Malware can be as simple as a hostile link in an email or on a webpage. If he's looked at porn or warez he's certainly exposed his machine to this stuff. How big the payload is could vary, but trojans and viruses have a history of being quite nimble. The AVG anti-virus copy I have is 60MB - and that's a hell of a download on a dial-up.
MMOs have a problem which is slowly creeping up on them, I guess the EQ crowd are already well familiar with it. As they release more expansions, all of which are required to play with the level capped players it becomes more and more expensive to enter the game. Over here in Aus WoW classic is about $40, Burning Crusade $50, and the latest pile of WoW is $60 - total price to enter the game is current $150 and then on top of that you pay about $24 / month to play. This means over the course of a year you will have paid out $438 and most likely only experienced the top level content. The rest will have been an endless grind of UPS/Kill/Kill+Collect quests - oh sorry, at lvl 60+ bombing quests are added to the grind. Unless you have a friend joining at the same time or one who will level with you you're stuck doing all this shitty content solo.
When the next expansion is out you will need to buy class+3 x expansions. I expect that to cost about $190 total and then subscription fees bringing one years playtime on WoW up to almost $500.
The amount of money you have to pay keeps rising, but the amount of useful content doesn't - it stays at the top level of the game. As soon as the gates are opened everyone floods out of the current top level zone and into the next, leaving only a desert behind.
It only takes a couple of minutes to break the knowledge of which port you are running SSH/Telnet/etc on. Can you really classify that as obscure? Once those two minutes are up they can get on with the job of probing that port for weaknesses.
But in India people live on the rubbish dumps and pick up then recycle the plastic bags because they are so poor. We're now expecting them to pay that cost every time they need a dump?
I think the guy's point was that Knuth wrote that in the 70s, and it's now the 10s - a gap of forty years in which he has capitalised off his earlier work but not really brought anything that revolutionary to the table since. His original work stands as a classic, bring together a vast amount of highly relevant information and algorithms for the programmers of the 70s/80s. It has a lot less relevance in this age because most of his work is now part of some standard library or framework.
I've written plenty of things as useful as TeX but that doesn't mean I'd call Knuth an idiot.
A large financial in Australia was running a new project to scan everyone's signature and make available online throughout the organisation. There was quite a lot of money involved already, and they had millions of signatures to scan and then identify off legal documents.
There were six women sitting in a small room using a program written in Access that was outsourced to some company. After each signature group was shown to them (1-3 signatures) they would identify which ones they could match, then hit the button to show the next group. It took 6-10 minutes to get the next signature on screen because the developer had only tested their app with a dataset of 10 sigs.
It took me 30 minutes to identify the bad section of code and rework it - giving them instantaneous response time. Now instead of six ladies sitting about reading newspapers waiting for the system we had six ladies getting the job done.
My time was billed out as $80 / hour - so I guess it cost $40 to fix it and it saved hundreds of thousands. You do the math.
Sometimes you have to get a programmer to optimise the code simply because no machine would be even remotely fast enough for the application given what the original programmer wrote. Two examples.
1. An app that had taken about 12 months to develop had a startup routine that was slow - taking 6 minutes to show the opening screen. It was almost ready for launch when I was asked to take a look at it. The programmer had a tangle of internal routines that made thousands of calls to the database, choking it down. I added a little caching and showed him how to remove some loops and we got the launch speed down to 1 second. That's 3600 times as fast - an improvement that would be very hard to cover with some more ram and a faster hard drive.
2. A mission critical web app for a huge financial had a page that took 30 seconds or more to run with just one user testing, imagine how it would go once 100 people simultaneously used it. Once again there were code loops hitting the database thousands of times among other things. I restructured the main query and we brought the run time down to 0.4 seconds, which was good enough.
In both cases it took me just a few hours to fix the apps and made them viable for release. Faster hardware would not have allowed these to run fast enough.
I can't believe the person who set the server up left this port open to the world. If you want the server secure then you will close all the ports that are not actually needed - in your case this likely means you keep 80 and 443 open.
For remote management make get a few IPs for the desktops that are meant to connect to it and make sure the ISP opens SSH port only to the IPs.
You can tunnel X over SSH and do file management, whatever you need so it should be enough.
Don't bother changing it to some random port, security through obscurity is total bullshit in this age of port scanners.
This makes plenty of sense. In any concert there are bandings of seating with a price attached. The better the view, the more expensive the seat. This is worked out in advance by the venue based on their 'values', but really it is the view and values of the ticket holder that matter.
So, price starts at $1 million and slowly drops as the cut off date for purchasing a ticket approaches.
If the guy who spent $1 million for his seat wants to sit to the left side of the back row - who are we to tell him he can't have that seat. The price of the seat drops until you feel you can afford it and check - nope, you don't want to pay $500 for the seats left, but in two hours time it's $200 and there's still a few left you'd pay that for.
You could automate it by placing a highest bid price label onto each of the seating brackets and let a script pick you up a seat when it hits your price. If you're feeling risky, you could wait a little as seats in that area sell out - snapping a couple up at the last moment.
Concert providers should be happy, this would pretty much enable them to scam the maximum amount available for every seat in the house.
You always expect the AS400 to be a bit more impressive the way the AS400 guys would talk about it. Then one day I walked into the room where it was kept and had to stifle a laugh.
Once again we see child porn trotted out as a straw man in an argument which is really about getting the ability to arbitrarily censor any material which offends the moral majority or threatens the political power of those currently holding it. Child porn should be as familiar a straw man as terrorism, and it affects about as many people as terrorism.
If 82% of all children are molested by friends and family then you can rule out the internet and all it's filth in at least 82% of all cases.
"Oh won't somebody think of the children!" I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm going to state that in general it's not "the children" who are downloading and enjoying child porn. Children are being exploited by it, but they're dreaming if they think any filter is going to prevent those images swapping hands. There's altogether too many tech savvy kiddie fiddlers using encrypted systems, hidden partitions, private browsing settings...and...get this...the fracking mail system to simply post a DVD filled with porn straight to their well known "web of trust" kiddie fiddler mates. This filter won't even touch the ones they claim to be stopping - they're already too sophisticated.
What it will do is stop consenting adults from visiting niche / edge sites to view their particular form of pron, say BDSM for instance. You'll wake up one morning and find you can't look at pictures of women hog tied and spanked pink - because someone out there objects, even though all parties involved were of legal age, consenting adults.
We have to oppose the filter, because it's like the GST. It took a lot of work on their part to get it in place and set it at 10% (which they said they wouldn't increase) but once it was legislated it became easy for them to ramp it up from there.
Superman is a terrible hero. He has every major advantage you could ever need to defeat any form of villain on Earth, and because of that there is never any reasonable doubt that he can get through any situation.
Tied up? Super strength out. Locked in a mile deep underground basement - fly / tunnel out. Screwed up and someone you liked died - turn time backwards. Need to stop missile - use the fricking laers in your eyes. Someone sneaking up on you with a crowbar (as if it matters)? Super hearing!
He has one weakness, to an element that might as well be called Unobtainium, but for story reasons keeps appearing in the hands of villains who don't possess FTL or even the means to detect it...they just get really freaking lucky and get some!
Even if he gets real unlucky and fights Lex Luthor, who has some unob....I mean Kryptonite, and he's been suckered once again into standing right next to a box of it...he could call a friend to close the box, or maybe nuke the site and spread it all over. All the baddies die, he lives, and the unob^H^H^H^HKryptonite is dispursed enough to not matter.
There's simply no other situation he can punch, fricking laser, or fly his way out of.
Hard luck there for all the people who just got scammed by a run of the mill business asshole. My theory is that they are all lying assholes, each and every one of them, and if you keep that in mind you'll find your dealings with them go much better. Just remind yourself as they speak that every word is carefully selected to make them richer.
Big tip - the day you find your pay hasn't gone into your account is the day you hit jobsearch.com or call your agent and let them know you're looking for paid work.
The business's responsibility is to ensure there is enough cash set aside against bad luck/planning/weather and enough cash flow coming through to ensure projects get completed. It's *their* responsibility, not yours...you write code, or run tests, answer the phones. If they've f*ed up enough to not have the money to even pay the people who write the product, then you have to wonder how else they are screwing up.
Not totally sure about Ireland, but it's most likely the same as the UK. You get a dongle for the power plug, and plug it in. Power is 240v 50hz, same as here or close enough to not matter.
Why should they? How were the kids to know they were being spied upon?
The school gave them webcams - that should have told them they were about to lose all privacy. Did they think the cams were to do silly dances and upload them to Youtube or to show their bits off to a BF sitting on his laptop elsewhere?
Whenever someone gives you something, try to remember what they taught you in school about Trojan Horses...if they taught that.
I always liked Enlightenment, though found it impractical for getting things done. Might be time to take another look at it if it's seeing development work again.
Some say your school years are the best years of your life, but that's really looking through rose tinted glasses. There's bullying, isolation, social discomfit, inferiority complexes, and all manner of other things. There are good things too, and for most of us it's the friends we make at school.
I agree with the general consensus, those kids aren't studying up for the next exam - they're on Facebook / Twitter / Myspace or downloading pr0n. Now, what they should be doing instead of placing a bloody great big laptop shaped barrier between themselves and the other kids is SOCIALISING with the group of people that will most likely be their friends from here till death. Who are your friends in middle age? It's your school chums and work mates for many. Any new barrier between them and you is a potential lifelong loss of friendship.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Facebook to see what my old school friends and previous work mates are chatting about today.
For which they traded OPIUM! Tea drinkers are willing to deals thousands of kilos of opium to China in order to get that morning cup. Can coffee drinkers say the same?
If your estimates are out by a factor of 14 then it means you definitely are poor at estimates and most likely are poor at implementation - though that's less certain.
You either massively underestimate the amount of time it takes to bring something full life cycle, are unaware of what full life cycle encounters, or imagine your abilities to be way beyond your actual capacity. You haven't been fired yet, so you're probably not that much worse than the people around you, or your project manager is also incompetent and hasn't picked up on your low output.
Try getting some other workers on the projects to help you form an estimate, or sit with your project manager and get him to run you through estimating things like bug fixes, revision cycles, testing, documentation, and all the other myriad things you do to complete a project. Check your previous project plans to see how long previous sections of code took to produce and work out if the new one is harder or simpler and adjust accordingly.
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You really can't count any such accolades until *after* they graduate. The day they enter they're nubs like every over CS student in the world.
Malware can be as simple as a hostile link in an email or on a webpage. If he's looked at porn or warez he's certainly exposed his machine to this stuff. How big the payload is could vary, but trojans and viruses have a history of being quite nimble. The AVG anti-virus copy I have is 60MB - and that's a hell of a download on a dial-up.
MMOs have a problem which is slowly creeping up on them, I guess the EQ crowd are already well familiar with it. As they release more expansions, all of which are required to play with the level capped players it becomes more and more expensive to enter the game. Over here in Aus WoW classic is about $40, Burning Crusade $50, and the latest pile of WoW is $60 - total price to enter the game is current $150 and then on top of that you pay about $24 / month to play. This means over the course of a year you will have paid out $438 and most likely only experienced the top level content. The rest will have been an endless grind of UPS/Kill/Kill+Collect quests - oh sorry, at lvl 60+ bombing quests are added to the grind. Unless you have a friend joining at the same time or one who will level with you you're stuck doing all this shitty content solo.
When the next expansion is out you will need to buy class+3 x expansions. I expect that to cost about $190 total and then subscription fees bringing one years playtime on WoW up to almost $500.
The amount of money you have to pay keeps rising, but the amount of useful content doesn't - it stays at the top level of the game. As soon as the gates are opened everyone floods out of the current top level zone and into the next, leaving only a desert behind.
I like to think of the MMO I play as hanging out with friends on MSN/Vent...with dragons!
The MMO gives my hands something to do while I chat to my peer group.
MacBeth is not currently available as a library you can link into your novel.
It only takes a couple of minutes to break the knowledge of which port you are running SSH/Telnet/etc on. Can you really classify that as obscure? Once those two minutes are up they can get on with the job of probing that port for weaknesses.
But in India people live on the rubbish dumps and pick up then recycle the plastic bags because they are so poor. We're now expecting them to pay that cost every time they need a dump?
Funny you'd choose a word with French roots for an English lesson.
I think the guy's point was that Knuth wrote that in the 70s, and it's now the 10s - a gap of forty years in which he has capitalised off his earlier work but not really brought anything that revolutionary to the table since. His original work stands as a classic, bring together a vast amount of highly relevant information and algorithms for the programmers of the 70s/80s. It has a lot less relevance in this age because most of his work is now part of some standard library or framework.
I've written plenty of things as useful as TeX but that doesn't mean I'd call Knuth an idiot.
A large financial in Australia was running a new project to scan everyone's signature and make available online throughout the organisation. There was quite a lot of money involved already, and they had millions of signatures to scan and then identify off legal documents.
There were six women sitting in a small room using a program written in Access that was outsourced to some company. After each signature group was shown to them (1-3 signatures) they would identify which ones they could match, then hit the button to show the next group. It took 6-10 minutes to get the next signature on screen because the developer had only tested their app with a dataset of 10 sigs.
It took me 30 minutes to identify the bad section of code and rework it - giving them instantaneous response time. Now instead of six ladies sitting about reading newspapers waiting for the system we had six ladies getting the job done.
My time was billed out as $80 / hour - so I guess it cost $40 to fix it and it saved hundreds of thousands. You do the math.
Sometimes you have to get a programmer to optimise the code simply because no machine would be even remotely fast enough for the application given what the original programmer wrote. Two examples.
1. An app that had taken about 12 months to develop had a startup routine that was slow - taking 6 minutes to show the opening screen. It was almost ready for launch when I was asked to take a look at it. The programmer had a tangle of internal routines that made thousands of calls to the database, choking it down. I added a little caching and showed him how to remove some loops and we got the launch speed down to 1 second. That's 3600 times as fast - an improvement that would be very hard to cover with some more ram and a faster hard drive.
2. A mission critical web app for a huge financial had a page that took 30 seconds or more to run with just one user testing, imagine how it would go once 100 people simultaneously used it. Once again there were code loops hitting the database thousands of times among other things. I restructured the main query and we brought the run time down to 0.4 seconds, which was good enough.
In both cases it took me just a few hours to fix the apps and made them viable for release. Faster hardware would not have allowed these to run fast enough.
I can't believe the person who set the server up left this port open to the world. If you want the server secure then you will close all the ports that are not actually needed - in your case this likely means you keep 80 and 443 open.
For remote management make get a few IPs for the desktops that are meant to connect to it and make sure the ISP opens SSH port only to the IPs.
You can tunnel X over SSH and do file management, whatever you need so it should be enough.
Don't bother changing it to some random port, security through obscurity is total bullshit in this age of port scanners.
This makes plenty of sense. In any concert there are bandings of seating with a price attached. The better the view, the more expensive the seat. This is worked out in advance by the venue based on their 'values', but really it is the view and values of the ticket holder that matter.
So, price starts at $1 million and slowly drops as the cut off date for purchasing a ticket approaches.
If the guy who spent $1 million for his seat wants to sit to the left side of the back row - who are we to tell him he can't have that seat. The price of the seat drops until you feel you can afford it and check - nope, you don't want to pay $500 for the seats left, but in two hours time it's $200 and there's still a few left you'd pay that for.
You could automate it by placing a highest bid price label onto each of the seating brackets and let a script pick you up a seat when it hits your price. If you're feeling risky, you could wait a little as seats in that area sell out - snapping a couple up at the last moment.
Concert providers should be happy, this would pretty much enable them to scam the maximum amount available for every seat in the house.
You always expect the AS400 to be a bit more impressive the way the AS400 guys would talk about it. Then one day I walked into the room where it was kept and had to stifle a laugh.
Once again we see child porn trotted out as a straw man in an argument which is really about getting the ability to arbitrarily censor any material which offends the moral majority or threatens the political power of those currently holding it. Child porn should be as familiar a straw man as terrorism, and it affects about as many people as terrorism.
If 82% of all children are molested by friends and family then you can rule out the internet and all it's filth in at least 82% of all cases.
"Oh won't somebody think of the children!" I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm going to state that in general it's not "the children" who are downloading and enjoying child porn. Children are being exploited by it, but they're dreaming if they think any filter is going to prevent those images swapping hands. There's altogether too many tech savvy kiddie fiddlers using encrypted systems, hidden partitions, private browsing settings...and...get this...the fracking mail system to simply post a DVD filled with porn straight to their well known "web of trust" kiddie fiddler mates. This filter won't even touch the ones they claim to be stopping - they're already too sophisticated.
What it will do is stop consenting adults from visiting niche / edge sites to view their particular form of pron, say BDSM for instance. You'll wake up one morning and find you can't look at pictures of women hog tied and spanked pink - because someone out there objects, even though all parties involved were of legal age, consenting adults.
We have to oppose the filter, because it's like the GST. It took a lot of work on their part to get it in place and set it at 10% (which they said they wouldn't increase) but once it was legislated it became easy for them to ramp it up from there.
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And even scanning the text nearly bored me to sleep.
Superman is a terrible hero. He has every major advantage you could ever need to defeat any form of villain on Earth, and because of that there is never any reasonable doubt that he can get through any situation.
Tied up? Super strength out.
Locked in a mile deep underground basement - fly / tunnel out.
Screwed up and someone you liked died - turn time backwards.
Need to stop missile - use the fricking laers in your eyes.
Someone sneaking up on you with a crowbar (as if it matters)? Super hearing!
He has one weakness, to an element that might as well be called Unobtainium, but for story reasons keeps appearing in the hands of villains who don't possess FTL or even the means to detect it...they just get really freaking lucky and get some!
Even if he gets real unlucky and fights Lex Luthor, who has some unob....I mean Kryptonite, and he's been suckered once again into standing right next to a box of it...he could call a friend to close the box, or maybe nuke the site and spread it all over. All the baddies die, he lives, and the unob^H^H^H^HKryptonite is dispursed enough to not matter.
There's simply no other situation he can punch, fricking laser, or fly his way out of.
Superman makes me want to root for the bad guys.
The easy way to get it back is to group with 5-6 and jump the groups of 2-3. Sorted.
Hard luck there for all the people who just got scammed by a run of the mill business asshole. My theory is that they are all lying assholes, each and every one of them, and if you keep that in mind you'll find your dealings with them go much better. Just remind yourself as they speak that every word is carefully selected to make them richer.
Big tip - the day you find your pay hasn't gone into your account is the day you hit jobsearch.com or call your agent and let them know you're looking for paid work.
The business's responsibility is to ensure there is enough cash set aside against bad luck/planning/weather and enough cash flow coming through to ensure projects get completed. It's *their* responsibility, not yours...you write code, or run tests, answer the phones. If they've f*ed up enough to not have the money to even pay the people who write the product, then you have to wonder how else they are screwing up.
Not totally sure about Ireland, but it's most likely the same as the UK. You get a dongle for the power plug, and plug it in. Power is 240v 50hz, same as here or close enough to not matter.
Why should they? How were the kids to know they were being spied upon?
The school gave them webcams - that should have told them they were about to lose all privacy. Did they think the cams were to do silly dances and upload them to Youtube or to show their bits off to a BF sitting on his laptop elsewhere?
Whenever someone gives you something, try to remember what they taught you in school about Trojan Horses...if they taught that.
I always liked Enlightenment, though found it impractical for getting things done. Might be time to take another look at it if it's seeing development work again.
Some say your school years are the best years of your life, but that's really looking through rose tinted glasses. There's bullying, isolation, social discomfit, inferiority complexes, and all manner of other things. There are good things too, and for most of us it's the friends we make at school.
I agree with the general consensus, those kids aren't studying up for the next exam - they're on Facebook / Twitter / Myspace or downloading pr0n. Now, what they should be doing instead of placing a bloody great big laptop shaped barrier between themselves and the other kids is SOCIALISING with the group of people that will most likely be their friends from here till death. Who are your friends in middle age? It's your school chums and work mates for many. Any new barrier between them and you is a potential lifelong loss of friendship.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Facebook to see what my old school friends and previous work mates are chatting about today.
For which they traded OPIUM! Tea drinkers are willing to deals thousands of kilos of opium to China in order to get that morning cup. Can coffee drinkers say the same?
If your estimates are out by a factor of 14 then it means you definitely are poor at estimates and most likely are poor at implementation - though that's less certain.
You either massively underestimate the amount of time it takes to bring something full life cycle, are unaware of what full life cycle encounters, or imagine your abilities to be way beyond your actual capacity. You haven't been fired yet, so you're probably not that much worse than the people around you, or your project manager is also incompetent and hasn't picked up on your low output.
Try getting some other workers on the projects to help you form an estimate, or sit with your project manager and get him to run you through estimating things like bug fixes, revision cycles, testing, documentation, and all the other myriad things you do to complete a project. Check your previous project plans to see how long previous sections of code took to produce and work out if the new one is harder or simpler and adjust accordingly.