It's everyone knows it's XP for eXtreme Programming, as in snowboarding, Mt Dew, ESPN2... (but Not that Windows recent release).
So, crack open a cold one and check out my double nested for-loop ollie nose-grind, dude!!
For more info on the horrors of this highly dangerous substance, which is undoubtedly in your neighborhood, nay Your very house, read: this expose' website!
Yeah, about halfway thru my first screening of RotK, I too, began to relaize that having re-read Cassandra Claire'sVery Secret LotR Diaries the day before, had been a not-too-bright move. Definitely Funny! But a bad idea, all around.
They really tended to detract from those "tender" hobbit scenes!;-D
When our dev team outgrew CVS, we evaluated about 20 CSM products, including Perforce, Telelogic/Continuus CM, CCC Harvest, StarTeam, BitKeeper, All Change, and ClearCase (we actually managed to get Telelogic & the Rational guys to come down for a *free* live demos). We found that they all fall into one of three pricing tiers:
I. Free or nearly free--includes: CVS & SubVersion.
II. Under $1000 per seat--includes: AccuRev & Continuus CM.
III. More $$$ than you can possibly imagine--includes: ClearCase & StarTeam.
To cut it short, we eventually went with AccuRev, due mostly to environmental and budgeting restrictions. It's an unobtrusive, often maddingly slow, Java-based product, which happily fits most of our needs.
There's a huge field of versioning products out there, most of which can only be found on poorly documented company websites, many without demo's. And each of them promises to be the last word in SCM, but with little to no comparison between vendors. (Oh sure, product FooSCM includes LifeCycle Management, but the definition & amount of "Lifecycle" varies greatly from one product to the next!)
Funny, I'm an extreme INTJ, as well (8,6,9,10 on a 10-scale) & I've had no trouble Pair Programming for the better part of the past two years. And, similarly, most of the coders here are INT[P|J] -types, with a few INFP's thrown in.
But we take breaks -- reading Slashdot, Kuro, GoogleNews, etc. walking outside for [air|smoke] breaks, playing with the puzzles around the office, or just bugging the office staffers, up front. All of this allows us to come back & concentrate on the code at hand.
[Microsoft] was forced to pull the advertising, which mimics rival Apple's Switch campaign from Windows XP to the Mac, after keen-eyed regulars to the Slashdot tech news and discussion Web site noticed irregularities in the case study of an anonymous woman that was presented on the Microsoft Web site.
And here I thought we were all a bunch of illiterate, know-nothing (but very vocal, none-the-less) geeks.
The wireless and embedded giant said the company has already managed to combine many of the digital and analog functions used by Bluetooth onto a single chip, the BRF6100, which it is sampling now.
Yeah, but what do those big sleepy lugs know? Maybe they should've included a few elves and dwarves in their focus groups, and prehaps the odd orc or two...
Just what exactly are these "cheap microprocessors" supposed to do once said piece of furniture's assembled? Run system tests?
Yup, Tab A's *still* in Slot B, etc.
What I want them to do is, I dunno, monitor the temp of my coffe mug, or analyze the desk for potential ergonomic injuries, or comment on the room's overall bad Feng Shui, or something...
--Logan
Perhaps, little clip-on neckties...
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When Dreamcasts Attack
White hat hackers use game consoles, handheld PCs to crack networks from the inside out.
By Kevin Poulsen, Jul 31 2002 5:26PM
LAS VEGAS--Cyberpunks will be toting cheap game consoles on their utility belts this fall if they follow the lead of a pair of white hat hackers who demonstrated Wednesday how to turn the defunct Sega Dreamcast into a disposable attack box designed to be dropped like a bug on corporate networks during covert black bag jobs.
The "phone home" technique presented by Aaron Higbee of Foundstone and Chris Davis from RedSiren Technologies at the Black Hat Briefings here takes advantage of the fact that firewalls effective in blocking entry into a private network, are generally permissive in allowing connections the other way around.
Higbee and Davis perform penetration tests, and developed their game box cum attack tool after finding themselves more than once with physical access to a client's facilities -- posing as an employee in once case, crawling through a drop ceiling in another -- but without a way to leverage that access into remote control of the company's network.
"It's not that hard to get into an organization for one or two minutes," said Higbee.
They chose the Dreamcast for its small size, availability of an Ethernet adapter, and affordability -- the console was discontinued last year, and now sells used for under $100 on eBay. Loaded with custom Linux-based software and covertly plugged into a spare network port under a desk or above a ceiling, the harmless-looking toy becomes the enemy within, probing the company firewall for a way out to Internet.
The box cycles through the ports used for common services like SSH, Web surfing, and e-mail, which tend to be permitted by firewall configurations. Failing that, it tries getting "ping" packets out to the Internet, and finally looks for proxy servers bridging the network to the outside world.
Whatever it finds, it uses to establish a tunnel through the firewall to the intruder's home machine. "Most organizations focus on the perimeter," said Davis. "Once you get through the outside, there's a soft chewy center."
The pair suggested some techniques for mitigating the risk of dropped-in hardware -- restricting the LAN to pre-assigned MAC addresses, for one -- but said that ultimately, there may be little an organization can do to prevent an attacker with physical access from setting up a covert channel home.
The pair plan to release their Dreamcast software on their website next month, along with similar code they developed for the handheld Compaq iPAQ, and a bootable CD ROM designed to be slipped into print servers and other kiosk PCs.
While useful, they note that the other platforms lack at least one of the Dreamcast's virtues. "It's innocuous. It looks like a toy," said Davis. "If you bring it into a company, they're going to go, 'Wow, look at the toy!'"
What? You mean it isn't Slashdotted yet? How'm I supposta Karma-whore, now?!
How many other "marketing-oriented" "facts" are being touted today as justification for business, hiring, tactical, or hiring strategies? Or to be cruder, how many other business lies are out there mucking things up?
Just remember, 83.5% percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
...or was that 53.8%? Hrmmn.
-R
Keeping Everything != Keeping Everything Organized
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From the article: "Corporate intranets are a mess -- if you've ever had the displeasure of using one, well, let's just say keeping everything is not the same as keeping everything organized.
Amen, to that! And more often it's practically a full-time job, just shuffling all of it around, from one over-flowing server to the next.
My current employer, being a govt contractor, couldn't go that high (the govt has limits on how much you can pay employees)...
Where I work, most of the government contractors don't even entertain the concept of counter-offers. It's: "there's the door. Seeee ya!" So by our standards, you were lucky to get the initial 25%
The funny thing is, out here few are qualified (or willing) to fill existing techie positions, let alone new vacancies. Perhaps it's meant to keep the sniping down to a minimum.
Slashdot Mirror
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So, crack open a cold one and check out my double nested for-loop ollie nose-grind, dude!!
And who says we're zealots?! ;-)
RRR
For more info on the horrors of this highly dangerous substance, which is undoubtedly in your neighborhood, nay Your very house, read: this expose' website!
They really tended to detract from those "tender" hobbit scenes! ;-D
R
I. Free or nearly free--includes: CVS & SubVersion.
II. Under $1000 per seat--includes: AccuRev & Continuus CM.
III. More $$$ than you can possibly imagine--includes: ClearCase & StarTeam.
To cut it short, we eventually went with AccuRev, due mostly to environmental and budgeting restrictions. It's an unobtrusive, often maddingly slow, Java-based product, which happily fits most of our needs.
There's a huge field of versioning products out there, most of which can only be found on poorly documented company websites, many without demo's. And each of them promises to be the last word in SCM, but with little to no comparison between vendors. (Oh sure, product FooSCM includes LifeCycle Management, but the definition & amount of "Lifecycle" varies greatly from one product to the next!)
Caveat emptor!
Funny, I'm an extreme INTJ, as well (8,6,9,10 on a 10-scale) & I've had no trouble Pair Programming for the better part of the past two years. And, similarly, most of the coders here are INT[P|J] -types, with a few INFP's thrown in.
But we take breaks -- reading Slashdot, Kuro, GoogleNews, etc. walking outside for [air|smoke] breaks, playing with the puzzles around the office, or just bugging the office staffers, up front. All of this allows us to come back & concentrate on the code at hand.
And me without Mod Points...
screws.us
fscks.us
ruins.us
like,
washington.kids.us
verizon.screws.us
or even, archaeology.ruins.us
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And here I thought we were all a bunch of illiterate, know-nothing (but very vocal, none-the-less) geeks.
Will wonders never cease.
R
Heh! ;-D
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to meet the system requirements for Doom III.
-R
Yeah, but what do those big sleepy lugs know?
Maybe they should've included a few elves and dwarves in their focus groups, and prehaps the odd orc or two...
-R
Yup, Tab A's *still* in Slot B, etc.
What I want them to do is, I dunno, monitor the temp of my coffe mug, or analyze the desk for potential ergonomic injuries, or comment on the room's overall bad Feng Shui, or something...
--Logan
When Dreamcasts Attack White hat hackers use game consoles, handheld PCs to crack networks from the inside out. By Kevin Poulsen, Jul 31 2002 5:26PM LAS VEGAS--Cyberpunks will be toting cheap game consoles on their utility belts this fall if they follow the lead of a pair of white hat hackers who demonstrated Wednesday how to turn the defunct Sega Dreamcast into a disposable attack box designed to be dropped like a bug on corporate networks during covert black bag jobs. The "phone home" technique presented by Aaron Higbee of Foundstone and Chris Davis from RedSiren Technologies at the Black Hat Briefings here takes advantage of the fact that firewalls effective in blocking entry into a private network, are generally permissive in allowing connections the other way around. Higbee and Davis perform penetration tests, and developed their game box cum attack tool after finding themselves more than once with physical access to a client's facilities -- posing as an employee in once case, crawling through a drop ceiling in another -- but without a way to leverage that access into remote control of the company's network. "It's not that hard to get into an organization for one or two minutes," said Higbee. They chose the Dreamcast for its small size, availability of an Ethernet adapter, and affordability -- the console was discontinued last year, and now sells used for under $100 on eBay. Loaded with custom Linux-based software and covertly plugged into a spare network port under a desk or above a ceiling, the harmless-looking toy becomes the enemy within, probing the company firewall for a way out to Internet. The box cycles through the ports used for common services like SSH, Web surfing, and e-mail, which tend to be permitted by firewall configurations. Failing that, it tries getting "ping" packets out to the Internet, and finally looks for proxy servers bridging the network to the outside world. Whatever it finds, it uses to establish a tunnel through the firewall to the intruder's home machine. "Most organizations focus on the perimeter," said Davis. "Once you get through the outside, there's a soft chewy center." The pair suggested some techniques for mitigating the risk of dropped-in hardware -- restricting the LAN to pre-assigned MAC addresses, for one -- but said that ultimately, there may be little an organization can do to prevent an attacker with physical access from setting up a covert channel home. The pair plan to release their Dreamcast software on their website next month, along with similar code they developed for the handheld Compaq iPAQ, and a bootable CD ROM designed to be slipped into print servers and other kiosk PCs. While useful, they note that the other platforms lack at least one of the Dreamcast's virtues. "It's innocuous. It looks like a toy," said Davis. "If you bring it into a company, they're going to go, 'Wow, look at the toy!'" What? You mean it isn't Slashdotted yet? How'm I supposta Karma-whore, now?!
Just remember, 83.5% percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
-R
Amen, to that! And more often it's practically a full-time job, just shuffling all of it around, from one over-flowing server to the next.
--Logan
Are you ever going to write the second part of this great series?
We'd be very interested to discover how things went during the rule of Spirit Hubris (aka. the Iron Lady).
Logan
Where I work, most of the government contractors don't even entertain the concept of counter-offers. It's: "there's the door. Seeee ya!" So by our standards, you were lucky to get the initial 25%
The funny thing is, out here few are qualified (or willing) to fill existing techie positions, let alone new vacancies. Perhaps it's meant to keep the sniping down to a minimum.