you should definitely have everything you need from them (financially, health care, etc) in hand before discussing. assume they will ask you to leave immediately. if they don't and you are able to give them the time, I think it is a classy move to help them out. but that should not mean do a bunch of crap you don't want to do (like perhaps onerous documentation). you could offer to be a consultant for a time if they need to use you.
We just don't let them use low ports. They have to bind to something over 1024 (we have a allocation based on app id). If they are surfacing an web site or that needs port 80 or something else like that with direct user connections the load balancer will do the port mapping when it forwards the requests.
.... we run a SOA enviroment with about 50 different apps on many machines. We run each app under a seperate uid. App developers are in a group named for the app and members of that group are given full sudo permissions for the app uid. Creative use of/tmp and cp have eliminating most of the chown requests. Only issue is for those few developer's than need to work on more apps the the 32 group limit allows. They have to suffer with the newgrp command.
I would suggest OpenBSD too, because it's strengths and weaknesses are nicely complemented by Linux better than the other BSD's. Taking them together you get more good open way to solve problems.
In order to prove that Toy Story was just a matter of technology Disney bought Dream Quest, spent a bunch more money and time to make the one movie, and then eliminated it all after that piece of crap bombed.
After factoring all that, I hear some internal estimates put the cost of Dinosaur at $1 Billion.
Just because you have all the tools doesn't mean you can make a house. And it seems some people don't recall why Dinosaur failed.
A species of Argentine ant introduced into Europe about 80 years ago has developed the largest supercolony ever recorded. It stretches 6,000 kilometres - from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain - with billions of related ants occupying millions of nests.
While ants from rival nests normally fight each other to the death, ants from the supercolony have the ability to recognise each other and co-operate - even if they come from nests at opposite ends of the colony's range.
The Argentine species (Linepithema humile) probably came into Europe on imported plants, pushing back the 20 or so indigenous species of European ant.
see here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1932509.stm
The Queen Mary was notorious for it's problem with rolling. Once source claims Cunard measured a roll of 44 degrees from vertical during one particularly bad storm.
This info seems to be erroneous. Only this one website seems to mention that the Queen Mary rolled. Every other reference I can find refers to the ship rolling a great deal with green water over the deck, but not rolling over.
Disney has been under fire for some time about the quantity of pollution generated by the fireworks show. This is mostly to get the AQMD off their backs and their neighbors off their backs. I wonder if they will bother to implement this in Florida ?
Here is an excerpt from miceage.com -
Rather, this surprise move by TDA is caused primarily with some hot water the Park has gotten in with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, or AQMD for short. Readers outside of Southern California may not be familiar with a government body like the AQMD, but they've been setting policy and regulating private enterprise in a successful attempt to reduce the amount of air pollution in Orange and Los Angeles counties for decades now. The Disneyland Resort is one of the 28,000 private businesses that operates with a permit from the AQMD, and is allowed a certain number of "pollution credits" each year. A business like Disneyland can earn credits by enrolling employees in clean air commuting plans that encourage Anaheim Cast Members to carpool, ride their bikes, or take the train to work. Disneyland Cast Members can earn a dollar per day each time they "Clean Air Commute", and Disneyland occasionally raises those stakes to three dollars per day and doles out the cash in paychecks or with gift certificates to Target or other big box retailers. While Disneyland earns credits with good citizen programs like those, it also loses credits by operating polluting engines such as on the Mark Twain or the parking lot trams. And as one of the biggest single site employers in Southern California with a huge physical plant of potential pollution sources, Disneyland often walks a fine line with the AQMD. Photo courtesy of Kevin Yee This regulatory environment that Disneyland operates in is what has led to a need to reduce the amount of smoke and pollution that the nightly fireworks displays pump into the air. Although the vocal group of Anaheim neighbors that got a decent amount of media attention last year with their constant complaints about the noisy and smoky Disneyland fireworks shows haven't helped matters, it's the more definable processes the AQMD uses to measure pollution that led to this situation. In fact, the AQMD's regulations are what led Disneyland to invest several million dollars into a new pneumatic air launching system installed just north of the park this past winter. It was hoped by TDA that this cleaner and less smoky process of launching fireworks into the air from a large block of modern launch tubes dubbed "The Black Forest" by Disneyland's pyro technicians would gain the park some leeway with the AQMD inspectors. Unfortunately however, while the new launch system was effective with the standard fireworks shells that shoot straight up, it left a great deal to be desired from an artistic standpoint with some of the more unique effects. When Believe returned for the Easter Vacation period after its long winter's absence, several of the key effects that defined the Believe show simply weren't able to be accomplished with the new launch system. Most noticeably, the shooting star effect used several times during the show almost ceased to exist. Instead of the graceful arc of a shooting star sailing over the Castle that the Believe designers created, the air launch tubes could only manage an effect that was more like an errant fireworks shell fizzling towards Tomorrowland. The show's original producer Steve Davison, and the artistic professionals of the Disneyland Entertainment Department, were not at all amused at what the new environmentally friendly launch system had done with their show. And within a few weeks the tinkering that had begun on Believe during surprise showings in May had turned into a realization that a new show was needed that would satisfy
Theses are all good comments. I'm just against 8 foot cube walls because they feel pretty claustrophbic, unless your space has 14 foot or better ceiling height.
I totally disagree. I want all the technical people in a cube enviroment where they *can* overhear what other people are doing. This is critical for people to be able to help/comment/criticize the work of their team mates.
Having all tech people in their own office (ala Microsoft) is really dysfunctional.
Managers and other non-productives types can have an office. Makes them feel better and keeps them out of the way.
But any yahoo can go buy an EPRIB right now. West Marine two blocks away from me has a display case full of them.
It is not at all clear who (in general) foots the bill for real rescues or for false alarms. In this era of budget reductions, sometimes people get a large large bill;other times the government eats it.
Some friends and I did a similar thing in Burma a couple of years ago, except focusing on opensource's security aspects and handing out OpenBSD distros.
I was hired to be a sysadmin at a aerospace supply chain software firm. My dba skills were "a plus".
I soon found myself converting pl/sql procedures for most of my day with no documentation on what they were supposed to do, or why. I was just supposed to "get them to compile".
Additionally, my attempts to get rudimentary sysadmin things in order (like a working backup of the dev systems and rc.d startup scripts) was viewed as "trying to take over our vendor technical support relationships".
My hiring manager did not speak to me after I started until I was asked to quit because of my "bad attitude".
I made them fire me so I could collect the unemployment.
My understanding is that the "260 antenna elements that help draw in the signal" is basically a small fairly cheap phased array antenna system.
You know, like on an Aegis cruiser.
So with the proper emitter and a Beowulf like cluster of TracVisions........
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you should definitely have everything you need from them (financially, health care, etc) in hand before discussing. assume they will ask you to leave immediately. if they don't and you are able to give them the time, I think it is a classy move to help them out. but that should not mean do a bunch of crap you don't want to do (like perhaps onerous documentation). you could offer to be a consultant for a time if they need to use you.
using a mac+filevault2+bootprom password should cover you
We just don't let them use low ports. They have to bind to something over 1024 (we have a allocation based on app id). If they are surfacing an web site or that needs port 80 or something else like that with direct user connections the load balancer will do the port mapping when it forwards the requests.
.... we run a SOA enviroment with about 50 different apps on many machines. We run each app under a seperate uid. App developers are in a group named for the app and members of that group are given full sudo permissions for the app uid. Creative use of /tmp and cp have eliminating most of the chown requests. Only issue is for those few developer's than need to work on more apps the the 32 group limit allows. They have to suffer with the newgrp command.
Sure.
Say you have some big store of data (AD for example) for everyone in a organization.
Say you have some app that needs some AD *plus* some other field just for your app, but you don't want to extend the AD schema for the application.
You can use a virtual ldap to 'join' the AD against another ldap, a database table, or a flat file.
I would suggest OpenBSD too, because it's strengths and weaknesses are nicely complemented by Linux better than the other BSD's. Taking them together you get more good open way to solve problems.
In order to prove that Toy Story was just a matter of technology Disney bought Dream Quest, spent a bunch more money and time to make the one movie, and then eliminated it all after that piece of crap bombed.
After factoring all that, I hear some internal estimates put the cost of Dinosaur at $1 Billion.
Just because you have all the tools doesn't mean you can make a house. And it seems some people don't recall why Dinosaur failed.
Don't forget OpenSSI as well. This is a single-system-image clustering product with a long lifespan and great support within HP.
If you have a Directv/Tivo combo unit, you get 5.1 sound.
A species of Argentine ant introduced into Europe about 80 years ago has developed the largest supercolony ever recorded.
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It stretches 6,000 kilometres - from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain - with billions of related ants occupying millions of nests.
While ants from rival nests normally fight each other to the death, ants from the supercolony have the ability to recognise each other and co-operate - even if they come from nests at opposite ends of the colony's range.
The Argentine species (Linepithema humile) probably came into Europe on imported plants, pushing back the 20 or so indigenous species of European ant.
see here -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1932509.st
The Queen Mary was notorious for it's problem with rolling. Once source claims Cunard measured a roll of 44 degrees from vertical during one particularly bad storm.
This info seems to be erroneous. Only this one website seems to mention that the Queen Mary rolled. Every other reference I can find refers to the ship rolling a great deal with green water over the deck, but not rolling over.
Disney has been under fire for some time about the quantity of pollution generated by the fireworks show. This is mostly to get the AQMD off their backs and their neighbors off their backs. I wonder if they will bother to implement this in Florida ?
Here is an excerpt from miceage.com -
Rather, this surprise move by TDA is caused primarily with some hot water the Park has gotten in with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, or AQMD for short. Readers outside of Southern California may not be familiar with a government body like the AQMD, but they've been setting policy and regulating private enterprise in a successful attempt to reduce the amount of air pollution in Orange and Los Angeles counties for decades now. The Disneyland Resort is one of the 28,000 private businesses that operates with a permit from the AQMD, and is allowed a certain number of "pollution credits" each year. A business like Disneyland can earn credits by enrolling employees in clean air commuting plans that encourage Anaheim Cast Members to carpool, ride their bikes, or take the train to work. Disneyland Cast Members can earn a dollar per day each time they "Clean Air Commute", and Disneyland occasionally raises those stakes to three dollars per day and doles out the cash in paychecks or with gift certificates to Target or other big box retailers. While Disneyland earns credits with good citizen programs like those, it also loses credits by operating polluting engines such as on the Mark Twain or the parking lot trams. And as one of the biggest single site employers in Southern California with a huge physical plant of potential pollution sources, Disneyland often walks a fine line with the AQMD. Photo courtesy of Kevin Yee This regulatory environment that Disneyland operates in is what has led to a need to reduce the amount of smoke and pollution that the nightly fireworks displays pump into the air. Although the vocal group of Anaheim neighbors that got a decent amount of media attention last year with their constant complaints about the noisy and smoky Disneyland fireworks shows haven't helped matters, it's the more definable processes the AQMD uses to measure pollution that led to this situation. In fact, the AQMD's regulations are what led Disneyland to invest several million dollars into a new pneumatic air launching system installed just north of the park this past winter. It was hoped by TDA that this cleaner and less smoky process of launching fireworks into the air from a large block of modern launch tubes dubbed "The Black Forest" by Disneyland's pyro technicians would gain the park some leeway with the AQMD inspectors. Unfortunately however, while the new launch system was effective with the standard fireworks shells that shoot straight up, it left a great deal to be desired from an artistic standpoint with some of the more unique effects. When Believe returned for the Easter Vacation period after its long winter's absence, several of the key effects that defined the Believe show simply weren't able to be accomplished with the new launch system. Most noticeably, the shooting star effect used several times during the show almost ceased to exist. Instead of the graceful arc of a shooting star sailing over the Castle that the Believe designers created, the air launch tubes could only manage an effect that was more like an errant fireworks shell fizzling towards Tomorrowland. The show's original producer Steve Davison, and the artistic professionals of the Disneyland Entertainment Department, were not at all amused at what the new environmentally friendly launch system had done with their show. And within a few weeks the tinkering that had begun on Believe during surprise showings in May had turned into a realization that a new show was needed that would satisfy
Theses are all good comments. I'm just against 8 foot cube walls because they feel pretty claustrophbic, unless your space has 14 foot or better ceiling height.
I totally disagree. I want all the technical people in a cube enviroment where they *can* overhear what other people are doing. This is critical for people to be able to help/comment/criticize the work of their team mates.
Having all tech people in their own office (ala Microsoft) is really dysfunctional.
Managers and other non-productives types can have an office. Makes them feel better and keeps them out of the way.
- cube walls should be 6 or 6 feet high. Not 8 feet. Not 4 feet.
- glass panels are cheaper and more attractive than white boards in the meeting rooms.
- provide area in the cubes for informal congregration/meetings and encourage collabaration.
- the importance of good coffee/drinks/snacks cannot be overestimated.
- someone will eventually need a fax or copy machine. Don't forget to get one.
- if possible, let people pick their own desk chairs and such. Just go to Office Depot or whatever with a Company credit card.
from news.com - Cisco apparently thinks this is not a problem at all
But any yahoo can go buy an EPRIB right now. West Marine two blocks away from me has a display case full of them.
It is not at all clear who (in general) foots the bill for real rescues or for false alarms. In this era of budget reductions, sometimes people get a large large bill;other times the government eats it.
The low tech verison of this has existed for some time. It is called an EPIRB. Here is one that is less than 8oz and $150.
Why do slashdotters assume every dumbass post is a legimate problem to solve and RFID/linux/OSS/your_pet_tech is the way to do it ?
Some friends and I did a similar thing in Burma a couple of years ago, except focusing on opensource's security aspects and handing out OpenBSD distros.
I was hired to be a sysadmin at a aerospace supply chain software firm. My dba skills were "a plus".
I soon found myself converting pl/sql procedures for most of my day with no documentation on what they were supposed to do, or why. I was just supposed to "get them to compile".
Additionally, my attempts to get rudimentary sysadmin things in order (like a working backup of the dev systems and rc.d startup scripts) was viewed as "trying to take over our vendor technical support relationships".
My hiring manager did not speak to me after I started until I was asked to quit because of my "bad attitude".
I made them fire me so I could collect the unemployment.
... he is lucky US agents did not kidnap him from New Zealand and spirit him away to a nice cage at Guantanamo Bay .
I like this better -
Name: Mr Evil President
Home Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
United States
Phone: 202-456-1414
My understanding is that the "260 antenna elements that help draw in the signal" is basically a small fairly cheap phased array antenna system. You know, like on an Aegis cruiser. So with the proper emitter and a Beowulf like cluster of TracVisions ........
802.11x is long distance ? Right !
It gets beat by my cordless phone by a factor of ten.