Change passwords in as many places as applicable. Things may be amicable right now -- circumstances change, the employee may become disgruntled later. Or someone may try to use social engineering and/or impersonate that person.
Even if the only way into the innards of your operation is through a VPN connection they will no longer have access to, you should still change passwords on essential accounts -- those that would cause you the most harm if they became inaccessible or broken. Ditto for any public spaces that are not controlled by Corporate IT -- GitHub, company Facebook page, whatever. The higher up the ladder this person is, the larger the list of places you should be making sure are inaccessible after they leave.
The routine of changing passwords on this scale should be one that is well documented and regularly performed regardless of human turn-over.
I'm a Rogers customer out of Ontario with a wifi-capable cell phone. Reception in my neck of the woods sucks. However, my phone (a Blackberry Curve) has built-in wifi and supports UMA. For $5 / month extra, I can piggyback my calls over broadband internet and they simply get billed against my minutes. I can use this with any wifi hotspot in Ontario (and probably in Canada).
Pros: no hassles with GPS, placing equipment near windows; portability (don't have to take a microcell with me); cost
Cons: used to be a free service, but is not anymore; a UMA-compatible handset is required to leverage this
I stand corrected. It was a computerized version, so I guess "mahjong solitaire" would have been appropriate. As for the other one, I'll have to let my son give it a shot:) Thanks for pointing it out!
On a sidenote, there was a period of a few months when I played tetris a lot. Several months after I stopped, I was asked to help someone move. While helping them load a U-Haul truck, I realized I was subconsciously approaching the task in the same way I did a game of tetris...
Based on my own kids, I think small children (pre-school age) have better imagination and look at the world holistically rather than dissecting objects into collections of smaller pieces making up a puzzle. Thus I think they are more likely to overlook certain details (or lack thereof), which might lead them to be more content with playing a game an older child might shun by being too analytical ("Oh, this game is stupid, the little monkey can jump from building to building, but can't jump from vine to vine"). So it becomes easier to code games for smaller children, because they don't have to be perfect. Games that don't demand perfection don't demand system performance, so an older PC will do. I have a few dozen games for kids for PC which, if I'm lucky, will hopefully delay the need to cave in and buy a console for a few years:)
And on the educational angle, I agree that a game doesn't have to teach letters or words to be considered "educational". Other skills are just as important as, if not being outright prerequisites to, reading -- take pattern-matching for example. My 5-year-old is doing quite well recognizing the same words over and over in a book, and he rocks at MahJongg. I think the latter led to the former, but that's just MHO, of course.
According to Zimbra's own press release, "Yahoo! is also a major proponent of open technologies and this combination is a further testament to how serious they are about their intentions. You will continue to see active participation in developer APIs and forums. We are committed to keeping the current source open and available for use and we will continue to offer the network version that will contain value added proprietary features on top of the open product."
So, what about people who drive cars running on compressed natural gas? (you know, the ones that have the sticker with a diamond with 'CNG' in it) People eventually get over their distrust for these things and use them. There's plenty of them, just look around you. Aren't you afraid of having an accident with one of those?
Wondering how efficient would it had been to use a piezoelectric generator (like the kind converting vibrations of a record in a record player into electricity)
From the article:
Editor's Note: This story has been updated at 4:20 PM PDT with comments from both the DVD CCA as well as Kaleidescape." Now we know what them folks over there are all smoking...
I apologize. I included a "sarcasm" tag in my response, but that got filtered out and I submitted without previewing. My post was not to be taken seriously, at least not by the serious people like yourself:) It was supposed to be thought-provoking, flamebait even, but to the "other" side. And, BTW, I'm on your side on this one. It's just that sometimes I get fed up and feel like sarcasm is the only way to get people's attention.
Eh, c'mon, this is Slashdot, what do you expect? First-class journalism? Pfft.
Besides, even techies look for a little sensationalism in their headlines. They have to deal with boring IT stuff on a regular basis, fer cryin' out loud. A catchy headline makes their pulse quicken. And in a lot of cases, that's the most exercise their cardiovascular systems get all day. You could say, Zonk's doing their health a favor.
> Paid for by the tax-payers. So frugal users who keep their electricity usage down are subsidising the bills of wasteful > people who leave all their lights on 24/7.
Yeah, but if the cost is passed on to others by means of electricity prices (the less you use, the less you pay) instead of Yet Another Services Tax (doesn't matter how much you use, everybody pays), *AND* you're the one on the receiving end by virtue of being paid by the province because you sell your excess generated electricity,
1) you are already in a position to go off-the-grid and be self-sufficient, thus 2) you would not be subsidizing the wasteful people 3) you would not be dependent on electricity prices 4) you would not be paying down Hydro One's debt (!)
Of course, knowing the wonderful people in the provincial gov't, this will become Yet Another Services Tax, at what point you can still argue that at least your investment is helping out pay your bills, which means it's paying for itself faster.
A larger fan can run at lower RPMs, thus having lower angular velocity, but linear velocity e.g. at the end of the blade will still be pretty high only due to the fact that that point of the blade is now much farther away from the axis of rotation, so the turbulence at that point will be much higher than you think.
Also, I'm not entirely sure that a larger fan will be more effective. If you think about currents and comparable flow and then replace air with water, using a garden hose to deliver water to a particular place you're watering is much more effective than, say, a fire hose. Especially if the flow is regulated to deliver the same amount of water per unit time. Water from a garden hose will have a more controlled flow than the equivalent trickle from a fire hose, which will just "spill" from the opening and follow the path of least resistance. And controlled flow is what you want to achieve with a cooling fan -- you want that cold air moving e.g. over the heat sinks; you want higher velocity so that the heat sinks give up heat faster.
Just my $0.02CDN (which is worth more and more with each passing day)
And here I was, thinking that CAN-SPAM was referring to a law prohibiting elderly Americans from going to Canadian websites to purchase SPAM, which is much cheaper than American SPAM and can be obtained from ever seeing a Canadian dietician or a Canadian food recipe... because we all know that American food industry must protect its market from the influx of cheaper, foreign-made SPAM which isn't made to the same standards as the US stuff... despite the fact that SPAMedi^H^H^Hcare and SPAMedic^H^H^Haid are only cover so much of the bill and those poor seniors just can't afford the domestic stuff....
I have been a Linux hobbyist for a while as well, though I started out with Slackware. By now I only use CentOS -- I'm used to RH standards by now and don't feel the need to "change" or "experiment" with other stuff, even if that means giving up some of the eye candy that being cutting-edge offers. I think I'm getting old...
The last time I used telnet was probably somewhere in the late 90's. Since then I've been using ssh, like most people. Besides being secure, ssh puts a lot of power and flexibility at my fingertips: port-forwarding for tunnelling, passwordless connectivity, secure file transfers just to name a few. So it could be that it's been so long that I don't see the point of using telnet anymore, let alone willingly leave it enabled on my systems.
So besides the old argument of "I have legacy systems / applications which rely on telnet and other outdated modes of communication", why would people use telnet? Laziness? Ignorance? What else am I missing here?
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Change passwords in as many places as applicable. Things may be amicable right now -- circumstances change, the employee may become disgruntled later. Or someone may try to use social engineering and/or impersonate that person.
Even if the only way into the innards of your operation is through a VPN connection they will no longer have access to, you should still change passwords on essential accounts -- those that would cause you the most harm if they became inaccessible or broken. Ditto for any public spaces that are not controlled by Corporate IT -- GitHub, company Facebook page, whatever. The higher up the ladder this person is, the larger the list of places you should be making sure are inaccessible after they leave.
The routine of changing passwords on this scale should be one that is well documented and regularly performed regardless of human turn-over.
So what happens when you drop a grain of it into a bottle of Coke...
I'm a Rogers customer out of Ontario with a wifi-capable cell phone. Reception in my neck of the woods sucks. However, my phone (a Blackberry Curve) has built-in wifi and supports UMA. For $5 / month extra, I can piggyback my calls over broadband internet and they simply get billed against my minutes. I can use this with any wifi hotspot in Ontario (and probably in Canada).
Pros: no hassles with GPS, placing equipment near windows; portability (don't have to take a microcell with me); cost
Cons: used to be a free service, but is not anymore; a UMA-compatible handset is required to leverage this
Wish I had points to mod you up...
... but on a much larger scale?
I stand corrected. It was a computerized version, so I guess "mahjong solitaire" would have been appropriate. As for the other one, I'll have to let my son give it a shot :) Thanks for pointing it out!
On a sidenote, there was a period of a few months when I played tetris a lot. Several months after I stopped, I was asked to help someone move. While helping them load a U-Haul truck, I realized I was subconsciously approaching the task in the same way I did a game of tetris...
Based on my own kids, I think small children (pre-school age) have better imagination and look at the world holistically rather than dissecting objects into collections of smaller pieces making up a puzzle. Thus I think they are more likely to overlook certain details (or lack thereof), which might lead them to be more content with playing a game an older child might shun by being too analytical ("Oh, this game is stupid, the little monkey can jump from building to building, but can't jump from vine to vine"). So it becomes easier to code games for smaller children, because they don't have to be perfect. Games that don't demand perfection don't demand system performance, so an older PC will do. I have a few dozen games for kids for PC which, if I'm lucky, will hopefully delay the need to cave in and buy a console for a few years :)
And on the educational angle, I agree that a game doesn't have to teach letters or words to be considered "educational". Other skills are just as important as, if not being outright prerequisites to, reading -- take pattern-matching for example. My 5-year-old is doing quite well recognizing the same words over and over in a book, and he rocks at MahJongg. I think the latter led to the former, but that's just MHO, of course.
As someone who lives in Canada and works in the US, all I have to say is "I miss 2001 and the days of $1CDN = $0.65US" :)
According to Zimbra's own press release, "Yahoo! is also a major proponent of open technologies and this combination is a further testament to how serious they are about their intentions. You will continue to see active participation in developer APIs and forums. We are committed to keeping the current source open and available for use and we will continue to offer the network version that will contain value added proprietary features on top of the open product."
All your favorite shell utils bundled into one relatively-small binary.
So, what about people who drive cars running on compressed natural gas? (you know, the ones that have the sticker with a diamond with 'CNG' in it) People eventually get over their distrust for these things and use them. There's plenty of them, just look around you. Aren't you afraid of having an accident with one of those?
Wondering how efficient would it had been to use a piezoelectric generator (like the kind converting vibrations of a record in a record player into electricity)
Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one with a mind experiencing Freudian slips...
... and to me this one says "I could teach you many great things, not just social studies or history!"
And I'm sure she could make a lot more money that way, too...
I apologize. I included a "sarcasm" tag in my response, but that got filtered out and I submitted without previewing. My post was not to be taken seriously, at least not by the serious people like yourself :) It was supposed to be thought-provoking, flamebait even, but to the "other" side. And, BTW, I'm on your side on this one. It's just that sometimes I get fed up and feel like sarcasm is the only way to get people's attention.
Eh, c'mon, this is Slashdot, what do you expect? First-class journalism? Pfft.
Besides, even techies look for a little sensationalism in their headlines. They have to deal with boring IT stuff on a regular basis, fer cryin' out loud. A catchy headline makes their pulse quicken. And in a lot of cases, that's the most exercise their cardiovascular systems get all day. You could say, Zonk's doing their health a favor.
> Paid for by the tax-payers. So frugal users who keep their electricity usage down are subsidising the bills of wasteful > people who leave all their lights on 24/7.
Yeah, but if the cost is passed on to others by means of electricity prices (the less you use, the less you pay) instead of Yet Another Services Tax (doesn't matter how much you use, everybody pays), *AND* you're the one on the receiving end by virtue of being paid by the province because you sell your excess generated electricity,
1) you are already in a position to go off-the-grid and be self-sufficient, thus
2) you would not be subsidizing the wasteful people
3) you would not be dependent on electricity prices
4) you would not be paying down Hydro One's debt (!)
Of course, knowing the wonderful people in the provincial gov't, this will become Yet Another Services Tax, at what point you can still argue that at least your investment is helping out pay your bills, which means it's paying for itself faster.
I don't think your way of thinking holds true.
A larger fan can run at lower RPMs, thus having lower angular velocity, but linear velocity e.g. at the end of the blade will still be pretty high only due to the fact that that point of the blade is now much farther away from the axis of rotation, so the turbulence at that point will be much higher than you think.
Also, I'm not entirely sure that a larger fan will be more effective. If you think about currents and comparable flow and then replace air with water, using a garden hose to deliver water to a particular place you're watering is much more effective than, say, a fire hose. Especially if the flow is regulated to deliver the same amount of water per unit time. Water from a garden hose will have a more controlled flow than the equivalent trickle from a fire hose, which will just "spill" from the opening and follow the path of least resistance. And controlled flow is what you want to achieve with a cooling fan -- you want that cold air moving e.g. over the heat sinks; you want higher velocity so that the heat sinks give up heat faster.
Just my $0.02CDN (which is worth more and more with each passing day)
And here I was, thinking that CAN-SPAM was referring to a law prohibiting elderly Americans from going to Canadian websites to purchase SPAM, which is much cheaper than American SPAM and can be obtained from ever seeing a Canadian dietician or a Canadian food recipe... because we all know that American food industry must protect its market from the influx of cheaper, foreign-made SPAM which isn't made to the same standards as the US stuff... despite the fact that SPAMedi^H^H^Hcare and SPAMedic^H^H^Haid are only cover so much of the bill and those poor seniors just can't afford the domestic stuff....
All your rights and freedoms are belong to us!
I have been a Linux hobbyist for a while as well, though I started out with Slackware. By now I only use CentOS -- I'm used to RH standards by now and don't feel the need to "change" or "experiment" with other stuff, even if that means giving up some of the eye candy that being cutting-edge offers. I think I'm getting old...
"...Researchers could use an ideal black body to shed light on quantum mechanics..."
Those journalists and their tongue-in-cheek witticisms...
Like the RHEL3 poster, you're not the target audience for RHEL.
RHEL is about the server. Fedora, Ubuntu and other are about the desktop.
The last time I used telnet was probably somewhere in the late 90's. Since then I've been using ssh, like most people. Besides being secure, ssh puts a lot of power and flexibility at my fingertips: port-forwarding for tunnelling, passwordless connectivity, secure file transfers just to name a few. So it could be that it's been so long that I don't see the point of using telnet anymore, let alone willingly leave it enabled on my systems.
So besides the old argument of "I have legacy systems / applications which rely on telnet and other outdated modes of communication", why would people use telnet? Laziness? Ignorance? What else am I missing here?