.S. priting, which had a rather extensive introductory letter by tolkien. Aside from the very beginning, which talked about how this was the first printing, and not to purchase the book from other U.S. publishers (they did not have the rights to publish it and were not giving him residuals) he went on to discuss the meaning of the book -- speciffically, the entire lack thereof. He disavowed the book being a metaphore for anything, and asked the reader to accept it for what is was - a story, a flight of fancy, a fantasy which he wrote for nothing other than the purpose of enjoyment. I photocopied the introducion, wrote a quick appology for not disecting the meaning of the book considering that I felt it would be disrespectfull of the author to read meaning into it when he has specifically asked his readers not to. I got a D-.
Oh come on. Outsourcing sucks, and it is detrimental to the IT sector, but it's not killing us. The thing is making it so hard to get an IT job is the thousands of people who scratched "refrigeration repair" off of their ITT Tech application and decided to take and "exciting career in information technology." -- The market is flooded with people who don't know anything about the fundamentals of computer science and were there for the gold rush.
I know this for a fact because I did the same thing. I dropped out of college and went right to work. There were two other people in the class I took that were technically competent, all of the others were people who didn't know what they wanted to to, and were looking for a direction. They had seen all of the stories on the news about people in the ".com" industry making lots more money than they did, and decided they wanted some for themselves.
The only thing that really differentiated me was the fact that knew what the class taught going in - I figured I needed a certification to get the first job and I'd be fine after that. The only reason why I am still employed, and happily employed, is that I had a background going in. I started using unix when I was thirteen or so, back in the days before browser, when small furry animals ruled the internet and usenet was still clean.
While this article does work (I've implemented it myself) the key component (MKS AD4Unix) is MIA and showing no signs of being supported.
The correct way to do this is through pam_smb; RH makes it easy w/ authconfig && SuSE 9 & enterprise have it through yast.
I'd spend a couple of extra bucks for a box capable of running squid -- most of the people are going to do things like check their mail @ hotmail.com or read the nytimes or whatever: no need to download all of those images time after time.
My advice on this is very simple: use redhat/fedora, or another (mandrake perhaps) system that has authconfig. You can go the AD4Unix route -- which works nicely-- but that project seems abandoned. I've tried to contact the authors of projects related to it, but authconfig just works (pam_smb) and it takes all of ten seconds.
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow:
authconfig --enablesmbauth
authconfig --smbworkgroup=<workgroup>
authcnofig --smbservers=<server>
You will need to have the users existing on your linux boxes:
skippy:x:500:10::/home/skippy:/bin/bash
skippy:!!:12410:0:99999:7:::
Note the '!!' -- you will need those.
Newer versions of other distros may be as easy via other means, I know that suse (which would be my choice if using it for a desktop system) does not provide configuration via yast in 8.2, but according to the grapevine it does in 9.
+1 interesting
Warhol was a hack.
Andy warhol was an amazing manipulator of people, and one of the best marketing minds of the 21st century. In terms of artistic abilities, however, he wasn't very good. His stuff is visually interesting, but in terms of skill & technique, he was not at the same level as a De Vinci, Vermer, or Escher. Hell, he traced most of the time.
I think that De Vinci would probably be using digital photography, and probably taking them apart; who really cares is Warhol would?
Solaris has lots of feature that are beginning to exist in linux (may exist, but not widely implemented) and the bsd's. One example dynamic reconfiguration. Getting some ram errors? Cool, swap it out. (while you're running) Real access controls work, i.e.: "setfacl -m user:mongo:r-- test"; the user mongo has specific (read only) access to the file test. yesm you can patch your kernel, but it's in solaris by default. Solaris containers are pretty cool too: think userspace linux w/ the expense of multiple kernels crossed w/ openmosix crossed w/ linux-HA.
Solaris may go a way. Solaris may become a legacy OS. There are some *really* cool things in solaris that do not exist in linux yet, though, and if they keep up the R&D, by the time mainsream linux has them, then they will have other really cool stuff. Does that mean that people will pay lots of $$ for them when they can install freebsd or linux for free? I don't know. I think that a lot of the stuff in there *is* worth it, and if the trend in the linux market place goes the way redhat wants it to, where you're going to be spending $300 for a copy of the os/server anyway, then I definitely think solaris is worth a look.
And despite what the previous poster said:
DO NOT BUY A MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERA IF YOUR PRICE RANGE IS -lt $200.
It will be crap.
A cheap Medium format camera will cost $700 if you are *very* *lucky* -- you can get a *body* of an Pentax 645 or an old seagull or something, but it's not worth it. If you get into photography, save up and buy the $2k hassleblad or mayama, it will be worth it.
I don't really think it's about careers, I think it's about putting food on the table. Thailand is a poor country. The Average GDP per person is $6,900 i n thiland, as compared to $37,600 in the US. Also, considering the main employment sector is agriculture, I think the only ladder most thais are trying to climb is the one agains the barn.
Personally, I don't think that this is much of an issue, as those thais that I know generally have tradidional families and if their parents are not there to look over them, then their grandparents do, so it's not that much of a problem. However, the two thai families that I know are affluent and the grandparents do not need to work, so it may be, and quite probably is differnt in poorer families.
This is bullshit. If you can't handle the responsibility of parenthood, THEN DON'T HAVE KIDS!!
Condider the fact that even in "Western" countries, many farmers had kids to help on the farm, and help with the work, not just because they felt like having kids.
That this is after deaths related to marathon videogame playing in Taiwan & South Korea. I'm not saying it's right, but I'm guessing that this might have something to do with the decision.
that the OpenBSD servers were compromised and I'll start to worry. :)
We have a highend 70" plasma TV at work that is hooked up to an xbox (yea, i know). The TV auto-adjusts the picture to fit it into the widescreen aspect ratio. It's a little strange for the first couple of minutes, but after that, you start to forget, and it looks fine. The people just look a little bulkier. I've played a wide variaty of games on it, and I have to say, it kicks ass. The best part about that aspect is splitscreen, or four screen multi-player games which the size really make s wonderfull.
I've never understood why people care about the iso thing. You can do a ftp install off of two floppies, or burn the ftp/http/etc install cdrom and use that.
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Many people assume that the only reason to get an audit done is for responsible admins to double check their work and verify that their network is secure. This is a completely valid reason, and the best reason to do one, but there are also political motvations, like in your case. The IT department's stance is that they are secure. You beleive otherwise: have an infosec company do an audit. They can show the problems in the network, do so in an impartial way, and give it directly to management who can either exonerate you, or give you the tools needed to do your job.
Personally, I would consider Network segmentation, and access controls (both host and network)as the first thing I would think of. Also, read-only smart cards with an encrypted key on in and a strong encryption policy. Keys are checked in every night, and each user has a seperate password. You leave, you cant access the file. Then create a strong security policy for your department and have management sign off on it, so you can take immediate steps if anyone violates the policies (taking a key home, unauthorized laptop, etc.)
if you really need help, feel free to contact me:
me