kvm itself doesn't really give you anything in terms of control or management features. That all comes from libvirt or ganeti or whatever you've got. We've been using ganeti for a while and it does a reasonable job for our purposes but it is still a long way off from being something i'd feel comfortable deploying for customer use.
I think that not being allowed to speak freely about your company on your own time is a sign of a power imbalance.
Any company that has to censor its employees when they're at home is either dysfunctionally paranoid or has something to hide.
I think the intent was not to prevent staff from speaking freely (though certainly they specifically tell you not to bad mouth Telstra) so much as to make it clear to others that you are a telstra employee, even if you believe your remarks aren't biased because of it. It's not always apparent to others whether your remarked may have been influenced, after the fact.
* Disclaimer: i work for telstra and received the memo yesterday...
Those are the same options my former employer wrestled with. Many users don't care if they are a zombie spam bot, or at least it falls into the "too hard" basket. The choice (for the ISP) is "do i turn off service to my paying customers, or do i let spam go out to people who aren't my paying customers?". If the financial consequences of accepting that you can be a spam hub are less than the consequences of pissing off customers you've disabled email for, then you choose to let the spam run wild. Until the economies of this change (either it becomes expensive to send spam or it becomes expensive for ISPs to allow it), spam remains a problem.
This is a good thing, but it's unlikely to improve things in anything other than the short term. They are quite capable of identifying which customers are zombie spam relays already by looking at IP addresses and authentication logs. I did this back in the days of dialup when i did a lot of work on mail systems for another large isp/telco. They are still left with the matter of contacting the customer and explaining the problem and guiding through to a solution. This is expensive to do, and requires hand holding as the customer isn't going to understand what do. It's still cheaper for the ISP to ignore the problem. Zombies will still operate, just now they have to steal authentication details. Big deal.
Slack was the first distribution I used when i became a linux devotee. It was great for learning the guts of the system in ways i probably would not have if i had started with something "easier". I don't think i could go back to it without an adequate package management system. Debian and Red Hat are still leaps and jumps ahead in that department.
Ironic. Companies like Disney, which make their money by deriviting copyrighted material from out of copyright works, want to retain their own copyright for even longer.
I will certainly be writing to my MP. Unfortunately as it is John Howard this won't make much difference.
Sadly this is another example of policitians putting corporate needs before the greater good. Until corporations can have their leverage over politicians dissolved, this will always be the case.
I was an out of shape IT guy a couple of years ago. I saw some judo at the Sydney olympics and a week later started training. I currently compete at state level, with hopes of competing in the nationals next year.
Would i have believed it if someone had said this would happen back in 2000? Hell no. I loathed physical exertion. Anything beyond kicking the football around at the park was too much. Now i realise why my attempts to get fit in the past failed miserably. They weren't fun.
Finding a sport you can play regularly is the best way to get fit. If it isn't fun, you won't keep it up. Pick a sport, or a number of sports, that you can do at least 2 or 3 times a week. Choose them based on how much fun you think you will have doing them, not how intense you think they will be.
Even now i have trouble sticking to a weights or running program simply because it's boring and uncomfortable. Now i have sporting goals to aim for and the fun of the sport is what drives me to train beyond what i otherwise would do.
Contacting a local university sports association is a good way to start out. They will have a number of clubs and even if you don't want to train with them, they will get you thinking about the possibilities. There are a lot of fun activities out there and many of them you have either never heard of or thought of doing.
Every year all their sport clubs get people joining who have never played any sport before or haven't played sports in years. Be one of them.
I play a lot of judo, a sport where technology doesn't directly have a lot of impact. At the end of the day it's still two people in a judogi on some mats. Over the years the mats have improved, but the judogis are more or less the same.
One area which has caused impact across all sports is the improvements in sports medicine. The know-how and technology has vastly improved over the years, most likely (imho) due to the commercialisation of sporting in general. Athletes can now come back faster from an injury than, say, 20 years ago.
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I have never met someone who talks about EQ or Muds who is a well-rounded individual. Fit, eats right, talks right, and has any degree of charisma about them. They all seem to be either shy, ugly (sorry, but it's true), can't speak well, or has about as much charisma as a lepar.
I have been playing on a mud called Sanity's Edge since 1996, and am still there as a coder.
I play competitive judo and keep in good shape from training 6 or 7 days a week, often more than once a day. I am intelligent, witty and confident in group situations. In my last job I delivered a number of training sessions to different groups and felt happy about doing so.
That's not to say that i have always been this confident, or have always neglected to shroud the reality of my life with some cloak of fiction. Nevertheless I am a happy individual and while your own experiences may have lead you to your conclusions, they aren't representative of the entirety of the mud crowd.
This has nothing to do with staff retention. This is something often used in call centres, the modern sweat shops of the western world, to improve performance and boost morale. How successful it is a doing these things is questionable.
Money. Money, money, money.
If someone is worth more than what they're getting then pay them more. How they came to be that was is irrelevant. Do you expect them to be grateful for being trained? I'm sure they are, but gratitude is merely a lively expectation of things to come.
This is a pretty worthless idea. It relies on you having control of a machine which is capable of serving ns requests. Instead of hacking a ns daemon to do the dirty work the far more obvious and workable approach is to have some other daemon listening on port 53 at the remote end.
Any filtering being done will either be on the dialup box (Ascend TNT, Bay 5399, etc) or on the router it hangs off (Cisco 2500, 7200, Bay^Wno one uses bay routers, whatever other vendor). The filters in these things will recognise port and type (udp/tcp), they cannot recognise the application protocols encapsulated within the packets.
If 53/tcp is allowed through the filters you're set - sshd on the remote end listening on port 53 and you can happily run pppd through a secure session. (or telnet instead of ssh if you wished)
If it's not, then find/make something that will use udp port 53. This is pretty much the same in effect, difference being you're implementing tcp-like reliability within your application.
Either way, it's better than dealing with the overhead of dns.
If you were to do this you would want to send it through registered post with some kind of seal on the envelope. But then if your ideas are worth a damn then they're worth the cash it takes to get a form for a statutory declaration and have it signed by a justice of the peace. Better, do this and have a lawyer look after it, or have the document housed in a secure storage facility (there are plenty around) where all transactions are documented.
Providing a modicum of protection for your IP doesn't have to be expensive. Standing to the challenge when someone violates your rights as creator can be, but then i think you'll agree you're a whole lot better off if you have the documentation to prove you're the owner.
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kvm itself doesn't really give you anything in terms of control or management features. That all comes from libvirt or ganeti or whatever you've got. We've been using ganeti for a while and it does a reasonable job for our purposes but it is still a long way off from being something i'd feel comfortable deploying for customer use.
I think that not being allowed to speak freely about your company on your own time is a sign of a power imbalance.
Any company that has to censor its employees when they're at home is either dysfunctionally paranoid or has something to hide.
I think the intent was not to prevent staff from speaking freely (though certainly they specifically tell you not to bad mouth Telstra) so much as to make it clear to others that you are a telstra employee, even if you believe your remarks aren't biased because of it. It's not always apparent to others whether your remarked may have been influenced, after the fact.
* Disclaimer: i work for telstra and received the memo yesterday...
Those are the same options my former employer wrestled with. Many users don't care if they are a zombie spam bot, or at least it falls into the "too hard" basket. The choice (for the ISP) is "do i turn off service to my paying customers, or do i let spam go out to people who aren't my paying customers?". If the financial consequences of accepting that you can be a spam hub are less than the consequences of pissing off customers you've disabled email for, then you choose to let the spam run wild. Until the economies of this change (either it becomes expensive to send spam or it becomes expensive for ISPs to allow it), spam remains a problem.
This is a good thing, but it's unlikely to improve things in anything other than the short term. They are quite capable of identifying which customers are zombie spam relays already by looking at IP addresses and authentication logs. I did this back in the days of dialup when i did a lot of work on mail systems for another large isp/telco. They are still left with the matter of contacting the customer and explaining the problem and guiding through to a solution. This is expensive to do, and requires hand holding as the customer isn't going to understand what do. It's still cheaper for the ISP to ignore the problem. Zombies will still operate, just now they have to steal authentication details. Big deal.
Get 30 of your closest friends and stand in formation spelling "Google". Next, drop your pants, moon the sky, and hold it for an hour.
Slack was the first distribution I used when i became a linux devotee. It was great for learning the guts of the system in ways i probably would not have if i had started with something "easier". I don't think i could go back to it without an adequate package management system. Debian and Red Hat are still leaps and jumps ahead in that department.
I do unix stuff for a friend in exchange for the occasional case of beer. Works well for both of us.
Silly geeks. Al Gore wrote linux.
Transparent proxy.... squid and iptables are your friends.
And here is my following move.
Ironic. Companies like Disney, which make their money by deriviting copyrighted material from out of copyright works, want to retain their own copyright for even longer.
I will certainly be writing to my MP. Unfortunately as it is John Howard this won't make much difference.
Sadly this is another example of policitians putting corporate needs before the greater good. Until corporations can have their leverage over politicians dissolved, this will always be the case.
"Patriot Act II will allow any Federal agent to demand records from anyone who interacts with you, with no judicial oversight whatsoever"
Ugh. As hollywood has shown, the sequel is nearly always worse than the original.
I was an out of shape IT guy a couple of years ago. I saw some judo at the Sydney olympics and a week later started training. I currently compete at state level, with hopes of competing in the nationals next year.
Would i have believed it if someone had said this would happen back in 2000? Hell no. I loathed physical exertion. Anything beyond kicking the football around at the park was too much. Now i realise why my attempts to get fit in the past failed miserably. They weren't fun.
Finding a sport you can play regularly is the best way to get fit. If it isn't fun, you won't keep it up. Pick a sport, or a number of sports, that you can do at least 2 or 3 times a week. Choose them based on how much fun you think you will have doing them, not how intense you think they will be.
Even now i have trouble sticking to a weights or running program simply because it's boring and uncomfortable. Now i have sporting goals to aim for and the fun of the sport is what drives me to train beyond what i otherwise would do.
Contacting a local university sports association is a good way to start out. They will have a number of clubs and even if you don't want to train with them, they will get you thinking about the possibilities. There are a lot of fun activities out there and many of them you have either never heard of or thought of doing.
Every year all their sport clubs get people joining who have never played any sport before or haven't played sports in years. Be one of them.
I play a lot of judo, a sport where technology doesn't directly have a lot of impact. At the end of the day it's still two people in a judogi on some mats. Over the years the mats have improved, but the judogis are more or less the same.
One area which has caused impact across all sports is the improvements in sports medicine. The know-how and technology has vastly improved over the years, most likely (imho) due to the commercialisation of sporting in general. Athletes can now come back faster from an injury than, say, 20 years ago.
Come on, a post about a case mod? Get real.
Likewise. I got as far as the bit definition before it clicked.
Japanese conflicting with computer science is a global conspiracy. I am suffering the same thing this year. Such is life...
I won a competition for this story I wrote a couple of years back.
I have been playing on a mud called Sanity's Edge since 1996, and am still there as a coder.
I play competitive judo and keep in good shape from training 6 or 7 days a week, often more than once a day. I am intelligent, witty and confident in group situations. In my last job I delivered a number of training sessions to different groups and felt happy about doing so.
That's not to say that i have always been this confident, or have always neglected to shroud the reality of my life with some cloak of fiction. Nevertheless I am a happy individual and while your own experiences may have lead you to your conclusions, they aren't representative of the entirety of the mud crowd.
I guess the slashdot ubermoderators don't bother reading the articles before they post them.
This has nothing to do with staff retention. This is something often used in call centres, the modern sweat shops of the western world, to improve performance and boost morale. How successful it is a doing these things is questionable.
Money. Money, money, money.
If someone is worth more than what they're getting then pay them more. How they came to be that was is irrelevant. Do you expect them to be grateful for being trained? I'm sure they are, but gratitude is merely a lively expectation of things to come.
Well you could do that, but wouldn't that site be more appropriate for criticizing bears?
This is a pretty worthless idea. It relies on you having control of a machine which is capable of serving ns requests. Instead of hacking a ns daemon to do the dirty work the far more obvious and workable approach is to have some other daemon listening on port 53 at the remote end.
Any filtering being done will either be on the dialup box (Ascend TNT, Bay 5399, etc) or on the router it hangs off (Cisco 2500, 7200, Bay^Wno one uses bay routers, whatever other vendor). The filters in these things will recognise port and type (udp/tcp), they cannot recognise the application protocols encapsulated within the packets.
If 53/tcp is allowed through the filters you're set - sshd on the remote end listening on port 53 and you can happily run pppd through a secure session. (or telnet instead of ssh if you wished)
If it's not, then find/make something that will use udp port 53. This is pretty much the same in effect, difference being you're implementing tcp-like reliability within your application.
Either way, it's better than dealing with the overhead of dns.
If you were to do this you would want to send it through registered post with some kind of seal on the envelope. But then if your ideas are worth a damn then they're worth the cash it takes to get a form for a statutory declaration and have it signed by a justice of the peace. Better, do this and have a lawyer look after it, or have the document housed in a secure storage facility (there are plenty around) where all transactions are documented.
Providing a modicum of protection for your IP doesn't have to be expensive. Standing to the challenge when someone violates your rights as creator can be, but then i think you'll agree you're a whole lot better off if you have the documentation to prove you're the owner.
I hope they don't copy the blue screen. That's trademarked.