Category 3, 5, and 6 UTP Ethernet cables are rated for a maximum of 100m for a single segment. Even if you for some reason used 5 100m cables with repeaters, I think you'd run into problems with the 5-4-3 rule once you factored in the end points of each connection. The cost would likely be way beyond what anyone would want to spend too. And regardless, by that point you are well beyond the "things most 70-year old men can implement and manage" threshold.
I tend to agree that you might be able to do it with directional antennas, at least well enough to be better than dial-up. You could presumably do it with line-of-sight radio equipment but I don't know how affordable or easy to setup that is.
What about ISDN? That should be possible just about anywhere with phone service, shouldn't it? I had my internet access via ISDN with SpeakEasy for several years when I lived in a no-dsl zone in Sunnyvale, CA.
Mine used to catch spammed virus attachments all the time. Though it's not as if I would have executed those files anyway. Haven't seen much of those in a while though since switching to Gmail. (Probably equally true of most any other decent hosted email service.)
And having worked for a relatively large company with offices around the world, we used to get pretty major virus outbreaks about once or twice a year (usually starting in the Asian or Israeli offices for some reason). The extent of those outbreaks was (with a couple of zero-day exceptions) always limited to the systems with broken or disabled antivirus software. (Obviously all the unix and linux servers were fine too of course.)
It certainly is expensive though. The company effectively employed 2-3 people who pretty much full-time spent their days troubleshooting the reports of systems not getting virus updates. Sometimes because it wasn't installed, sometimes because it just plain broke, sometimes because an employee disabled it because it "slowed things down".
Physical Layer: Check Data Link Layer: ??? Network Layer: ???
I don't know enough about how dial-up and file transfer worked back then to be able to say if layers 2 and 3 were represented.
It must take more than the ability of two systems to communicate to be considered networked. Otherwise the ability to carry this pile of punch cards from this building to that building, or to read a bunch of numbers on a screen and dictate them over the phone to someone else, would have to count as networked as well, no?
Yes, I'm sure when Blizzard shuts down their servers some day, they will have to wipe their tears with their giant piles of money.
Who says anything will or should last forever? WoW has been an objective massive success by catering to the more casual mmo subscribers. The fact that one theoretical day WoW may shut down or limp along with only as many subscribers as UO and Everquest do now doesn't change that fact one tiny bit.
I agree it's annoying, but if you select the Safari update you can choose a menu option to "Ignore Selected Updates" and then it won't prompt you for Safari updates any more.
Or hell, just "locate CA.sh" is likely to work on a lot of systems.
Find or locate have the advantage that they'll work even if the package you're looking for wasn't installed via the package manager. (Assuming you are savvy enough with find to prevent it from scavenging off down unnecessary NFS mounts, massive spool directories, and the like.)
Of course my Solaris years left "grep FOO/var/sadm/install/contents" burned into my brain.
Friends of mine in various retail businesses say it is *very* common for a few customers who actually requested to join their mailing list to report them as spam later. They have to deal with being blacklisted for their opt-in only mailing list 2-3 times a month.
How does that work when you need actual TCP connections? How are sessions, sequences, error detection, etc performed over UDP? Is the VPN software taking over several of the network layers and doing it's own session, transport, and network implementations?
I like many did my few years of phone support and helpdesk before moving on to sysadmin work, but I knew many people on the helpdesk and in tech support who were perfectly content with their lives and had no desire to do anything else. I even knew one co-worker who moved out into sysadmin work, decided he didn't like it, and went back to the helpdesk.
There's nothing wrong with being content in your job and not having a desire to climb the corporate ladder. In the case of Helpdesk work you may one day have to move on to something entirely different when all the helpdesk jobs are on another continent, but that's no different than a factory or steel worker doing a career change for similar reasons. Just accept this and be ready to find something new if the time comes.
Really virtually every band and tribe-level society in history is basically communist.
The hard part is finding a state-level example. Which just tells me that communism is a perfectly fine philosophy that cannot scale to large populations. Lots of things work in small populations that don't scale to large ones, and vice versa.
Maybe I'm dense here, but why is it critical that it be a *default* plugin? Why is forking the entire project a better choice than a non-default plugin?
I have my watch on virtually all the time I am awake. I don't have my cell phone with me remotely as often, especially if I'm at home where my cell phone is likely just sitting on my desk.
With my watch I can check the time: When my hands are full, when I'm swimming or at the beach, when I'm sitting in the movie theater/concert, when I'm on a plane, and when I otherwise don't want to or can't dig my cell phone out of my pocket, then unlock it, then view the time, then relock it, then shove it back in my pocket.
But then I am admittedly very OCD about needing to know what time it is all the time, a psychosis I have had since childhood. Even wearing my watch right now, I can see the clock on my computer desktop (synced with NTP), the Wall clock (synced with the atomic clock radio signal), and even the time display on my desk phone (not synced with anything, which sticks in my craw). And I actually often look at them to see if they are still in agreement. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm also often the only person to bother to invest the time and energy in setting up and tuning the time servers at work.
But hell, I don't just need a watch to know what *time* it is, I have to routinely check my watch to know what *day* it is. It's good I never have to write checks at the grocery store any more, because grocery clerks always gave me weird looks when I checked my watch before I wrote the check every time.
Really? After 15+ years in IT, I haven't noticed that much adaptability to change in most IT folk. Confront a Windows admin with the need to work on UNIX, or a UNIX admin with the need to work on Windows, and hair starts falling out. Heck, sometimes asking a Linux admin to work on a commercial UNIX product gives them fits, and vice versa.
And it goes on, make the sendmail person switch to postfix. The CVS expert switch to Subversion., etc etc.
My experience leads me to believe that almost nobody hates change more than many IT professionals. Presumably because it means more hassles and work in a job where many are already overworked, maybe?
Like I said, it's not about me. Go ahead and write me off as an idiot nobody in their right mind would hire. I'm talking about what I and others are hearing from hiring managers and recruiters, as well as peers who do hiring themselves. You post an open IT position and you will get buried in resumes, many from people who have been looking for work for months.
As someone who has been on a job search for several months now, I can assure you that there are far far more IT jobs outside of Chicago than inside Chicago, the vast majority of job postings are in the suburbs.
Which small US work pool is this? I've been unemployed for 6 months, and during my job search around the Chicago area I hear the same thing from employers and recruiters: every IT job they post they get flooded with applicants. They have the freedom to be *very* picky. Don't have specific industry experience? Too bad because someone else will. Meet 95% of the skill requirements? Probably not good enough, half a dozen other applicants will meet 100%. Spent some time teaching yourself new skills? Too bad, you don't have actual job experience and a lot of other applicants do. Try to apply for a more junior position instead? Sorry, they won't even talk to you, they have enough junior applicants and don't want to take the chance you'll just jump ship if you find a better job elsewhere.
I can't blame the employers for taking advantage of an overabundant supply to pick the best employees who they think will need the least on-the-job training, but I don't see any evidence of a so-called shortage. It's not even a salary issue, me and lots of others are perfectly willing to take a pay cut rather than not working at all, but employers are very skittish about that, I guess out of fear we'll just jump ship to some mythical better job later.
Former co-workers in the SF Bay Area have it even worse. Hiring managers there have claimed to routinely get *thousands* of resumes for any IT job posting. People opening entry-level jobs are getting resumes from former VPs and Directors.
I don't see where this so-called shortage comes from. Even granting that maybe me and the couple people I know are just horrible unhirable schleps, are we to believe this is true of the thousands of people trying desperately to get *any* IT job just in the SF Bay area alone?
Just how do we define Apple as having a monopoly on MP3 players? Having dominant market share does not a monopoly make, to my understanding. I certainly see a *lot* of non-Apple mp3 players when I'm browsing around Best Buy or Amazon.
I had two PJBoxes way back when. I'm pretty sure I got the first one in early 2000. I lost the first one when my car was broken into and it was stolen on a night when I had coincidentally forgot that I left it in the glovebox.
Ironically, the reason I *got* the PJBox was because after having my car broken into and stereo stolen yet again, I decided to never again buy a nice stereo for my car. From now on I would just use the stock/cheap stereo and listen to my music from the mp3 player. Something I still do to this day.
The PJBox was a fine system though. It wasn't very pretty though, just a big rectangular box. But I had friends with Nomads and Archos systems and the PJBox still seemed functionally superior to me.
I kept using the PJBox up until the iPod Minis came out with even more storage than my old PJBox did. That was when I finally broke down and switched.
I can moderate slashdot. I cannot participate in any peer-reviewed scientific journal that I am aware of, because I have no scientific credentials that would be accepted by any credible scientific journal.
Even if that were true (and I doubt that it is), doesn't it bother you that the motivation of the people developing drugs is only to make themselves rich? I'd rather have a researcher at a non-profit or a university developing my drugs.
First, researchers are not by default altruistic philanthropists. I've known several researchers (fortunately not directly in drug development) who cared about nothing but keeping their grants up and getting published. Some have been known to resert to fairly dastardly behaviors to keep themselves funded.
Second, those researchers at universities are very often still being funded by corporations.
Third, it takes billions of dollars to bring a drug to the market. I have doubts that very many universities can afford to bring a drug to market and manufacturing.
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I once worked for a company that made software for blood banks, pharmacies, and surgical suites. I worked in the pharmacy division, and as far as I ever heard there was little to no government oversight of our product (this was back in the early 90s). However, the blood bank (and I believe the surgery) software packages were rigidly regulated. Even minor software patches had to be submitted to the government for auditing and approval.
I dunno, the most dominant religion in the US, the religion which counts among its worshipers something like 90+% of every president, presidential cabinet member, congressman, judge, governor, etc, is being persecuted?
This is the type of persecution that I suspect some groups can only dream of.
I mean, are presidential candidate's staff proposing posting police outside the doors of Christian churches too?
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Category 3, 5, and 6 UTP Ethernet cables are rated for a maximum of 100m for a single segment. Even if you for some reason used 5 100m cables with repeaters, I think you'd run into problems with the 5-4-3 rule once you factored in the end points of each connection. The cost would likely be way beyond what anyone would want to spend too. And regardless, by that point you are well beyond the "things most 70-year old men can implement and manage" threshold.
I tend to agree that you might be able to do it with directional antennas, at least well enough to be better than dial-up. You could presumably do it with line-of-sight radio equipment but I don't know how affordable or easy to setup that is.
What about ISDN? That should be possible just about anywhere with phone service, shouldn't it? I had my internet access via ISDN with SpeakEasy for several years when I lived in a no-dsl zone in Sunnyvale, CA.
Mine used to catch spammed virus attachments all the time. Though it's not as if I would have executed those files anyway. Haven't seen much of those in a while though since switching to Gmail. (Probably equally true of most any other decent hosted email service.)
And having worked for a relatively large company with offices around the world, we used to get pretty major virus outbreaks about once or twice a year (usually starting in the Asian or Israeli offices for some reason). The extent of those outbreaks was (with a couple of zero-day exceptions) always limited to the systems with broken or disabled antivirus software. (Obviously all the unix and linux servers were fine too of course.)
It certainly is expensive though. The company effectively employed 2-3 people who pretty much full-time spent their days troubleshooting the reports of systems not getting virus updates. Sometimes because it wasn't installed, sometimes because it just plain broke, sometimes because an employee disabled it because it "slowed things down".
As an aspiring actor dressed as a Klingon at Quark's Bar & Grill in Las Vegas once told me:
"Human children are the stickiest, most-secretive children in the entire galaxy."
(That was "secretive" pronounced as in "secrete", not "secret".)
Hmm...is there a network?
Physical Layer: Check
Data Link Layer: ???
Network Layer: ???
I don't know enough about how dial-up and file transfer worked back then to be able to say if layers 2 and 3 were represented.
It must take more than the ability of two systems to communicate to be considered networked. Otherwise the ability to carry this pile of punch cards from this building to that building, or to read a bunch of numbers on a screen and dictate them over the phone to someone else, would have to count as networked as well, no?
Yes, I'm sure when Blizzard shuts down their servers some day, they will have to wipe their tears with their giant piles of money.
Who says anything will or should last forever? WoW has been an objective massive success by catering to the more casual mmo subscribers. The fact that one theoretical day WoW may shut down or limp along with only as many subscribers as UO and Everquest do now doesn't change that fact one tiny bit.
Blizzard has over 10 million subscribers world-wide, their population has been increasing steadily since release.
There is no evidence that Blizzard is suffering from an exodus of casual players. The opposite appears to be true.
I agree it's annoying, but if you select the Safari update you can choose a menu option to "Ignore Selected Updates" and then it won't prompt you for Safari updates any more.
Or hell, just "locate CA.sh" is likely to work on a lot of systems.
/var/sadm/install/contents" burned into my brain.
Find or locate have the advantage that they'll work even if the package you're looking for wasn't installed via the package manager. (Assuming you are savvy enough with find to prevent it from scavenging off down unnecessary NFS mounts, massive spool directories, and the like.)
Of course my Solaris years left "grep FOO
I second the suggestion of checking out FreeGeek. There are a few other chapters around in addition to the main one in Oregon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek#Locations
Friends of mine in various retail businesses say it is *very* common for a few customers who actually requested to join their mailing list to report them as spam later. They have to deal with being blacklisted for their opt-in only mailing list 2-3 times a month.
How does that work when you need actual TCP connections? How are sessions, sequences, error detection, etc performed over UDP? Is the VPN software taking over several of the network layers and doing it's own session, transport, and network implementations?
I like many did my few years of phone support and helpdesk before moving on to sysadmin work, but I knew many people on the helpdesk and in tech support who were perfectly content with their lives and had no desire to do anything else. I even knew one co-worker who moved out into sysadmin work, decided he didn't like it, and went back to the helpdesk.
There's nothing wrong with being content in your job and not having a desire to climb the corporate ladder. In the case of Helpdesk work you may one day have to move on to something entirely different when all the helpdesk jobs are on another continent, but that's no different than a factory or steel worker doing a career change for similar reasons. Just accept this and be ready to find something new if the time comes.
The Amish?
Really virtually every band and tribe-level society in history is basically communist.
The hard part is finding a state-level example. Which just tells me that communism is a perfectly fine philosophy that cannot scale to large populations. Lots of things work in small populations that don't scale to large ones, and vice versa.
Maybe I'm dense here, but why is it critical that it be a *default* plugin? Why is forking the entire project a better choice than a non-default plugin?
I have my watch on virtually all the time I am awake. I don't have my cell phone with me remotely as often, especially if I'm at home where my cell phone is likely just sitting on my desk.
With my watch I can check the time: When my hands are full, when I'm swimming or at the beach, when I'm sitting in the movie theater/concert, when I'm on a plane, and when I otherwise don't want to or can't dig my cell phone out of my pocket, then unlock it, then view the time, then relock it, then shove it back in my pocket.
But then I am admittedly very OCD about needing to know what time it is all the time, a psychosis I have had since childhood. Even wearing my watch right now, I can see the clock on my computer desktop (synced with NTP), the Wall clock (synced with the atomic clock radio signal), and even the time display on my desk phone (not synced with anything, which sticks in my craw). And I actually often look at them to see if they are still in agreement. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm also often the only person to bother to invest the time and energy in setting up and tuning the time servers at work.
But hell, I don't just need a watch to know what *time* it is, I have to routinely check my watch to know what *day* it is. It's good I never have to write checks at the grocery store any more, because grocery clerks always gave me weird looks when I checked my watch before I wrote the check every time.
Really? After 15+ years in IT, I haven't noticed that much adaptability to change in most IT folk. Confront a Windows admin with the need to work on UNIX, or a UNIX admin with the need to work on Windows, and hair starts falling out. Heck, sometimes asking a Linux admin to work on a commercial UNIX product gives them fits, and vice versa.
And it goes on, make the sendmail person switch to postfix. The CVS expert switch to Subversion., etc etc.
My experience leads me to believe that almost nobody hates change more than many IT professionals. Presumably because it means more hassles and work in a job where many are already overworked, maybe?
Like I said, it's not about me. Go ahead and write me off as an idiot nobody in their right mind would hire. I'm talking about what I and others are hearing from hiring managers and recruiters, as well as peers who do hiring themselves. You post an open IT position and you will get buried in resumes, many from people who have been looking for work for months.
As someone who has been on a job search for several months now, I can assure you that there are far far more IT jobs outside of Chicago than inside Chicago, the vast majority of job postings are in the suburbs.
Which small US work pool is this? I've been unemployed for 6 months, and during my job search around the Chicago area I hear the same thing from employers and recruiters: every IT job they post they get flooded with applicants. They have the freedom to be *very* picky. Don't have specific industry experience? Too bad because someone else will. Meet 95% of the skill requirements? Probably not good enough, half a dozen other applicants will meet 100%. Spent some time teaching yourself new skills? Too bad, you don't have actual job experience and a lot of other applicants do. Try to apply for a more junior position instead? Sorry, they won't even talk to you, they have enough junior applicants and don't want to take the chance you'll just jump ship if you find a better job elsewhere.
I can't blame the employers for taking advantage of an overabundant supply to pick the best employees who they think will need the least on-the-job training, but I don't see any evidence of a so-called shortage. It's not even a salary issue, me and lots of others are perfectly willing to take a pay cut rather than not working at all, but employers are very skittish about that, I guess out of fear we'll just jump ship to some mythical better job later.
Former co-workers in the SF Bay Area have it even worse. Hiring managers there have claimed to routinely get *thousands* of resumes for any IT job posting. People opening entry-level jobs are getting resumes from former VPs and Directors.
I don't see where this so-called shortage comes from. Even granting that maybe me and the couple people I know are just horrible unhirable schleps, are we to believe this is true of the thousands of people trying desperately to get *any* IT job just in the SF Bay area alone?
Just how do we define Apple as having a monopoly on MP3 players? Having dominant market share does not a monopoly make, to my understanding. I certainly see a *lot* of non-Apple mp3 players when I'm browsing around Best Buy or Amazon.
I had two PJBoxes way back when. I'm pretty sure I got the first one in early 2000. I lost the first one when my car was broken into and it was stolen on a night when I had coincidentally forgot that I left it in the glovebox.
Ironically, the reason I *got* the PJBox was because after having my car broken into and stereo stolen yet again, I decided to never again buy a nice stereo for my car. From now on I would just use the stock/cheap stereo and listen to my music from the mp3 player. Something I still do to this day.
The PJBox was a fine system though. It wasn't very pretty though, just a big rectangular box. But I had friends with Nomads and Archos systems and the PJBox still seemed functionally superior to me.
I kept using the PJBox up until the iPod Minis came out with even more storage than my old PJBox did. That was when I finally broke down and switched.
I can moderate slashdot. I cannot participate in any peer-reviewed scientific journal that I am aware of, because I have no scientific credentials that would be accepted by any credible scientific journal.
First, researchers are not by default altruistic philanthropists. I've known several researchers (fortunately not directly in drug development) who cared about nothing but keeping their grants up and getting published. Some have been known to resert to fairly dastardly behaviors to keep themselves funded.
Second, those researchers at universities are very often still being funded by corporations.
Third, it takes billions of dollars to bring a drug to the market. I have doubts that very many universities can afford to bring a drug to market and manufacturing.
I once worked for a company that made software for blood banks, pharmacies, and surgical suites. I worked in the pharmacy division, and as far as I ever heard there was little to no government oversight of our product (this was back in the early 90s). However, the blood bank (and I believe the surgery) software packages were rigidly regulated. Even minor software patches had to be submitted to the government for auditing and approval.
I dunno, the most dominant religion in the US, the religion which counts among its worshipers something like 90+% of every president, presidential cabinet member, congressman, judge, governor, etc, is being persecuted?
This is the type of persecution that I suspect some groups can only dream of.
I mean, are presidential candidate's staff proposing posting police outside the doors of Christian churches too?