Yep, Sadaam has been directing all attacks from his 6-8 foot hole in the ground. You can just make out the tin can with the string attached in the photos.
Opening Date: November 06, 2003 Closing Date: December 31, 2003 Position: Information Technology Management Series, GS-2210-9 Salary: 46,175 - 73,657 Annual Place of Work: Various Organizations in Mannheim, Germany Position Status: This announcement may be used to fill permanent part-time, permanent full-time, intermittent, temporary full-time and/or temporary part-time positions. Indicate on your resume your availability for any these appointments.
Click on links for more information Duties: Duties of positions covered under this announcement may include but are not limited to: 1) translating detailed logical steps developed by others into language codes that computers accept with a required understanding of procedures and limitations appropriate to the use of a particular programming language; 2) interviewing subject-matter personnel to get facts regarding work processes in the areas of responsibility (e.g., supply, personnel, chemical process control); 3) scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives must be weighed with a view to production efficiency; 4) preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies; 5) analysis of the interrelationships of pertinent components of a system; 6) personal responsiblity for at least a segment of an overall project; 7) knowledge of customary approaches, techniques and requirements appropriate to a computer speciality area in an organization; 8) adaptation of guidelines/precedents to assignment needs.
Or...
Position: Information Technology Specialist , GS-2210-11/12 Salary: $42,976 - $66,961 Annual Place of Work: VARIOUS, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY with TCS to Bosnia Position Status: This is a Permanent position. -- Full Time
Click on links for more information Duties: Analyze functional requirements, design automation systems, design and develop application programs, design and develop client-server applications, design program databases, design system security interfaces, design and program network communications interfaces, test and validate programs and applications, configure operating systems and etc.. Indentify and evaluate automation system requirements. Develop, interpret, and implement automation regulations, policies, and directives. Develop and implement automation plans and architectures. Plan, manage, and implement automation projects and programs. Design and engineer information technology (IT) networks. Operate and maintain ITnetworks. Administer systems, such as network operating systems, messaging systems, database management systems, and worldwide web systems. Research current and new technology in order to develop migration and integration plans. Develop local area network (LAN)/client-server life-cycle management plans.
Be very wary when applying for Govt IT jobs. I applied for one that sounded from the description like a standard network adminstration position (managing windows servers & network equipment etc..) and wound up with a job that is best described as "Powerpoint Bitch"
I've only got 128 up and I feel it when it's saturated. Latency shoots up 200-300ms.
Largest file size available for DL is ~1 meg.
On the other hand I can download all day at 500-700 and not notice a thing.
I'd have a real useful website if I could support the traffic on my aDSL line. As it is, my ping goes to hell every time my mom feels like looking at the new pictures of her grandchild.
There is no way I could post or mirror anything that would be usefull to more people. I'd have to host the site elsewhere and pay more money.
Considering that large proportion of of users have ADSL (with 128 or 256Kbps upstream bandwidth) or modem connections, grabbing music from one another as fast as they can listen to it IS as fast as their bandwidth will allow.
...here we go.
I'm a sys admin (windows & networking) with 15 or so years experience in the commercial world, half of that in silicon valley. I took a job with the Army in Germany (not as a contractor but a civilian employee) about 8 months ago, mainly so I could get the hell out of the country for a while.
Here are some random impressions:
The job I applied for is not the job I ended up with. BEWARE of Military Job descriptions. They are ridiculously inaccurate. At the same time, don't be too intimidated by military job descriptions. They tend be very general and appear to be describing someone who is expert in far to many things to be realistic. Chances are the position you get will only require the skills mentioned in one sentence of a half page job description.
I was hired entirely via email. There was no job interview. I have no idea who actually decided to hire me and I haven't been able to find out despite trying.
I have yet to meet a competent IT manager working for the army. So far they have all been counter productive, bordering on useless.
The way IT works in the Army appears to be: hire 10 people for every job and 1 or 2 of them will do it right. The Army is HIGHLY REDUNDANT and it's likely you will be too.
Civilians & contractors have most of the knowledge & ability, though many if not most are ex-military. Soldiers appear to be tossed into IT jobs with none or only rudimentary training. The few that like this stuff do well, the rest are useless. Nobody cares however, the soldiers are only promoted based on their knowledge of Army trivia and ability to follow orders; not their actual job performance.
Regulations and policies governing IT in the military are always out of date and so stringent that they are impossible to follow correctly in every case. This can put you in precarious positions so be nice to people!
There is alot classroom training available for both military & civilian IT workers but it tends to be dished out haphazardly & you won't necessarily use much of it in your particular job.
Pay is pretty good if you go overseas & factor in your housing allowance. If you stay in the US it's not so good.
Turnover is high. In 8 months, in a 20 person organization, I've seen half leave & be replaced.
The soldiers, of course tend to last about 2 years in one place and all the civilians I know are looking for other jobs.
You would think there would be a highly organized and well thought out structure to IT in the Army but in reality it's a cluster fuck with generally pooor communication between organizations. It only functions because it's HIGHLY REDUNDANT.
You have to get used to seeing some of your co-workers rarely showing up for work, simply making things up when they do, and generally being more of a hinderance than a help yet nobody will ever call them on it. I haven't figure out how they get away with it yet.
You will need a security clearance however this takes so long that you will be employed for two years with a intirum clearance before you actually get one.
Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Dell, Dell, Cisco, Foundry, Sun, various defense contractors.
There's rumoured to be sanctioned Linux boxes somewhere but I've never seen one.
Oh.. I could go on and on but I need to get some sleep.
Windows (XP & 2003 anyway) is rebooting because the RPC service crashes when attacked unsuccessfully and by default, Win2k3 will reboot if it can't restart the service.
That's the behavior I saw today on a Win2k3 server anyway.
You can change this behavior to 'ignore' rather than 'restart computer' under Computer Manager/Services/Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Properties Tab/Recovery.
This will also give you time to patch if you are getting hit every 5 minutes.
I'm writing this on an Athlon XP 2500 (oc'ed to 2.09Ghz) crammed into the cheapest micro atx case I could find. The case came with an even cheaper, measly 165 watt power supply. The system also contains a Gefore TI 4600, a 120GB HD, and a DVD/CDRW drive.
It runs 24x7 in an attic where the ambient temperature has been between 85-100 degree F for the past few weeks.
It's the fastest & smallest system I've ever owned and it's never crashed once.
I can say with some confidence that none of the 20 or so machines I've built over the years using the cheapest power supplies available, have ever had stability problems that I could blame on the power supply. In my experience they usually either work or they don't. (I've seen a rare exception or two on the job and those were always with more expensive power supplies than I'd purchase for myself)
Work arounds of the current legal system governing copyright are getting pretty clever and it seem to me that the RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot.
We all wind up with added complexity and they end up with less or equal the amount profit they would have had if they just let it be.
I suppose in the long run it's better this way though.
I finally broke down and bought a PS2 just because good PC arcade racers (Wipeout!) are rare (last good one was NFS Porsche Unleashed) and lightgun games are nonexistent on the PC. But you know... I was horrified by the lo-res graphics... even with component video out. To much time playing Q3,UT03, BF1942 at hi-res I guess. I have both PS2 & PC versions of Midnight Club 2 and now play the PC version exlusively because it's so much easier on the eyes.
Tried a VGA adapter but it doesn't work very well. X-box better?
"OMG J.K. ROWLING IS RICH SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE RIGHTS TO HER WORKS LOL!"
That's not what I said. That's your quote.
"Just because you think it's not right doesn't mean you can break the law."
Oh yes it does. In fact it's my duty.
Ms. Rowling is a billionaire now. Does she really need more? Is she even owed more? Does she not owe a little to the millions of fans that have made her so rich?
Why not let them do knock offs & translations & whatever... How does it really hurt her? Say whatever you like about the law and copyright but once you release something to the public, you have effectively given it away despite whatever the IP laws say you still own. All you really own is the right to make money from it, which, especially in this case, is and will continue to be plenty. I'm willing to bet that even in her head, money is not the issue. Besides... this is how art & culture spread & grow... appropriaton. It's the way life works. You can hide behind artificial rules & regulations but you can't really prevent appropriation from happening. I personally think it should be encouraged.
After dismissing the right to make obscene amounts of money for a few hundred years, much or most of it by people not at all involved in the creative process that went into creating the work in the first place, the only argument we are left with is the 'protecting the integrity of the work' argument. But ya know, they're kids books for christ sakes. And they are already derivitive. Even if the reigns were loosened everyone would know that it is Rowling's work that is the final word. I simply cannot buy this argument. I don't see how the originals could be seriously harmed.
Assuming she still owns the rights (unlikely) to Harry, it would be very fair of her to let the kids run wild with the material. I would hope that one of her motives is to foster her reader's imagination and letting them do what they will with Harry would be the logical extension of that. It doesn't even seem unfair to me to allow others to profit a little from modifications/translations that the author or publisher never intend to produce themselves. (or even if they are too slow to produce it themselves...)
The only place I would draw a hard line is if others profit from selling exact copies of the original work.
Hey, thanks. That looks really good and I'm going to try and get a hold of it.
I was just in Verdun a few months back and will probably be going again soon. This should add a little to the experience.
"A much better summer movie is, amazingly enough, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. "
You have got to be kidding...
You just negated your first sentence.
...for those that haven't seen it yet.
You really need to put "WARNING... SPOILER" in that post.
This movie is as good or better than Dawn of the Dead which is my benchmark for Zombie flicks. Pays homage to it too.
As a windows sys admin who is frequently frustrated by not know how to do what should (and probably are) very simple and basic things in Linux, this post makes me want to give Gentoo a try. I need a good education and I don't have the time or patience to decipher man pages.
Almost without exception... Movies made primarily as art, ie from the heart/soul, without the specific intention of making assloads of money, are always better.
If the money goes... perhaps the art will remain. Certainly there will be alot less crap to wade though.
I seriously don't understand America's addiction to DVDs though. There are very few movies I would want to watch more than once. One of the saddest things I ever saw was a guy standing in line at Fry's with 10 DVDs (Anime & Porn) and two large bags of Beef Jerky.
.. Is anyone here aware of a script that will attempt to search a network for windows boxen set or reset all local admin accounts (or any other account for that matter) on NT/2k/XP machines?
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Yep, Sadaam has been directing all attacks from his 6-8 foot hole in the ground. You can just make out the tin can with the string attached in the photos.
for example:
Opening Date: November 06, 2003 Closing Date: December 31, 2003
Position: Information Technology Management Series, GS-2210-9
Salary: 46,175 - 73,657 Annual
Place of Work: Various Organizations in Mannheim, Germany
Position Status: This announcement may be used to fill permanent part-time, permanent full-time, intermittent, temporary full-time and/or temporary part-time positions. Indicate on your resume your availability for any these appointments.
Click on links for more information
Duties: Duties of positions covered under this announcement may include but are not limited to: 1) translating detailed logical steps developed by others into language codes that computers accept with a required understanding of procedures and limitations appropriate to the use of a particular programming language; 2) interviewing subject-matter personnel to get facts regarding work processes in the areas of responsibility (e.g., supply, personnel, chemical process control); 3) scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives must be weighed with a view to production efficiency; 4) preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies; 5) analysis of the interrelationships of pertinent components of a system; 6) personal responsiblity for at least a segment of an overall project; 7) knowledge of customary approaches, techniques and requirements appropriate to a computer speciality area in an organization; 8) adaptation of guidelines/precedents to assignment needs.
Or...
Position: Information Technology Specialist , GS-2210-11/12
Salary: $42,976 - $66,961 Annual
Place of Work: VARIOUS, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY with TCS to Bosnia
Position Status: This is a Permanent position. -- Full Time
Click on links for more information
Duties: Analyze functional requirements, design automation systems, design and develop application programs, design and develop client-server applications, design program databases, design system security interfaces, design and program network communications interfaces, test and validate programs and applications, configure operating systems and etc.. Indentify and evaluate automation system requirements. Develop, interpret, and implement automation regulations, policies, and directives. Develop and implement automation plans and architectures. Plan, manage, and implement automation projects and programs. Design and engineer information technology (IT) networks. Operate and maintain ITnetworks. Administer systems, such as network operating systems, messaging systems, database management systems, and worldwide web systems. Research current and new technology in order to develop migration and integration plans. Develop local area network (LAN)/client-server life-cycle management plans.
Be very wary when applying for Govt IT jobs. I applied for one that sounded from the description like a standard network adminstration position (managing windows servers & network equipment etc..) and wound up with a job that is best described as "Powerpoint Bitch"
I've only got 128 up and I feel it when it's saturated. Latency shoots up 200-300ms. Largest file size available for DL is ~1 meg. On the other hand I can download all day at 500-700 and not notice a thing.
...asymmetrical bandwidth.
I'd have a real useful website if I could support the traffic on my aDSL line. As it is, my ping goes to hell every time my mom feels like looking at the new pictures of her grandchild.
There is no way I could post or mirror anything that would be usefull to more people. I'd have to host the site elsewhere and pay more money.
Considering that large proportion of of users have ADSL (with 128 or 256Kbps upstream bandwidth) or modem connections, grabbing music from one another as fast as they can listen to it IS as fast as their bandwidth will allow.
...here we go. I'm a sys admin (windows & networking) with 15 or so years experience in the commercial world, half of that in silicon valley. I took a job with the Army in Germany (not as a contractor but a civilian employee) about 8 months ago, mainly so I could get the hell out of the country for a while. Here are some random impressions: The job I applied for is not the job I ended up with. BEWARE of Military Job descriptions. They are ridiculously inaccurate. At the same time, don't be too intimidated by military job descriptions. They tend be very general and appear to be describing someone who is expert in far to many things to be realistic. Chances are the position you get will only require the skills mentioned in one sentence of a half page job description. I was hired entirely via email. There was no job interview. I have no idea who actually decided to hire me and I haven't been able to find out despite trying. I have yet to meet a competent IT manager working for the army. So far they have all been counter productive, bordering on useless. The way IT works in the Army appears to be: hire 10 people for every job and 1 or 2 of them will do it right. The Army is HIGHLY REDUNDANT and it's likely you will be too. Civilians & contractors have most of the knowledge & ability, though many if not most are ex-military. Soldiers appear to be tossed into IT jobs with none or only rudimentary training. The few that like this stuff do well, the rest are useless. Nobody cares however, the soldiers are only promoted based on their knowledge of Army trivia and ability to follow orders; not their actual job performance. Regulations and policies governing IT in the military are always out of date and so stringent that they are impossible to follow correctly in every case. This can put you in precarious positions so be nice to people! There is alot classroom training available for both military & civilian IT workers but it tends to be dished out haphazardly & you won't necessarily use much of it in your particular job. Pay is pretty good if you go overseas & factor in your housing allowance. If you stay in the US it's not so good. Turnover is high. In 8 months, in a 20 person organization, I've seen half leave & be replaced. The soldiers, of course tend to last about 2 years in one place and all the civilians I know are looking for other jobs. You would think there would be a highly organized and well thought out structure to IT in the Army but in reality it's a cluster fuck with generally pooor communication between organizations. It only functions because it's HIGHLY REDUNDANT. You have to get used to seeing some of your co-workers rarely showing up for work, simply making things up when they do, and generally being more of a hinderance than a help yet nobody will ever call them on it. I haven't figure out how they get away with it yet. You will need a security clearance however this takes so long that you will be employed for two years with a intirum clearance before you actually get one. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Dell, Dell, Cisco, Foundry, Sun, various defense contractors. There's rumoured to be sanctioned Linux boxes somewhere but I've never seen one. Oh.. I could go on and on but I need to get some sleep.
Magritte vs Dali is Apples vs Oranges.
Windows (XP & 2003 anyway) is rebooting because the RPC service crashes when attacked unsuccessfully and by default, Win2k3 will reboot if it can't restart the service. That's the behavior I saw today on a Win2k3 server anyway. You can change this behavior to 'ignore' rather than 'restart computer' under Computer Manager/Services/Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Properties Tab/Recovery. This will also give you time to patch if you are getting hit every 5 minutes.
I'm writing this on an Athlon XP 2500 (oc'ed to 2.09Ghz) crammed into the cheapest micro atx case I could find. The case came with an even cheaper, measly 165 watt power supply. The system also contains a Gefore TI 4600, a 120GB HD, and a DVD/CDRW drive. It runs 24x7 in an attic where the ambient temperature has been between 85-100 degree F for the past few weeks. It's the fastest & smallest system I've ever owned and it's never crashed once. I can say with some confidence that none of the 20 or so machines I've built over the years using the cheapest power supplies available, have ever had stability problems that I could blame on the power supply. In my experience they usually either work or they don't. (I've seen a rare exception or two on the job and those were always with more expensive power supplies than I'd purchase for myself)
Work arounds of the current legal system governing copyright are getting pretty clever and it seem to me that the RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot. We all wind up with added complexity and they end up with less or equal the amount profit they would have had if they just let it be. I suppose in the long run it's better this way though.
Archos plug from happy customer. Still best bang for buck. Especially with Rock Box.
I finally broke down and bought a PS2 just because good PC arcade racers (Wipeout!) are rare (last good one was NFS Porsche Unleashed) and lightgun games are nonexistent on the PC. But you know... I was horrified by the lo-res graphics... even with component video out. To much time playing Q3,UT03, BF1942 at hi-res I guess. I have both PS2 & PC versions of Midnight Club 2 and now play the PC version exlusively because it's so much easier on the eyes. Tried a VGA adapter but it doesn't work very well. X-box better?
"OMG J.K. ROWLING IS RICH SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE RIGHTS TO HER WORKS LOL!" That's not what I said. That's your quote. "Just because you think it's not right doesn't mean you can break the law." Oh yes it does. In fact it's my duty.
Yeah, but legalities aside,
Ms. Rowling is a billionaire now. Does she really need more? Is she even owed more? Does she not owe a little to the millions of fans that have made her so rich?
Why not let them do knock offs & translations & whatever... How does it really hurt her? Say whatever you like about the law and copyright but once you release something to the public, you have effectively given it away despite whatever the IP laws say you still own. All you really own is the right to make money from it, which, especially in this case, is and will continue to be plenty. I'm willing to bet that even in her head, money is not the issue. Besides... this is how art & culture spread & grow... appropriaton. It's the way life works. You can hide behind artificial rules & regulations but you can't really prevent appropriation from happening. I personally think it should be encouraged.
After dismissing the right to make obscene amounts of money for a few hundred years, much or most of it by people not at all involved in the creative process that went into creating the work in the first place, the only argument we are left with is the 'protecting the integrity of the work' argument. But ya know, they're kids books for christ sakes. And they are already derivitive. Even if the reigns were loosened everyone would know that it is Rowling's work that is the final word. I simply cannot buy this argument. I don't see how the originals could be seriously harmed.
Assuming she still owns the rights (unlikely) to Harry, it would be very fair of her to let the kids run wild with the material. I would hope that one of her motives is to foster her reader's imagination and letting them do what they will with Harry would be the logical extension of that. It doesn't even seem unfair to me to allow others to profit a little from modifications/translations that the author or publisher never intend to produce themselves. (or even if they are too slow to produce it themselves...)
The only place I would draw a hard line is if others profit from selling exact copies of the original work.
Just because it's the law doesn't make it right.
Hey, thanks. That looks really good and I'm going to try and get a hold of it. I was just in Verdun a few months back and will probably be going again soon. This should add a little to the experience.
"A much better summer movie is, amazingly enough, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. " You have got to be kidding... You just negated your first sentence.
...for those that haven't seen it yet. You really need to put "WARNING... SPOILER" in that post. This movie is as good or better than Dawn of the Dead which is my benchmark for Zombie flicks. Pays homage to it too.
Wish I had moderator points today...
As a windows sys admin who is frequently frustrated by not know how to do what should (and probably are) very simple and basic things in Linux, this post makes me want to give Gentoo a try. I need a good education and I don't have the time or patience to decipher man pages.
Christ, I had a watch that could do this (IR remote) 5 years ago. what's the big deal? Any Palm OS loaded with ProntoLite can do the same thing
Why create a new form ID?
So what they mean is that there are absolutley no legitimate uses for blank CDRs and Tapes. Ha.
Just change keys every three years and you'll be fine.
Don't worry. We'll still all buy it. Looks great. Can't wait!
Almost without exception... Movies made primarily as art, ie from the heart/soul, without the specific intention of making assloads of money, are always better. If the money goes... perhaps the art will remain. Certainly there will be alot less crap to wade though. I seriously don't understand America's addiction to DVDs though. There are very few movies I would want to watch more than once. One of the saddest things I ever saw was a guy standing in line at Fry's with 10 DVDs (Anime & Porn) and two large bags of Beef Jerky.