Not to be a dick, but you should EXPECT your boss to be an invasive dick. It really is in their best interest.
Dont get me wrong, he (lets just assume its a he, but replace with a she if its a she) has no reason to sniff your bank accound login, data, or any other personal info. But when I was an admin, we knew where every employee was at all times. If an employee was on a site that was deemed "naughty" (yahoo games, msn games, porn (owner loved that shit), etc), I would walk over and tell them that surfing is to be done on break or at home, not on paid time.
Thanks for the clarification. I could have sworn up and down that as long as it is considered public, that (in the US) video surveillance was kosher. Any bathroom/lockerroom cams needed to have consent forms.
The audio part was an interesting part. It now seems right, but wasnt blatant prior to your post (to me at least).
why not properly design the planes? If the electronics are that picky, perhaps we should shield the cockpit from outside interference, rather than try to kill off the sources of the interference.
So if I understand correctly here (I am not a talented developer by any means), would it not be feasible and possible to make it work both ways? Create an ABI for closed source drivers to build on, but still allow whatever it is that is going on now?
How is that a bad idea? I would love for more hardware to have more than minimal or zero support.
Actually, you wont need to setup Exchange to actually handle mail, but just the calendar part. Thats what I have done to get around the lack of any usable calendar solutions.
I am not sure how other email clients aside from Evolution operate with exchange servers, but Evolution makes people happy and is a decent package.
Does that mean that the "bad guys" that are getting taken out shouldn't be? Does that mean since war sucks, that Hitler should have been left alone? Does that mean that if Kim Il Jong starts crap with a nuke that we should just let him be? I am sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, AC, but there is a reason that each war started. It wasnt for the health of it.
When I was working as a bill collector, many thought that collectors were part of the list of organizations/companies that were to obey the DNCL. That is not true. Plus, with the laws in place, determining the fact that I got the right person may make the call seem as an odd sales call, and would prompt them to just think I was a telemarketer.
I think that depending on the respondents, there may be alot of fluff in there due to the fact collection agencies are not held liable by this list, but people just think they are.
I also reccomend GoDaddy. They are useful on the phone, and do have all of the online tools that can allow me to auto renew via email. I have done this for several years now, and wont use another registrar without it.
Plus they are also very clear as of what the law grants me, the consumer, and what recourses I do have.
Wont matter. The system that Moller has been working on includes a special computer system that ties to the FAA. Automatic flight from just after liftoff and to just when the landing sequence is about to begin (of course it wont just puke out if you arent payinbg attention). The "flight schools" that he is proposing are simply just like driver's ed., they will show you the basics of the controls (gps navigation system, idiot lights, etc) and that the jet engines use regular gasoline, not diesel or jet fuel.
The auto fly system will auto correct if there is another flight (commercial or private or other moller flying car) and adjust to both avoid collisions and to avoid any near contact that could be dangerous if anything were to go haywire.
I have listened to him speak on TV and on the radio, and the guy did this work FIRST, before he even really had anything to show for a mere semi-working prototype.
Flying cars will be here, in one capacity or another. And there will be a simple and managable system, whether its Moller's or not.
Well, I have had the exact opposite with one major point. Most hardware works great. Some (small amount in reality, mostly WLAN and digital cameras) has a feature or three that arent there, but what does work is great.
The one problem I do see is that for some reason that Mac-ism holds true with a few parts for me -- I have perfect compatibility and perfomance on all of my nForce motherboards and GeForce VGA cards. I have rather nice quality out of my Realtek, Linksys, and Netgear 10/100/1000 BaseT cards as well.
But the woes I have are with laptops. My Toshiba is goat piss for linux. The ATI hardware blows. Could I avoid it? Probably, but to be stuck with windows isn't that bad, considering that now I have true heterogenous software platforms to test apps on and a real platform for the games, not an emulated one.
I think that once Linspire or Novell get a share of Best Buy / CompUSA / Dell 's product catalog of pre-built machines, the driver hell some claim to experience rather harshly on even desktops, will disappear rather quickly. The addition of Apple going to x86 makes NIX drivers more attractive now. Maybe BSD will win out in the end, maybe not. But one F/OSS OS will win out and make it to the mainstream en masse. Personally I don't care which -- they are all great and wonderful pieces of art. I happen to prefer Linux (Red Hat or Linspire are my drugs of choice).
Both distros have installed rather flawlessly on my hardware (sans the laptop aforementioned). I generally am very brand centric :
Netgear or Intel for NICs Creative or Ensoniq for audio nVIDIA for graphics VIA or nVIDIA for motherboard chipsets Logitech for all mice and keyboards Hauppage for all video in / out solutions
These all work, cost little if any more than the competition, and are perfectly functional and stable under all F/OSS OS'es. Not to say there aren't others, but this is what I and my associates use to great successes.
Thanks for your insight though, it did cause me to think (as opposed to other posts which are just whines and rants usually;D )
I own and use Nextel and am quite happy. Not the cheapest, but definitely worth the money.
The only changes that I would like are a better browser on the phone and a better GPS capability. Now I am currently using the i736 which may be a crappy model, I dont know. Other than that, it is quite nice of a phone. It isnt small but just big enough to still be useful on all levels and still fit in my pocket without me "feeling" it like I have a hilt of a greatsword stuck in there.
As far as what I have been told in a few Nextel forums, and with the Nextel mailed out propoganda, we are supposed to get the best of both worlds -- all of the coverage that Sprint has with a dual iDEN/CDMA network. Thats cool if it works out. But I have dealt with both Sprint's and Nextel's customer service, and goddamn do I hope that its Nextel's personnel not the goons at Sprint. At least the few non american folks are fluent and well adjusted to american english (had a few germans and indians, asia's india that is).
Thats what I have seen. I would love to hear other's Nextel customer experiences here. I have been a sworn customer for life for 5 years now, and with this merger that _may_ change if Sprint is the dominant force here.
That is available, but not all use it. Yeah, the KDE team is doing their job (mighty fine too), but if the distros or package maintainers dont, it becomes almost a wasted effort. I dont like that. The guys are doing a great effort -- we need to take advantage of that work a bit better.
ALthough nVIDIA is a great ally in the OSS world, they have been making some oddball mistakes in their drivers and it has been rather irritating:
Framebuffer TV-Out Ram buffering Stability
Is the list going to get shorter?
But my original point still stands -- Xorg is fine. As is the kernel, GNOME, KDE, GIMP, GAIM, Scribus, etc. The major applications are all fine. In fact, if you stick to all GTK/GNOME or all QT/KDE environment, the experience outdoes both Apple and Microsoft in MANY people's eyes.
Now to stay on topic, I would say that the one thing that rang most accurate came from the Linux Format #67 magazine with the fellow that created KDE. He stated that the worst thing that Linux has is all of these goofy names that are undescriptive of the application's true use. He believes that the icon and menu entry should be named "Office" or "IM Tool" or "Browser" or "Email" or "BitTorrent" or whatever. I have tried that theory out and good lord is it true. If you name GAIM "Instant Messenger" or Evolution "Email" or Epiphany "Browser", alot of the frustrations go away. There are still the issues of what program on Linux does what WIN32-APP-X does?
Xorg is fine. It must be your install that was odd. I have had at least a half dozen boxes that I have upgraded that were fine, much less the several dozen boxes that I did a fresh install with that are still fine.
To insult the capabilities because of one isolated problem is ludicrous. Red Hat, SuSE and Linspire have all migrated to X.org with little problems, if any. As I recall the only issues were nVIDIA or ATI proprietary drivers (well, for the most part at least).
Read that. And that was only December 2004 findings.
5 Redhat 7.3 == 3 compromised after 3 months 8 Redhat 9 == 1 compromised after 3 months 2 FC 1 == 0 compromised
Windows... well here: "This life expectancy is all the more surprising when compared to vulnerable Win32 systems. Data from the Symantec Deepsight Threat Management System indicates a vulnerable Win32 system has life expectancy not measured in months, but merely hours. The limited number of Win32 honeypots we have deployed support this, several being compromised in mere minutes. However, we did have two Win32 honeypots in Brazil online for several months before being compromised by worms."
I can easily see that the timeframes are getting smaller across the board. The majority of the linux assualts succeeded with SHTTP exploits. I am unsure as of this moment if that is still the case or not. Apparently RH9 may have been a turning point (maybe sooner) for many, but I aint gonna bet that for moment. The lesson here isnt that the machines can break -- but that carelessness (READ - plugged into lan at install time, before AV/AntiSpyware/Firewall are all setup) kills you. Linux isnt the target much right now. Windows is. Dont believe me -- RTFA and the link I posted and see for yourself.
How so? IBM is still based on the situation a clear dominating leader in the fight. To make the CPUs for all three next gen gaming consoles means that many sales of all consoles combined. Not one, but all three. What does intel get? Maybe %55 market share instead of %51? BFD.
I think Intel was the only alternative; IBM was pissed away as non-viable, as I am sure AMD was. Intel was their only choice. Do you know of a desktop CPU that Motorola, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Sony, HP, or Philips-Magnavox makes? They are all the other mahjor players that do semiconductors? Nope.
The list now narrows. Nonexistent when you count the ones willing to go that route. Only one standing --- INTEL!
Dont do it. There is no way that %1 of your week can attain the desired results. Plus to learn by book will not be fast enough if you are not already somewhat familiar with the core of the topic on hand.
IT fulltime is hard enough. Unless you get a reasonable raise or allowed OT, dont do it (and it looks like you wont get that raise or OT offer).
But that is me. PM me if you want a firsthand experience there, and why I have had 2 bad experiences in that ballpark and will not make a third.
I just listen to XM as often as possible. There is one guy that I tune to AM for, but for music, I stopped on FM all together. My CD's and XM are more than sufficient. XM has done the trick so well, I own 3 XM's.
I definitely dont see any implied negative. He isnt wearing a straight jacket or a prisoner jumpsuit. I personally would have redone the font and placement of "iCon", but thats me. I am sure this sells more than my crap ideas.
If I owned a company in China, and wanted to do buisness in other countries, I would not want a domain with just Chinese characters, my non-Chinese customers would have a more difficult time finding me.
How so? That entity can have multiple domains. I find that to be more respective to the Chinese people. Really, why should they have to know another language just to buy my product or service?
If I have a company Schotty, I can register Schotty.us, schotty.com, $&@%$&*#.cn, etc. They can all point to the same IP, but thats not the point. The point is that it costs only a few bucks to kiss the customer's ass a bit more.
Well isnt the problem stated already somewhat taken care of with the distro itself? Red Hat and Linspire and SuSE/Novell all choose what they feel is the best (usually the frontrunner in the OSS world) and support that. Quite honestly, I have yet to have any major issues outside of the mounting and prepackaged binary issues.
Red Hat GNOME works fantastically. Linspire's KDE works fantastically. I am sure SuSE is still doing great with both. I see little argument here outside of the non commercial distros. Those are the ones that are fragmented. Unless I go out of my way to change something (such as from CUPS to LPRNG or ALSA to OSS), the standard they chose is the one I have. All of their supported packages will work fine because of that.
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Not to be a dick, but you should EXPECT your boss to be an invasive dick. It really is in their best interest.
Dont get me wrong, he (lets just assume its a he, but replace with a she if its a she) has no reason to sniff your bank accound login, data, or any other personal info. But when I was an admin, we knew where every employee was at all times. If an employee was on a site that was deemed "naughty" (yahoo games, msn games, porn (owner loved that shit), etc), I would walk over and tell them that surfing is to be done on break or at home, not on paid time.
Thanks for the clarification. I could have sworn up and down that as long as it is considered public, that (in the US) video surveillance was kosher. Any bathroom/lockerroom cams needed to have consent forms.
The audio part was an interesting part. It now seems right, but wasnt blatant prior to your post (to me at least).
why not properly design the planes? If the electronics are that picky, perhaps we should shield the cockpit from outside interference, rather than try to kill off the sources of the interference.
Just a thought....
So if I understand correctly here (I am not a talented developer by any means), would it not be feasible and possible to make it work both ways? Create an ABI for closed source drivers to build on, but still allow whatever it is that is going on now?
How is that a bad idea? I would love for more hardware to have more than minimal or zero support.
Actually, you wont need to setup Exchange to actually handle mail, but just the calendar part. Thats what I have done to get around the lack of any usable calendar solutions.
I am not sure how other email clients aside from Evolution operate with exchange servers, but Evolution makes people happy and is a decent package.
Touche.
;D
Unless we have Spock there to explain it to us
I needed this. Tonight has been a boring night at work. A good joke that is loaded with intellegence is always a good treat here.
Hmm. Well...
Does that mean that the "bad guys" that are getting taken out shouldn't be? Does that mean since war sucks, that Hitler should have been left alone? Does that mean that if Kim Il Jong starts crap with a nuke that we should just let him be? I am sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, AC, but there is a reason that each war started. It wasnt for the health of it.
So some whale is more important than the men and women on the subs?
Somehow I cant see that as being the case. If its Joe Blow or Shammoo, I'll vote for Joe.
When I was working as a bill collector, many thought that collectors were part of the list of organizations/companies that were to obey the DNCL. That is not true. Plus, with the laws in place, determining the fact that I got the right person may make the call seem as an odd sales call, and would prompt them to just think I was a telemarketer.
I think that depending on the respondents, there may be alot of fluff in there due to the fact collection agencies are not held liable by this list, but people just think they are.
I also reccomend GoDaddy. They are useful on the phone, and do have all of the online tools that can allow me to auto renew via email. I have done this for several years now, and wont use another registrar without it.
Plus they are also very clear as of what the law grants me, the consumer, and what recourses I do have.
Wont matter. The system that Moller has been working on includes a special computer system that ties to the FAA. Automatic flight from just after liftoff and to just when the landing sequence is about to begin (of course it wont just puke out if you arent payinbg attention). The "flight schools" that he is proposing are simply just like driver's ed., they will show you the basics of the controls (gps navigation system, idiot lights, etc) and that the jet engines use regular gasoline, not diesel or jet fuel.
The auto fly system will auto correct if there is another flight (commercial or private or other moller flying car) and adjust to both avoid collisions and to avoid any near contact that could be dangerous if anything were to go haywire.
I have listened to him speak on TV and on the radio, and the guy did this work FIRST, before he even really had anything to show for a mere semi-working prototype.
Flying cars will be here, in one capacity or another. And there will be a simple and managable system, whether its Moller's or not.
Well, I have had the exact opposite with one major point. Most hardware works great. Some (small amount in reality, mostly WLAN and digital cameras) has a feature or three that arent there, but what does work is great.
;D )
The one problem I do see is that for some reason that Mac-ism holds true with a few parts for me -- I have perfect compatibility and perfomance on all of my nForce motherboards and GeForce VGA cards. I have rather nice quality out of my Realtek, Linksys, and Netgear 10/100/1000 BaseT cards as well.
But the woes I have are with laptops. My Toshiba is goat piss for linux. The ATI hardware blows. Could I avoid it? Probably, but to be stuck with windows isn't that bad, considering that now I have true heterogenous software platforms to test apps on and a real platform for the games, not an emulated one.
I think that once Linspire or Novell get a share of Best Buy / CompUSA / Dell 's product catalog of pre-built machines, the driver hell some claim to experience rather harshly on even desktops, will disappear rather quickly. The addition of Apple going to x86 makes NIX drivers more attractive now. Maybe BSD will win out in the end, maybe not. But one F/OSS OS will win out and make it to the mainstream en masse. Personally I don't care which -- they are all great and wonderful pieces of art. I happen to prefer Linux (Red Hat or Linspire are my drugs of choice).
Both distros have installed rather flawlessly on my hardware (sans the laptop aforementioned). I generally am very brand centric :
Netgear or Intel for NICs
Creative or Ensoniq for audio
nVIDIA for graphics
VIA or nVIDIA for motherboard chipsets
Logitech for all mice and keyboards
Hauppage for all video in / out solutions
These all work, cost little if any more than the competition, and are perfectly functional and stable under all F/OSS OS'es. Not to say there aren't others, but this is what I and my associates use to great successes.
Thanks for your insight though, it did cause me to think (as opposed to other posts which are just whines and rants usually
Later!
I own and use Nextel and am quite happy. Not the cheapest, but definitely worth the money.
The only changes that I would like are a better browser on the phone and a better GPS capability. Now I am currently using the i736 which may be a crappy model, I dont know. Other than that, it is quite nice of a phone. It isnt small but just big enough to still be useful on all levels and still fit in my pocket without me "feeling" it like I have a hilt of a greatsword stuck in there.
As far as what I have been told in a few Nextel forums, and with the Nextel mailed out propoganda, we are supposed to get the best of both worlds -- all of the coverage that Sprint has with a dual iDEN/CDMA network. Thats cool if it works out. But I have dealt with both Sprint's and Nextel's customer service, and goddamn do I hope that its Nextel's personnel not the goons at Sprint. At least the few non american folks are fluent and well adjusted to american english (had a few germans and indians, asia's india that is).
Thats what I have seen. I would love to hear other's Nextel customer experiences here. I have been a sworn customer for life for 5 years now, and with this merger that _may_ change if Sprint is the dominant force here.
That is available, but not all use it. Yeah, the KDE team is doing their job (mighty fine too), but if the distros or package maintainers dont, it becomes almost a wasted effort. I dont like that. The guys are doing a great effort -- we need to take advantage of that work a bit better.
Ill concede that.
ALthough nVIDIA is a great ally in the OSS world, they have been making some oddball mistakes in their drivers and it has been rather irritating:
Framebuffer
TV-Out
Ram buffering
Stability
Is the list going to get shorter?
But my original point still stands -- Xorg is fine. As is the kernel, GNOME, KDE, GIMP, GAIM, Scribus, etc. The major applications are all fine. In fact, if you stick to all GTK/GNOME or all QT/KDE environment, the experience outdoes both Apple and Microsoft in MANY people's eyes.
Now to stay on topic, I would say that the one thing that rang most accurate came from the Linux Format #67 magazine with the fellow that created KDE. He stated that the worst thing that Linux has is all of these goofy names that are undescriptive of the application's true use. He believes that the icon and menu entry should be named "Office" or "IM Tool" or "Browser" or "Email" or "BitTorrent" or whatever. I have tried that theory out and good lord is it true. If you name GAIM "Instant Messenger" or Evolution "Email" or Epiphany "Browser", alot of the frustrations go away. There are still the issues of what program on Linux does what WIN32-APP-X does?
Xorg is fine. It must be your install that was odd. I have had at least a half dozen boxes that I have upgraded that were fine, much less the several dozen boxes that I did a fresh install with that are still fine.
To insult the capabilities because of one isolated problem is ludicrous. Red Hat, SuSE and Linspire have all migrated to X.org with little problems, if any. As I recall the only issues were nVIDIA or ATI proprietary drivers (well, for the most part at least).
Horseshit.
p df
... well here:
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/trends/life-linux.
Read that. And that was only December 2004 findings.
5 Redhat 7.3 == 3 compromised after 3 months
8 Redhat 9 == 1 compromised after 3 months
2 FC 1 == 0 compromised
Windows
"This life expectancy is all the more surprising when compared to vulnerable Win32 systems. Data from the Symantec Deepsight Threat Management System indicates a vulnerable Win32 system has life expectancy not measured in months, but merely hours. The limited number of Win32 honeypots we have deployed support this, several being compromised in mere minutes. However, we did have two Win32 honeypots in Brazil online for several months before being compromised by worms."
I can easily see that the timeframes are getting smaller across the board. The majority of the linux assualts succeeded with SHTTP exploits. I am unsure as of this moment if that is still the case or not. Apparently RH9 may have been a turning point (maybe sooner) for many, but I aint gonna bet that for moment. The lesson here isnt that the machines can break -- but that carelessness (READ - plugged into lan at install time, before AV/AntiSpyware/Firewall are all setup) kills you. Linux isnt the target much right now. Windows is. Dont believe me -- RTFA and the link I posted and see for yourself.
Revenge?
How so? IBM is still based on the situation a clear dominating leader in the fight. To make the CPUs for all three next gen gaming consoles means that many sales of all consoles combined. Not one, but all three. What does intel get? Maybe %55 market share instead of %51? BFD.
I think Intel was the only alternative; IBM was pissed away as non-viable, as I am sure AMD was. Intel was their only choice. Do you know of a desktop CPU that Motorola, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Sony, HP, or Philips-Magnavox makes? They are all the other mahjor players that do semiconductors? Nope.
The list now narrows. Nonexistent when you count the ones willing to go that route. Only one standing --- INTEL!
Dont do it. There is no way that %1 of your week can attain the desired results. Plus to learn by book will not be fast enough if you are not already somewhat familiar with the core of the topic on hand.
IT fulltime is hard enough. Unless you get a reasonable raise or allowed OT, dont do it (and it looks like you wont get that raise or OT offer).
But that is me. PM me if you want a firsthand experience there, and why I have had 2 bad experiences in that ballpark and will not make a third.
Good luck either way pal.
I just listen to XM as often as possible. There is one guy that I tune to AM for, but for music, I stopped on FM all together. My CD's and XM are more than sufficient. XM has done the trick so well, I own 3 XM's.
So do you reccomend GAIM?
Somewhat.
I definitely dont see any implied negative. He isnt wearing a straight jacket or a prisoner jumpsuit. I personally would have redone the font and placement of "iCon", but thats me. I am sure this sells more than my crap ideas.
If I have a company Schotty, I can register Schotty.us, schotty.com, $&@%$&*#.cn, etc. They can all point to the same IP, but thats not the point. The point is that it costs only a few bucks to kiss the customer's ass a bit more.
Well isnt the problem stated already somewhat taken care of with the distro itself? Red Hat and Linspire and SuSE/Novell all choose what they feel is the best (usually the frontrunner in the OSS world) and support that. Quite honestly, I have yet to have any major issues outside of the mounting and prepackaged binary issues.
Red Hat GNOME works fantastically. Linspire's KDE works fantastically. I am sure SuSE is still doing great with both. I see little argument here outside of the non commercial distros. Those are the ones that are fragmented. Unless I go out of my way to change something (such as from CUPS to LPRNG or ALSA to OSS), the standard they chose is the one I have. All of their supported packages will work fine because of that.
Well this does fit their level of intelligence. Bugs ... fine! Security holes ... fine!! Your business will "live".