The other issue which exists is DRM somehow there has to be some decoding of drm in order to use a lot of feeds and what content provider is going to give keys to decode content without some certainty that their content isn't going to become part of somebodies library for the price of a rental
Most slashdot readers want something nice to play DVDs they ripped themselves and torrented movies. The media companies have been abusing customers for far too long for anyone to give a toss about their survival now. Any new fancy DRM scheme will just get hacked like all the others did, the media companies may as well not bother.
There's no career ladder in a small company anyway.
There is no career ladder anywhere except that which you make yourself. The fat, balding, overpaid PHB will lie about such a thing existing though. Don't believe that guy.
In a small company it goes:
1) Fix, document, make it all work 2) Use your good reference to get a new job with better pay
Sadly, quitting is the right answer for this problem. If you're "pretty much the IT systems guy" this company doesn't care about IT, and is likely going to fail or undergo some major change soon. Management that only cares about a specific problem (or two) despite disaster looming all around them (IMHO) are always expecting firings. When they're worried about their own job, they'll ignore your concerns and let you do anything, only insisting on the project that will cover their ass if they survive.
You may be right but you don't know enough about this company to be sure. Maybe one good IT guy is all this company needs once things are neatened up and documented. Getting things in that state is challenging ( i.e. rewarding ) work.
"Quitting" is only an option for those who are independently wealthy, or are egotistical enough to think they can just grab another job by snapping their fingers. Get a new job first before quitting.
You can't tell the guy what to do without knowing his requirements. I assume there is some complexity in there or else he would not need so much kit in the first place.
Wiki's are a good form of easy edit documentation. I'm not sure what you have against them.
Personally I prefer plain old HTML to wiki engines for handling documentation. But I can see where wiki engines are handy because they usually have built-in keyword search capabilities, while an HTML-based documentation approach requires setting up a search engine to scan the pages.
I far prefer wiki's. it takes seconds to correct and version a spelling fix in a document in MediaWiki. It takes long enough to wonder if it's worth the effort in plain HTML files. Wiki's make updating documentation easier and give a really easy way to see what changes were made, when, and by whom.
But no matter what approach to take, you will always have some duplication because it makes it easier for the USER of the documentation to understand what you're talking about than having them constantly clicking links to tiny little topic pages that deal with definitions and other core information.
I could not agree more. Personally I'd put the lot in a wiki with well laid out sections, but the choice of tools is a minor consideration compared to the actual effort of writting and updating the documentation. As long as the documentation can be read and updated with a minimum of fuss it doesn't really matter what tools are used.
Why is the advice on Ask Slashdot so often "quit your job" as if running away from the problem is a good solution?
because it is precisely their job to deal with the problem themselves. if they don't even know where to start, they aren't quitting as if to run away... they are quitting because they are not qualified.
You may have a point there. You don't get doctors asking on the internet how to treat patients.
Why is the advice on Ask Slashdot so often "quit your job" as if running away from the problem is a good solution?
I have an issue with my boss --> quit your job We are using a system that I don't like --> quit your job In my company, I have this difficulty --> quit your job
Maybe many of the people people who post on slashdot are the kind of people who sit at home or in dead end jobs because they run away from challenges.
I really don't get it actually. I love to be given a big mess of systems, clean it up, document it. I find it very rewarding.
If the tracking data does not allow for identification of the individual then it is not personal data and the Directive does not apply.
If they track your location, have records of credit/store/bank/loyalty cards used, and video recordings then their system allows identification of most people.
Of course they will lie and say it's impossible to correlate the data.
You mean that you replies to the top-most thread with an off-topic post instead of starting a new thread so that your post would show up at the top of the page?
I'm not that vain and insecure thanks. Sounds like you are though.
Stardate: 42437.5 ''Data is possessed by the consciousness of a brilliant scientist. However, it has a disturbing impact on Data's personality. Stardate: 45571.2 "Data, O'Brien, and the chick in the low cut top are possessed by aliens from a prison planet and run around trying to free all the other prisoner aliens."
The US didn't start the war in Afghanistan. The Afghan government supported a foreign but Afghan based group that attacked US civilians on US territory, an act of war. The Afghan government then gave shelter and protection to this group after the attack despite US demands to turn them over for criminal prosecution. The Afghan government thus made themselves an accomplice in the attack after the fact.
It was an utterly disproportionate response with a massive toll in lives and money and it was directed at the wrong people. It was a war triggered by pride and stupidity.
There never was any evidence Iraq was in any way involved. What was that about again?
That's funny. After demonstrating that we have no qualms about paying for 10+ years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, regardless of cost, you think Iran is going to win on a financial attrition basis.
Maybe China will. The US is running up more and more debt with every war, sooner or later people will stop lending the US money and its well funded war machine will no longer function.
My thoughts too. If someone thinks they could stand a chance of winning, they might actually try.
Being hopelessly unbalanced is a near-guarantee of lasting peace.
No. Being hopelessly unbalanced is a near-guarantee of lasting war. If the US didn't believe it could easily win the wars in Iraq and Afganistan it would never had started them.
Now don't count on that one. A lot of companies that start good turn bad once they get enough customers on board. You can never stop watching what your suppliers are up to.
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The other issue which exists is DRM somehow there has to be some decoding of drm in order to use a lot of feeds and what content provider is going to give keys to decode content without some certainty that their content isn't going to become part of somebodies library for the price of a rental
Most slashdot readers want something nice to play DVDs they ripped themselves and torrented movies. The media companies have been abusing customers for far too long for anyone to give a toss about their survival now. Any new fancy DRM scheme will just get hacked like all the others did, the media companies may as well not bother.
but Canonical was unable to confirm any manufacturers. It will be released later this year.
Oh dear. Released by who then?
Sony may be coding up a rootkit for ubuntu as we talk.
There's no career ladder in a small company anyway.
There is no career ladder anywhere except that which you make yourself. The fat, balding, overpaid PHB will lie about such a thing existing though. Don't believe that guy.
In a small company it goes:
1) Fix, document, make it all work
2) Use your good reference to get a new job with better pay
Most people want to skip the vital first step.
Sadly, quitting is the right answer for this problem. If you're "pretty much the IT systems guy" this company doesn't care about IT, and is likely going to fail or undergo some major change soon. Management that only cares about a specific problem (or two) despite disaster looming all around them (IMHO) are always expecting firings. When they're worried about their own job, they'll ignore your concerns and let you do anything, only insisting on the project that will cover their ass if they survive.
You may be right but you don't know enough about this company to be sure. Maybe one good IT guy is all this company needs once things are neatened up and documented. Getting things in that state is challenging ( i.e. rewarding ) work.
"Quitting" is only an option for those who are independently wealthy, or are egotistical enough to think they can just grab another job by snapping their fingers. Get a new job first before quitting.
Or do a good job instead of quitting.
You can't tell the guy what to do without knowing his requirements. I assume there is some complexity in there or else he would not need so much kit in the first place.
Wiki's are a good form of easy edit documentation. I'm not sure what you have against them.
Personally I prefer plain old HTML to wiki engines for handling documentation. But I can see where wiki engines are handy because they usually have built-in keyword search capabilities, while an HTML-based documentation approach requires setting up a search engine to scan the pages.
I far prefer wiki's. it takes seconds to correct and version a spelling fix in a document in MediaWiki. It takes long enough to wonder if it's worth the effort in plain HTML files. Wiki's make updating documentation easier and give a really easy way to see what changes were made, when, and by whom.
But no matter what approach to take, you will always have some duplication because it makes it easier for the USER of the documentation to understand what you're talking about than having them constantly clicking links to tiny little topic pages that deal with definitions and other core information.
I could not agree more. Personally I'd put the lot in a wiki with well laid out sections, but the choice of tools is a minor consideration compared to the actual effort of writting and updating the documentation. As long as the documentation can be read and updated with a minimum of fuss it doesn't really matter what tools are used.
Why is the advice on Ask Slashdot so often "quit your job" as if running away from the problem is a good solution?
because it is precisely their job to deal with the problem themselves. if they don't even know where to start, they aren't quitting as if to run away... they are quitting because they are not qualified.
You may have a point there. You don't get doctors asking on the internet how to treat patients.
you're an idiot.
And you lost it on the pointless abuse.
Why is the advice on Ask Slashdot so often "quit your job" as if running away from the problem is a good solution?
I have an issue with my boss --> quit your job
We are using a system that I don't like --> quit your job
In my company, I have this difficulty --> quit your job
Maybe many of the people people who post on slashdot are the kind of people who sit at home or in dead end jobs because they run away from challenges.
I really don't get it actually. I love to be given a big mess of systems, clean it up, document it. I find it very rewarding.
Christ, find another job already.
This guy is doing a the right thing and should be respected for it. Well done to the guy for turning a mess into documented clarity.
If you give up on every task worth performing you will never get anywhere. This guy will get somewhere.
If the tracking data does not allow for identification of the individual then it is not personal data and the Directive does not apply.
If they track your location, have records of credit/store/bank/loyalty cards used, and video recordings then their system allows identification of most people.
Of course they will lie and say it's impossible to correlate the data.
That's cute. You think they care about laws. How quaint.
No he doesn't. You seem to have missed the bit where he said 'but apparently nobody cares about what is legal anyway'.
You mean that you replies to the top-most thread with an off-topic post instead of starting a new thread so that your post would show up at the top of the page?
I'm not that vain and insecure thanks. Sounds like you are though.
I got the joke so go employ that dumb WHOOSH meme elsewhere, or better not at all.
I mearly commented that the use of the phrase 'for the Enterprise' is stupid for reasons other than star trek references.
His security history isn't perfect:
Stardate: 42437.5 ''Data is possessed by the consciousness of a brilliant scientist. However, it has a disturbing impact on Data's personality.
Stardate: 45571.2 "Data, O'Brien, and the chick in the low cut top are possessed by aliens from a prison planet and run around trying to free all the other prisoner aliens."
I really thought this article was going to be about Data.
I thought even the PHB types had given up ending sentencies with 'for the Enterprise'.
Use OpenSSH. You can tunnel TCP over SSH, it works very nicely on iphones and nokia n900's. I've not tested it on android but It should work.
The very last thing anyone should be doing is bridging their networks to a mobile phone.
This is the first time I've heard of Google Health.
Same here. I'm wondering how many other services google offer that we don't know about.
The US didn't start the war in Afghanistan. The Afghan government supported a foreign but Afghan based group that attacked US civilians on US territory, an act of war. The Afghan government then gave shelter and protection to this group after the attack despite US demands to turn them over for criminal prosecution. The Afghan government thus made themselves an accomplice in the attack after the fact.
It was an utterly disproportionate response with a massive toll in lives and money and it was directed at the wrong people. It was a war triggered by pride and stupidity.
There never was any evidence Iraq was in any way involved. What was that about again?
You make it sound like Iran is the aggressor here. Are you fucking drunk?
Who embargoed who?
That's funny. After demonstrating that we have no qualms about paying for 10+ years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, regardless of cost, you think Iran is going to win on a financial attrition basis.
Maybe China will. The US is running up more and more debt with every war, sooner or later people will stop lending the US money and its well funded war machine will no longer function.
My thoughts too. If someone thinks they could stand a chance of winning, they might actually try.
Being hopelessly unbalanced is a near-guarantee of lasting peace.
No. Being hopelessly unbalanced is a near-guarantee of lasting war. If the US didn't believe it could easily win the wars in Iraq and Afganistan it would never had started them.
...I guess.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-to-boycott-now-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/
Doesn't matter. They made their intentions clear and they deserve to suffer for them.
...and I expect to stay there for many years.
Now don't count on that one. A lot of companies that start good turn bad once they get enough customers on board. You can never stop watching what your suppliers are up to.
Does anybody know where 1&1 is on the whole SOPA thing?
No. But we know where they are on the locking customers in thing.
Good luck getting your domains away from that scumbag operation.