Maybe Marketing should look to see if their promotions fall within the security guidelines of their own company. Did anyone ask the question, 'should we do this', and if so they should have taken the steps to let security know. The job of the police, ok "police" in this instance, is to enforce the laws/regulations. Not to go out looking for exceptions. This is a bit like the people at a block party bitching because they thought the police were bringing them a permit, not shutting them down for not having one.
Of course the guy in question is just an innocent here. But we really shouldn't be blaming the cops, unless they were notified and ignored it
We monitor this company's connection with a constant ping (every 5 min or so). If it goes down, we'll know.
Oh, the mighty ping. That could never give a false positive. A few weeks ago my brother was couldn't get to a test rig for some blackhawk fly by wire work. So he calls IT and they run the mighty ping which works. So they try to wash there hands of it all and say its not their issue. After more calls they say that my brother needs to go and grab ethernet numbers off the machine so they can try to trace. The machine is in on building on the other side of the campus and they want him to do the debugging for them. Needless to say he was pissed and refused. And IT wouldn't budge. Until a VP for the program decides to make a few calls to figure out why he wasn't get the support he pays for. In the end, IT had assigned the same IP address to a printer.
Point being, sometimes IT needs to get off the high and mighty. In the end they are supposed to support. There's a reason IT will lay off before engineering. They don't bring in the money. And this comes from someone who worked in IT for many years.
I just made a weekend trip from western ma to buffalo. About 350 miles. Round trip was over $130 dollars round trip, travel time was 9 hours. Plus all the before and after time dealing with a station, taxi/parking, etc
Even in my Jeep Liberty getting ~22 mi/gal it ended up being less than $100 including tolls. And this was when gas was over $1 more than it is now. Travel time was a smidge over 5 hours. Plus, when I decided to sleep in an extra hour before my return leg it wasn't a big deal. And when I got there I didn't have to worry about how I was going to get around for the weekend.
And this was just for me. If I had another 2 or 3 people in the car the train would never be cheaper even at $10 gas and chances are someone would have a better travel car than I have.
Now don't get me wrong. I tried, and really wanted the train to work. But it simply didnt for me. And where the price to drive stays pretty much the same when adding passengers, trains just start to add up more.
And this isn't just a US thing. On my company trips to northern France we would have people from other plants in France meet us. The furthest being Dijon, a pretty good 6-8 hour drive. Across the board they almost always avoided taking the train and preferred to drive. Especially if it was 2 or more people. It was simply cheaper, faster, and simpler. Outside of Metro areas I simply think trains are overrated.
More proof that the way you get to the top is that you are able to take any random topic and mix it with your standard corporate buzz words to make you sound like you are a genius. I couldn't get past the summary. Corporate America is a joke if they are relying on their gaming skillz to get us out of this mess and move forward. Here's a clue, we didnt dominate during/post WW2 because we sat there all day talking about WoW. Now get off my lawn.
If stopping 100% of the users is the goal, then it fails. However, if stopping or impeding 50% perhaps it could be labeled a success. In general the argument against most of these proposals seems to follow the line of, 'it wont stop me so why bother.' However, for every one you can't stop there are scores of those you do. Does that make the effort less worthy? For every one that gets by, there are dozens of 14 year old girls who will now be denied the latest Fergie album on their ipod. This is really what they care about. Girls like guys with skills. Maybe your skill can be that you can still score the free music for the girls.
I'm not arguing whether its the right thing to do or not. Just saying that just because it can be circumvented by some (and lets face it, its a very small number compared to the whole) doesn't mean its not worth doing.
But then its not really 64 bit support then as any program that needs > 4G of virtual address space won't run. I have to assume that the answer is indeed yes, I'm more curious how it works. My guess is that it is done through special Intel-VT/AMD-V calls which allow memory to be accessed directly, bypassing the host altogether.
Does this mean if I have more than 4G of memory the client will actually be able to use more memory than the client can see? So I can have a full 12G client on a 16G host that only sees/uses 4G of it?
Your own newborn baby needs an incubator. There are two sitting there, one but together with old car parts and another brand spanking new unit. Just for the hell of it they offer you $5k if you use the old car parts one. Which do you choose to save your baby?
Now I don't disagree with you. The medical industry is insane with its costs. I just got the bill for a minor surgery and its insane when you look at the line items. $100 for a friggin scalpal. But relying on do it yourself medical equipment might not be the best idea either in a life or death situation.
Obviously small gas engines for heating is the answer.
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With the whole stairway thing it would seem to imply that if you are looking at one of those pictures and don't see the hidden image then it is not there. However if someone points you in the right direction and you suddenly do see it then its still really not there, but you think it is???
Being one of the gifted few chosen to be Satans Little Helper I've always been able to hear it. Just because you need help doesn't make it less there. You just may not have been meant by Him to hear it.
But maybe they actually are terrorists? Or are terrorists not allowed to hold a job that may be to their benefit? Maybe, just maybe there is a chance they got this right?
Wow, an extra Walmart. Now that is impressive for a single town. I think the last time I was there they were just breaking ground on the super walmart which was across the street from the original, if my memory serves me. Little more local guage, but the number of Burger Times can be used as an economic measure as well. I think there were 3 when I was there. Used to live off their Egg and Potato buritos.
I don't know. I went to school in Las Cruces (NMSU) and Dona Ana county is pretty damn poor other than those associated with either the Uni or White Sands. At the time (~1994) they were just starting to talk about a space port. For them to be willing to take a chance on something like this through a self imposed sales tax increase is commendable. The at least partial funding from the local tax base will keep local oversight fairly high. Granted it is construction so by default its corrupt, but I've seen how the areas has transformed since the early 90s and its impressive. I think it has been money very well spent and as long as it totally doesn't fall through will be a huge boom economically for the area. They've probably doubled the number of Sonics and Weinerschniztles(sp?) in town since I was there and anyone can a test to that being the true measure for economic strength for a town in the southwest.
Or you could make up the time lost by shaving 5 minutes a day off of the bullshit non work related stuff that you do every day. Like posting on slashdot, talking about last nights episode of Heros, or telling someone about your plans for the weekend. People don't choose to do it because they are lazy and possibly impatient. Not because they are trying to give the company the most for their time.
I vote for postgres simply being a stupid name. MySQL sounds simpler, and in the early days it was much less work to install. Postgres was just too much of a pain to type and it sounds like something you would call your red headed step child. Summed up, MySQL succeeded where Postgres failed miserably. Marketing.
IT as a job title is pretty meaningless. You can't go up to someone and say I work in IT and expect them to have any idea what your job actually is. Even if they work in IT in the same company as you. It could be anything from someone who changes tapes for backups to a help desk worker to a project manager to software engineer to sys admin. Depending which of these you think you can just walk into will decide whether you need a degree or not. I'm going to assume that you think you will just walk in the door and be given root/admin to a bunch of boxes so you can start using your elite skills to run big brother on a bunch of machines to impress people. Chances are, without a degree you will find a job answering phones and running help desk scripts.
You see a lot of posts about how 15 years ago I broke in without a degree and now I run the world. Well, this isn't 15 years ago anymore. 15 years ago there weren't boat loads of 2 year tech and certification programs available. Experience is always the most important. A degree simply allows you to substitute it for some experience. No degree, no experience pretty much equals no job now, unless you have an inside.
Also, assuming you are young, just do the smart thing and find something else to do. IT sucks.;)
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Maybe Marketing should look to see if their promotions fall within the security guidelines of their own company. Did anyone ask the question, 'should we do this', and if so they should have taken the steps to let security know. The job of the police, ok "police" in this instance, is to enforce the laws/regulations. Not to go out looking for exceptions. This is a bit like the people at a block party bitching because they thought the police were bringing them a permit, not shutting them down for not having one.
Of course the guy in question is just an innocent here. But we really shouldn't be blaming the cops, unless they were notified and ignored it
Oh, the mighty ping. That could never give a false positive. A few weeks ago my brother was couldn't get to a test rig for some blackhawk fly by wire work. So he calls IT and they run the mighty ping which works. So they try to wash there hands of it all and say its not their issue. After more calls they say that my brother needs to go and grab ethernet numbers off the machine so they can try to trace. The machine is in on building on the other side of the campus and they want him to do the debugging for them. Needless to say he was pissed and refused. And IT wouldn't budge. Until a VP for the program decides to make a few calls to figure out why he wasn't get the support he pays for. In the end, IT had assigned the same IP address to a printer.
Point being, sometimes IT needs to get off the high and mighty. In the end they are supposed to support. There's a reason IT will lay off before engineering. They don't bring in the money. And this comes from someone who worked in IT for many years.
I just made a weekend trip from western ma to buffalo. About 350 miles. Round trip was over $130 dollars round trip, travel time was 9 hours. Plus all the before and after time dealing with a station, taxi/parking, etc
Even in my Jeep Liberty getting ~22 mi/gal it ended up being less than $100 including tolls. And this was when gas was over $1 more than it is now. Travel time was a smidge over 5 hours. Plus, when I decided to sleep in an extra hour before my return leg it wasn't a big deal. And when I got there I didn't have to worry about how I was going to get around for the weekend.
And this was just for me. If I had another 2 or 3 people in the car the train would never be cheaper even at $10 gas and chances are someone would have a better travel car than I have.
Now don't get me wrong. I tried, and really wanted the train to work. But it simply didnt for me. And where the price to drive stays pretty much the same when adding passengers, trains just start to add up more.
And this isn't just a US thing. On my company trips to northern France we would have people from other plants in France meet us. The furthest being Dijon, a pretty good 6-8 hour drive. Across the board they almost always avoided taking the train and preferred to drive. Especially if it was 2 or more people. It was simply cheaper, faster, and simpler. Outside of Metro areas I simply think trains are overrated.
More proof that the way you get to the top is that you are able to take any random topic and mix it with your standard corporate buzz words to make you sound like you are a genius. I couldn't get past the summary. Corporate America is a joke if they are relying on their gaming skillz to get us out of this mess and move forward. Here's a clue, we didnt dominate during/post WW2 because we sat there all day talking about WoW. Now get off my lawn.
If stopping 100% of the users is the goal, then it fails. However, if stopping or impeding 50% perhaps it could be labeled a success. In general the argument against most of these proposals seems to follow the line of, 'it wont stop me so why bother.' However, for every one you can't stop there are scores of those you do. Does that make the effort less worthy? For every one that gets by, there are dozens of 14 year old girls who will now be denied the latest Fergie album on their ipod. This is really what they care about. Girls like guys with skills. Maybe your skill can be that you can still score the free music for the girls.
I'm not arguing whether its the right thing to do or not. Just saying that just because it can be circumvented by some (and lets face it, its a very small number compared to the whole) doesn't mean its not worth doing.
Thought this was a good call until I saw that none of the Windows desktop OSs allow more than 4GB even with PAE enabled.
But then its not really 64 bit support then as any program that needs > 4G of virtual address space won't run. I have to assume that the answer is indeed yes, I'm more curious how it works. My guess is that it is done through special Intel-VT/AMD-V calls which allow memory to be accessed directly, bypassing the host altogether.
No, i'm talking about addressable memory space. Physical or not. Go add 5G of swap space to your 32 bit OS and see how usefull that is for ya.
Does this mean if I have more than 4G of memory the client will actually be able to use more memory than the client can see? So I can have a full 12G client on a 16G host that only sees/uses 4G of it?
Your own newborn baby needs an incubator. There are two sitting there, one but together with old car parts and another brand spanking new unit. Just for the hell of it they offer you $5k if you use the old car parts one. Which do you choose to save your baby?
Now I don't disagree with you. The medical industry is insane with its costs. I just got the bill for a minor surgery and its insane when you look at the line items. $100 for a friggin scalpal. But relying on do it yourself medical equipment might not be the best idea either in a life or death situation.
Don't forget about Men At Work, and the Love Boat episode that warrented 2 episodes!
I bet they spend a heck of alot less to build their units. How much can a heat lamp and thermostat cost.
Obviously small gas engines for heating is the answer.
With the whole stairway thing it would seem to imply that if you are looking at one of those pictures and don't see the hidden image then it is not there. However if someone points you in the right direction and you suddenly do see it then its still really not there, but you think it is???
Being one of the gifted few chosen to be Satans Little Helper I've always been able to hear it. Just because you need help doesn't make it less there. You just may not have been meant by Him to hear it.
But maybe they actually are terrorists? Or are terrorists not allowed to hold a job that may be to their benefit? Maybe, just maybe there is a chance they got this right?
Cisco will soon be introducing a product to address this exact problem!
Tax sugar all you want. Nothing contains it anymore. Don't you dare tax my high fructose corn syrup though!
Wow, an extra Walmart. Now that is impressive for a single town. I think the last time I was there they were just breaking ground on the super walmart which was across the street from the original, if my memory serves me. Little more local guage, but the number of Burger Times can be used as an economic measure as well. I think there were 3 when I was there. Used to live off their Egg and Potato buritos.
I don't know. I went to school in Las Cruces (NMSU) and Dona Ana county is pretty damn poor other than those associated with either the Uni or White Sands. At the time (~1994) they were just starting to talk about a space port. For them to be willing to take a chance on something like this through a self imposed sales tax increase is commendable. The at least partial funding from the local tax base will keep local oversight fairly high. Granted it is construction so by default its corrupt, but I've seen how the areas has transformed since the early 90s and its impressive. I think it has been money very well spent and as long as it totally doesn't fall through will be a huge boom economically for the area. They've probably doubled the number of Sonics and Weinerschniztles(sp?) in town since I was there and anyone can a test to that being the true measure for economic strength for a town in the southwest.
That's a wicked good observation.
Was I really the only one that read the original story and thought to myself that there was more to the story than was being told.
Or you could make up the time lost by shaving 5 minutes a day off of the bullshit non work related stuff that you do every day. Like posting on slashdot, talking about last nights episode of Heros, or telling someone about your plans for the weekend. People don't choose to do it because they are lazy and possibly impatient. Not because they are trying to give the company the most for their time.
This is why my company ships 2 of everything that is ordered. One via USPS and the other by UPS, just in case one gets lost. Always need redundancy.
I vote for postgres simply being a stupid name. MySQL sounds simpler, and in the early days it was much less work to install. Postgres was just too much of a pain to type and it sounds like something you would call your red headed step child. Summed up, MySQL succeeded where Postgres failed miserably. Marketing.
IT as a job title is pretty meaningless. You can't go up to someone and say I work in IT and expect them to have any idea what your job actually is. Even if they work in IT in the same company as you. It could be anything from someone who changes tapes for backups to a help desk worker to a project manager to software engineer to sys admin. Depending which of these you think you can just walk into will decide whether you need a degree or not. I'm going to assume that you think you will just walk in the door and be given root/admin to a bunch of boxes so you can start using your elite skills to run big brother on a bunch of machines to impress people. Chances are, without a degree you will find a job answering phones and running help desk scripts.
You see a lot of posts about how 15 years ago I broke in without a degree and now I run the world. Well, this isn't 15 years ago anymore. 15 years ago there weren't boat loads of 2 year tech and certification programs available. Experience is always the most important. A degree simply allows you to substitute it for some experience. No degree, no experience pretty much equals no job now, unless you have an inside.
Also, assuming you are young, just do the smart thing and find something else to do. IT sucks. ;)