I guess this stymies my plans for a floppy raid5 file server array mounted in a home made 19" rack!
Life is so unfair!
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I have to say, the students who consistantly performed the best in my classes (jr. high and high school), were students who's parents were closely involved in holding their children accountable to their classroom performance; both scholastically and behavior wise.
I have been using Dvorak and QWERTY in a multiuser environment for about 3 years, 2 of those years in the work environment. I have to say, if your're not consciencious of your fellow users, whether the be your wife or your co-workers, you're going to freak them out (the first time they expect QWERTY and get Dvorak instead) and then anger them when you for get to switch/warn them of the changes.
The easiest control I have found so far is by enabling keyboard layouts in KDE (Control Center->Regional & Accessability->Enable Keyboard Layouts). If you don't use KDE, OS X has an easy way of changing it, but I don't know about being able to change it on the fly/at will.
While Windows has means of changing it, it varies in how to change it between Win2000 and XP. I can't really go into the details about what a pain in the ass it is to have a consistant changing environment in XP, but Win2000 is fairly consistant. The problem with being a Dvorak user is that you have to go in a change the environment every time you go to a new computer; especially a GUI-only OS *cough*Windows*cough*sucks*cough*.
For instance, in XP, if I login, set my default keyboard layout to Dvorak, forget to logout, and then XP locks the session where others can then login: the layout will stay in Dvorak instead of defaulting the the login window's default keyboard layout. This is the hight of stupid logic: sure, I having been using Dvorak might prefer to log back in using Dvorak, but I sure didn't need any help getting in the first place with QWERTY, so why do others have to work around me to try to login? What if I were using a Spanish layout (I also speak Spanish) on a computer in a public place (where the admin would hopefully disable that stupid locking/switch-user crap)? The result is that I have to either be perfect in loging out, even if I expect to come back to that session later in the day, or have my default keyboard layout set to QWERTY. (which brings up using the X-windows setting in TweakUI and MSDOS windows - hellatious).
Ever watch some of significant speed type using the Dvorak layout? I use Dvorak and while training another tech they mentioned how weird it was to watch me type. I didn't pay much attention to the comment until another tech joined on where we worked and I saw him typing (significantly faster than I): it's weird looking.
The reason for it is the amount the fingers DON'T travel during the course of typing. In fact, that second tech started using Dvorak to minimize the effects of RSI on himself. It doesn't mean that he doesn't have to watch how he holds his arms while typing and whatsoever other good practices associated with avoiding RSI, but it has helped him significantly.
Stupid businesses: all the had to do was find the etymology of the word "stealth" and throw it back into this seeming shyster's face:
stealth:
c.1250, "theft, action or practice of stealing," from O.E. *stæl, which is related to stelen (see steal), from P.Gmc. *stælitho (cf. O.N. stulr). Sense of "secret action" developed c.1300, but the word also retained its etymological sense into 18c. Got a boost as an adj. from stealth fighter, stealth bomber, radar-evading U.S. military aircraft, activated 1983. Stealthy is attested from 1605.
Surely the word predates any company and any claim a company could have on it. (Not even Beretta is as old as this word.)
I've worked for companies that would shut down your website if they found out your password was too weak.
A number and then a real(ish) name is one of the worst passwords one can come up with.... and is boring at that.
Here's a nice tool for coming up with random passwords. It doesn't seem to recognize including spaces (which are usable in passwords with Linux, BSD, htaccess passwords, Windows XP, gmail, and who knows where else) within the generator. I guess we're left to our imagination at that point.
If you were my employee and you told me that you couldn't imagine a reason, besides CPU architecture, to develope for an OS, I would, to be fair, confront/challenge you on it. If your bleak, narrow-minded views did not change, over a course of between 3 to 6 months, I would let you know your services were no longer needed.
I just wouldn't want to work with someone who wasn't daring enough to dream again.
Dispite being able to support (currently) more than needed amount of RAM, this post thinks it's impressive to tout the size of 64-bit addressing for paging files!?!?!?
"Windows based mandatory paging: It's not a weakness in design, it's a feature!"
Would it be too difficult to ask/require the hospitol workers to use gloves while typing or would that be too novel?
From the looks of this keyboard in front of me, I might want to follow my own advice.
Another solution could be to run the (pre-membrane) keyboards through the dishwasher (and perhaps wait a week before they completely dry). If they don't have too much electronics in them, like USB ports and whatnot, they'll do fine once they (finally) dry out. Not that that would be practical for many institutions.
Heck, I'd do the same to this one, except I'm afraid of what I might bring home with me.
I love the irony you bring to light about university settings.
One would think those working for and under university level expectations, and job applications requiring EVERY-SINGLE-JOB-YOU-EVER-HAD to be listed with it, to be somewhat on the ball about how to do things, at least efficiently.
But, no.
What is often forgotten is that universities are rarely anything less than a bureaucracies. Therefore you, as I and my classmates, might get a "Unix Administrator" who is unaware of the web interface to their server's email service (squirrelmail) and instead give a crash course on Pine to a group mostly Windows raised neophytes without giving them the basic, yet amazingly helpful, courtesy tip on using "tab completion" on BASH's command line! (That last point would make a good interview question or grounds for dismisal, in my book, for an 'Admin' titled position.)
I guess the ultimate irony is that the skills universities 'intend' to teach are actually the ones that, hopefully for me, helped the very people who implimented such things as 'tab completion' and using telnet to port 25 to send email. So, all is not lost for attending such institutions. It's the bureaucracy on the backend that slows 'em down.
Besides it being butt ugly, there's the issue of it (and Kghostview and Kpdf) not being able to open some PDFs created with more recent versions of Acrobat.
The which is something I just found out with one of my professors. Too bad he's not thoughtful enough to make his non-print-to-pdf documents backward compatable. (if that's even an option)
Wow, I find that interesting. The only job I've worked at where Windows and Linux techs worked in the same office, I found the Windows techs to run the greatest gamut of character: being the most haughty and exclusive to the most inviting and inclusive. That's not to mention how much the Linux techs taught me on the job as well.
What I found amoung the Linux techs was a greater investment of time, learning, and adapting to a well designed system that requires more out of you. Heck, you can't get away from being a proficient tech without being able to at least type 35+ words/minute. But, that is just an entry level skill to make the rest of your learning easier.
Because of the learning curve, and the trouble-shooting skills the tech position required, involved in Linux/Unix I can see why some people would take themselves more seriously than meet; thereby deserving of the titles prevously bestowed upon them. Too bad for them, and for you, that they do not instead convey the satisfaction and enjoyment that comes from learning something that does have such a steap learning curve and currently has an underdog image (which really has nothing to do with being satisfying as far as I'm concerned, I just really enjoy the OS itself).
Hmmm, oh well. I guess when it's all said and done, the satisfaction that I get from knowing, not even on a mastry level, of Linux, makes me not really care what others think of me, but I don't want to put them off either because I'm too self-absorbed to give them the same sort of help I too have received in the past from others in the Linux community.
This past Spring and Fall were just that, for once, in Dallas/Ft. Worth area (also know as North Texas).
This past Summer were also one of the most mild in recent memory: while we had been getting as many as 20 days over 100, there were around 5 or less this time around. And it's not like there were lots of days in the high 90's either. We had more rainfall than normal and that helped to keep things cooler than normal.
It wasn't even until the last two weeks that it's really become uncomfortably cold around here either.
Some predict this Winter will be unusually cold, but I doubt it.
I know if I had a guitar (particularly an acustic) I would make time to play it dispite knowing my skills in it would never be outstanding. It's still enjoyable and a nice release of whatever's in me at the time.
My computer can't always do that for me. It's a tool I work on all day, but I still find things to do on it in the evening: some of it (*cough*) "work" and some (most) of it "play."
In the end, the nice part is: I get to daily go somewhere and get paid for something I enjoy.
I find it some what disgusting that there has yet to be one person to post that it might be their own fault for putting themselves in danger of this exploit, when, if they are registered with Slashdot, should be aware of the dangers of using IE in the first place.
Please, stop blaming others when you have at least a choice of 4 other browsers available to you without the same level of security issues as IE:
firefox
mozilla
opera
(netscape)
Who cares what every one else should be doing when YOUYOURSELF are not willing to every thing YOU can to avoid these dangers?
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."
Seeing as how they have multiple servers all over the place, and that they haven't been around a short period of time, they should of had a disaster recovery plan.
As a former web server (linux only, thank God) support tech, I was amazed at how many online "businesses" trusted their web content, that they actually seemed to heavily rely on, to a single man made, man maintained machine at a relatively few bucks (~$20.00) a month. All without a single local backup of their files, that they themselves had pushed to the server. It's dumbfounding to think that they could rely so much on their website but not have the smarts to make their own backups.
Secondly, having so many servers with basically the same stuff on them, they should have templates galor ready to be repopulated, because the crowds are not going to stop comming over night if they at least place a "We'll be right back" sign on their home page. I also don't see any indication of down time, which is pretty good on their part. So, they must have an inkling as to how to properly run their sites and have them back up shortly.
So, that arguement is baseless unless they are stupid. If they are stupid then natural selection has won, again.
No, not Indymedia, but the ones who seazed their servers.
From what I've read, Indymedia is assumed to be innocent = A VERY GOOD THING. However, the problem I have with what I've read is that there is an assumed guilt on the part of the ones doing the seazures. They too should be extended the same curtesy Indymedia so much would use to their own advantage and cause. Do we really know if they are innocent or guilty? Or if there is an actual, dare I say, reasonable law that has been broken by Indymedia? From what's written you would be hard pressed to think they were less than innocent. (It's still OK to presume they are.)
Let's see if they'll continue to cry foul, foul, FOUL! Or if they'll be calm and collected in the confidence and peace actual, real guiltlessness affords the innocent.
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You seem to have "a serious case of old."
I guess this stymies my plans for a floppy raid5 file server array mounted in a home made 19" rack!
Life is so unfair!
I have to say, the students who consistantly performed the best in my classes (jr. high and high school), were students who's parents were closely involved in holding their children accountable to their classroom performance; both scholastically and behavior wise.
I have been using Dvorak and QWERTY in a multiuser environment for about 3 years, 2 of those years in the work environment. I have to say, if your're not consciencious of your fellow users, whether the be your wife or your co-workers, you're going to freak them out (the first time they expect QWERTY and get Dvorak instead) and then anger them when you for get to switch/warn them of the changes.
The easiest control I have found so far is by enabling keyboard layouts in KDE (Control Center->Regional & Accessability->Enable Keyboard Layouts). If you don't use KDE, OS X has an easy way of changing it, but I don't know about being able to change it on the fly/at will.
While Windows has means of changing it, it varies in how to change it between Win2000 and XP. I can't really go into the details about what a pain in the ass it is to have a consistant changing environment in XP, but Win2000 is fairly consistant. The problem with being a Dvorak user is that you have to go in a change the environment every time you go to a new computer; especially a GUI-only OS *cough*Windows*cough*sucks*cough*.
For instance, in XP, if I login, set my default keyboard layout to Dvorak, forget to logout, and then XP locks the session where others can then login: the layout will stay in Dvorak instead of defaulting the the login window's default keyboard layout. This is the hight of stupid logic: sure, I having been using Dvorak might prefer to log back in using Dvorak, but I sure didn't need any help getting in the first place with QWERTY, so why do others have to work around me to try to login? What if I were using a Spanish layout (I also speak Spanish) on a computer in a public place (where the admin would hopefully disable that stupid locking/switch-user crap)? The result is that I have to either be perfect in loging out, even if I expect to come back to that session later in the day, or have my default keyboard layout set to QWERTY. (which brings up using the X-windows setting in TweakUI and MSDOS windows - hellatious).
Ever watch some of significant speed type using the Dvorak layout? I use Dvorak and while training another tech they mentioned how weird it was to watch me type. I didn't pay much attention to the comment until another tech joined on where we worked and I saw him typing (significantly faster than I): it's weird looking.
The reason for it is the amount the fingers DON'T travel during the course of typing. In fact, that second tech started using Dvorak to minimize the effects of RSI on himself. It doesn't mean that he doesn't have to watch how he holds his arms while typing and whatsoever other good practices associated with avoiding RSI, but it has helped him significantly.
Did anyone quote the Apple execs?
Perhaps there are to many ways to spell "D'oh!"
Stupid businesses: all the had to do was find the etymology of the word "stealth" and throw it back into this seeming shyster's face:
stealth:
c.1250, "theft, action or practice of stealing," from O.E. *stæl, which is related to stelen (see steal), from P.Gmc. *stælitho (cf. O.N. stulr). Sense of "secret action" developed c.1300, but the word also retained its etymological sense into 18c. Got a boost as an adj. from stealth fighter, stealth bomber, radar-evading U.S. military aircraft, activated 1983. Stealthy is attested from 1605.
Surely the word predates any company and any claim a company could have on it. (Not even Beretta is as old as this word.)
pfft!
I've worked for companies that would shut down your website if they found out your password was too weak.
A number and then a real(ish) name is one of the worst passwords one can come up with.... and is boring at that.
Here's a nice tool for coming up with random passwords. It doesn't seem to recognize including spaces (which are usable in passwords with Linux, BSD, htaccess passwords, Windows XP, gmail, and who knows where else) within the generator. I guess we're left to our imagination at that point.
Have you lost your imagination?
If you were my employee and you told me that you couldn't imagine a reason, besides CPU architecture, to develope for an OS, I would, to be fair, confront/challenge you on it. If your bleak, narrow-minded views did not change, over a course of between 3 to 6 months, I would let you know your services were no longer needed.
I just wouldn't want to work with someone who wasn't daring enough to dream again.
Oh, great!
Oh, joy!
Dispite being able to support (currently) more than needed amount of RAM, this post thinks it's impressive to tout the size of 64-bit addressing for paging files!?!?!?
"Windows based mandatory paging: It's not a weakness in design, it's a feature!"
You mean to say I don't have to have support for L120 and ATM devices on my desktop or web server!???
Just kidding.
Those $.02 of yours are worth more like 2 bucks.
Would it be too difficult to ask/require the hospitol workers to use gloves while typing or would that be too novel?
From the looks of this keyboard in front of me, I might want to follow my own advice.
Another solution could be to run the (pre-membrane) keyboards through the dishwasher (and perhaps wait a week before they completely dry). If they don't have too much electronics in them, like USB ports and whatnot, they'll do fine once they (finally) dry out. Not that that would be practical for many institutions.
Heck, I'd do the same to this one, except I'm afraid of what I might bring home with me.
I love the irony you bring to light about university settings.
One would think those working for and under university level expectations, and job applications requiring EVERY-SINGLE-JOB-YOU-EVER-HAD to be listed with it, to be somewhat on the ball about how to do things, at least efficiently.
But, no.
What is often forgotten is that universities are rarely anything less than a bureaucracies. Therefore you, as I and my classmates, might get a "Unix Administrator" who is unaware of the web interface to their server's email service (squirrelmail) and instead give a crash course on Pine to a group mostly Windows raised neophytes without giving them the basic, yet amazingly helpful, courtesy tip on using "tab completion" on BASH's command line! (That last point would make a good interview question or grounds for dismisal, in my book, for an 'Admin' titled position.)
I guess the ultimate irony is that the skills universities 'intend' to teach are actually the ones that, hopefully for me, helped the very people who implimented such things as 'tab completion' and using telnet to port 25 to send email. So, all is not lost for attending such institutions. It's the bureaucracy on the backend that slows 'em down.
All of these pass under the radar (Word 2000):
Bill Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft
Bill Gate do good marketing job in Microsoft
Gate do good marketing job in Microsoft
Bill do good marketing job in Microsoft
The Bill do good marketing job in Microsoft
The bill do good marketing job in Microsoft
Besides it being butt ugly, there's the issue of it (and Kghostview and Kpdf) not being able to open some PDFs created with more recent versions of Acrobat.
The which is something I just found out with one of my professors. Too bad he's not thoughtful enough to make his non-print-to-pdf documents backward compatable. (if that's even an option)
Wow, I find that interesting. The only job I've worked at where Windows and Linux techs worked in the same office, I found the Windows techs to run the greatest gamut of character: being the most haughty and exclusive to the most inviting and inclusive. That's not to mention how much the Linux techs taught me on the job as well.
What I found amoung the Linux techs was a greater investment of time, learning, and adapting to a well designed system that requires more out of you. Heck, you can't get away from being a proficient tech without being able to at least type 35+ words/minute. But, that is just an entry level skill to make the rest of your learning easier.
Because of the learning curve, and the trouble-shooting skills the tech position required, involved in Linux/Unix I can see why some people would take themselves more seriously than meet; thereby deserving of the titles prevously bestowed upon them. Too bad for them, and for you, that they do not instead convey the satisfaction and enjoyment that comes from learning something that does have such a steap learning curve and currently has an underdog image (which really has nothing to do with being satisfying as far as I'm concerned, I just really enjoy the OS itself).
Hmmm, oh well. I guess when it's all said and done, the satisfaction that I get from knowing, not even on a mastry level, of Linux, makes me not really care what others think of me, but I don't want to put them off either because I'm too self-absorbed to give them the same sort of help I too have received in the past from others in the Linux community.
the volcanos.
This past Spring and Fall were just that, for once, in Dallas/Ft. Worth area (also know as North Texas).
This past Summer were also one of the most mild in recent memory: while we had been getting as many as 20 days over 100, there were around 5 or less this time around. And it's not like there were lots of days in the high 90's either. We had more rainfall than normal and that helped to keep things cooler than normal.
It wasn't even until the last two weeks that it's really become uncomfortably cold around here either.
Some predict this Winter will be unusually cold, but I doubt it.
I agree.
I know if I had a guitar (particularly an acustic) I would make time to play it dispite knowing my skills in it would never be outstanding. It's still enjoyable and a nice release of whatever's in me at the time.
My computer can't always do that for me. It's a tool I work on all day, but I still find things to do on it in the evening: some of it (*cough*) "work" and some (most) of it "play."
In the end, the nice part is: I get to daily go somewhere and get paid for something I enjoy.
I find it some what disgusting that there has yet to be one person to post that it might be their own fault for putting themselves in danger of this exploit, when, if they are registered with Slashdot, should be aware of the dangers of using IE in the first place.
Please, stop blaming others when you have at least a choice of 4 other browsers available to you without the same level of security issues as IE:
Who cares what every one else should be doing when YOU YOURSELF are not willing to every thing YOU can to avoid these dangers?
No.
Demonstrable power is where assumptions disappear: thus miracles and prophesy. This is what separates reality from assumptions.
A few solutions to their problem:
- Backups
- Backups
- Backups
Seeing as how they have multiple servers all over the place, and that they haven't been around a short period of time, they should of had a disaster recovery plan.As a former web server (linux only, thank God) support tech, I was amazed at how many online "businesses" trusted their web content, that they actually seemed to heavily rely on, to a single man made, man maintained machine at a relatively few bucks (~$20.00) a month. All without a single local backup of their files, that they themselves had pushed to the server. It's dumbfounding to think that they could rely so much on their website but not have the smarts to make their own backups.
Secondly, having so many servers with basically the same stuff on them, they should have templates galor ready to be repopulated, because the crowds are not going to stop comming over night if they at least place a "We'll be right back" sign on their home page. I also don't see any indication of down time, which is pretty good on their part. So, they must have an inkling as to how to properly run their sites and have them back up shortly.
So, that arguement is baseless unless they are stupid. If they are stupid then natural selection has won, again.
No, not Indymedia, but the ones who seazed their servers.
From what I've read, Indymedia is assumed to be innocent = A VERY GOOD THING . However, the problem I have with what I've read is that there is an assumed guilt on the part of the ones doing the seazures. They too should be extended the same curtesy Indymedia so much would use to their own advantage and cause. Do we really know if they are innocent or guilty? Or if there is an actual, dare I say, reasonable law that has been broken by Indymedia? From what's written you would be hard pressed to think they were less than innocent. (It's still OK to presume they are.)
Let's see if they'll continue to cry foul, foul , FOUL! Or if they'll be calm and collected in the confidence and peace actual, real guiltlessness affords the innocent.