"Moving walkways outdoors, where sidewalks are supposed to be, would be a maintenance disaster"
Very true - sidewalks in some parts of the world get full of snow. Workers shovel the snow into the street. Other workers push the snow back up onto the sidewalk. Imagine how well a slush-bound elevator would work;=)
so you're agreeing with me. The servers getting blown up was a huge mistake, one that certainly could have been avoided with a little proper planning. you are a fucking moron The quality of discourse on this site abysmal.
There is to be *NO* expectation of privacy while using computers at work.
Agree to that - but, the company you work for does have an expectation of privacy and security. If the black box is recording infrastructure stuff like the computer's IP, subnet, local security settings, I can image some companies going ballistic. This is a threat to a company's security and hence their reputation. That's a big deal these days.
Ah, training for the interrupt-driven business life. You'll find that in the business world guys take cell calls while sitting on the john...read the blackberry message while standing at the urinal. Couldn't tell ya want things are like in the ladies room, though.
Oracle *used* to charge for licenses that way. The license cost was based on something called the UPU - universal power unit. I believe they dropped it for obvious reasons. A 1ghz CPU CICS UPU license would cost you $100K - to run on your $8k Intel-based server. After dumping the UPU scheme, an unlimited user Oracle Enterprise Edition license used to cost $40k/cpu. I believe it's down to $17K/cpu these days. Plus support of course.
The software requires IE 6.0 (or higher). Since I've been happily using Moz/FireFox for a long time, I'm not seeing much of an advantage to upgrading IE 5.5 with a huge download and install of IE 6.x.
Too bad the software has this requirement; Giant does too.
This problem is just lazy IT. If they can't take 5 minutes to add an HP scanner then you've got the wrong guys in IT...Again bad IT practise... think of an IT department run by intelligent IT guys not lazy management types like you're describing.
These would be true statments should the company in question be small - several hundred employees. It's a whole different deal in a large company. In a large company (thousands or 10's of thousands of emplyees) IT policy is often designed such that the (inadvertant) end result is: slow. The overriding concerns in large-company shops are things like security, audit, documentation, repeatability. In an IT shop supporting a large user base, the CIO is often more of s business type than an IT type. Hence lots of compromises, negotiation, changes in direction. Couple that with in-house development efforts and one often gets re-work and that translates into slow.
'Would it be unethical if he knocked on their door and told them in person of their vulnerabilities?'
Sounds like this fellow did far more than knock on 'their' door - he knocked on the doors of everybody in the neighborhood. And if no one answered the knock, then he tried and door, and if it was unlocked, let himself in, wrote a nice note, and and then left... repeat.
Some might call these actions 'helpful attempts at education'; other might call them 'actions of a busybody'.
Banks are nearly 100% sybase turf. You cannot get a job in a bank as a SA or developer if you do not know it.
The last three gigs I've had have been at Banks; 'super regionals' is what they're called. So they are by no means teeny-tiny local operations. I've been a dev and now a dba. Haven't seen the Sybase. I've seen it quite a bit at the big brokerage houses and master servicers in the eastern US, though. Based on my banking jobs: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server would be the RDBMSs in in use. But big banks have all kinds of technology pockets. What one sees at banks probably depends on one's area of expertise.
What a crappy site. It doesn't render properly with Mozilla/Firefox and as soon I went to the page, I was hit with a bunch of ActiveX controls trying to run. No thanks.
Same here....this stuff tried to load: The new DLLs have been loaded: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STRMDLL.DLL C:\WINDOWS \SYSTEM\DRMCLIEN.DLL C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER\NPDSPLAY.DLL I said no thanks and Firefox locked up real good.
That said, there are several things on the page that don't display properly in browsers other than WinIE, like Opera & Firefox...
That's right. I just went to the site with Firefox and firewall mentions that WMP wants to load. I say no thank you at which point browswer locks up solid. Not nice.
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"Moving walkways outdoors, where sidewalks are supposed to be, would be a maintenance disaster"
Very true - sidewalks in some parts of the world get full of snow. Workers shovel the snow into the street. Other workers push the snow back up onto the sidewalk. Imagine how well a slush-bound elevator would work ;=)
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A Mr. Tulip style of thing, 'eh?
There is to be *NO* expectation of privacy while using computers at work.
Agree to that - but, the company you work for does have an expectation of privacy and security. If the black box is recording infrastructure stuff like the computer's IP, subnet, local security settings, I can image some companies going ballistic. This is a threat to a company's security and hence their reputation. That's a big deal these days.
Certainly has something to do with their upgrade policies.
You seem to confuse the most obvious difference ...
Umm, no, actually it is you who seems to be confused.
Your both wrong. It's a floor polish *and* a dessert.
Call them what they are, terrorists.
Or, how about: "members of the militant community"?
Nice and PC with the added benefit of lots of syllables.
except when one rings during my lecture....
Ah, training for the interrupt-driven business life. You'll find that in the business world guys take cell calls while sitting on the john...read the blackberry message while standing at the urinal. Couldn't tell ya want things are like in the ladies room, though.
Oracle *used* to charge for licenses that way. The license cost was based on something called the UPU - universal power unit. I believe they dropped it for obvious reasons. A 1ghz CPU CICS UPU license would cost you $100K - to run on your $8k Intel-based server. After dumping the UPU scheme, an unlimited user Oracle Enterprise Edition license used to cost $40k/cpu. I believe it's down to $17K/cpu these days. Plus support of course.
The software requires IE 6.0 (or higher). Since I've been happily using Moz/FireFox for a long time, I'm not seeing much of an advantage to upgrading IE 5.5 with a huge download and install of IE 6.x.
Too bad the software has this requirement; Giant does too.
This problem is just lazy IT. If they can't take 5 minutes to add an HP scanner then you've got the wrong guys in IT...Again bad IT practise ... think of an IT department run by intelligent IT guys not lazy management types like you're describing.
These would be true statments should the company in question be small - several hundred employees. It's a whole different deal in a large company. In a large company (thousands or 10's of thousands of emplyees) IT policy is often designed such that the (inadvertant) end result is: slow. The overriding concerns in large-company shops are things like security, audit, documentation, repeatability. In an IT shop supporting a large user base, the CIO is often more of s business type than an IT type. Hence lots of compromises, negotiation, changes in direction. Couple that with in-house development efforts and one often gets re-work and that translates into slow.
It's darn near impossible to be large and nimble.
'Would it be unethical if he knocked on their door and told them in person of their vulnerabilities?'
... repeat.
Sounds like this fellow did far more than knock on 'their' door - he knocked on the doors of everybody in the neighborhood. And if no one answered the knock, then he tried and door, and if it was unlocked, let himself in, wrote a nice note, and and then left
Some might call these actions 'helpful attempts at education'; other might call them 'actions of a busybody'.
I think it was Neil Postman who wrote:
Voting is the penultimate act of the powerless.
The ultimate act is participating in a political poll.
Banks are nearly 100% sybase turf. You cannot get a job in a bank as a SA or developer if you do not know it.
The last three gigs I've had have been at Banks; 'super regionals' is what they're called. So they are by no means teeny-tiny local operations. I've been a dev and now a dba. Haven't seen the Sybase. I've seen it quite a bit at the big brokerage houses and master servicers in the eastern US, though. Based on my banking jobs: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server would be the RDBMSs in in use. But big banks have all kinds of technology pockets. What one sees at banks probably depends on one's area of expertise.
Heck - if cromulent can get a chuckle what's so bad about virii?
Maybe go back to the old Greek way. Athletes compete in the nude...for that matter audiences watch in the nude. No pockets - no worries.
bug --> one syllable
software defect --> four syllables
Crapster?
You mean Jiggawatts, don't you?
gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
What a crappy site. It doesn't render properly with Mozilla/Firefox and as soon I went to the page, I was hit with a bunch of ActiveX controls trying to run. No thanks.
S \SYSTEM\DRMCLIEN.DLL
Same here....this stuff tried to load:
The new DLLs have been loaded:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STRMDLL.DLL
C:\WINDOW
C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER\NPDSPLAY.DLL
I said no thanks and Firefox locked up real good.
That said, there are several things on the page that don't display properly in browsers other than WinIE, like Opera & Firefox...
That's right. I just went to the site with Firefox and firewall mentions that WMP wants to load. I say no thank you at which point browswer locks up solid. Not nice.
OH SHE SAID ITS SO BIG STOP.
Don't stop stop. Please don't stop stop.
Have you not seen excel used as a word processor then?
Yes indeed. Used to work with a 'numbers guy' who kept his resume in a spreadsheet.
Show me yours, I'll show you mine ?