Man, the best way to get around things is to call something a "draft". That way, no one's head it ever on the chopping block about it, since it's "only" a draft. You can easily change it, because it's "just" a draft. Yet you can still hold people to it because it's "the latest draft of what will be the policy". I see & hear about it a _lot_ at work. Some "policies" that are being enforced have been in "draft" form for a decade... Granted, it's IT, but these things cross-contaminate.
You know, years ago, reading about these situations, I might have cared. I might have had sympathy. I might have thought "wow, that sucks". But folks, this is 2009. This is not the first, second, or even fifth, time this has happened. Hell, I remember reading about this same scenario multiple times on/. over the years. If people don't get it by now, they never will. The only thing I think now when I read these things is "what an effing idiot", because there have been so many cases like this reported. Do people live under rocks? (Well, obviously they do) Does no one seem to learn from the mistakes of others? Does it never ever cross people's minds "wow, that chump was doing the same thing we are. Boy, they're totally screwed. Maybe we should change our processes so we aren't if the same thing happens to us?"
Once again, Einstein's been proven correct in his statement: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
I wonder if through ANY of this, Obama is going to keep one of his election stump promises, to publish every bill he's going to sign, in its entirety at least 5 days before he signs it?
Already broken, according to PolitiFact.com. And boy did they get a lot of mail about that and several other ratings, from both sides, which says to me they probably are one of the more impartial reporting sites out there if they're pissing off everyone...
More to the point, I wonder if/when the webfilter @ the site I work at will start allowing Facebook, since it's blocked "as a security threat or inappropriate for government use". I can see the justification now: "But, see, the GSA has signed a deal, and the White House even has a Facebook (and Myspace) page. Surely the GSA and the White House know what's appropriate for government use..."
So, um, do I auto-Godwin by saying that for years we've referred to the History Channel alternately as "the Hitler Channel" or "the Nazi Channel", since every time we turned it on, that was the subject of the current show?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this disables the homebrew hack stuff again...for the next couple days? Perhaps I should actually hack mine before installing this update (also explains why my Wii's been flashing).
Been this way since at least last Thursday (Feb 18) for me. I have several contacts ($grandboss, $director (who's out sick), and $wife among others) that insist on using GMail/GTalk, all of them went "remote-server-not-found" last week, with no changes on my end. As a lark, I restarted my XMPP server, without it making a difference. If I had to guess, server federation was deactivated on the Google end, out that's just a WAG on my part.
Is it sad that, even though my wife already approved of a bar monkey when we were looking at houses almost 2 years ago, I've yet to get around to building one?
Even the greenest IT employee knows that mirroring is to protect against hard drive failure and not software corruption.
I only wish that were true. I've given up arguing with friends about this, who insist that their mirrors are good enough backups. I just stare at colleagues who think such, especially those who SHOULD know better. And I *know* coworkers are doing this @ work, too, and I'm just waiting for about 50TB of data to suddenly go missing...
It's my understanding that anyone with a BlackBerry and the Windows desktop software can install Java (J2ME or J2ME+BBapi) apps on their BlackBerries via serial/USB.
I know older Symbian devices could install via memory card as well (I had a Nokia 6600), but I've heard enough scare stories about newer Symbian revs to wonder if that's still the case.
In *theory*, anyone with ActiveSync should be able to sync/install on a Windows Mobile phone. I've never used one myself, and the one person I know with a Windows PDA is having issues even connecting under Linux, but I don't know where the actual problem is there.
Severely locked-down systems (T-Mo Sidekicks, IIRC most Verizon phones, iPhone, etc), you're SOL without either hacking it or becoming a sanctioned "developer"
But then if your license server is down the software won't run, creating an artificial and unnecessary dependency. Similarly if people leave it running they can denial of service other users.
I'm pretty sure that, at least in the *nix world of license servers, they're already capable of clustering. ie, you have 2-3 license servers that talk to each other, and if 1 goes down, the other 2 continue serving up licenses.
Not that we're actually doing this with our license servers, but at least FlexLM (and Nagios' FlexLM monitor) seem to think it's possible to do.
Really? Because all the commercials I've seen for it lack any mention/logos for the Wii (though they have a DS one), Google seems to think it was put "on hold" indefinitely, Amazon has an Xbox 360, PS3, and DS version for sale but no Wii version (available, pre-order, or sold out). I'd *love* to see this on the Wii, but near as I can tell, it doesn't exist in this universe...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, for the ones that aren't, you need to go to Abnorway.
"... you just won't be able to take a video of them, or send an MMS"
Stop that, I'm (still) at work, and that's getting me hot...
This is the government. They don't do plain, understandable English. ...
And nowadays, they'd also need to do plain, understandable (Mexican) Spanish.
In California, there's about a dozen other languages they'd also have to do.
Man, the best way to get around things is to call something a "draft". That way, no one's head it ever on the chopping block about it, since it's "only" a draft. You can easily change it, because it's "just" a draft. Yet you can still hold people to it because it's "the latest draft of what will be the policy". I see & hear about it a _lot_ at work. Some "policies" that are being enforced have been in "draft" form for a decade... Granted, it's IT, but these things cross-contaminate.
You know, years ago, reading about these situations, I might have cared. I might have had sympathy. I might have thought "wow, that sucks". But folks, this is 2009. This is not the first, second, or even fifth, time this has happened. Hell, I remember reading about this same scenario multiple times on /. over the years. If people don't get it by now, they never will. The only thing I think now when I read these things is "what an effing idiot", because there have been so many cases like this reported. Do people live under rocks? (Well, obviously they do) Does no one seem to learn from the mistakes of others? Does it never ever cross people's minds "wow, that chump was doing the same thing we are. Boy, they're totally screwed. Maybe we should change our processes so we aren't if the same thing happens to us?"
Once again, Einstein's been proven correct in his statement: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
I wonder if through ANY of this, Obama is going to keep one of his election stump promises, to publish every bill he's going to sign, in its entirety at least 5 days before he signs it?
Already broken, according to PolitiFact.com. And boy did they get a lot of mail about that and several other ratings, from both sides, which says to me they probably are one of the more impartial reporting sites out there if they're pissing off everyone...
More to the point, I wonder if/when the webfilter @ the site I work at will start allowing Facebook, since it's blocked "as a security threat or inappropriate for government use". I can see the justification now: "But, see, the GSA has signed a deal, and the White House even has a Facebook (and Myspace) page. Surely the GSA and the White House know what's appropriate for government use..."
So, um, do I auto-Godwin by saying that for years we've referred to the History Channel alternately as "the Hitler Channel" or "the Nazi Channel", since every time we turned it on, that was the subject of the current show?
Don't worry, it looks like, instead of cutting spending to match income, states are instead going to close that little "loophole"...
My thoughts exactly. I mean, sure, I have 32bit laptops, but anything I've bought since then is 64-bit...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this disables the homebrew hack stuff again...for the next couple days? Perhaps I should actually hack mine before installing this update (also explains why my Wii's been flashing).
Following your logic, we should be prepared to pay for clothing based on how many square inches/cms of fabric it uses.
Um, well, actually, most places charge more for XXL and XXXL shirts, "plus" sizes, etc. Check thinkgeek.com for just one example.
Been this way since at least last Thursday (Feb 18) for me. I have several contacts ($grandboss, $director (who's out sick), and $wife among others) that insist on using GMail/GTalk, all of them went "remote-server-not-found" last week, with no changes on my end. As a lark, I restarted my XMPP server, without it making a difference. If I had to guess, server federation was deactivated on the Google end, out that's just a WAG on my part.
Now in the middle of a "situation", snipers will get a "you have already authorized this iPod on 5 sniper rifles" error...
No, you won't. Apple always gets a free pass, because they're "hip".
Is it sad that, even though my wife already approved of a bar monkey when we were looking at houses almost 2 years ago, I've yet to get around to building one?
Even the greenest IT employee knows that mirroring is to protect against hard drive failure and not software corruption.
I only wish that were true. I've given up arguing with friends about this, who insist that their mirrors are good enough backups. I just stare at colleagues who think such, especially those who SHOULD know better. And I *know* coworkers are doing this @ work, too, and I'm just waiting for about 50TB of data to suddenly go missing...
Does this mean the W3F will be releasing a Web KITT?
Commenting on the video, or Seinfeld's "comedy" in general?
That's what The Freenet Project was being used for when last I bothered to look. I'm told that it's changed somewhat since then, but who knows.
Must be nice to have family members for whom "ssh account" isn't a foreign language.
It's my understanding that anyone with a BlackBerry and the Windows desktop software can install Java (J2ME or J2ME+BBapi) apps on their BlackBerries via serial/USB.
I know older Symbian devices could install via memory card as well (I had a Nokia 6600), but I've heard enough scare stories about newer Symbian revs to wonder if that's still the case.
In *theory*, anyone with ActiveSync should be able to sync/install on a Windows Mobile phone. I've never used one myself, and the one person I know with a Windows PDA is having issues even connecting under Linux, but I don't know where the actual problem is there.
Severely locked-down systems (T-Mo Sidekicks, IIRC most Verizon phones, iPhone, etc), you're SOL without either hacking it or becoming a sanctioned "developer"
But then if your license server is down the software won't run, creating an artificial and unnecessary dependency. Similarly if people leave it running they can denial of service other users.
I'm pretty sure that, at least in the *nix world of license servers, they're already capable of clustering. ie, you have 2-3 license servers that talk to each other, and if 1 goes down, the other 2 continue serving up licenses.
Not that we're actually doing this with our license servers, but at least FlexLM (and Nagios' FlexLM monitor) seem to think it's possible to do.
Really? Because all the commercials I've seen for it lack any mention/logos for the Wii (though they have a DS one), Google seems to think it was put "on hold" indefinitely, Amazon has an Xbox 360, PS3, and DS version for sale but no Wii version (available, pre-order, or sold out). I'd *love* to see this on the Wii, but near as I can tell, it doesn't exist in this universe...
Dude, what carrier is offering a temporal calling plan?
TARDIS Telecom, for one...