Yep. If everybody's clear that it's your laptop and that they're giving you this as some sort of bonus to make up that your are using your personal property to do company work, then you have nothing to worry about. The only thing that you would be responsible for would be company data on your hard drive -- much like you would be responsible to the company for any company papers that you took home, but not the desk you stored them in, or any other papers that were stored in the same desk.
If, on the other hand, they're paying for a company laptop of your choosing, then you have all sorts of legal liabilities that would probably require a real lawyer (i.e. not me) to sort out.
Just remember to get the distinction in writing (or at least an email), so that there's no confusion.
In grade 7 I went to a boarding school. One of my friends was a guy who was born in Texas in the late '50s. (( pertinent point: I'm half-black))
He grew up in an all-white (segregated_ neighborhood where racist comments like "come on, act like a white man" were quite the norm.
He didn't even think to question those kinds of comments until he ended up sharing a table with me for a couple of months. I'll tell you -- those racist comments were a hard habit to break. Even into the second month, he would still occasionally go "Oh come on, act like a whi.... blah, oh shit I did it again", and then spend the next couple of minutes apologizing to me.
It would have been funny if it wasn't for the fact that he was so hurt by what was coming out of his mouth.
My point though, is that -- until he met me, and the one other black student at the school, he hadn't even thought to reconsider the racist comments and jokes that he had grown up with -- or the racist attitudes that went with them.
Now, I realize that anti-racism really has to go a long way past simply banning racist jokes, but that does, at least, cause people to consider that the other racist attitudes that may be floating around their space aren't the norm and/or don't represent the real (and generally rather minor) differences between the races.
and, if you want to get a handle on just how close we all are, consider that geneticists were able to find more genetic diversity in a single band of chimps, than across the various human races.
Yeah, but what happens if the vacuum tube springs a leak? That's always been a problem with vacuum tubes. I mean it's not like someone is going to do a house call in lunar orbit.
:-)
The judge indicated that he wasn't quite clear if SCO's legal claims were really worth chasing. (( I mean, why would someone be so pigheaded about it if there really was no chance of winning??? )).... so he's suggested a trustee with strong litigation skills ( "...a litigator or former judge") who could go through the legal archives and figure out if SCO has a snowball's chance in hell at the litigation before the final decision to go to chapter 7 is made.
Then I logout and sign back in under *my* account--because root *is* my account.
Well I know someone who's gonna have his machine throughly trashed by the first Linux oriented virus/trojan that he sees.
For those few times when you really do need more than a single root command at a time, 'sudo bash' works really well. It gives you most of the advantages of a real root user while avoiding the ability of any arbitrary command remote exploit being able to root your entire machine by default.
Asking Microsoft if people should (or would) use linux, is like asking Hitler if you should marry a jew.
The answer will not usually depend on the merits of the issue.
No, you ghit... Free Software gives you the freedom to distribute your (possibly modified) software if you want to. Proper Free software, however requires that if you decide to distribute the software, you have to distribute the source code with any binary distributions.
This means, for example, that if the DOD uses any GNU licensed software in the cruise missile, they have to (for example) include a CD of the source code (probably somewhere the detonator). Their other choice would have been to print a copy of the Gnu license on the outside of the missile, including an offer to let Saddam, Al Quaeda and anybody else who 'recieved' the missile the right download a copy of the source of the (modified) GNU code good for 2 years from the time of original 'distribution'.
What they're blocking is VOIP through other phone providers -- whether they're using SIP or HTTP, they'd probably still block users of other providers, and pass any protocols that they're getting extra income for (again, no matter what the protocol used). . That's what makes them 'protocol agnostic'. You have to use your weasel words very carefully
We're not just talking about the government. This is Homeland Security -- the group that repeatedly got a D- on their network security..... and these guys want to tell the rest of the internet how to secure their protocol against some serious hackers?
The fact that they may actually want to add backdoors to the protocol doesn't help their case that much.
If you care about the results of the IO to the server that's timing out, then aborting is just going to cause you problems. Although rebooting your local system and THEN waiting for your server to come back makes it seem like you're doing something, it's actually going to take a few seconds longer for you to get your wanted results than if you just switched to another window and did something else while waiting for your server to respond.
Personally, I think that the Windows default of timing out and trashing whatever transaction you wanted to do is bad netiquette. Even if it takes hours for the server to come back, it's usually better if you can safely complete your pending operation when it does and continue on.
If the server's never coming back, then somebody is gonna have to tell you and you can then take appropriate action.
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In my experience, the most common use of a backup is to recover from "I deleted file 'X', but it was a mistake". Drive disasters, however are more spectacular, so they're what your average PHB is going to hear about. Thus it is that an exasperated IT guy might get told by his PHB: We don't need backups. That's why we mirror!
It's just like the way that -- despite the fact that you're far more likely to be killed by a drunk driver than a terrorist, (this may even hold true for members of the US military), it's the terrorist deaths that make the news....
Think about it for a minute -- If, at the top of every hour, CNN spent 30 seconds on each DWI associated death during the last day,
they wouldn't have much time for other news, and
people would stop watching
This wouldn't be that much of a problem, however, if it wasn't for the fact that many members of the public -- and especially decision-makers tend to choose their response to 'reality' based on what's in the news... It's that kind of confusion between what's in the news and what's commonly occurring that often results in tragically incorrect focuses for la
rge chunks of society.
an EX IT guy didn't do something he was supposed to have done. This wasn't discovered until AFTER the disks crashed. So, there were probably other reasons for this guy being an EX, too. Anyway, the crash happened, the mistake was discovered but now too late to fix."
... and just how long ago was it that this ex IT guy didn't do what he was supposed to have done? If it was more than 4 weeks (and I'm guessing that it was far more than 4 weeks), then there was someone else asleep at the switch.
New Compact flourescent take a maximum of 23 watts each.
A laptop is 50-100 watts.
for the rest, do the math. Look on the back of any unit you're intending to run during the blackout for a power usage plate (usually near where the power plug goes in). This is usually rated in amps. Multiply by 120 to get watts.
Add all of those numbers up... this is how many watts your generator needs to be... (but see caveat below). A generator that's way more than that isn't a problem, but you'll often pay more in fuel and noise, and generator costs.
Caveat: Advertised generator ratings are often peak. what you want to buy by is continuous output. Somewhere on the box it should have some small 'truth in adertising' print which admits that the big number is peak, and tell you what the continuous output is. If that number is higher than your calculated usage, then you should be fine. Going a bit over is fine -- good even, to have the reserve. Going a lot over is just likely to be a waste of money.
If, most of the time, you just need to power a light and your laptop, then you might want to add a battery (deep discharge / marine is best), an inverter (converts 12V to mains), and a good battery charger. This will allow you to work for long periods in relative silence. You can get 2-300 watt inverters for well under a hundred dollars these days... You only need to run the generator when you're running the heater/fridge. In all honesty you only need to run them intermittantly.
Is that, like, retail point of sale software, or something?
You're obviously an ignorant Linux user. Whomever it is that installed that for you robbed you of the personality-growing effects of dealing with the robust ecology of the Windows world.
For the average non-geek user, the difference between really 'breaks itself', and malware is.... immaterial.
That having been said, Vista really does break itself. With all of that DRM-supporting driver check-and-counter-check stuff going on (which also eats CPU), if Vista even thinks that something might be amiss, it gives the user 'a degraded experience'.
Once again, the difference between the willful 'degraded experience' of Vista and 'breaks itself' is.... nonexistent.
Yes, Vista claims that it's breaking itself for your own good, but the fact remains that Vista really does break itself.
There are two kinds of secrets that the government wants to keep: The ones that it wants to keep from it's enemies, and the ones that it wants to keep from it's friends.
A true patriots will keep the former to their graves -- and shout the latter from the rooftops. When in doubt, it's probably safe to presume that any given secret may be the former.
I think that it is a better world, and the USA is a better country because of people like Tamm who spoke up about The Program.
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Useless waste of money, if you ask me .....
If, on the other hand, they're paying for a company laptop of your choosing, then you have all sorts of legal liabilities that would probably require a real lawyer (i.e. not me) to sort out.
Just remember to get the distinction in writing (or at least an email), so that there's no confusion.
He grew up in an all-white (segregated_ neighborhood where racist comments like "come on, act like a white man" were quite the norm.
He didn't even think to question those kinds of comments until he ended up sharing a table with me for a couple of months. I'll tell you -- those racist comments were a hard habit to break. Even into the second month, he would still occasionally go "Oh come on, act like a whi.... blah, oh shit I did it again", and then spend the next couple of minutes apologizing to me.
It would have been funny if it wasn't for the fact that he was so hurt by what was coming out of his mouth.
My point though, is that -- until he met me, and the one other black student at the school, he hadn't even thought to reconsider the racist comments and jokes that he had grown up with -- or the racist attitudes that went with them.
Now, I realize that anti-racism really has to go a long way past simply banning racist jokes, but that does, at least, cause people to consider that the other racist attitudes that may be floating around their space aren't the norm and/or don't represent the real (and generally rather minor) differences between the races.
and, if you want to get a handle on just how close we all are, consider that geneticists were able to find more genetic diversity in a single band of chimps, than across the various human races.
Yeah, but what happens if the vacuum tube springs a leak? That's always been a problem with vacuum tubes. I mean it's not like someone is going to do a house call in lunar orbit.
:-)
The judge indicated that he wasn't quite clear if SCO's legal claims were really worth chasing. (( I mean, why would someone be so pigheaded about it if there really was no chance of winning??? )) .... so he's suggested a trustee with strong litigation skills ( "...a litigator or former judge") who could go through the legal archives and figure out if SCO has a snowball's chance in hell at the litigation before the final decision to go to chapter 7 is made.
that my sperm would run backwards???
If lots of school computers use IE, and lots of kids use other browsers at home, then this could explain the sudden shift.
"if only I had a beowulf cluster of those" will suddenly become more than a FP catchphrase.
Second runner up! (I'm leaving expansion room for a first).
Then I logout and sign back in under *my* account--because root *is* my account.
Well I know someone who's gonna have his machine throughly trashed by the first Linux oriented virus/trojan that he sees.
For those few times when you really do need more than a single root command at a time, 'sudo bash' works really well. It gives you most of the advantages of a real root user while avoiding the ability of any arbitrary command remote exploit being able to root your entire machine by default.
Asking Microsoft if people should (or would) use linux, is like asking Hitler if you should marry a jew.
The answer will not usually depend on the merits of the issue.
This means, for example, that if the DOD uses any GNU licensed software in the cruise missile, they have to (for example) include a CD of the source code (probably somewhere the detonator). Their other choice would have been to print a copy of the Gnu license on the outside of the missile, including an offer to let Saddam, Al Quaeda and anybody else who 'recieved' the missile the right download a copy of the source of the (modified) GNU code good for 2 years from the time of original 'distribution'.
What they're blocking is VOIP through other phone providers -- whether they're using SIP or HTTP, they'd probably still block users of other providers, and pass any protocols that they're getting extra income for (again, no matter what the protocol used). . That's what makes them 'protocol agnostic'. You have to use your weasel words very carefully
The fact that they may actually want to add backdoors to the protocol doesn't help their case that much.
Personally, I think that the Windows default of timing out and trashing whatever transaction you wanted to do is bad netiquette. Even if it takes hours for the server to come back, it's usually better if you can safely complete your pending operation when it does and continue on.
If the server's never coming back, then somebody is gonna have to tell you and you can then take appropriate action. .
Why's that a problem? You afraid that you'd be too distracted,,,, uhm, playing with your weapon ,,, to shoot at it?
Captain, the repulsor beam is working!
Yes, but you've just vaporized the target.
Well, you can't have everything, eh?
It's just like the way that -- despite the fact that you're far more likely to be killed by a drunk driver than a terrorist, (this may even hold true for members of the US military), it's the terrorist deaths that make the news....
Think about it for a minute -- If, at the top of every hour, CNN spent 30 seconds on each DWI associated death during the last day,
This wouldn't be that much of a problem, however, if it wasn't for the fact that many members of the public -- and especially decision-makers tend to choose their response to 'reality' based on what's in the news... It's that kind of confusion between what's in the news and what's commonly occurring that often results in tragically incorrect focuses for la rge chunks of society.
an EX IT guy didn't do something he was supposed to have done. This wasn't discovered until AFTER the disks crashed. So, there were probably other reasons for this guy being an EX, too. Anyway, the crash happened, the mistake was discovered but now too late to fix."
... and just how long ago was it that this ex IT guy didn't do what he was supposed to have done? If it was more than 4 weeks (and I'm guessing that it was far more than 4 weeks), then there was someone else asleep at the switch.
<sigh...>
You're looking for 'del C:\*.* /s /q /y'
Ah, nothing quite like nice, easy, human readable, DOS commands to show why Windows is superior to Un*x.
A laptop is 50-100 watts.
for the rest, do the math. Look on the back of any unit you're intending to run during the blackout for a power usage plate (usually near where the power plug goes in). This is usually rated in amps. Multiply by 120 to get watts.
Add all of those numbers up. .. this is how many watts your generator needs to be... (but see caveat below). A generator that's way more than that isn't a problem, but you'll often pay more in fuel and noise, and generator costs.
Caveat: Advertised generator ratings are often peak. what you want to buy by is continuous output. Somewhere on the box it should have some small 'truth in adertising' print which admits that the big number is peak, and tell you what the continuous output is. If that number is higher than your calculated usage, then you should be fine. Going a bit over is fine -- good even, to have the reserve. Going a lot over is just likely to be a waste of money.
If, most of the time, you just need to power a light and your laptop, then you might want to add a battery (deep discharge / marine is best), an inverter (converts 12V to mains), and a good battery charger. This will allow you to work for long periods in relative silence. You can get 2-300 watt inverters for well under a hundred dollars these days... You only need to run the generator when you're running the heater/fridge. In all honesty you only need to run them intermittantly.
Mallware?
Is that, like, retail point of sale software, or something?
You're obviously an ignorant Linux user. Whomever it is that installed that for you robbed you of the personality-growing effects of dealing with the robust ecology of the Windows world.
That having been said, Vista really does break itself. With all of that DRM-supporting driver check-and-counter-check stuff going on (which also eats CPU), if Vista even thinks that something might be amiss, it gives the user 'a degraded experience'.
Once again, the difference between the willful 'degraded experience' of Vista and 'breaks itself' is.... nonexistent.
Yes, Vista claims that it's breaking itself for your own good, but the fact remains that Vista really does break itself.
A true patriots will keep the former to their graves -- and shout the latter from the rooftops. When in doubt, it's probably safe to presume that any given secret may be the former.
I think that it is a better world, and the USA is a better country because of people like Tamm who spoke up about The Program.