It's not about enforcing contracts, it's about how they do it. You're not allowed to drink and drive by any law/contract/agreement, but would you submit to budget testing your blood when you return the car? How about cameras to make sure you're not smoking in a non-smoking car? When you are being constantly surveilled, you are vulnerable to all sorts of tangental abuses of rights, the anecdotal evidence of which I leave as an exercise for any actual libertarians/lovers of freedom from surveillance.
My mom's office had the same types of problems so here's what I did:
1. Set up samba on the reliable (linux) machine, with proper tape backup, etc. 2. Firewalled the segment (which included their desktops) with a WatchGuard SOHO router (about $500 for 25 user support, runs linux:) 3. Set up Mobile User VPN on the firewall, and any laptops that might travel out of the office.
Samba and SMB are not the world's fastest solutions, but it is nice to be able to have the directory browsing in winders and macos. Samba is easy to set up, my first install of a samba PDC only taking about 3-4 hours (and never touch it again). If you need real speed for transferring over large files, you can always use SSH and SCP (putty and pscp for windows, niftytelnet for mac). Just always attempt to maintain a central data server, back it up as needed, and you'll be successful in clearing the data clutter.
1. Start/stop kernel module services. Show how you can change the network setup by editing/etc/sysconfig (or wherever), stop it, and restart it, all in a few moments.
2. Push remote access, like ssh, which gives a user full control of the box from remote, something that is difficult to do in NT w/o consuming many resources (TB2,etc)
3. SAMBA. Install Samba from the cd and show how they can manage and use their (precious) Network Neighborhood stuff, connect to remote computers, etc.
4. Routing. Show how any linux box can setup firewalls and complex routing with a few commands.
5. Security. Run nmap against your now-configured linux box and compare it to, say, a windows 98 box. Show that linux can be locked down for the miscellaneous user.
6. Support./., freshmeat.net, linux.com, sourceforge. Show that there is active community involvement in all aspects of development, and that when problems arise, they are not occluded, but rather discussed and FIXED.
Maybe not everything can be covered in two days, but hopefully this helps. I was once a M$ kinda idjit, but the above points, as well as many other good suggestions already discussed in this thread, helped me to kick the GUI.
Seriously, if slashdot becomes like NetZero, I'm out. I can barely stand to use the free service. it's handy in a pinch but I spent 4 hours yesterday in front of google searching for "(netzero or zcast) and hax0r". The "large-format" banner ads are too much. I sit at the browser with a terminal window open (like many, I do suspect), and you just can't tolerate many breaks in your coding, especially not for the X10 Wireless Spy Camera. That's what finally drove me from Yahoo Clubs, that damn camera.
A point from an earlier post stands out: we appreciate what you do Taco, Rob, Hemos, and yes even you, Neal, and all you other crazy cats, but maybe you have too much going on back there? Maybe you're growing slower than you think you're growing? Maybe you, like a whole armada of fellow.com's, are expanding too fast? Too many Indians, not enough Buffalos? I'd hate to see that... this is one of my top 5 sites... but so was Yahoo Clubs...... and cnn.com.............
one of you wanker moderators send mail to that loser michael and tell him to close the f'n italics tag on the front page. I'm not the first person to mention it but I hope I'm the last.
It sounds like you might depend a little too much on management. What they really want to see is people who can take chunks of work and get it done to spec. People that are begging to be managed on a personal level are a pain to manage. No one wants a pet monkey on their back all of the time. A lot of people in management positions, especially middle management, are just the people in the trenches that can do their jobs really well. Go do your job really well and see if they put you in charge (some day). Then you'll feel the sting on the other end of your barb--the one that goes, "Why can't I get qualified, trained and enthusiastic help?" or "Kids, today, I oughta.."
Just one viewpoint from the non-managerial mind of,
Blizzard sees some amount of revenues from battle.net in the form of advertising. However, it is so miniscule that I don't think a small player like the accused would be making much of a dent. If anything, Blizzard and Vivendi should be looking into recruiting those guys and giving them real jobs to do the thing that so impassioned them that they did it themselves, with no material gain. I guess they just want to poke themselves in their extremely loyal and fanatical PR base (yes, it will come back to haunt them).
Actually, it would have to be 2.5mm to be mm not m.. but that's what I thought too when I first saw it. Then I thought, wouldn't that actually be scarier to have 2.5mm scorpions menacing south africa? Imagine, a hoard of killer scorpions the size of pubic crabs...
How about a free language, created to work on the chipsets of the world, to which you can add whatever high-level language you desire, which ever one will fit the job?
it's called Linux. it's supported on the chipsets of the world. you can add whatever non-abstract language you want, or use asm. if you're making web apps, there are lanugages; if you are making console apps, there are languages; if you're making hardware apps, there are languages; if you're making apps for other OS-level languages, like windows, guess what, there are languages.
as if we didn't have enough problems with these thieves and intellectual property cry-babies, now we have to contend with massive amounts of material waste? Three cheers for capitalism (hip hip... uuugh).
First bombs and then, say, digital copyright encryption reverse-engineering? Where is the line, pal? When does it become too much or not enough? Personally, I like it just the way it is: "no law...abridging the freedom of speech". Would the civil rights movement have been as successful if the Black Panthers hadn't marched on Washington? Would the protests against the Vietnam war have changed the course of that war if they were all peaceful?
Maybe we should be fighting terrorists with better foreign policy, and a review of our commercial morality. The US founding fathers were once considered terrorists, you know. How can we expect corrupt countries like Columbia to reform if, with our new terrorism policy, we don't allow the people to rise up?
Besides, how hard is it to take a 6" length of pipe, fill it with gunpowder and ball-berings, insert a fuse, and seal it? Did you learn nothing from Operation: Swordfish?
You shouldn't be messing with the English language, which you obviously don't understand. Why don't you put a little "accountability and respect" into a grammar book and a spell-checker.
Did you know that 87% of statistics are made-up on the spot?
For a fresh look at one way globalization negatively affects the third world without attempting to attach a media buzzword to the WTC attacks, see the film "Life and Debt," playing in Chicago and various other cities. It shows in detail how Jamaica's economy has been crippled by IMF loans, and how the average Jamaican lives and works. Quite a startling view of one of the negative aspects of globalization. Given a 3-star rating by Ebert in an excellent review that begins like Katz's, asking questions defining the scope of a nebulous topic, but then actually goes to attempt to answer those questions instead of further shrouding it "in hysteria and knee-jerk cant".
To all of the foaming-at-the-mouth geeks out there who have never left the U.S. or, god-forbid, travelled to a Muslim country: Shut the fuck up. Please. I know you all think you're geniuses, and can espouse the proper doctrine for solving the world's toughest problems--like Israel v. Palestine, or which is the toughest S.O. unit, Delta Force or the Pipe-Hitting Niggaz down the block--but you forget that you're just a bunch of fucking losers.
BTW... why does/. say "Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted" when I try to use the bold tag, which is listed under the "Allowed HTML" comment below? HMMM?
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Dreamcast runs MAME games like a dog. Paperboy is a long, slow deathwish when it plays at 10fps. You will buy an Xbox... all of you will.
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It's not about enforcing contracts, it's about how they do it. You're not allowed to drink and drive by any law/contract/agreement, but would you submit to budget testing your blood when you return the car? How about cameras to make sure you're not smoking in a non-smoking car? When you are being constantly surveilled, you are vulnerable to all sorts of tangental abuses of rights, the anecdotal evidence of which I leave as an exercise for any actual libertarians/lovers of freedom from surveillance.
My mom's office had the same types of problems so here's what I did:
:)
1. Set up samba on the reliable (linux) machine, with proper tape backup, etc.
2. Firewalled the segment (which included their desktops) with a WatchGuard SOHO router (about $500 for 25 user support, runs linux
3. Set up Mobile User VPN on the firewall, and any laptops that might travel out of the office.
Samba and SMB are not the world's fastest solutions, but it is nice to be able to have the directory browsing in winders and macos. Samba is easy to set up, my first install of a samba PDC only taking about 3-4 hours (and never touch it again). If you need real speed for transferring over large files, you can always use SSH and SCP (putty and pscp for windows, niftytelnet for mac). Just always attempt to maintain a central data server, back it up as needed, and you'll be successful in clearing the data clutter.
I put a mom and pop software company out of business.
I helped to destroy business ethics.
I put 10 school districts deep into debt.
I destroyed the internet by spreading email virii.
Everytime you buy Microsoft, you support terrorism.
another PSA from
The biggest turn off is having to pay for the software once the evaluation period has expired!
1. Start/stop kernel module services. Show how you can change the network setup by editing /etc/sysconfig (or wherever), stop it, and restart it, all in a few moments.
/., freshmeat.net, linux.com, sourceforge. Show that there is active community involvement in all aspects of development, and that when problems arise, they are not occluded, but rather discussed and FIXED.
2. Push remote access, like ssh, which gives a user full control of the box from remote, something that is difficult to do in NT w/o consuming many resources (TB2,etc)
3. SAMBA. Install Samba from the cd and show how they can manage and use their (precious) Network Neighborhood stuff, connect to remote computers, etc.
4. Routing. Show how any linux box can setup firewalls and complex routing with a few commands.
5. Security. Run nmap against your now-configured linux box and compare it to, say, a windows 98 box. Show that linux can be locked down for the miscellaneous user.
6. Support.
Maybe not everything can be covered in two days, but hopefully this helps. I was once a M$ kinda idjit, but the above points, as well as many other good suggestions already discussed in this thread, helped me to kick the GUI.
Not your typical post from,
and let them deal with the mail looping.
*cackle*
No, you are definitely not a Psychiatrist. This kid isn't schitzo... he's a turd.
Seriously, if slashdot becomes like NetZero, I'm out. I can barely stand to use the free service. it's handy in a pinch but I spent 4 hours yesterday in front of google searching for "(netzero or zcast) and hax0r". The "large-format" banner ads are too much. I sit at the browser with a terminal window open (like many, I do suspect), and you just can't tolerate many breaks in your coding, especially not for the X10 Wireless Spy Camera. That's what finally drove me from Yahoo Clubs, that damn camera.
.com's, are expanding too fast? Too many Indians, not enough Buffalos? I'd hate to see that... this is one of my top 5 sites... but so was Yahoo Clubs...... and cnn.com.............
A point from an earlier post stands out: we appreciate what you do Taco, Rob, Hemos, and yes even you, Neal, and all you other crazy cats, but maybe you have too much going on back there? Maybe you're growing slower than you think you're growing? Maybe you, like a whole armada of fellow
one of you wanker moderators send mail to that loser michael and tell him to close the f'n italics tag on the front page. I'm not the first person to mention it but I hope I'm the last.
losers.
It sounds like you might depend a little too much on management. What they really want to see is people who can take chunks of work and get it done to spec. People that are begging to be managed on a personal level are a pain to manage. No one wants a pet monkey on their back all of the time. A lot of people in management positions, especially middle management, are just the people in the trenches that can do their jobs really well. Go do your job really well and see if they put you in charge (some day). Then you'll feel the sting on the other end of your barb--the one that goes, "Why can't I get qualified, trained and enthusiastic help?" or "Kids, today, I oughta.."
Just one viewpoint from the non-managerial mind of,
Blizzard sees some amount of revenues from battle.net in the form of advertising. However, it is so miniscule that I don't think a small player like the accused would be making much of a dent. If anything, Blizzard and Vivendi should be looking into recruiting those guys and giving them real jobs to do the thing that so impassioned them that they did it themselves, with no material gain. I guess they just want to poke themselves in their extremely loyal and fanatical PR base (yes, it will come back to haunt them).
Actually, it would have to be 2.5mm to be mm not m.. but that's what I thought too when I first saw it. Then I thought, wouldn't that actually be scarier to have 2.5mm scorpions menacing south africa? Imagine, a hoard of killer scorpions the size of pubic crabs...
Move over Bargain Buddy... it's Sarge!
How about a free language, created to work on the chipsets of the world, to which you can add whatever high-level language you desire, which ever one will fit the job?
it's called Linux. it's supported on the chipsets of the world. you can add whatever non-abstract language you want, or use asm. if you're making web apps, there are lanugages; if you are making console apps, there are languages; if you're making hardware apps, there are languages; if you're making apps for other OS-level languages, like windows, guess what, there are languages.
My wife won't get pregnant no matter how much anal sex we have.
That's the "traditional way", right?
as if we didn't have enough problems with these thieves and intellectual property cry-babies, now we have to contend with massive amounts of material waste? Three cheers for capitalism (hip hip... uuugh).
First bombs and then, say, digital copyright encryption reverse-engineering? Where is the line, pal? When does it become too much or not enough? Personally, I like it just the way it is: "no law...abridging the freedom of speech". Would the civil rights movement have been as successful if the Black Panthers hadn't marched on Washington? Would the protests against the Vietnam war have changed the course of that war if they were all peaceful?
Freedom is dangerous; accept the responsibility.
Maybe we should be fighting terrorists with better foreign policy, and a review of our commercial morality. The US founding fathers were once considered terrorists, you know. How can we expect corrupt countries like Columbia to reform if, with our new terrorism policy, we don't allow the people to rise up?
Besides, how hard is it to take a 6" length of pipe, fill it with gunpowder and ball-berings, insert a fuse, and seal it? Did you learn nothing from Operation: Swordfish?
You shouldn't be messing with the English language, which you obviously don't understand. Why don't you put a little "accountability and respect" into a grammar book and a spell-checker.
Did you know that 87% of statistics are made-up on the spot?
For a fresh look at one way globalization negatively affects the third world without attempting to attach a media buzzword to the WTC attacks, see the film "Life and Debt," playing in Chicago and various other cities. It shows in detail how Jamaica's economy has been crippled by IMF loans, and how the average Jamaican lives and works. Quite a startling view of one of the negative aspects of globalization. Given a 3-star rating by Ebert in an excellent review that begins like Katz's, asking questions defining the scope of a nebulous topic, but then actually goes to attempt to answer those questions instead of further shrouding it "in hysteria and knee-jerk cant".
To all of the foaming-at-the-mouth geeks out there who have never left the U.S. or, god-forbid, travelled to a Muslim country: Shut the fuck up. Please. I know you all think you're geniuses, and can espouse the proper doctrine for solving the world's toughest problems--like Israel v. Palestine, or which is the toughest S.O. unit, Delta Force or the Pipe-Hitting Niggaz down the block--but you forget that you're just a bunch of fucking losers.
Nuff sed
/. say "Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted" when I try to use the bold tag, which is listed under the "Allowed HTML" comment below? HMMM?
BTW... why does
Dreamcast runs MAME games like a dog. Paperboy is a long, slow deathwish when it plays at 10fps. You will buy an Xbox... all of you will.
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Humans are so stupid. Good thing they're fun to fuck, otherwise they'd be useless.
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