Last I checked (about 3 years ago) enlightment was still more a window manager then a complete desktop environment. Boy do times change. Too bad 99.9% of people out there have no clue about black\fluxbox, enlightment, and can't tell the difference between Gnome and Sawfish. That's why we need one desktop environment platform to go forward with.
It never ceases to amaze me with the linxu could how they'll complain about 2 open document standards (ODF and MS XML based one) and how bad it is for there to be two standards but by God they'll defend a plethora of desktop standards with their lives it seems.
Curious I'd say. We need A standard. DBUS isn't cutting it. 1 platform = better more focused development.
I think you misread that (Mentally Ill, not Challenged), a variety of criminal acts can be attributed to mental illness especially with schizophren and missed medications for thing like depression. A mother suffering from postpartum depression and drowns her kids is more likely the result of the biological issues rather then some concious malevolence. We are ruling those out as those acts are more then likely the result of a biological root cause (John Cage like stuff). I think you are confusing the two.
A Navy friend of mine worked on a Sub for many years. He always thought it was ironic that for a mission that required stealth they always seemed to have some of the loudest food you could find. Even MREs are edible, normal food.
Nothing in the exploration of space requires such nonsense self-depravation and oddities that keep getting leaked. I swear this is just a poly for more money.
Flour Torillas and refried beans is a remarkable compact food with spreadable cheese (think like butter) is easy to make. Even in zero G. Microwave it and you are good to go. The ideal of using silk worms is laughable when canned pastes and flat breads store very densely.
Here is a great "at home" experiment. Make a PBJ upside down. Doable with jelly in a squeeze bottle.
I mean seriously this is the most idiotic thing I have heard.
Can of refried beans is a more dense food source.
Suppliments can handle any short comings in the food supply.
All of those can be packed\frozen\thawed with little trouble in dense formats.
Hell I know body builders that live on nothing but hard boiled eggs, whole grain bagels with peanut butter, diced chicken, milk, and tuna fish. 7 days a week. Years on end (excluding unusual meals on dates, holidays, etc.)
Chicken meat can be processed much like Spam and con be stored in a very compact space. Taking a cue from Tuna packaging you can use lightweight, vaccum sealed mylar bags to store the food. I have not tried freezing a hard boiled egg and thawing one to eat but bagels and even peanut butter seem to survive the freezer ok.
The key is density and as usual all things can be measured against SPAM for food density...:)
It's hard to develop a connection with parents if both of them work 40 hours a week, work out at the gym, belong to a bowling or golfing league, shuttle the kids off to sport, etc.
In short: 99% of the problems we face would be solved if we had 1 working parent homes. I don't care who stays at home, just so long as 1 stays at home.
You ahve to spend time with kids for them to turn out good. That doesn't mean you send them off to activities A,B, and C and watch, you ahve to actually interact with them. I'd wager if we looked at you idea that there wasn't a parental bond in this instance, we'd see in most criminal behavior (ruling out mental defects) a lack of a parent in the home and more then likely both parents working full time with minimal time in the home when off work.
There is an old quote I coined: "We don't go camping to commune with nature. We go camping to commune with one another with minimal distractions the modern world provides."
Perhaps now we can finally get enough momentum to end this Gnome\KDE battle and get KDE to win so we can settle on ONE desktop environment so we can get back to writing 40 different window managers.
QT + KDE = 1 Desktop Standard Linux (hell even Windows) folk can get behind.
Gnome + KDE = Goblin Desktop (You can thank me for coming up with that name
Merge the teams, move forward with KDE and lets get Linux on the desktop in earnest.
"...fact they cry to me every week about these bums they cater to..." and all those nice guys out there are invisible to them. As I said, a jerk with a bike and good abs win. I've buried 4 nice guys that couldn't take it (Not literally, I only went to one funeral).
One who wife left him for his boss. He shot himself in the face. One who couldn't get a date at all (as in ever) and after graduating U of M jumped off the Stillwater rail bridge. His note read "What good is knowledge when you are alone." One former Co-Worker in Minneapolis at 35 gave up and drank himself to death (GI bleedout, vomited up the blood, not a plesant way to die..) One who despite being good looking lost the girlfriend to a "more exciting guy" who promptly beat her on a regular basis. She runs back to Mr. Nice, then when the loser got out of prison, she ran back to the abuser. Nice guy drove 70 mph into a bridge column in Woodbury with no seat belt.
The world is hurtling towards a rather lonley place at breakneck speeds.
There was a poet\writer from the early 40s that once said: "The older we get, the fewer good people there are. Good people marry their childhood sweethearts and live happily-ever-after. Then hour by hour, day by day, there are fewer and fewer; and those that remain have more and more luggage they bring. Then when they are finally ready for that Mr. or Ms. Nice they have so much luggage that Mr. or Ms. Nice would rather die alone then deal with the mistakes of those that now late in life come around. I fear that the generations to come will suffer their parents misdeeds and the cycle will get worse rather then better."
I couldn't imagine being out there dating anymore, too old to put up with such nonsense. I need character in a person and so few, if any it seems, possess it. Perhaps I've seen the worst, but I haven't seen much in examples that show me otherwise. Why are dating sites overflowing with people that can't find someone? Because there aren't any 'people' out there anymore, just parisites looking for a host.
We crafted our own hell here on Earth with no one to blame but ourselves and the fact we need classes now for simple human interaction means we've hit about rock bottom. Perhaps there is hope, there would appear to be only one way to go now.. up.
I gave up on people as a whole a long time ago I suppose, hope doesn't spring eternal unfortunately. I've just seen too much to put any faith in people. Perhaps it's just here in Minnesota, if so say away from this place. Just makes me sick... it's just so sad how people not only treat others, but how they treat themselves. I just can't stomache it. A world of mercenaries with the battle cry "It's all about me"
Yes they are, some are just better at hiding it. I've seen a lot in my years and nothing, and I mean nothing, has ever shown me that they aren't. I've seen poor chumps dedicated for years get tossed aside the moment an upgrade comes along. I've seen good people trampled, kicked to the curb, and left pennyless and alone. Nope, I'd never go back to the single life these days, I'm just sickened how these post-70s "creatures" behave (men and women supposedly.) I wouldn't even call a fair number of people born in the 80s human based on their behavior... Mercenary, cuthroat, malicious, callous, cruel, malevolent, superficial, and total devoid of character. That pretty much sums them up.
I can't go a day sitting in an Applebees in Maple Grove, or a Chipotle in Saint Paul without overhearing some mercenary talking about who they are going to replace their current wallet with...
In short: Go to the gym, get a good job, spend a lot of money on them. Given two nice guys the one with the bigger paycheck or better looks, or both... wins.
It's been that way for the last 8000 years, why would it change now?
Fact: Nice Guys Finish Last because people are complacent by nature. If you are nice all the time, it becomes expected and undervalued. That's why the jerks win, our rare "Love you babe" outweights your pathetic daily adorations. Fact: The more money, the more women. Provider instincts haven't change in the last 8k years, ain't gonna change in the next 8k years. If you don't have money, get some weed. Fact: Good looks get you laid, good portfolio gets you laid. You need to advertise, no one likes a bum, a cheapskate, or an anorexic that can't move the bookcase or change the tire. Fact: Good Looks + Money = Easier Average Looks + Average Money = Door Mat easily replaced by the line above. Ugly + Broke = Alone You can always be replaced. Sad fact. So get yourself as high on the list as possible will buy you more time before they find an upgrade. If your lucky they'll die of old age before finding an upgrade.
It's a shallow material world and wishing it was better, teaching 'social' skills, will never replace a fast car, nice suit, and a good tan.
If you are a sysadmin and working more then 40 hours a week you're doing it wrong.
The whole point of a good sysadmin is you do things right the first time so they don't break, thus don't do much. Incident management and problem management handle the "I forgot my password nonsense".
At most you would be busy adding users and checking Security Access Profiles for new hires.
What are you spending all this time on? IDS systems should be paging alerts. System Management console should page on service failures. Hell before I retired I had 2200 server, 8000 users, 2 mainframes, 22 locations nation wide, 3 in India, and 1 Spain, 1 Italy, and 1 German location and I at most got 9 pages a day.
You need help getting that stuff straightened out, there is no reason for working more the 40 hours.
Work smarter, not harder. Need help let me know.
You need to use the technology at your disposal to make your life easier, that's the whole point of technology. You can drive a nail with your hand if you try hard enough but that's why we invented hammers.
Look at your automation possibilities, filter nonsense data out of your work day, work with you help desk and make sure they have the tools needed for their work and for God sakes quit working 40+. It looks bad. I've fired a few for working too many hours. I hire people to do it right the first time, not screw up and burn hours on end running around trying to fix things. If you came to me and said you were working 50 hours a week the first thing I would ask is "what are you doing wrong?" I expect my admins to be at home 3 days a week telecommuting and coming in twice a month on a weekend to deploy a physical server.
1) Break down you activities 2) Find out where you are wasting time 3) Find solutions to minimize or eliminate the most time consuming tasks 4) FILTER JUNK DATA. Trust me, 50%+ of the metrics people try to track aren't worth tracking 5) Automate Automate Automate. Watchdog services on *nix systems. Service doesn't report in for more then 5 mins. Shutdown the service via a signal and restart. No response after 2 minutes do a HARD KILL and restart. No response in 2 minutes, page yourself and handle it. 10 minute window is resonable for things like a mail server. Most Sev1 have a 15 min response window and a target 1 hour resolution by most standards.
sysadmins working more then 40 hours is like being proud you have to work on your car 40 hours a week. If you are putting that much time into the car, you need a new car. 40+ hours a week as a sysadmin tells me I need a new sysadmin.
Sorry to sound hard buddy but that isn't something to brag about.
recently got back from a small gathering of security experts that work with encryption. We saw a wonderful demonstration of a data security expert performing a challenge. We were asked to bring in a disk drive that had been deployed, wiped, deployed, wiped, and deployed. So I personally did a BSD install, Then Linux, then XP.
The demonstrator asked if the disk drive was "expendable", I said sure, it was an old 60 gigger. He then opened up the drive's housing and dropped it in a tank of liquid nitrogen. He removed it and smashed the platter with a hammer.
He took the platters and, as far as I can tell litterally taped them together with Scotch tape.
He took out a weird wand looking device and started, platter by platter, scanning them in. On the screen we could see the hard disk being reconstructed. It took about 2 hours to "wand" the platters of my demo disk.
We ajourned for the day as the software went to work. Now I stuck around the lobby and bar for a while and chatted with the demo guy asking what he just did.
"I used a special magnetic scanning probe to record the contents of the disk platter parts. The liquid nitrogen makes it easier to break the metal rather then bend it to hell. The process still works, it's just more dramatic."
I asked, "Neat how much does the wand thing cost?"
"They're not for sale to the public but I'd wager at least 30 grand for one."
"Ouch!"
"Spendy isn't it?"
"No I just sat on my pager... but yes that is sick"
The next day the demonstration began anew. This time he went off talking about magnetic sub sampling blah blah blah... my drink was watered down and their ameretto was ghetto. He had lots of slides with what looked like oscilliscope output and WAVELETS tossed around on the slides, oh and lots of linear algebra... yuck... But he said the following that caught my attention:
"based on the way hard drives operate you can think of them much like a printer. They print on a sheet of paper a magnetic pattern to represent a 0 or 1 so to speak rather then ink. So let's imagine that you print a picture of Wayne Newton in black and white on a sheet of paper. You can see it looks like Wayne. (He actually was printing this stuff btw..) Now (putting the Wayne Picture in the printer) I'm going to print a new picture but this time in red ink. (a picture of Tom Jones) now as you can see it's hard to make out Wayne or Tom at this point. But with the right technology you could easily pick out one or the other. But imagine now if you could only print black in on the top half of the page and red ink on the bottom. Or better yet hundreds of little bands on a single page each dedicated to a different color. You could, on the same page write dozens of different pictures, each in a different color. Hard drives do the same. In that small space of the Read Write head hard disks can leave a ghost of the old content. Remember this if anything: YOU'RE DISK WIPING SOFTWARE MUST USE SPECIFIC PATTERNS TO EFFECTIVLY CONCEAL THE OLD CONTENT..."
Now what sticks out from that? the word CONCEAL. Not erase, not delete, but conceal. I used the gdisk DOD wipes between my sessions.
So he opens up my disk's profile in his software, it showed a summary screen with the most sickening line I have ever read:
"Distinct Disk Profiles Found: 9"
9? WTF?
So the demo guy clicked on the 9 and boom this is the actual display that showed:
Profiles Found (Newest First) 1 ) Windows XP - FAT32 Parition 2 ) Attempted DOD Wipe 3 ) Fedora Linux - Reiser FS, EXT2, SWAP 4 ) Attempted DOD Wipe 5 ) FreeBSD - Paritions found 6, JFS,XFS,FAT32,na,na,na 6 ) Windows 2000 - NTFS 7 ) Windows 2000 - NTFS 8 ) Attempted Low Level Format, Sectors Reallocations = 9 9 ) Attempted Low Level Format, Sectors Reallocations = 0
WTF? All I could repeat was WTF over and over again. I d
I didn't say the address was track data. I think you thought I was implying the "not protected data" was on the card. Your address is easy enough via a phone book, vechicle registration, or a warranty card or in-store credit application.
Most, if not all retailers maintain a database of products purchased with a credit card and even zip code. The CD was sent using the same information they already use often enough to inform purchasers about recalls and defective product. You are making this way more then it is.
Your credit card itself has several "Tracks" of data on the magnetic stripe. Your name is part of that data. It's more then likely the flow od data went:
1) PRODUCT HAS UPDATE\DEFECT THAT NEEDS TO BE COMMUNICATED 2) QUERY PRODUCT IN DATABASE JOIN WITH LIST OF CREDIT CARDS USED TO PURCHASE SAID ITEMS 3) GET FROM CREDIT CARD INFO USER NAME JOIN WITH CUSTOMER INFO WHERE NAMES MATCH 4) PRINT LABELS FOR THOSE ADDRESSES BUNDLE WITH CD 5) SHIP UPDATE DISC TO CARD HOLDER'S LAST REPORTED ADDRESS 6) TELL MANUFACTURE YOU DID DUE DILLIGENCE TO CONTACT CUSTOMERS THAT PURCHASED SAID PRODUCT
Seriously this stuff happens all the time, nothing evil, nothing with the credit card company leaking unauthorized info. You authorize the merchant to read your data tracks on the card every time you hand it to them. You address, zip code, and phone number are not protected data last I checked.
Relax folks, nothing new here since 1950s, big brother isn't involved on this, just a standard cross-reference query in a database matching product to credit card used to purchase said product.
Jan 3rd 2006 - Installed Gentoo Linux as a firewall+tarpit\snort\IDS\reporting server. Set up scheduled Emerge update world in Crontab Sept 11th 2007 - rebooted said server moving to 2.6 kernel. Some issues with with portage after reboot but nothing the Gentoo Wiki didn't answer. Sept 12th 2007 - Went to bar with friends. Today - no reboots yet, 99.9% uptime for all reported services.
"I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet."
This idiot needs to be fired immediately. Freeware is no less reliable then closed source. For someone who works at SAS the concept of peer review of work must obviously make the work more unreliable because it's peer reviewed. Such utter idiotic nonsense.
SAS Institute Inc. 100 SAS Campus Drive Cary, NC 27513-2414 USA Phone: 919-677-8000 Fax: 919-677-4444
I for one have no interest in dealing with someone that stupid. Lockheed, Boeing, Ford, Toyota, and ever damn bank I have ever seen and worked with has Linux in the enterprise. Someone with this seer level of stupidity needs to go.
Change Hurts Big Changes Hurt in Big Ways Small Changes Hurt in small Ways
Linux in Vietnam is the bandaid, some choose to remove them slowly, some, quickly.
Either way the bandaid comes off.
Communist and Socialist nations tend to be able to handle the big changes quicker through mandate while capitalists tend to peel slowly. TO each their own, I for one avoid getting cut in the first place...
You think it's scary having the DHS have a crap load of paperwork on ya, what about when you ask and all you get back is "This Information is not available. Reason: Documents sealed as Classified."
Change, from bad, to worse. That man isn't even in office yet and he's already making bad choices. Lets see if the chosen one's followers will accept responsibility for electing him or quietly disavow him. I can't count the number of people that had the local paper frame with the big title CHANGE as the head line. Now out of 12 friends who had it proudly displayed, none have it up anymore. One appointment after another and the truth comes out. We never had a choice when it came to change, we were given two crooks to choose from and didn't have the balls as a nation to pick a third party.
We get the government we deserve, and we deserve little if anything anymore..
Real change starts in the mirror and we as a nation are cowards, more concerned about picking a winner then voting our hearts.
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Better emotional opporunties for story telling. An older Doctor would tend to be more reserved in his emotional conduct lending a "stoic" personality. With Chris we got a bit more manic behavior giving much more breathing room for emotional story telling. Perhaps the younger regenerations is a subtle implication that the Doctor is running away from who he was prior to the extinction of the time lords, once again a renegade on the run, not the the time lords or gallefrey, but himself, who he was, the man that destroyed gallefrey..."
The idiots breed, consume, and slaughter one another. When enough of them die off, those who quietly waited out the storm of stupidity can emerge and help rebuild the world. Sadly, as history points out, the idiots rise again. Wash Rinse Repeat.
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Last I checked (about 3 years ago) enlightment was still more a window manager then a complete desktop environment. Boy do times change. Too bad 99.9% of people out there have no clue about black\fluxbox, enlightment, and can't tell the difference between Gnome and Sawfish. That's why we need one desktop environment platform to go forward with.
It never ceases to amaze me with the linxu could how they'll complain about 2 open document standards (ODF and MS XML based one) and how bad it is for there to be two standards but by God they'll defend a plethora of desktop standards with their lives it seems.
Curious I'd say. We need A standard. DBUS isn't cutting it. 1 platform = better more focused development.
I think you misread that (Mentally Ill, not Challenged), a variety of criminal acts can be attributed to mental illness especially with schizophren and missed medications for thing like depression. A mother suffering from postpartum depression and drowns her kids is more likely the result of the biological issues rather then some concious malevolence. We are ruling those out as those acts are more then likely the result of a biological root cause (John Cage like stuff). I think you are confusing the two.
A Navy friend of mine worked on a Sub for many years. He always thought it was ironic that for a mission that required stealth they always seemed to have some of the loudest food you could find. Even MREs are edible, normal food.
Nothing in the exploration of space requires such nonsense self-depravation and oddities that keep getting leaked. I swear this is just a poly for more money.
Flour Torillas and refried beans is a remarkable compact food with spreadable cheese (think like butter) is easy to make. Even in zero G. Microwave it and you are good to go. The ideal of using silk worms is laughable when canned pastes and flat breads store very densely.
Here is a great "at home" experiment. Make a PBJ upside down. Doable with jelly in a squeeze bottle.
I mean seriously this is the most idiotic thing I have heard.
Can of refried beans is a more dense food source.
Suppliments can handle any short comings in the food supply.
How about:
Peanutbutter
Refried Beans
Tuna
beef jerky
whole grain frozen bagels
squeezy cheese
triscuits
Pringles
etc...
All of those can be packed\frozen\thawed with little trouble in dense formats.
Hell I know body builders that live on nothing but hard boiled eggs, whole grain bagels with peanut butter, diced chicken, milk, and tuna fish. 7 days a week. Years on end (excluding unusual meals on dates, holidays, etc.)
Chicken meat can be processed much like Spam and con be stored in a very compact space. Taking a cue from Tuna packaging you can use lightweight, vaccum sealed mylar bags to store the food. I have not tried freezing a hard boiled egg and thawing one to eat but bagels and even peanut butter seem to survive the freezer ok.
The key is density and as usual all things can be measured against SPAM for food density... :)
It's hard to develop a connection with parents if both of them work 40 hours a week, work out at the gym, belong to a bowling or golfing league, shuttle the kids off to sport, etc.
In short: 99% of the problems we face would be solved if we had 1 working parent homes. I don't care who stays at home, just so long as 1 stays at home.
You ahve to spend time with kids for them to turn out good. That doesn't mean you send them off to activities A,B, and C and watch, you ahve to actually interact with them. I'd wager if we looked at you idea that there wasn't a parental bond in this instance, we'd see in most criminal behavior (ruling out mental defects) a lack of a parent in the home and more then likely both parents working full time with minimal time in the home when off work.
There is an old quote I coined: "We don't go camping to commune with nature. We go camping to commune with one another with minimal distractions the modern world provides."
Perhaps now we can finally get enough momentum to end this Gnome\KDE battle and get KDE to win so we can settle on ONE desktop environment so we can get back to writing 40 different window managers.
QT + KDE = 1 Desktop Standard Linux (hell even Windows) folk can get behind.
Gnome + KDE = Goblin Desktop (You can thank me for coming up with that name
Merge the teams, move forward with KDE and lets get Linux on the desktop in earnest.
"...fact they cry to me every week about these bums they cater to..." and all those nice guys out there are invisible to them. As I said, a jerk with a bike and good abs win. I've buried 4 nice guys that couldn't take it (Not literally, I only went to one funeral).
One who wife left him for his boss. He shot himself in the face.
One who couldn't get a date at all (as in ever) and after graduating U of M jumped off the Stillwater rail bridge. His note read "What good is knowledge when you are alone."
One former Co-Worker in Minneapolis at 35 gave up and drank himself to death (GI bleedout, vomited up the blood, not a plesant way to die..)
One who despite being good looking lost the girlfriend to a "more exciting guy" who promptly beat her on a regular basis. She runs back to Mr. Nice, then when the loser got out of prison, she ran back to the abuser. Nice guy drove 70 mph into a bridge column in Woodbury with no seat belt.
The world is hurtling towards a rather lonley place at breakneck speeds.
There was a poet\writer from the early 40s that once said:
"The older we get, the fewer good people there are. Good people marry their childhood sweethearts and live happily-ever-after. Then hour by hour, day by day, there are fewer and fewer; and those that remain have more and more luggage they bring. Then when they are finally ready for that Mr. or Ms. Nice they have so much luggage that Mr. or Ms. Nice would rather die alone then deal with the mistakes of those that now late in life come around. I fear that the generations to come will suffer their parents misdeeds and the cycle will get worse rather then better."
I couldn't imagine being out there dating anymore, too old to put up with such nonsense. I need character in a person and so few, if any it seems, possess it. Perhaps I've seen the worst, but I haven't seen much in examples that show me otherwise. Why are dating sites overflowing with people that can't find someone? Because there aren't any 'people' out there anymore, just parisites looking for a host.
We crafted our own hell here on Earth with no one to blame but ourselves and the fact we need classes now for simple human interaction means we've hit about rock bottom. Perhaps there is hope, there would appear to be only one way to go now.. up.
I gave up on people as a whole a long time ago I suppose, hope doesn't spring eternal unfortunately. I've just seen too much to put any faith in people. Perhaps it's just here in Minnesota, if so say away from this place. Just makes me sick... it's just so sad how people not only treat others, but how they treat themselves. I just can't stomache it. A world of mercenaries with the battle cry "It's all about me"
Just sad...
"... they're shielded against lightening strikes and stray electromagnetic fields..."
Then why do we have to turn off all our shit when they want to land or take off?
only if you assume that people don't cheat. Otherwise the answer is self evident.
Remember that the door swings both ways, she can capitalize multiple suitors also.
"Not all women are mercenary..."
Yes they are, some are just better at hiding it. I've seen a lot in my years and nothing, and I mean nothing, has ever shown me that they aren't. I've seen poor chumps dedicated for years get tossed aside the moment an upgrade comes along. I've seen good people trampled, kicked to the curb, and left pennyless and alone. Nope, I'd never go back to the single life these days, I'm just sickened how these post-70s "creatures" behave (men and women supposedly.) I wouldn't even call a fair number of people born in the 80s human based on their behavior... Mercenary, cuthroat, malicious, callous, cruel, malevolent, superficial, and total devoid of character. That pretty much sums them up.
I can't go a day sitting in an Applebees in Maple Grove, or a Chipotle in Saint Paul without overhearing some mercenary talking about who they are going to replace their current wallet with...
Just sad...
In short: Go to the gym, get a good job, spend a lot of money on them. Given two nice guys the one with the bigger paycheck or better looks, or both... wins.
It's been that way for the last 8000 years, why would it change now?
Fact: Nice Guys Finish Last because people are complacent by nature. If you are nice all the time, it becomes expected and undervalued. That's why the jerks win, our rare "Love you babe" outweights your pathetic daily adorations.
Fact: The more money, the more women. Provider instincts haven't change in the last 8k years, ain't gonna change in the next 8k years. If you don't have money, get some weed.
Fact: Good looks get you laid, good portfolio gets you laid. You need to advertise, no one likes a bum, a cheapskate, or an anorexic that can't move the bookcase or change the tire.
Fact:
Good Looks + Money = Easier
Average Looks + Average Money = Door Mat easily replaced by the line above.
Ugly + Broke = Alone
You can always be replaced. Sad fact. So get yourself as high on the list as possible will buy you more time before they find an upgrade. If your lucky they'll die of old age before finding an upgrade.
It's a shallow material world and wishing it was better, teaching 'social' skills, will never replace a fast car, nice suit, and a good tan.
If you are a sysadmin and working more then 40 hours a week you're doing it wrong.
The whole point of a good sysadmin is you do things right the first time so they don't break, thus don't do much. Incident management and problem management handle the "I forgot my password nonsense".
At most you would be busy adding users and checking Security Access Profiles for new hires.
What are you spending all this time on? IDS systems should be paging alerts. System Management console should page on service failures. Hell before I retired I had 2200 server, 8000 users, 2 mainframes, 22 locations nation wide, 3 in India, and 1 Spain, 1 Italy, and 1 German location and I at most got 9 pages a day.
You need help getting that stuff straightened out, there is no reason for working more the 40 hours.
Work smarter, not harder. Need help let me know.
You need to use the technology at your disposal to make your life easier, that's the whole point of technology. You can drive a nail with your hand if you try hard enough but that's why we invented hammers.
Look at your automation possibilities, filter nonsense data out of your work day, work with you help desk and make sure they have the tools needed for their work and for God sakes quit working 40+. It looks bad. I've fired a few for working too many hours. I hire people to do it right the first time, not screw up and burn hours on end running around trying to fix things. If you came to me and said you were working 50 hours a week the first thing I would ask is "what are you doing wrong?" I expect my admins to be at home 3 days a week telecommuting and coming in twice a month on a weekend to deploy a physical server.
1) Break down you activities
2) Find out where you are wasting time
3) Find solutions to minimize or eliminate the most time consuming tasks
4) FILTER JUNK DATA. Trust me, 50%+ of the metrics people try to track aren't worth tracking
5) Automate Automate Automate. Watchdog services on *nix systems. Service doesn't report in for more then 5 mins. Shutdown the service via a signal and restart. No response after 2 minutes do a HARD KILL and restart. No response in 2 minutes, page yourself and handle it. 10 minute window is resonable for things like a mail server. Most Sev1 have a 15 min response window and a target 1 hour resolution by most standards.
sysadmins working more then 40 hours is like being proud you have to work on your car 40 hours a week. If you are putting that much time into the car, you need a new car. 40+ hours a week as a sysadmin tells me I need a new sysadmin.
Sorry to sound hard buddy but that isn't something to brag about.
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recently got back from a small gathering of security experts that work with encryption. We saw a wonderful demonstration of a data security expert performing a challenge. We were asked to bring in a disk drive that had been deployed, wiped, deployed, wiped, and deployed. So I personally did a BSD install, Then Linux, then XP.
The demonstrator asked if the disk drive was "expendable", I said sure, it was an old 60 gigger. He then opened up the drive's housing and dropped it in a tank of liquid nitrogen. He removed it and smashed the platter with a hammer.
He took the platters and, as far as I can tell litterally taped them together with Scotch tape.
He took out a weird wand looking device and started, platter by platter, scanning them in. On the screen we could see the hard disk being reconstructed. It took about 2 hours to "wand" the platters of my demo disk.
We ajourned for the day as the software went to work. Now I stuck around the lobby and bar for a while and chatted with the demo guy asking what he just did.
"I used a special magnetic scanning probe to record the contents of the disk platter parts. The liquid nitrogen makes it easier to break the metal rather then bend it to hell. The process still works, it's just more dramatic."
I asked, "Neat how much does the wand thing cost?"
"They're not for sale to the public but I'd wager at least 30 grand for one."
"Ouch!"
"Spendy isn't it?"
"No I just sat on my pager... but yes that is sick"
The next day the demonstration began anew. This time he went off talking about magnetic sub sampling blah blah blah... my drink was watered down and their ameretto was ghetto. He had lots of slides with what looked like oscilliscope output and WAVELETS tossed around on the slides, oh and lots of linear algebra... yuck... But he said the following that caught my attention:
"based on the way hard drives operate you can think of them much like a printer. They print on a sheet of paper a magnetic pattern to represent a 0 or 1 so to speak rather then ink. So let's imagine that you print a picture of Wayne Newton in black and white on a sheet of paper. You can see it looks like Wayne. (He actually was printing this stuff btw..) Now (putting the Wayne Picture in the printer) I'm going to print a new picture but this time in red ink. (a picture of Tom Jones) now as you can see it's hard to make out Wayne or Tom at this point. But with the right technology you could easily pick out one or the other. But imagine now if you could only print black in on the top half of the page and red ink on the bottom. Or better yet hundreds of little bands on a single page each dedicated to a different color. You could, on the same page write dozens of different pictures, each in a different color. Hard drives do the same. In that small space of the Read Write head hard disks can leave a ghost of the old content. Remember this if anything: YOU'RE DISK WIPING SOFTWARE MUST USE SPECIFIC PATTERNS TO EFFECTIVLY CONCEAL THE OLD CONTENT..."
Now what sticks out from that? the word CONCEAL. Not erase, not delete, but conceal. I used the gdisk DOD wipes between my sessions.
So he opens up my disk's profile in his software, it showed a summary screen with the most sickening line I have ever read:
"Distinct Disk Profiles Found: 9"
9? WTF?
So the demo guy clicked on the 9 and boom this is the actual display that showed:
Profiles Found (Newest First)
1 ) Windows XP - FAT32 Parition
2 ) Attempted DOD Wipe
3 ) Fedora Linux - Reiser FS, EXT2, SWAP
4 ) Attempted DOD Wipe
5 ) FreeBSD - Paritions found 6, JFS,XFS,FAT32,na,na,na
6 ) Windows 2000 - NTFS
7 ) Windows 2000 - NTFS
8 ) Attempted Low Level Format, Sectors Reallocations = 9
9 ) Attempted Low Level Format, Sectors Reallocations = 0
WTF? All I could repeat was WTF over and over again. I d
I didn't say the address was track data. I think you thought I was implying the "not protected data" was on the card. Your address is easy enough via a phone book, vechicle registration, or a warranty card or in-store credit application.
Most, if not all retailers maintain a database of products purchased with a credit card and even zip code. The CD was sent using the same information they already use often enough to inform purchasers about recalls and defective product. You are making this way more then it is.
Your credit card itself has several "Tracks" of data on the magnetic stripe. Your name is part of that data. It's more then likely the flow od data went:
1) PRODUCT HAS UPDATE\DEFECT THAT NEEDS TO BE COMMUNICATED
2) QUERY PRODUCT IN DATABASE JOIN WITH LIST OF CREDIT CARDS USED TO PURCHASE SAID ITEMS
3) GET FROM CREDIT CARD INFO USER NAME JOIN WITH CUSTOMER INFO WHERE NAMES MATCH
4) PRINT LABELS FOR THOSE ADDRESSES BUNDLE WITH CD
5) SHIP UPDATE DISC TO CARD HOLDER'S LAST REPORTED ADDRESS
6) TELL MANUFACTURE YOU DID DUE DILLIGENCE TO CONTACT CUSTOMERS THAT PURCHASED SAID PRODUCT
Seriously this stuff happens all the time, nothing evil, nothing with the credit card company leaking unauthorized info. You authorize the merchant to read your data tracks on the card every time you hand it to them. You address, zip code, and phone number are not protected data last I checked.
Relax folks, nothing new here since 1950s, big brother isn't involved on this, just a standard cross-reference query in a database matching product to credit card used to purchase said product.
Jan 3rd 2006 - Installed Gentoo Linux as a firewall+tarpit\snort\IDS\reporting server. Set up scheduled Emerge update world in Crontab
Sept 11th 2007 - rebooted said server moving to 2.6 kernel. Some issues with with portage after reboot but nothing the Gentoo Wiki didn't answer.
Sept 12th 2007 - Went to bar with friends.
Today - no reboots yet, 99.9% uptime for all reported services.
I have but two goals for our space program:
Find a cost effect way to get garbage and nuclear waste deposited on uninhabited planets.
Build automated factories off world to strip mine the piss outta them for raw materials.
And as an added bonus:
Build a UMAX prison on the moon. Good luck escaping it back to Earth...
Anne H. Milley can be reached at 860-767-1312 FYI
"I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet."
This idiot needs to be fired immediately. Freeware is no less reliable then closed source. For someone who works at SAS the concept of peer review of work must obviously make the work more unreliable because it's peer reviewed. Such utter idiotic nonsense.
SAS Institute Inc.
100 SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513-2414
USA
Phone: 919-677-8000
Fax: 919-677-4444
I for one have no interest in dealing with someone that stupid. Lockheed, Boeing, Ford, Toyota, and ever damn bank I have ever seen and worked with has Linux in the enterprise. Someone with this seer level of stupidity needs to go.
Yet another revenue stream disguised as a certifcation process....
Change Hurts
Big Changes Hurt in Big Ways
Small Changes Hurt in small Ways
Linux in Vietnam is the bandaid, some choose to remove them slowly, some, quickly.
Either way the bandaid comes off.
Communist and Socialist nations tend to be able to handle the big changes quicker through mandate while capitalists tend to peel slowly. TO each their own, I for one avoid getting cut in the first place...
You think it's scary having the DHS have a crap load of paperwork on ya, what about when you ask and all you get back is "This Information is not available. Reason: Documents sealed as Classified."
Change, from bad, to worse. That man isn't even in office yet and he's already making bad choices. Lets see if the chosen one's followers will accept responsibility for electing him or quietly disavow him. I can't count the number of people that had the local paper frame with the big title CHANGE as the head line. Now out of 12 friends who had it proudly displayed, none have it up anymore. One appointment after another and the truth comes out. We never had a choice when it came to change, we were given two crooks to choose from and didn't have the balls as a nation to pick a third party.
We get the government we deserve, and we deserve little if anything anymore..
Real change starts in the mirror and we as a nation are cowards, more concerned about picking a winner then voting our hearts.
Don't blame me, I voted Constitutional this year.
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Better emotional opporunties for story telling. An older Doctor would tend to be more reserved in his emotional conduct lending a "stoic" personality. With Chris we got a bit more manic behavior giving much more breathing room for emotional story telling. Perhaps the younger regenerations is a subtle implication that the Doctor is running away from who he was prior to the extinction of the time lords, once again a renegade on the run, not the the time lords or gallefrey, but himself, who he was, the man that destroyed gallefrey..."
The idiots breed, consume, and slaughter one another. When enough of them die off, those who quietly waited out the storm of stupidity can emerge and help rebuild the world. Sadly, as history points out, the idiots rise again. Wash Rinse Repeat.