Botnet herders have access to a very large number of computers, it was only a matter of time until they realized that the data on these computers is worth far more than the few pence they are making from Viagra spam and blackmailing gambling sites with DDOS attacks.
What a ridiculous jaded viewpoint from someone whose lifeforce has cleraly been crushed by his career history.
It may be jaded but not ridiculously so. IT has always been about the 'next big thing' and when that turns out to be all hype and hidden problems there is a new 'big thing'. Plus IT is flooded with career blaggers who will say anything to get paid but have no idea what they are doing.
Too few people are thinking about stability, security, and minimum disruption.
So, the best thing you can do is stay out of it and pay us lunatics that are dumb enough to go through all this crap.
Keeping up with the latest trendy languages is a path to burn-out. Find another path.
This flitting from thing to thing isn't right. It's like a heart surgeon changing to a ear, nose, and throat specialist, a radiographer, then a dentist, within 10 years.
Just imagine if LAPD pulled that on the person who filmed the Rodney King incident.
The police would have got away with it and those same police would be beating citizens to this day.
Rodney King is the reason police hate anyone to film them. The only films they want are ones that can 'get lost' in their evidence room if they turn out to be inconvenient.
everyone seems to have forgotten that matching customers with products is what advertising is all about.
Telling you over and over that you have to spend money on something you have no need of is what advertising is all about. Advertising is obnoxious in all its forms but I grant you that google's ads are the least obnoxious.
Is everyone ever going to make an adblock-alike which, rather than "blocking" ads, just prioritizes them differently so I don't need to wait for fifty ads to load before I can view actual page content? I really don't mind ads. I'm okay with them. I don't want to block them, and I think people who do block them are assholes. But I don't want to wait for them.
How can you be OK with ads? It's humanly impossible to read text from a screen while 6 flashing ads are begging for attention.
Before ABP I used to stick post-it's to my screen just to cover them up. Ad blocking software is a big step forward.
Though there are 27 year old grandmothers out there. Get knocked up at 13, then if your daughter does the same....
The UK has plenty of council estate types who live off benefits and reproduce like crazy. They are the UK analog of American 'Trailer trash', only they get better benefits.
A 27 year old grandmother would be exceptional but not impossible.
The first rsync might take a while, but after that it shouldn't be too bad. A simple robocopy backup of 300GB or so on my main machine takes about 15mins for me. On a personal drive with 3TB of data, most isn't changing very often.
Rsync still has to stat every single file on both the source and target before it knows what data to copy. On 3TB of average sized files that's a very large number of seeks, a lot of used memory, and a lot of time.
"Lobiusmoop has entered the micropayment processing space with 'shiny pebbles', a payment scheme based on the exchange of pretty trinkets picked up from the finest beaches of the planet.
All money is just 'shiny pebbles'. It has no value except in the fact that other people value it.
Better Visa's shiny pebbles than paypal's. Better a central bank than either of them.
In your face Paypal! May I never have to to use your rip off service again.
Paypal have been getting away with very dodgy behavior for some time now. They richly deserve the reputation they have earned as scammers out for a fast buck.
However that doesn't mean this new alternative is any better.
I find the best places to work are small companies, the big ones are often full of ignorant professional manager types, political types, and useless people who get promoted for hanging around for a long time.
So is the whole music industry. Have you actually heard what has been in the charts for the last 10 years? Mostly bland recycled nonsense marketed at children or rap music about guns and money.
SQL Server does integrate quite well with ADO and.NET environments with Microsoft Ecosystems. Hate it all you want but many I.T. mangers standardized on Microsoft a decade ago and wont consider anything else. If you are stuck in an ms environment and SQL Server is already free with your $$$$ VS.Net licenses then why not use it?
From a technical point of view MS SQL has nothing on Postgres or Mysql. It has less than nothing on Oracle. If you are in the position of getting MS SQL free as part of some other deal it still costs the same as better databases, and it still has the security risk that goes with MS software. ( You remember slammer right? )
11%...edging out ms sql server! Postgres 9.0 has built in replication -- it will be interesting to see how that affects its share of the open source db space.
Postgres has been in continual development for decades longer than MS SQL server. Postgres is a far better quality product than Microsoft's effort plus it's free.
The only reason to use MS SQL for anything new is if you are getting bribes from a Microsoft salesman.
I like Oracle, its products and technologies and I am glad that its opensource products are gaining sales. I wish good luck to Oracle.
I like Oracles's database, it's a great database with tons of features but it's pretty expensive. However the business software that oracle sells is a PITA.
...leverage a flaw in Windows' Help and Support Center...
This service is turned off be default on all systems I manage both as part of initial installation; and where possible by Group Policy. Just another parasitic service which is not necessary....because everyone just uses Google anyways.
You should turn off everything you don't need but if you turned off every insecure component of windows you would be left with a machine just running its BIOS.
Google, like Apple, is no longer any better/different than the companies they claim to be better than (from an ethical stand point).
That depends on how you look at it. It's not like this is the one and only zero day bug that has ever been found in a Microsoft product. Perhaps a bit of public embarrassment from a competitor will prompt Microsoft to do a few more checks on their code.
In the big scheme windows holes are so common that unless goggle is releasing 20 a day with quick and easy tools to help people use them this makes no difference at all.
Hate to be selfish, but since not enough people use it, they don't ban it, and I'm allowed to use it. Though I'd be surprised if the NSA didn't have a pragmatic way to break things like PGP, it's enough to prevent the small fry for messing with you.
If the NSA own half the computers on the planet they still can't be cracking PGP nearly as fast as the rest of the world is generating it. God only knows what they would be capable of with custom built hardware though.
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Botnet herders have access to a very large number of computers, it was only a matter of time until they realized that the data on these computers is worth far more than the few pence they are making from Viagra spam and blackmailing gambling sites with DDOS attacks.
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Because knowing what pizza Stallman ate last night will make you a better programmer.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place but I've never seen anything worth reading on twitter.
What a ridiculous jaded viewpoint from someone whose lifeforce has cleraly been crushed by his career history.
It may be jaded but not ridiculously so. IT has always been about the 'next big thing' and when that turns out to be all hype and hidden problems there is a new 'big thing'. Plus IT is flooded with career blaggers who will say anything to get paid but have no idea what they are doing.
Too few people are thinking about stability, security, and minimum disruption.
So, the best thing you can do is stay out of it and pay us lunatics that are dumb enough to go through all this crap.
Keeping up with the latest trendy languages is a path to burn-out. Find another path.
This flitting from thing to thing isn't right. It's like a heart surgeon changing to a ear, nose, and throat specialist, a radiographer, then a dentist, within 10 years.
Just imagine if LAPD pulled that on the person who filmed the Rodney King incident.
The police would have got away with it and those same police would be beating citizens to this day.
Rodney King is the reason police hate anyone to film them. The only films they want are ones that can 'get lost' in their evidence room if they turn out to be inconvenient.
There is a reason they are called 'filth'.
everyone seems to have forgotten that matching customers with products is what advertising is all about.
Telling you over and over that you have to spend money on something you have no need of is what advertising is all about. Advertising is obnoxious in all its forms but I grant you that google's ads are the least obnoxious.
Is everyone ever going to make an adblock-alike which, rather than "blocking" ads, just prioritizes them differently so I don't need to wait for fifty ads to load before I can view actual page content? I really don't mind ads. I'm okay with them. I don't want to block them, and I think people who do block them are assholes. But I don't want to wait for them.
How can you be OK with ads? It's humanly impossible to read text from a screen while 6 flashing ads are begging for attention.
Before ABP I used to stick post-it's to my screen just to cover them up. Ad blocking software is a big step forward.
It was a joke, looks like.
Though there are 27 year old grandmothers out there. Get knocked up at 13, then if your daughter does the same....
The UK has plenty of council estate types who live off benefits and reproduce like crazy. They are the UK analog of American 'Trailer trash', only they get better benefits.
A 27 year old grandmother would be exceptional but not impossible.
The first rsync might take a while, but after that it shouldn't be too bad. A simple robocopy backup of 300GB or so on my main machine takes about 15mins for me. On a personal drive with 3TB of data, most isn't changing very often.
Rsync still has to stat every single file on both the source and target before it knows what data to copy. On 3TB of average sized files that's a very large number of seeks, a lot of used memory, and a lot of time.
On the other hand, a 3TB disk would be a nice backup solution for a 4x750GB RAID0.
You are nuts. The unreliability of 750GB drives and the very long backup time would make your setup an exercise in pain.
You know.. Some of those records are over a hundred years old. I dare you to show me any kind of electronic record from more than 30 years ago.
I have plenty actually. It gets moved to a different physical medium every few years but the data itself is up to 35 years old.
"Lobiusmoop has entered the micropayment processing space with 'shiny pebbles', a payment scheme based on the exchange of pretty trinkets picked up from the finest beaches of the planet.
All money is just 'shiny pebbles'. It has no value except in the fact that other people value it.
Better Visa's shiny pebbles than paypal's. Better a central bank than either of them.
You honestly ask this? Of a CREDIT CARD COMPANY!? PayPal is a piker compared to Visa.
Visa are honest and trustworthy compared to paypal..
In your face Paypal! May I never have to to use your rip off service again.
Paypal have been getting away with very dodgy behavior for some time now. They richly deserve the reputation they have earned as scammers out for a fast buck.
However that doesn't mean this new alternative is any better.
I'd mod you insightful but I already posted.
I find the best places to work are small companies, the big ones are often full of ignorant professional manager types, political types, and useless people who get promoted for hanging around for a long time.
That must have been ranked 0 and fell off the list.
So is the whole music industry. Have you actually heard what has been in the charts for the last 10 years? Mostly bland recycled nonsense marketed at children or rap music about guns and money.
It all sucks.
Say what you like about ICP but one thing they have never been is racist.
Half their songs are about racists getting killed in amusing ways.
It's a neat idea but I don't think it's a new idea.
How about they make it run for 5 times longer at a fifth of the brightness? Half the world would put these things up in their driveway.
SQL Server does integrate quite well with ADO and .NET environments with Microsoft Ecosystems. Hate it all you want but many I.T. mangers standardized on Microsoft a decade ago and wont consider anything else. If you are stuck in an ms environment and SQL Server is already free with your $$$$ VS.Net licenses then why not use it?
From a technical point of view MS SQL has nothing on Postgres or Mysql. It has less than nothing on Oracle. If you are in the position of getting MS SQL free as part of some other deal it still costs the same as better databases, and it still has the security risk that goes with MS software. ( You remember slammer right? )
11%...edging out ms sql server! Postgres 9.0 has built in replication -- it will be interesting to see how that affects its share of the open source db space.
Postgres has been in continual development for decades longer than MS SQL server. Postgres is a far better quality product than Microsoft's effort plus it's free.
The only reason to use MS SQL for anything new is if you are getting bribes from a Microsoft salesman.
I like Oracle, its products and technologies and I am glad that its opensource products are gaining sales. I wish good luck to Oracle.
I like Oracles's database, it's a great database with tons of features but it's pretty expensive. However the business software that oracle sells is a PITA.
...leverage a flaw in Windows' Help and Support Center...
This service is turned off be default on all systems I manage both as part of initial installation; and where possible by Group Policy. Just another parasitic service which is not necessary....because everyone just uses Google anyways.
You should turn off everything you don't need but if you turned off every insecure component of windows you would be left with a machine just running its BIOS.
Google, like Apple, is no longer any better/different than the companies they claim to be better than (from an ethical stand point).
That depends on how you look at it. It's not like this is the one and only zero day bug that has ever been found in a Microsoft product. Perhaps a bit of public embarrassment from a competitor will prompt Microsoft to do a few more checks on their code.
In the big scheme windows holes are so common that unless goggle is releasing 20 a day with quick and easy tools to help people use them this makes no difference at all.
Hate to be selfish, but since not enough people use it, they don't ban it, and I'm allowed to use it. Though I'd be surprised if the NSA didn't have a pragmatic way to break things like PGP, it's enough to prevent the small fry for messing with you.
If the NSA own half the computers on the planet they still can't be cracking PGP nearly as fast as the rest of the world is generating it. God only knows what they would be capable of with custom built hardware though.