To grow, you're going to be forced to be more specialized in your job functions. Find an experineced systems administrator who has worked in big shops and has experience working with software developers. This persion will be expensive if they're any good, and will be worth the money.
Above all don't pretend that you know how to manage IT infrastructure. Systems and infrastructure administration is a compeltly different world than most developers ever work in. Your automated systems and production environments need to just work, and your development environments need to quickly recover from breaks. You don't have time to sit around troubleshooting either one when there's work to be done. In my experience most developers want to tweak things all the time. This is a good trait for the otherwise tedious craft of writing software, but must be resisted in production. Sometimes there's a reason for a sub-optimal config. Study it in a lab if you like, but don't touch production until you're sure.
Also, software development is creative work. Administration is less so, and is more constrained. Patching systems on off hours is not like writing software when the inspration is greatest. There are time constraints and procedures to be strictly followed.
Systems Administration is the art and science of maintaining an unstable equilibrium of resource availability versus maintenance and optimization. experience and temperament are important.
Finally, in order to support the increased infrastructure necessary to meet your client's needs, you will need to find even more clients. You will probably need sales staff eventually. One or two big customers is a time-bomb. If they go away then you have to down-size, and if they find out that they are so important to your bottom line, then they can begin to dictate your priorities. The only defense against both of these is to have enought customers that the loss of any single one won't kill your business. This is not a step to be taken lightly.
According to Cisco it is in fact your hardware, but it's still their software, and you can't sell it or transfer it.
This bit me a couple of years ago when I bought a 2611 on e-bay, and wanted to put the latest security fixes on it. Not being Cisco certified, I contacted Cisco to find out about getting or purchasing updates. I was told that my router was "gray market" and that I would need to buy another license for it.
"How much is that?", I asked. "$1500.00." "Holy shit!" (hangs up phone, lest they send the software gestapo.)
I had my lawyer review the license agreement that happened to be included in the box. He concurred. I was screwed if I wanted to use this router legimately.
I have the money to buy as much Cisco gear as I need, but this pissed me off so much that I haven't bought any since that day. Nor have any of my customers.
Cisco is not the only game in town, and they aren't the best any more. The people saying they are; either are not looking, or don't know anything else. Cisco just seems to be the only company with a product line extending from the very low to the very high-end.
Did you install all of the extras? Did you disable the things you didn't want? Windows comes with a minimal set of tools, and no word processor, spread sheet, data base, etc. Most Linux distros cram every extra in existence onto your drive. While I detest this practice, and and only install what I need, Windows doesn't even give you the option.
In short, Linux is a kernel and drivers. Everything else is GNU, Apache, Mozilla, etc. The distros bundle that all together in different ways. Most people forget that fact most of the time, and it makes it easy for the unscrupulous and the incompetent to compare apples to oranges.
Well not by the strict definition, but you get the point; Microsoft has this lab, you see. And in it they test systems from all over the gal^h^h^hworld. And in one of these test Microsoft products outpreformed their competitor's.
Wow! That's news. We better get it on Slashdot right away. Oh, and be sure to include an URL encoded identifer so that the submitter can get his boobie prize.
Just my opinion, but you better modify that URL before you click it. Especially if you aren't running in paranoid mode.
Wake up, I did not say "use this or that energy source rather than oil or uranium"! I said : do not consume energy for crap such as nerdy 1KW supplies! Because available source of energy has an impact on the environment.
And my points were that:
If we are foolish enough to use up all of our natural resources for frivolus purposes, then we will suffer much deservered hardship, but it will hardly kill us off.
We are being as wasteful in our energy production as in our consumption, and much of this has to do with artifical and unecessary restrictions placed on the producers by government at the behest of people calling themselves environmentalists.
Qite simply, if we had cleaner more abundant energy then it wouldn't matter what people do with the energy that they buy as long as everyone is consenting and no one gets their eye put out. And since we have the technology to do that now, it makes no sense to complain about wasteful uses by people with too much time and money on their hands.
But do you know that there are limited amount of uranium on Earth?? Just enough for 100 years if we keep burning uranium at the actual speed.
Yes, I am aware of that, but they've been quoting 100 years since I was in high school in the '80s. Like most scare statistics, it leaves out certain "difficult" variables. We've been on the verge of running out of oil, for example, for more than 20 years, and someday soon we really will be. However, we seem to find new reserves almost as fast as we increase consumption. As for uranium, by recycling we should be able to extend that 100 years considerably. It's difficult to gauge since I don't have much real scientific information on it, mostly I have just press releases and dumbed down reporter crap.
Unfortunately, science has as much politics, opinion, and FUD as the fields of politics, editorial journalism, and marketing. Many scientists, most of the public, and nearly all college students seem to be ignorant of that.
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Do you sometimes where all those Watts you consume come from? Is it from Iraki oil, or from uranium?
Do you think about the impact of over-consumption on the Earth?
uhhh, no?
While over-consumption of most natural resources will likely lead to the eventual death of all species who depend on those resources, running out of oil and uranium will not. Further, while it is also true that the waste produced by over-consumation is often toxic, the amount of waste produced by uranium and oil used in electricity production is not a significant danger.
Ironically, it is the so-called environmentalists who are forcing electric power companies to use more wasteful technologies to meet a rapidly increasing demand for electric power. The use of nuclear power produces zero emissions, and recycleable waste.
Equally ironic is that it was Jimmy Carter, with the aid of Gerald Ford, who prevented US companies from recycling their nuclear waste by executive order in 1979, but while Ronald Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, there is still grassroots opposition to both new reactors and spent fuel recycling. This opposition makes little logical sense given the fact that nuclear reactors are a zero-emmisions technology (I don't think they had ionizing radition in mind when they coined that term.) and even without recycling, a relatively small amount of spent fuel has been created in the first place. In the last 40 years the total amount of commercial spent fuel would fill an American football field to a dept of 5 yards.
The sad fact is, that we should be building nukes all over the US, and enjoying cheap plentiful electricity throughout the country. While doing this we should be closing down coal and oil fired power plants. This would, of course, cut green house emissions, which I don't much care about, but more importantly, it would cut pollutants in the atmosphere which I, and most other people, care about very much. A by product may also be the closure of natural gas fired electric power plants which, hopefully, would decrease industrial demand, and cause prices to fall for consumers.
I have the Seisco RA-28, which is an on demand electric, and I love it. (BTW: I'm a self-employed computer geek in VA, and don't have any ties to the manufacturer.)
I installed this thing myself by feeding a sub-pannel of 4 30A double pole breakers with a 125A breaker in the main, running 30 feet of #2 copper, and another 20 feet of 10-2 w/ground. I wrapped the #10 in flexible conduit and used flexible no-burst hoses with compression fittings on the copper side to provide an easy to service set-up.
The device has 4 7KW heating elements. (Most tank heaters have 1 or 2 that do not function at the same time, but which could if wired to do so.) Max wattage is 28KW. It typically uses far less.
The cool thing is the eletronics that cycle the heaters without dimming your lights. This thing delivers a nice hot shower while running the dish washer at the same time. Also, running the heat pump with the auxiliary heating unit on, and keeping my 12 servers going without a sag or brownout.
The real functionality is in the controller board. How the device heats the water is very important. Otherwise your UPSs will let you know every time you turn on the tap. I wouldn't have purched an electric tankless a couple of years ago. Now I'm impressed.
It wasn't outragously expensive to install either. About US$275.00 for the sub-pannel and wire, and about US$600.00 for the device. My labor was free. If you have 8 spaces free in your breaker pannel then it would be about 50-60 dollars for the supplies depending on where you buy your electrical supplies. (Hint: not Lowes or Home Despot.)
BTW, can a magnatron deliver useful output at lower wattages?
One of the tenets was that anything of value must be paid for.
I think he missed a basic point in Objectivist Philosophy. Nothing is free. "Free" demos are just payment for a potential buyer's time and attention while considering a purchase from the demo provider. If you consider your time more valuable than the receipt of a free demo, then the demo is over priced and you won't "buy" it by downloading or participating in it.
Rand was making the very important point, that to compel someone to provide goods or services without a fair exchange of value is an immoral and usually criminal act. That when perpetrated by a government, constitutes tyranny. She was not saying that you couldn't have sex with your spouse without either first receiving payment, or a reciprical orgasm to satisfy the fair value of the exchange.
This is a SCO press release posted on the MySQL site under "partner news." I'd say that proves it's real. And MySQL AB is refering to SCO as a partner, not a customer, or end user.
I think that much of the problem we face is that the type of people who really excell at IT, are the type of people who don't want to be managed. And management hasn't yet figured out that IT management represents something truly new that doesn't fit into anything they can easily understand.
All the while, truly brilliant and innovative managers have been pushed outside the norm by a maturing industry, that now has something to loose, and is averse to risk. While truly brilliant computer professionals are pushed aside as contributing to greater risk, and not conforming to corporate expectations.
hashing the two concatinated strings is pointless unless you're worried that one of the two strings will be substituted. In that case, you have worse problems because both strings could be substituted. The assumption is that you can store and transmit the hashes without molestation.
If that assumption is true, as it is in the case of a digital certificate, then you don't need the third hash.
The attack problem then becomes one of finding a collision that occurs in two keyspaces simultaneously. I wouldn't even know how to represent that problem mathematically.
First, stop being a lazy sot and log yourself in. I shouldn't reply since you posted AC, but I'm feeling charitable. More importantly, I was about to post this to my blog anyway.
Really? In what way?
Primailary in the area of spatial relations and symbolic manipulation. It has been my experience that thoses who are genreally regarded as geeks by their peers, and specifically, computer geeks, share a highened ability to model complex systems without the aid of outside tools.
This often manifests itself through a high degree of success in playing strategy games. An interest in cooperative "world building" through role playing games. And a natural aptitude in mathematics and music. These individuals have, not just the ability to imagine, but to manipulate, model, and utilize complex imagined systems to bring about a particular end in conformity with the rules of that system. And to model the effects of adjustments to those rules. The bulk of the population appears to be unable to do this. They also have the ability to quickly communicate these models and engage in colabrative spatial manipulation.
I believe that this is an aspect of intelligence that the bulk of otherwise intelligent people lack. It seems to be unique to people who are succeful in being what is often termed "a geek."
This is particularly relevant to information technology, where complex models of symbolic structures are used daily, and helps to explain why many are able to excell with little effort or education, while other highly educated, hard working, and often more intelligent individuals find the field difficult.
I hope that answers your question. It would have been obvious to any geek.:)
That would be me. and you draw attention to an aspect of my analogy that I had assigned little importance to. But in doing so, you bring up a very interesting point.
I was thinking more of one type of "management" replacing another. The highly effective and skilled, though undisciplined, Celtic Warror versus the disciplined Roman grunt. The Roman as an individual was essentially unskilled in comparision to the Celt. And didn't stand a chance in single combat, or small group operations.
The point you seem to be bringing up is "What was lost with the demise of Celtic society?" And by analogy, "What are we loosing with the demise of Hackish Culture(tm) in the workplace?" I've thought for some time that the disciplined approach would eventually defeat any other. Which has led to my pessimism toward the IT workplace.
But this doesn't have to be true. The dot com bust wasn't caused by a particular cultural norm in IT management, rather by business built on an insecure foundation. but the dot com culture is being discarded out of guilt by association. companies spending too much on employee perks, may not have been that smart, but it didn't drive them into bankrupcy. Lousy business models and poor products did that. Hiring responsible and talented people and letting them do their jobs in the way they thought best, produced a lot of great ideas and got a lot of work done.
Bureaucracy is effective and reproducable. It places importance on the job function and not the individual. But it results in small stides and small changes. In a dynamic environment, it wouldn't survive long. But in a static one, once the formula is perfected, it could continue indefinitely. I suppose that means that as technological innovation decreases, bureaucratic management increases. But this seems to have the additional effect of further slowing innovation.
Right. I mean Newton just invented calculus. Einstein really pushed it forward and did things with it. Not to knock Newton, since calculus is a really big deal. And his work with harmonic motion was great.
But the stuff you really think about and use, like time dialation, that was all Einstein. And Newtonion Mechanics is hardly state of the art.
Einstein, Heisenberg, and others must have looked back and thought; "What did you really contribute, Newton? You didn't even have the concept of light having a finite speed."
No one ever stood on the shoulders of giant before, right?
I've had more good ideas from conversations on long coffee breaks than I care to remember. And they usually saved the company money, or fixed something. The ability to get away from a problem and take your mind productively in another direction has, for me, usually been a function of having talented and intelligent people around to share ideas with.
These days, if you're seen having a conversation of longer than two minutes you start to get the attention of management. Geeks aren't like everyone else, and they aren't motivated in the usual ways or by the usual things.
The effort now, seems to be to put armies of non-geeks at the keyboard, hoping that they can make up with numbers and procedures what they lack in talent. I just hope that this one doesn't turn out like The Celts vs. The Romans.
Hey! Maybe we should sacrifice a secretary to the god of system stability. Just be sure to start the fire with a printout of the last core dump.
I already do. It's even got the states of Mexico and Canada, and all of the outlying territories that comprise the eastern hemisphere and South America.
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You're right. It's just wishful thinking on my part.
Who is the moron that decided that the school didnt need the $?
Every time the school system wants a new bond issue they get it. This is one of the most well funded public school systems I've seen. Which disgusts me when I see all the little things they do to waste money. But unlike other school systems they seem to get good results overall. So most people give them a pass on the waste.
I don't. My property taxes have gone up 40% in the last three years. And I think that the good results that the school system gets come from the types of parents who would vote to put a large chunk of their income into the public school system. People like that, though usually too busy to pay too much attention to their kids, will pay through the nose* to make sure their kids are getting all the basics.
Western Henrico (pronounce with a long 'i') county is mostly middle and upper-middle class families. Eastern Henrico county is not, and the city of Richmond is in the middle, to the south. The iBook sale took place in the county's east.
*If this is an unfamiliar idom to you, it means means roughly; to pay a very high price, and one that is more than you should have paid.
I did this the last time I moved. Those are very stong boxes. They also happen to be the perfect size and strength to move books. You can put just enough books in that an average person can easily carry the box, and it won't break.
The boxes you buy from the packing store are far from being as strong.
You will even find this referenced in "secrets and lies." Writing down a password and keeping it under your sole control is not really any different than using some other token to access a system.
This act turns the password into "something you have" instead of "something you know." Since passwords are not strong authentication by themselves this does not undermine security any more than relying on password security itself does.
Writing the password down and leaving it in a public area or in your desk, however, is a HUGE risk. Whoever wrote that guide should be keelhauled for not making a distinction. The typical cluless user will assume that leaving a password on his/her monitor at work is fine, because Netgear knows more than the "experts" in the IT department.
I suppose that since I'm an Infosec professional, that makes me an "expert."
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To grow, you're going to be forced to be more specialized in your job functions. Find an experineced systems administrator who has worked in big shops and has experience working with software developers. This persion will be expensive if they're any good, and will be worth the money.
Above all don't pretend that you know how to manage IT infrastructure. Systems and infrastructure administration is a compeltly different world than most developers ever work in. Your automated systems and production environments need to just work, and your development environments need to quickly recover from breaks. You don't have time to sit around troubleshooting either one when there's work to be done. In my experience most developers want to tweak things all the time. This is a good trait for the otherwise tedious craft of writing software, but must be resisted in production. Sometimes there's a reason for a sub-optimal config. Study it in a lab if you like, but don't touch production until you're sure.
Also, software development is creative work. Administration is less so, and is more constrained. Patching systems on off hours is not like writing software when the inspration is greatest. There are time constraints and procedures to be strictly followed.
Systems Administration is the art and science of maintaining an unstable equilibrium of resource availability versus maintenance and optimization. experience and temperament are important.
Finally, in order to support the increased infrastructure necessary to meet your client's needs, you will need to find even more clients. You will probably need sales staff eventually. One or two big customers is a time-bomb. If they go away then you have to down-size, and if they find out that they are so important to your bottom line, then they can begin to dictate your priorities. The only defense against both of these is to have enought customers that the loss of any single one won't kill your business. This is not a step to be taken lightly.
According to Cisco it is in fact your hardware, but it's still their software, and you can't sell it or transfer it.
This bit me a couple of years ago when I bought a 2611 on e-bay, and wanted to put the latest security fixes on it. Not being Cisco certified, I contacted Cisco to find out about getting or purchasing updates. I was told that my router was "gray market" and that I would need to buy another license for it.
"How much is that?", I asked.
"$1500.00."
"Holy shit!" (hangs up phone, lest they send the software gestapo.)
I had my lawyer review the license agreement that happened to be included in the box. He concurred. I was screwed if I wanted to use this router legimately.
I have the money to buy as much Cisco gear as I need, but this pissed me off so much that I haven't bought any since that day. Nor have any of my customers.
Cisco is not the only game in town, and they aren't the best any more. The people saying they are; either are not looking, or don't know anything else. Cisco just seems to be the only company with a product line extending from the very low to the very high-end.
If your wife gets prostate cancer, you need to have a nice long talk about her past.
Did you install all of the extras? Did you disable the things you didn't want? Windows comes with a minimal set of tools, and no word processor, spread sheet, data base, etc. Most Linux distros cram every extra in existence onto your drive. While I detest this practice, and and only install what I need, Windows doesn't even give you the option.
In short, Linux is a kernel and drivers. Everything else is GNU, Apache, Mozilla, etc. The distros bundle that all together in different ways. Most people forget that fact most of the time, and it makes it easy for the unscrupulous and the incompetent to compare apples to oranges.
Astroturf!
Well not by the strict definition, but you get the point; Microsoft has this lab, you see. And in it they test systems from all over the gal^h^h^hworld. And in one of these test Microsoft products outpreformed their competitor's.
Wow! That's news. We better get it on Slashdot right away. Oh, and be sure to include an URL encoded identifer so that the submitter can get his boobie prize.
Just my opinion, but you better modify that URL before you click it. Especially if you aren't running in paranoid mode.
And my points were that:
Qite simply, if we had cleaner more abundant energy then it wouldn't matter what people do with the energy that they buy as long as everyone is consenting and no one gets their eye put out. And since we have the technology to do that now, it makes no sense to complain about wasteful uses by people with too much time and money on their hands.
But do you know that there are limited amount of uranium on Earth?? Just enough for 100 years if we keep burning uranium at the actual speed.
Yes, I am aware of that, but they've been quoting 100 years since I was in high school in the '80s. Like most scare statistics, it leaves out certain "difficult" variables. We've been on the verge of running out of oil, for example, for more than 20 years, and someday soon we really will be. However, we seem to find new reserves almost as fast as we increase consumption. As for uranium, by recycling we should be able to extend that 100 years considerably. It's difficult to gauge since I don't have much real scientific information on it, mostly I have just press releases and dumbed down reporter crap.
Unfortunately, science has as much politics, opinion, and FUD as the fields of politics, editorial journalism, and marketing. Many scientists, most of the public, and nearly all college students seem to be ignorant of that.
uhhh, no?
While over-consumption of most natural resources will likely lead to the eventual death of all species who depend on those resources, running out of oil and uranium will not. Further, while it is also true that the waste produced by over-consumation is often toxic, the amount of waste produced by uranium and oil used in electricity production is not a significant danger.
Ironically, it is the so-called environmentalists who are forcing electric power companies to use more wasteful technologies to meet a rapidly increasing demand for electric power. The use of nuclear power produces zero emissions, and recycleable waste.
Equally ironic is that it was Jimmy Carter, with the aid of Gerald Ford, who prevented US companies from recycling their nuclear waste by executive order in 1979, but while Ronald Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, there is still grassroots opposition to both new reactors and spent fuel recycling. This opposition makes little logical sense given the fact that nuclear reactors are a zero-emmisions technology (I don't think they had ionizing radition in mind when they coined that term.) and even without recycling, a relatively small amount of spent fuel has been created in the first place. In the last 40 years the total amount of commercial spent fuel would fill an American football field to a dept of 5 yards.
The sad fact is, that we should be building nukes all over the US, and enjoying cheap plentiful electricity throughout the country. While doing this we should be closing down coal and oil fired power plants. This would, of course, cut green house emissions, which I don't much care about, but more importantly, it would cut pollutants in the atmosphere which I, and most other people, care about very much. A by product may also be the closure of natural gas fired electric power plants which, hopefully, would decrease industrial demand, and cause prices to fall for consumers.
I have the Seisco RA-28, which is an on demand electric, and I love it. (BTW: I'm a self-employed computer geek in VA, and don't have any ties to the manufacturer.)
I installed this thing myself by feeding a sub-pannel of 4 30A double pole breakers with a 125A breaker in the main, running 30 feet of #2 copper, and another 20 feet of 10-2 w/ground. I wrapped the #10 in flexible conduit and used flexible no-burst hoses with compression fittings on the copper side to provide an easy to service set-up.
The device has 4 7KW heating elements. (Most tank heaters have 1 or 2 that do not function at the same time, but which could if wired to do so.) Max wattage is 28KW. It typically uses far less.
The cool thing is the eletronics that cycle the heaters without dimming your lights. This thing delivers a nice hot shower while running the dish washer at the same time. Also, running the heat pump with the auxiliary heating unit on, and keeping my 12 servers going without a sag or brownout.
The real functionality is in the controller board. How the device heats the water is very important. Otherwise your UPSs will let you know every time you turn on the tap. I wouldn't have purched an electric tankless a couple of years ago. Now I'm impressed.
It wasn't outragously expensive to install either. About US$275.00 for the sub-pannel and wire, and about US$600.00 for the device. My labor was free. If you have 8 spaces free in your breaker pannel then it would be about 50-60 dollars for the supplies depending on where you buy your electrical supplies. (Hint: not Lowes or Home Despot.)
BTW, can a magnatron deliver useful output at lower wattages?
I think he missed a basic point in Objectivist Philosophy. Nothing is free. "Free" demos are just payment for a potential buyer's time and attention while considering a purchase from the demo provider. If you consider your time more valuable than the receipt of a free demo, then the demo is over priced and you won't "buy" it by downloading or participating in it.
Rand was making the very important point, that to compel someone to provide goods or services without a fair exchange of value is an immoral and usually criminal act. That when perpetrated by a government, constitutes tyranny. She was not saying that you couldn't have sex with your spouse without either first receiving payment, or a reciprical orgasm to satisfy the fair value of the exchange.
This is a SCO press release posted on the MySQL site under "partner news." I'd say that proves it's real. And MySQL AB is refering to SCO as a partner, not a customer, or end user.
I think that much of the problem we face is that the type of people who really excell at IT, are the type of people who don't want to be managed. And management hasn't yet figured out that IT management represents something truly new that doesn't fit into anything they can easily understand.
All the while, truly brilliant and innovative managers have been pushed outside the norm by a maturing industry, that now has something to loose, and is averse to risk. While truly brilliant computer professionals are pushed aside as contributing to greater risk, and not conforming to corporate expectations.
hashing the two concatinated strings is pointless unless you're worried that one of the two strings will be substituted. In that case, you have worse problems because both strings could be substituted. The assumption is that you can store and transmit the hashes without molestation.
If that assumption is true, as it is in the case of a digital certificate, then you don't need the third hash.
The attack problem then becomes one of finding a collision that occurs in two keyspaces simultaneously. I wouldn't even know how to represent that problem mathematically.
First, stop being a lazy sot and log yourself in. I shouldn't reply since you posted AC, but I'm feeling charitable. More importantly, I was about to post this to my blog anyway.
:)
Really? In what way?
Primailary in the area of spatial relations and symbolic manipulation. It has been my experience that thoses who are genreally regarded as geeks by their peers, and specifically, computer geeks, share a highened ability to model complex systems without the aid of outside tools.
This often manifests itself through a high degree of success in playing strategy games. An interest in cooperative "world building" through role playing games. And a natural aptitude in mathematics and music. These individuals have, not just the ability to imagine, but to manipulate, model, and utilize complex imagined systems to bring about a particular end in conformity with the rules of that system. And to model the effects of adjustments to those rules. The bulk of the population appears to be unable to do this. They also have the ability to quickly communicate these models and engage in colabrative spatial manipulation.
I believe that this is an aspect of intelligence that the bulk of otherwise intelligent people lack. It seems to be unique to people who are succeful in being what is often termed "a geek."
This is particularly relevant to information technology, where complex models of symbolic structures are used daily, and helps to explain why many are able to excell with little effort or education, while other highly educated, hard working, and often more intelligent individuals find the field difficult.
I hope that answers your question. It would have been obvious to any geek.
That would be me. and you draw attention to an aspect of my analogy that I had assigned little importance to. But in doing so, you bring up a very interesting point.
I was thinking more of one type of "management" replacing another. The highly effective and skilled, though undisciplined, Celtic Warror versus the disciplined Roman grunt. The Roman as an individual was essentially unskilled in comparision to the Celt. And didn't stand a chance in single combat, or small group operations.
The point you seem to be bringing up is "What was lost with the demise of Celtic society?" And by analogy, "What are we loosing with the demise of Hackish Culture(tm) in the workplace?" I've thought for some time that the disciplined approach would eventually defeat any other. Which has led to my pessimism toward the IT workplace.
But this doesn't have to be true. The dot com bust wasn't caused by a particular cultural norm in IT management, rather by business built on an insecure foundation. but the dot com culture is being discarded out of guilt by association. companies spending too much on employee perks, may not have been that smart, but it didn't drive them into bankrupcy. Lousy business models and poor products did that. Hiring responsible and talented people and letting them do their jobs in the way they thought best, produced a lot of great ideas and got a lot of work done.
Bureaucracy is effective and reproducable. It places importance on the job function and not the individual. But it results in small stides and small changes. In a dynamic environment, it wouldn't survive long. But in a static one, once the formula is perfected, it could continue indefinitely. I suppose that means that as technological innovation decreases, bureaucratic management increases. But this seems to have the additional effect of further slowing innovation.
Interesting problem. Thanks for the insight.
Sure, it's just like it sounds. L-E-E-B-?-?-IZ. ...
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Say, why don't you look it up like everyone else.
And while you're at it go play in traffic, and get off my damned lawn!
Right. But I can actually spell Newton, so he gets the credit.
Right. I mean Newton just invented calculus. Einstein really pushed it forward and did things with it. Not to knock Newton, since calculus is a really big deal. And his work with harmonic motion was great.
But the stuff you really think about and use, like time dialation, that was all Einstein. And Newtonion Mechanics is hardly state of the art.
Einstein, Heisenberg, and others must have looked back and thought; "What did you really contribute, Newton? You didn't even have the concept of light having a finite speed."
No one ever stood on the shoulders of giant before, right?
I've had more good ideas from conversations on long coffee breaks than I care to remember. And they usually saved the company money, or fixed something. The ability to get away from a problem and take your mind productively in another direction has, for me, usually been a function of having talented and intelligent people around to share ideas with.
These days, if you're seen having a conversation of longer than two minutes you start to get the attention of management. Geeks aren't like everyone else, and they aren't motivated in the usual ways or by the usual things.
The effort now, seems to be to put armies of non-geeks at the keyboard, hoping that they can make up with numbers and procedures what they lack in talent. I just hope that this one doesn't turn out like The Celts vs. The Romans.
Hey! Maybe we should sacrifice a secretary to the god of system stability. Just be sure to start the fire with a printout of the last core dump.
I already do. It's even got the states of Mexico and Canada, and all of the outlying territories that comprise the eastern hemisphere and South America.
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You're right. It's just wishful thinking on my part.
As a tax payer in Henrico County, I agree. If the county has property to dispose of, it has an obligation to get the best return it reasonably can.
Every time the school system wants a new bond issue they get it. This is one of the most well funded public school systems I've seen. Which disgusts me when I see all the little things they do to waste money. But unlike other school systems they seem to get good results overall. So most people give them a pass on the waste.
I don't. My property taxes have gone up 40% in the last three years. And I think that the good results that the school system gets come from the types of parents who would vote to put a large chunk of their income into the public school system. People like that, though usually too busy to pay too much attention to their kids, will pay through the nose* to make sure their kids are getting all the basics.
Western Henrico (pronounce with a long 'i') county is mostly middle and upper-middle class families. Eastern Henrico county is not, and the city of Richmond is in the middle, to the south. The iBook sale took place in the county's east.
*If this is an unfamiliar idom to you, it means means roughly; to pay a very high price, and one that is more than you should have paid.
I did this the last time I moved. Those are very stong boxes. They also happen to be the perfect size and strength to move books. You can put just enough books in that an average person can easily carry the box, and it won't break.
The boxes you buy from the packing store are far from being as strong.
Violent space porn...
Sounds promising.
You will even find this referenced in "secrets and lies." Writing down a password and keeping it under your sole control is not really any different than using some other token to access a system.
This act turns the password into "something you have" instead of "something you know." Since passwords are not strong authentication by themselves this does not undermine security any more than relying on password security itself does.
Writing the password down and leaving it in a public area or in your desk, however, is a HUGE risk. Whoever wrote that guide should be keelhauled for not making a distinction. The typical cluless user will assume that leaving a password on his/her monitor at work is fine, because Netgear knows more than the "experts" in the IT department.
I suppose that since I'm an Infosec professional, that makes me an "expert."
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