ACK. But that's way easy - if something from a higher level is keeping me from reaching my goals, I will remind my manager that it's *his* duty to make sure I can reach my goals. After all, he wants to keep his job, and so do I. If the project fails and he didn't do anything to solve the problem, he's toast, not I. And, again, rightly so. Of course having a good relationship to and/or a good manager will never make such problems occur. But anyway, I can say this, I'm in Europe and Corporate Europe isn't as pointless as Corporate America. Yet.
Corporate politics can work *for* you, too. Use the hierarchy. After all, those people are paid to help you. If they forget, remind them. If you lose your job for this, you'll lose it soon for any stupid reason anyway.
Naw. Consider the impact of the idea on a) the programming and b) game design.
First of all, implementing every high-tech control device, offering enough standard sets that the player doesn't have to assign the controls all by himself, which is a royal PITA, while still offering usable and learnable controls for those 99.9% using the standard controller, is downright illusional. Consider new controllers coming out, consider the pure number of 'controllers' with USB out there.
Second, controls are an essential part of game design. Level design, the number of moves or other manipulations of the gameplay by the player, every interaction is done through the controls. The controls are the interface between the game world and the player. This interface must be usable and non-frustrating. Game difficulty and player frustration is something to consider. People won't buy games that frustrate them. You can't design a level for a FPS with people using mice in mind, because then PS2-Controller-using people will get nowhere any time soon, and you can't cater it to the PS2 controller without making the game way too easy for anyone with a mouse.
It simply is too much work, and the extra work is of interest to a tiny fraction of players onle.
> Being powerless like that can be incredibly > usefull in office politics.
Actually, if my team went over a deadline because we were 'powerless to fix something', we'd get fired and rightly so. Management isn't interested in problems, it's interested in solutions. At least it was everywhere I've *ever* be working at. If you encouter severe problems/bugs, you can usually convince the PHB to change the deadline.
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> And spend another hour deselecting all of the > unwanted packages to get a lean system?
No offense, but if you want a lean system, SuSE clearly is not for you. You sound like someone who wants a hamburger, buys a BigMac and complains about having to remove the extra bread, salad, sauce and whatnot.
Changing to a faster mirror didn't come to mind, no? My fellow worker did a SuSE FTP install via our 1.5M in less than 30 minutes. Through the appropriate mirror.
> This could be done in under a minute with a > command line tool; it might take hours to do by > hand in a GUI environment.
Or you do it once, recording it as an action and telling Photoshop to do it to this folder and wake me when it's ready. Best of both worlds, used heavily at my workplace to maximize surfing time while being able to say honestly "Yeah, I'm working on the super-duper Internet optimized versions of your images. I'm testing the varions settings for your special audience."
Actually sourceforge is a good idea. I would contribute to the project if it were on sf. If if works well even only for a few of the main points of constant frustration (box model and font sizes come to mind), it makes work bliss.
> In fact the virus originates in Russia, so it's > very unlikely that the author is really called > Andy, but rather "Wolja", "Olga", "Oleg" or > "Katjusha".
I mean, it's not as if the Internet makes it possible for the author to spread it from anywhere on the globe, is it? Just because it (supposedly) started in Russia doesn't mean the author is a Russian.
Yeah right. Because it's much cheaper to go to court than to actually fix the problem in 10 minutes of admin time and no longer violating your ISPs TOS. Which you do if you get disconnected.
If you send me this shit, you get reported. If I'm wrong, you won't be disconnected. If I'm right, you can't sue me, as you are clearly violating the TOS and what were you suing *me* for, again?
>> The misconfiguration in this case is with the anti-virus program which erroneously tells the mail server to kick the virus-laden mail back to the poor schmuck on the header.
This is correct, it's a bit unprecise, actually it is the av on the mail server, not the MTA itself - but basically it's the same machine and you're explaining it to some office drone who's either concerned, trying to be helpful, or just wants to hear some techie-babble to have the impression that he's being taken seriously (which he isn't but he'll be gone sooner this way).
Most people don't understand anything about this anyway, so this explanation fully satisfies them, they can grab it with their knowledge of the system, and it's basically simply true. Even if we both know that there are different possible points of view on this, to non-geeks it simply doesn't matter. They're no longer concerned, they know there is no problem with their computer and they won't ask me about future bounces, either, as they know "their mail server is misconfigured".
Just tell them not to mail the server administrator. (I had several people doing this. Yes, I LARTed them. That was fun and actually we were taking bets among the admins on a) who would come and alert us about the worm on his machine and b) who would tell off the server admin when getting bounces.)
Actually it's *not* wrong, but completely *correct*, if the scanning is taking place on the mail server (which it is in most untiny companies).
Their mail server sends out e-mail containing advertising to an address which is sure to be fake (as this is how the worm, which is known after scanning, works). So it's knowingly sending e-mail to a faked address, which I would consider a *severe* misconfiguration.
Fixing this would actually be easy by adding a "forged sender"-flag to all that other information in their virus databases, or by simply configuring the e-mail by worm, which they could also use to advertise free disinfection tools, providing a service many people would use and remember. Leaving the e-mail content for a worm empty could default to not sending mail and everyone's happy.
Okay, it's not going to happen soon, but I think the first company to get this right will make quite some money from it.
I second that. I tended to have ungeeky girlfriends and I've married a woman which couldn't be ungeekier, but with those who didn't hate computers in general, YDKJ was simply great. (I must admit, though, that I'm a bit envious about those of you who can play computer and console games with your SO. I'd sure hope my wife were more into computer games.)
Easy. Don't do it from your home zone. Write a nice AppleScript that does the print jobs and install it on some machine which will be running at night. Script should be self-deleting, of course, and don't bother to trash it, delete it securely.
Aw. Come on. I see no point in what the guy did. If I simply created a giant image of all the digital photos I have, and this could be done easily, I would come up with much, much more than 1 Gpixel. What's the point? Doing it manually? I didn't know that/. readers are known for liking people doing stuff themselves they could easily automate.
And what should I do with this? What is it good for except being slashdotted?
I remember reading that one of the brothers said that originally the humans were used as giant computer (insert oblligatory beowulf cluster joke here) but Warner said that people wouldn't understand the concept of distributed computing. So they made it something easier to understand for John Doe.
I second that AC. You might for example have Diabetes or several forms of cancer. I, for one, am diatetic and you might guess how I found out.
Seriously, see a doctor. I am not paranoid, but I know from my own experience that there are signals of your body you must not ignore. Losing weight constantly and below a certain level definitely is one of those.
Along those lines, I see that Adobe has also started requiring product activation (web or phone) as well.
Actually Photoshop on the Mac has been phoning home since 5.5. This can be simply avoided by not installing the Adobe Online stuff which is completely useless anyway. Don't know about PS7 though - I'm still working with 6.0 and won't be upgrading to 8.0 anyway. There's no need to.
They may be forced to integrate some of their products in the future, too, (Golive and Indesign?)
Please, don't mention anything like this again, they might actually think it is a good idea to do so. But it's not. It's nuts. I don't want to talk about the stupidity in putting print and web together, as the design principles are completely different. But when they do this, they will support all those professional designers in advertising agencies who think print and web is the same anyway and produce unusable eye-candy prone shitsites without any content. But another point is, that it would also be a stupid idea to do anything with GoLive other than dumping it and quickly forgetting it was there. I mean, have you ever looked at this pile of shit it outputs and calls HTML? Have you ever had to work on GoLive HTML without using GoLive and doing something more complex than changing some text?
Just to balance this a bit, Dreamweaver generates big piles of shit if you let it. But at least you *can* avoid it in Dreamweaver. It's a great prototyping tool.
The red that they serve on the airlines is my favorite; as it turns out, they spend a good deal of effort to mix a nice combination.
If you enjoy this piss they serve as "wine", you should really try and get some really good wine. You get great wine even in the $5-$15 price range, just go to a good wine shop and get advice on what to buy by explaining to them a bit what you like about the wine you know so far. Spend $25 a month on wine, invite a friend to talk and drink, have a nice evening and learn about wine.
Enjoy. BTW, yes, you can impress women with knowledge about wine. Might be a reason for some more/.ers to explore this part of human culture.
You know, I live in Germany and am not allowed to have a gun. But that saturday morning when I had just come home from a night with the guys and slept for about two hours, I wished I had a gun to display my dislike for Jehova's Witnesses who knock at my door so loud that I almost fall out of my bed.
Anyways, there were these two chicks, one old chick, about 70 years old, make-up, nice dress, and one young chick, about 21, hot. Says the old one "Good morning. We would like to talk to you about God!"
I, having said nothing since I opened the door, looked her in the eye for a few seconds, looked at the young one for a second, and told the old one, "see, I'd say I'd rather like to talk to this young lady about sexual intercourse."
They were gone and they *never* returned to the house. Neighbors told me later that they had unsuccessfully trying to get rid of those for years.
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ACK. But that's way easy - if something from a higher level is keeping me from reaching my goals, I will remind my manager that it's *his* duty to make sure I can reach my goals. After all, he wants to keep his job, and so do I. If the project fails and he didn't do anything to solve the problem, he's toast, not I. And, again, rightly so. Of course having a good relationship to and/or a good manager will never make such problems occur. But anyway, I can say this, I'm in Europe and Corporate Europe isn't as pointless as Corporate America. Yet.
Corporate politics can work *for* you, too. Use the hierarchy. After all, those people are paid to help you. If they forget, remind them. If you lose your job for this, you'll lose it soon for any stupid reason anyway.
Naw. Consider the impact of the idea on a) the programming and b) game design.
First of all, implementing every high-tech control device, offering enough standard sets that the player doesn't have to assign the controls all by himself, which is a royal PITA, while still offering usable and learnable controls for those 99.9% using the standard controller, is downright illusional. Consider new controllers coming out, consider the pure number of 'controllers' with USB out there.
Second, controls are an essential part of game design. Level design, the number of moves or other manipulations of the gameplay by the player, every interaction is done through the controls. The controls are the interface between the game world and the player. This interface must be usable and non-frustrating. Game difficulty and player frustration is something to consider. People won't buy games that frustrate them. You can't design a level for a FPS with people using mice in mind, because then PS2-Controller-using people will get nowhere any time soon, and you can't cater it to the PS2 controller without making the game way too easy for anyone with a mouse.
It simply is too much work, and the extra work is of interest to a tiny fraction of players onle.
> Being powerless like that can be incredibly
> usefull in office politics.
Actually, if my team went over a deadline because we were 'powerless to fix something', we'd get fired and rightly so. Management isn't interested in problems, it's interested in solutions. At least it was everywhere I've *ever* be working at. If you encouter severe problems/bugs, you can usually convince the PHB to change the deadline.
Just my 0.02.
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Yeah, I'd like to see it, too - I'm in Europe, so no chance of getting it at all except .mpeg ...
> And spend another hour deselecting all of the
> unwanted packages to get a lean system?
No offense, but if you want a lean system, SuSE clearly is not for you. You sound like someone who wants a hamburger, buys a BigMac and complains about having to remove the extra bread, salad, sauce and whatnot.
> SuSE really needs to provide an ISO image.
Why? Because you feel they should?
Changing to a faster mirror didn't come to mind, no? My fellow worker did a SuSE FTP install via our 1.5M in less than 30 minutes. Through the appropriate mirror.
> This could be done in under a minute with a
> command line tool; it might take hours to do by
> hand in a GUI environment.
Or you do it once, recording it as an action and telling Photoshop to do it to this folder and wake me when it's ready. Best of both worlds, used heavily at my workplace to maximize surfing time while being able to say honestly "Yeah, I'm working on the super-duper Internet optimized versions of your images. I'm testing the varions settings for your special audience."
Actually sourceforge is a good idea. I would contribute to the project if it were on sf. If if works well even only for a few of the main points of constant frustration (box model and font sizes come to mind), it makes work bliss.
> In fact the virus originates in Russia, so it's
> very unlikely that the author is really called
> Andy, but rather "Wolja", "Olga", "Oleg" or
> "Katjusha".
I mean, it's not as if the Internet makes it possible for the author to spread it from anywhere on the globe, is it? Just because it (supposedly) started in Russia doesn't mean the author is a Russian.
I just followed the link and saw:
Current Bid: US $202,087.65
Nice one. Kudos.
> I'd hate to see this broken in less than a few months time.
I'd rather like to have it cracked ASAP, so that we don't have people sentenced to death while it's still be thought of as "secure" while it's not.
Yeah right. Because it's much cheaper to go to court than to actually fix the problem in 10 minutes of admin time and no longer violating your ISPs TOS. Which you do if you get disconnected.
If you send me this shit, you get reported. If I'm wrong, you won't be disconnected. If I'm right, you can't sue me, as you are clearly violating the TOS and what were you suing *me* for, again?
>> The misconfiguration in this case is with the anti-virus program which erroneously tells the mail server to kick the virus-laden mail back to the poor schmuck on the header.
This is correct, it's a bit unprecise, actually it is the av on the mail server, not the MTA itself - but basically it's the same machine and you're explaining it to some office drone who's either concerned, trying to be helpful, or just wants to hear some techie-babble to have the impression that he's being taken seriously (which he isn't but he'll be gone sooner this way).
Most people don't understand anything about this anyway, so this explanation fully satisfies them, they can grab it with their knowledge of the system, and it's basically simply true. Even if we both know that there are different possible points of view on this, to non-geeks it simply doesn't matter. They're no longer concerned, they know there is no problem with their computer and they won't ask me about future bounces, either, as they know "their mail server is misconfigured".
Just tell them not to mail the server administrator. (I had several people doing this. Yes, I LARTed them. That was fun and actually we were taking bets among the admins on a) who would come and alert us about the worm on his machine and b) who would tell off the server admin when getting bounces.)
Actually it's *not* wrong, but completely *correct*, if the scanning is taking place on the mail server (which it is in most untiny companies).
Their mail server sends out e-mail containing advertising to an address which is sure to be fake (as this is how the worm, which is known after scanning, works). So it's knowingly sending e-mail to a faked address, which I would consider a *severe* misconfiguration.
Fixing this would actually be easy by adding a "forged sender"-flag to all that other information in their virus databases, or by simply configuring the e-mail by worm, which they could also use to advertise free disinfection tools, providing a service many people would use and remember. Leaving the e-mail content for a worm empty could default to not sending mail and everyone's happy.
Okay, it's not going to happen soon, but I think the first company to get this right will make quite some money from it.
Go fix it yourself. Simply create the "all-in-one" tree you want and filter incoming messages to be moved there. Problem solved.
I second that. I tended to have ungeeky girlfriends and I've married a woman which couldn't be ungeekier, but with those who didn't hate computers in general, YDKJ was simply great. (I must admit, though, that I'm a bit envious about those of you who can play computer and console games with your SO. I'd sure hope my wife were more into computer games.)
Easy. Don't do it from your home zone. Write a nice AppleScript that does the print jobs and install it on some machine which will be running at night. Script should be self-deleting, of course, and don't bother to trash it, delete it securely.
Voila. Call me Gutenberg.
Aw. Come on. I see no point in what the guy did. If I simply created a giant image of all the digital photos I have, and this could be done easily, I would come up with much, much more than 1 Gpixel. What's the point? Doing it manually? I didn't know that /. readers are known for liking people doing stuff themselves they could easily automate.
And what should I do with this? What is it good for except being slashdotted?
Actually this is what my Math teacher told us - he had studied philosophy and math because he had always felt so.
But WTF, he was an asshole anyway. And his lessons sucked. Heh.
I remember reading that one of the brothers said that originally the humans were used as giant computer (insert oblligatory beowulf cluster joke here) but Warner said that people wouldn't understand the concept of distributed computing. So they made it something easier to understand for John Doe.
I second that AC. You might for example have Diabetes or several forms of cancer. I, for one, am diatetic and you might guess how I found out.
Seriously, see a doctor. I am not paranoid, but I know from my own experience that there are signals of your body you must not ignore. Losing weight constantly and below a certain level definitely is one of those.
Actually Photoshop on the Mac has been phoning home since 5.5. This can be simply avoided by not installing the Adobe Online stuff which is completely useless anyway. Don't know about PS7 though - I'm still working with 6.0 and won't be upgrading to 8.0 anyway. There's no need to.
Please, don't mention anything like this again, they might actually think it is a good idea to do so. But it's not. It's nuts. I don't want to talk about the stupidity in putting print and web together, as the design principles are completely different. But when they do this, they will support all those professional designers in advertising agencies who think print and web is the same anyway and produce unusable eye-candy prone shitsites without any content. But another point is, that it would also be a stupid idea to do anything with GoLive other than dumping it and quickly forgetting it was there. I mean, have you ever looked at this pile of shit it outputs and calls HTML? Have you ever had to work on GoLive HTML without using GoLive and doing something more complex than changing some text?
Just to balance this a bit, Dreamweaver generates big piles of shit if you let it. But at least you *can* avoid it in Dreamweaver. It's a great prototyping tool.
If you enjoy this piss they serve as "wine", you should really try and get some really good wine. You get great wine even in the $5-$15 price range, just go to a good wine shop and get advice on what to buy by explaining to them a bit what you like about the wine you know so far. Spend $25 a month on wine, invite a friend to talk and drink, have a nice evening and learn about wine.
Enjoy. BTW, yes, you can impress women with knowledge about wine. Might be a reason for some more /.ers to explore this part of human culture.
You know, I live in Germany and am not allowed to have a gun. But that saturday morning when I had just come home from a night with the guys and slept for about two hours, I wished I had a gun to display my dislike for Jehova's Witnesses who knock at my door so loud that I almost fall out of my bed.
Anyways, there were these two chicks, one old chick, about 70 years old, make-up, nice dress, and one young chick, about 21, hot. Says the old one "Good morning. We would like to talk to you about God!"
I, having said nothing since I opened the door, looked her in the eye for a few seconds, looked at the young one for a second, and told the old one, "see, I'd say I'd rather like to talk to this young lady about sexual intercourse."
They were gone and they *never* returned to the house. Neighbors told me later that they had unsuccessfully trying to get rid of those for years.
Heh.