BT is just as open as HTTP or FTP...you gotta be responsible for what you put up to download!!!
BT is one person making their file downloadable but the downloaders all share the load rather than hammering the originator. It makes it more benifitial to be a creator. IT DOES NOT hide anybodies identity so they can download movies or MP3s...You still have to host the file and advertize it thru normal means!!!
There's plenty of LEGAL stuff out there to share!!! Grab some OSS stuff like Knoppix, Debian, or Mozilla. BT is useless to file sharers because they have to host the stuff on their own machines and accept responsibility for it...just like the people who want to download and use Mozilla should help by using BT to spread the bandwith.
While it may be true most downloads are pr0n and mp3s there is plenty of legitamate use for BT in the OSS world...for a matter of fact it's necessary to have something like this because the corp sponserships are drying up left and right...its soon going to be primarily up to THE PEOPLE to support OSS...and if you can't code BT's a great way to share the cost of distribution!
One other thing to point out is that BT only shares THAT file with other people! That's VERY Important!!! It doesn't share every file ever BT'd just the one you are getting. That makes it somewhat hacker-proof you can't get anything MORE than what you asked for...nor can you share anything more...it doesn't work that way.
Again, that's why BT is becomming so popular with the OSS crowd...it doesn't attempt to hide illegal activity or allow too much leeching off others sharing illegal files. It requires SHARING not just consuming...big difference!!
There's nothing evil about BT.. that's the point. It's no more "private" than HTTP or FTP. You're not anonomous nor is the download provider. Sure you can't track everyone who sets up a BT but that's fundamentally different than P2P like Kazzaa who purposefully hide the users from each other both to make money and to facilitate copyright infringment.
RSS is the opposite of stuff like Google... Rather than having endless bots hogging your bandwidth, you can tell other servers what you've got "on the menu" so to speak. The other people can decide if they want it or not...without constantly hammering your servers!
The addition of Bittorrent to the mix allows the people doing the hammering to foot the bandwith! They all get the info at about the same time and most RSS readers run 24/7 catching news from various places so if all the viewers want something they'll be prime canidates for BT.. because they all get the info from the same RSS feed at about the same time...
They key is to make distribution of stuff cheaper...stuff like Linux isos!!! If you think of all the resouces available when slashdot goes after the latest Mozilla or Debian download normal FTP is horribly slow and out of date! The key is the RSS/BT joining...so the demand for downloads is structured in a manner to benifit from BT rather than strung out for a week to compensate for innefficent FTP....
Often times issues like this have very clear reasons why the company wants them...perhaps some young hot secretary was caught in the restroom with her camera phone up her skirt!...then the lawyers found out... Point is that managment will ALWAYS over react to such situations often without thinking about it. It's not a matter of changing the policy...often it's a matter of giving people enough info and proper time to adjust to the changes.
Obviously, they DECREED this without consulting the departments about some changes. Most likely a S-OX auditor walked in and mentioned the "dangers" of camera phones and employee lazyness...and how the company could be sued tommorrow... Management does really stupid things when the lawyers peep. Often it's what they SAY that caused the trouble...not the reasons why they need to make such changes.
Personally I think that Linux will be "THE" PC platform within a few years. MS with their monopoly on Windows keeps pushing more and more hardware out of the Wintel world...by the time Longhorn comes out there will be so much perfectly good, over powered hardware on the market when MS inplements their "restrictions improvements". From an office perspective MS money is in the CE market...because it's just too hard to manage all those insecure boxes. And they've already tipped their hand as to the future of PC gamming with the last Xbox... true PC game development was stunted 2 years while all the developers were paid off to write Xbox games... Expect Xbox 2 to have an even bigger impact as MS tries to "buy Love" so to speak.
The net effect will be a flocking to Linux as the only platform without DRM restrictions for normal developers.. the pieces are already in motion...the early movers [like Id] will be in the best position to weather the storm.
They seem to be doing quite nicely making progress...problem is that it costs real money to do this type of work. Also, they don't seem to be working too closely with Crossover...causing the real problem...
That nobody includes them in a distro! You always have to pay extra for it!!! Now with the mainline distros this is a huge problem. They need to include Crossover for MS Office compatibility[Suse, Xandros, Lindows?]...that doesn't leave much pricing room [or troubleshooting room either] to include the WineX also. On top of that, it's still a little too buggy and the disto makers are still too content to simply "brush off" people that want to push the envelope with their "boxed" versions....pushing away the very people --like us-- that would be willing to pay decent price for them!!!
That's why Linux and OSS need the RIAA and Product Activation!!! Once people realize that they can't just get stuff for "free" anymore they will flock to stuff like Linux. As long as "stealing" windows software is easier than paying full retail for it why should anybody change over? That's why Linux's growth has been in small/medium companies...they HAVE to pay for software or the lawyers will get them!!!
My kids love my Knoppix CD just for the included games!!!
I think a family oriented distro would be really cool. Strip out all the duplicated developer stuff and put in just the basics...perhaps oo.org and mozilla for mom n dad, but focus on games for the kids. The beauty of kids games is that they don't have to be cutting edge! there's lots of simple games you can't "legally" get for new shiny windows xp anymore that have Linux "clones"...and that's good enough. Just get more schools to see that their spending wads of money on stuff they'll never actually USE and we'll be all set. The bootable CD concept works great for getting new people involved with it. There are some issues with older PCs that dont' like their boot orders messed up, but most PCs do great with something like Knoppix.
These clowns are breaking the rules of the board...not to mention pissing everyone off. It started out several weeks ago as 1 or 2 obscene/antagnisitic messages at the bottom of the boards. If you look back you'll see them toward the end of the postings...nobody's been censored!!!
By the times on the postings they're abusing the service...this isn't nearly the same as/.ing another website...many larger websites/ISPs now have technology to limit slashdot effects when they get out of hand...And you're more than free to look them up at a less busy time! These guys are Spamming the boards for lack of a better work...They're deliberately getting around at least 3 measures that would limit their ability to post so often...
Anandtech boards had the same problem about 6 months ago and finally had to eliminate Anonymous postings because of the abuse.
There in lies the REAL problem!! If we eliminate AC then that cuts off many of the "casual"/.rs. People who stumble in on an interesting topic and might have some insight to offer, but don't want the commitment to offer up their email addresses! This is a "terrorist" action in the truest sense. Perhaps if we could see the actual IP of the posters [a la OSnews] Then we could get some idea about where it was comming from!!!
They were tampering with the internals of equipment they didn't design or test. They are shining examples of why the FCC has such stringent guidelines for medical hardware in the US. Heck, here in the US they'd be facing jail simply for admitting they tampered with the machine and used unapproved settings!
one thing to point out is that YOU are not MS customer...Dell or IBM is. Hence they make the OS to cater to those people who buy a lot of it...and they want to sell pre-made PCs.
In reality MS is like McDonalds...McDs invents the burgers and puts up marketing, but other people pay to put up and run stores eeking out a living selling burgers. In reality MS only has several thousand customers...Or think of an oil refinery...they sell gas to stations..not You and I. because of that they're allowed to "hide" their tactics behind contract law unlike your local cable or energy company which sells to US directly...and is held accountable for every dime!!!
What's happening now is no different than what happened in the 80's.
In the early 80's hardware was expensive and software was still mostly "free" because you had to implement it on your own and could still see what other people had done. Then IBM invented the PC and the costs of computing plummeted... Bill Gates pressed this even further by working with other companies to "clone" IBMs hardware out from under them. The ensuing price war left only one standard platform left...the WINTEL PC.
Now we've come full circle. MS is in the same position IBM was as the draconian Monopoly. Just like MS reduced the cost of hardware by providing a consistant platform and allowing cutthroat competition [and more than a little kingmaking] OSS and Linux have now stepped up to provide competition in the OS space using all that cheap hardware.
MS is foolish and powerhungry...that's not good business. They succeded in their goal of a PC on every desk. This is capitalism, Billy G has got is reward...he's not OWED anything more than money he's already got for his contribution to society. He's not owed a continuous income model...that's the fundamental flaw in their business logic. MS should be looking for a Apple-type model...working to shrink volumes and increase or maintain profits. Their growth is unsustainable and Wall Street should quit while they're ahead. OSes have become as novel as the Dram market...most normal people just don't care...it's part of the scenery now.
What's needed is for the rich old guys to simply retire with more money than God and stop trying to wreck the world's systems for the rest of us. Get off the stage, it's time for other people to play now!!! They're old, obsolete, and making fools of themselves now!!!
under that definition the sheriff definately has used his position...with guns...to influance a civil/contractual matter.
If the sheriff didnt' want to pay they could have negotiated with somebody else to host the site! They should have done this the moment he presented his "demands" and cloned the site while still in good graces. The civil case over the domain name and material would have easily gone to the sheriff anyway...because the guy did voulanteer to do it for free. Whole thing would have taken about 2 hours of a judge's time to settle.
of course now that the guy's sat in jail he won't part with it for anything...and probably won't settle unless he can get the sheriff on the other side of the bars!!!
The key is that Unions have a formal contract with employers. Most of the time normal contractual chanels are enough to clear up most matters...there's a whole legal field deticated to this! Most Unions in my part agree not to strike while the employer is following the contract...If the employer stops following the contract a strike is the least of their worries!
But when the contract run out in the US that's a whole different story and usually when problems arise. Under most cases employees default to "work for hire" under the offical legal chanels...but they are all still members in the Union organization...so they can't just do whatever. So the employer is in the position to deal with the whole union or fire the lot...as well as dealing with loosing the entire workforce if they do. Often employers use negotiation time to open a new plant out-of-state and chain alone workers until they're up and running. I've always wanted to see a union do the opposite!!! I'd be fun to see a union under failing negotiations placed all the workers in other Union shops! That'd be the ultimate in fair playing fields!!!
Corel set a great bar for this type of situation...no wonder MS paid them to "lie down". When Corel ported WordPerfect to linux they made heavy use of Wine upfront...and saving them selves lots of work too!
In the best possible world, Game developers would develop and test their games under Windows & Wine from the go. It would save time and energy porting stuff over, as well as "unoffically" supporting Linux. The situation right now is that a program that runs under Wine should also run properly under windows. And if they take into account the things that don't work in Linux from the start of the project, the "port" could consist of simply replacing or "gracefully failing" the parts that are windows only [like.net]
Of course it would be nice if there was more emphisis on SDL. Then all the platforms would be covered...and people could simply "port" to windows for gee-wizz factor rather than using proprietary DirectX. What's needed is to get game makers to understand that DirectX gaming is a LIBILITY to MS! When MS feels like pulling the plug on support it'll just die off...so they better start porting NOW rather than later. Also, Linux is a free platform to develop on...Using something sane to develop on like say Debian Stable would actually save them time in messing around with all the silly windows querks...until the fun part of the game is done!!
in today's environment if you can't quit right now then get your house in order so you can!
I went thru 6 months of hell trying to suck it up like everyone says to keep my job and got fired anyway...and the company was WAY out of line! I bent over backwards for well over a year doing stuff well beyond what I was being "paid" for...but in the end I was too "difficult" to work with. I managed to prove my case to Unemployment, but it still took 2 months to see a check...I've promised myself never again!
It sounds cruel, but employment is a business arrangement...nothing more. Most employment contracts are "at will" That applies to YOUR side too! If your not in a position to walk out then your in the position to be F@cked!!! The most successful employees I've seen let the boss know they can walk at any time. It takes skill and guts...to back up the talk. That alone solves many of the boss problems... Because they know you're good...and have to show you proper respect back...
It's not lack of work ethic...quite the opposite! It's about respecting yourself enough not to put up with being shit on. Also it takes hard work and constant planning to be able to "just walk out"... Remember, It's just a paycheck, if it's not working with your other goals in life [spouse, children, home, hobbies, etc] or worse, working against them, it's time to move on. Your're only a slave to your employer if you let yourself be....
It's not lack of experience on my part...I've worked at placed for 5,4.5, & 3 years [plus a few temp jobs] since I was 16...and the "real world" has always been the same: bosses come in with attitudes, break all their promises and expect you to like it because you NEED a paycheck. Take away that need to get a paycheck every week and you gain power!! real power over your employer! In the end, you make better deals with bosses because they have to make agreements with you and not simply "orders".
Well of course they are...because he's probably making less money because it was a smaller ISP...small enough to get bought! He's now OVER qualified for their company...LOL...as long as his pay stays at small company pay they'll keep him.
I do agree about learning new stuff at the companies expense...but usually, it cost you A LOT of personal time and stress...simply to keep what you got. And to always be second-class to the new bosses! The problem is that change by Fiat never works. Like the guy said, they laid out an ultimatum without even discussing with the current admins! That's a huge problem. Sure it's nice to change over, I'm sure there's a reason for it...but simply dictating it to a new company is bad manors unless they're trying to prove who's boss. Many workplace problems are based in the bosses attitudes...not the actual instructions...this is a perfect case. If they can't seem to be civil about the change over then the guy's palace at the company is already gone. In that case if he can walk, go for it! otherwise it'll just take longer and be more messy! Who knows, perhaps he could even get laid off for being "over skilled" during the change over...it would be preverable to being fired!
MS has their own sauce for EVERYTHING...espically stuff that is straight forward on *inx...is particularly fustrating on windows to track it all down again. for a competant Linux admin Windows administration would be absolute hell! It's opposite worlds...Windows is almost entirely GUI now...but the good people still use a dash of CLI... making you look like an idiot for not knowing it. And pro windows admins are even worse than Kernel hackers at RTFM!!!!
Seriously, I had the same kind of silly job changes about 9 months ago....for some reason the boss tried to make the same kind of "lock everything down" sweeping changes. Just like this poor guy I was SUPPOSED to be the Sys Admin for the shop....I tried for 2 months to get by without Secofficer access, but finally ended up with my boss simply let me have what I needed.
Thing is that if the management is going to make sweeping changes to the core of your job without any input from you what ELSE are they going to drop next? In my case changes were made to work hours & OT, insurance and other "benifits" all without asking or even bothering to ask first... Point is that it's only the beginning!
Poor guy should start now...plan on at least 3 months to find a new job looking full time...so better start now!!!
Actually use the "Tech Jobs" link to your left!
Dice.com seems to have a better selection of highly specific IT jobs as opposed to Monster's WinAdmin generics.
This would be a good use for DNA and protein research! What would be really cool would be to have a random "grown" key with "facets" placed on the card. Then the home computer would send pre-arranged patterns to the receptors...much like the science behind antihistimines! But you'd never have to send ALL of the receptores even in 100 times...perhaps using some as red flags to indicate tampering. Bonus points if you could implement Heinsenberg-style uncertianty into the mix to physically change the code key every time it was used...again without actually recording the change anywhere!!!
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BT is one person making their file downloadable but the downloaders all share the load rather than hammering the originator. It makes it more benifitial to be a creator. IT DOES NOT hide anybodies identity so they can download movies or MP3s...You still have to host the file and advertize it thru normal means!!!
While it may be true most downloads are pr0n and mp3s there is plenty of legitamate use for BT in the OSS world...for a matter of fact it's necessary to have something like this because the corp sponserships are drying up left and right...its soon going to be primarily up to THE PEOPLE to support OSS...and if you can't code BT's a great way to share the cost of distribution!
Again, that's why BT is becomming so popular with the OSS crowd...it doesn't attempt to hide illegal activity or allow too much leeching off others sharing illegal files. It requires SHARING not just consuming...big difference!!
There's nothing evil about BT.. that's the point. It's no more "private" than HTTP or FTP. You're not anonomous nor is the download provider. Sure you can't track everyone who sets up a BT but that's fundamentally different than P2P like Kazzaa who purposefully hide the users from each other both to make money and to facilitate copyright infringment.
Most websites are only 1-2 MB even if you go 2-3 links deep. There's a protol for sending a zipped page..how bout a zipped site?
The addition of Bittorrent to the mix allows the people doing the hammering to foot the bandwith! They all get the info at about the same time and most RSS readers run 24/7 catching news from various places so if all the viewers want something they'll be prime canidates for BT.. because they all get the info from the same RSS feed at about the same time...
They key is to make distribution of stuff cheaper...stuff like Linux isos!!! If you think of all the resouces available when slashdot goes after the latest Mozilla or Debian download normal FTP is horribly slow and out of date! The key is the RSS/BT joining...so the demand for downloads is structured in a manner to benifit from BT rather than strung out for a week to compensate for innefficent FTP....
Obviously, they DECREED this without consulting the departments about some changes. Most likely a S-OX auditor walked in and mentioned the "dangers" of camera phones and employee lazyness...and how the company could be sued tommorrow... Management does really stupid things when the lawyers peep. Often it's what they SAY that caused the trouble...not the reasons why they need to make such changes.
The net effect will be a flocking to Linux as the only platform without DRM restrictions for normal developers.. the pieces are already in motion...the early movers [like Id] will be in the best position to weather the storm.
That nobody includes them in a distro! You always have to pay extra for it!!! Now with the mainline distros this is a huge problem. They need to include Crossover for MS Office compatibility[Suse, Xandros, Lindows?]...that doesn't leave much pricing room [or troubleshooting room either] to include the WineX also. On top of that, it's still a little too buggy and the disto makers are still too content to simply "brush off" people that want to push the envelope with their "boxed" versions....pushing away the very people --like us-- that would be willing to pay decent price for them!!!
That's why Linux and OSS need the RIAA and Product Activation!!! Once people realize that they can't just get stuff for "free" anymore they will flock to stuff like Linux. As long as "stealing" windows software is easier than paying full retail for it why should anybody change over? That's why Linux's growth has been in small/medium companies...they HAVE to pay for software or the lawyers will get them!!!
I think a family oriented distro would be really cool. Strip out all the duplicated developer stuff and put in just the basics...perhaps oo.org and mozilla for mom n dad, but focus on games for the kids. The beauty of kids games is that they don't have to be cutting edge! there's lots of simple games you can't "legally" get for new shiny windows xp anymore that have Linux "clones"...and that's good enough. Just get more schools to see that their spending wads of money on stuff they'll never actually USE and we'll be all set. The bootable CD concept works great for getting new people involved with it. There are some issues with older PCs that dont' like their boot orders messed up, but most PCs do great with something like Knoppix.
By the times on the postings they're abusing the service...this isn't nearly the same as /.ing another website...many larger websites/ISPs now have technology to limit slashdot effects when they get out of hand...And you're more than free to look them up at a less busy time! These guys are Spamming the boards for lack of a better work...They're deliberately getting around at least 3 measures that would limit their ability to post so often...
Anandtech boards had the same problem about 6 months ago and finally had to eliminate Anonymous postings because of the abuse.
There in lies the REAL problem!! If we eliminate AC then that cuts off many of the "casual" /.rs. People who stumble in on an interesting topic and might have some insight to offer, but don't want the commitment to offer up their email addresses! This is a "terrorist" action in the truest sense. Perhaps if we could see the actual IP of the posters [a la OSnews] Then we could get some idea about where it was comming from!!!
This is has been going on for several days...how can we stop it?
This is flat-out abusive to the whole system here...not to mention a huge waste of resources!
They were tampering with the internals of equipment they didn't design or test. They are shining examples of why the FCC has such stringent guidelines for medical hardware in the US. Heck, here in the US they'd be facing jail simply for admitting they tampered with the machine and used unapproved settings!
In reality MS is like McDonalds...McDs invents the burgers and puts up marketing, but other people pay to put up and run stores eeking out a living selling burgers. In reality MS only has several thousand customers...Or think of an oil refinery...they sell gas to stations..not You and I. because of that they're allowed to "hide" their tactics behind contract law unlike your local cable or energy company which sells to US directly...and is held accountable for every dime!!!
In the early 80's hardware was expensive and software was still mostly "free" because you had to implement it on your own and could still see what other people had done. Then IBM invented the PC and the costs of computing plummeted... Bill Gates pressed this even further by working with other companies to "clone" IBMs hardware out from under them. The ensuing price war left only one standard platform left...the WINTEL PC.
Now we've come full circle. MS is in the same position IBM was as the draconian Monopoly. Just like MS reduced the cost of hardware by providing a consistant platform and allowing cutthroat competition [and more than a little kingmaking] OSS and Linux have now stepped up to provide competition in the OS space using all that cheap hardware.
MS is foolish and powerhungry...that's not good business. They succeded in their goal of a PC on every desk. This is capitalism, Billy G has got is reward...he's not OWED anything more than money he's already got for his contribution to society. He's not owed a continuous income model...that's the fundamental flaw in their business logic. MS should be looking for a Apple-type model...working to shrink volumes and increase or maintain profits. Their growth is unsustainable and Wall Street should quit while they're ahead. OSes have become as novel as the Dram market...most normal people just don't care...it's part of the scenery now.
What's needed is for the rich old guys to simply retire with more money than God and stop trying to wreck the world's systems for the rest of us. Get off the stage, it's time for other people to play now!!! They're old, obsolete, and making fools of themselves now!!!
If the sheriff didnt' want to pay they could have negotiated with somebody else to host the site! They should have done this the moment he presented his "demands" and cloned the site while still in good graces. The civil case over the domain name and material would have easily gone to the sheriff anyway...because the guy did voulanteer to do it for free. Whole thing would have taken about 2 hours of a judge's time to settle.
of course now that the guy's sat in jail he won't part with it for anything...and probably won't settle unless he can get the sheriff on the other side of the bars!!!
But when the contract run out in the US that's a whole different story and usually when problems arise. Under most cases employees default to "work for hire" under the offical legal chanels...but they are all still members in the Union organization...so they can't just do whatever. So the employer is in the position to deal with the whole union or fire the lot...as well as dealing with loosing the entire workforce if they do. Often employers use negotiation time to open a new plant out-of-state and chain alone workers until they're up and running. I've always wanted to see a union do the opposite!!! I'd be fun to see a union under failing negotiations placed all the workers in other Union shops! That'd be the ultimate in fair playing fields!!!
In the best possible world, Game developers would develop and test their games under Windows & Wine from the go. It would save time and energy porting stuff over, as well as "unoffically" supporting Linux. The situation right now is that a program that runs under Wine should also run properly under windows. And if they take into account the things that don't work in Linux from the start of the project, the "port" could consist of simply replacing or "gracefully failing" the parts that are windows only [like .net]
Of course it would be nice if there was more emphisis on SDL. Then all the platforms would be covered...and people could simply "port" to windows for gee-wizz factor rather than using proprietary DirectX. What's needed is to get game makers to understand that DirectX gaming is a LIBILITY to MS! When MS feels like pulling the plug on support it'll just die off...so they better start porting NOW rather than later. Also, Linux is a free platform to develop on...Using something sane to develop on like say Debian Stable would actually save them time in messing around with all the silly windows querks...until the fun part of the game is done!!
I went thru 6 months of hell trying to suck it up like everyone says to keep my job and got fired anyway...and the company was WAY out of line! I bent over backwards for well over a year doing stuff well beyond what I was being "paid" for...but in the end I was too "difficult" to work with. I managed to prove my case to Unemployment, but it still took 2 months to see a check...I've promised myself never again!
It sounds cruel, but employment is a business arrangement...nothing more. Most employment contracts are "at will" That applies to YOUR side too! If your not in a position to walk out then your in the position to be F@cked!!! The most successful employees I've seen let the boss know they can walk at any time. It takes skill and guts...to back up the talk. That alone solves many of the boss problems... Because they know you're good...and have to show you proper respect back...
It's not lack of work ethic...quite the opposite! It's about respecting yourself enough not to put up with being shit on. Also it takes hard work and constant planning to be able to "just walk out"... Remember, It's just a paycheck, if it's not working with your other goals in life [spouse, children, home, hobbies, etc] or worse, working against them, it's time to move on. Your're only a slave to your employer if you let yourself be....
It's not lack of experience on my part...I've worked at placed for 5,4.5, & 3 years [plus a few temp jobs] since I was 16 ...and the "real world" has always been the same: bosses come in with attitudes, break all their promises and expect you to like it because you NEED a paycheck. Take away that need to get a paycheck every week and you gain power!! real power over your employer! In the end, you make better deals with bosses because they have to make agreements with you and not simply "orders".
Well of course they are...because he's probably making less money because it was a smaller ISP...small enough to get bought! He's now OVER qualified for their company...LOL...as long as his pay stays at small company pay they'll keep him.
I do agree about learning new stuff at the companies expense...but usually, it cost you A LOT of personal time and stress...simply to keep what you got. And to always be second-class to the new bosses! The problem is that change by Fiat never works. Like the guy said, they laid out an ultimatum without even discussing with the current admins! That's a huge problem. Sure it's nice to change over, I'm sure there's a reason for it...but simply dictating it to a new company is bad manors unless they're trying to prove who's boss. Many workplace problems are based in the bosses attitudes...not the actual instructions...this is a perfect case. If they can't seem to be civil about the change over then the guy's palace at the company is already gone. In that case if he can walk, go for it! otherwise it'll just take longer and be more messy! Who knows, perhaps he could even get laid off for being "over skilled" during the change over...it would be preverable to being fired!
MS has their own sauce for EVERYTHING...espically stuff that is straight forward on *inx...is particularly fustrating on windows to track it all down again. for a competant Linux admin Windows administration would be absolute hell! It's opposite worlds...Windows is almost entirely GUI now...but the good people still use a dash of CLI... making you look like an idiot for not knowing it. And pro windows admins are even worse than Kernel hackers at RTFM!!!!
Thing is that if the management is going to make sweeping changes to the core of your job without any input from you what ELSE are they going to drop next? In my case changes were made to work hours & OT, insurance and other "benifits" all without asking or even bothering to ask first... Point is that it's only the beginning!
Poor guy should start now...plan on at least 3 months to find a new job looking full time...so better start now!!!
Actually use the "Tech Jobs" link to your left!
Dice.com seems to have a better selection of highly specific IT jobs as opposed to Monster's WinAdmin generics.
This would be a good use for DNA and protein research! What would be really cool would be to have a random "grown" key with "facets" placed on the card. Then the home computer would send pre-arranged patterns to the receptors...much like the science behind antihistimines! But you'd never have to send ALL of the receptores even in 100 times...perhaps using some as red flags to indicate tampering. Bonus points if you could implement Heinsenberg-style uncertianty into the mix to physically change the code key every time it was used...again without actually recording the change anywhere!!!