What makes a good Vs a bad boss, and... as much as some people may b*tch about their boss, do they think they could do a better job. Hey, bosses do dumb things, but as a worker have you done worse?.
I've been lucky as far as my bosses. In most cases, the best thing I can say about them is that they've known when to trust my judgement and do my job. In others, they've kept people off my back who would have otherwise distracted me from doing more important work (got something for me to do, talk to the boss about it first).
And, when things have blown up beyond my control (
Some of my cooler bosses have had a smattering of technical knowledge. Many like techie toys, and I've found it cool to help them learn to use 'em. I think that it's great to have a boss that understands to some extent what you are doing, but better to have one who knows his/her limitations. In the end, having a boss that helps you do your job is much better than one who knows your job.
Any responses on what makes a good boss? How well do you think you would do in management?
There have been issues with this in many local gov't jobs over the last decade (not mine, thankfully my boss is a good one). The main issue being that the unions made firing incompetents difficult, demoting them almost impossible, but moving them "up" easier. So, eventually the fat rises, and the competents stay down because they are needed, but incompetents get moved up because it's the only way to get rid of them. It's sad when it happens, but it does.
The best boss is one who knows how to keep you on track, keep other people from getting in the way, and not get in your way him/herself
We want: Those who worry about deep-linking to their sites to use referer blocking or a similar method.
We don't want: A full block implemented by an ISP preventing linking to individual users' personal webspace (i.e. they aren't AOL pages, it's blocking personal user pages too). Account lockups after bandwidth overuse etc etc are still acceptable, not allowing users to link from their own journals isn't
Please see comment marked in bold for the difference.
Some people are daunted by the mere act of having to type commands in on a keyboard. If it's not sitting-here-in-front-of-me-waiting-for-my-mousecl ick it wouldn't be easy enough for some windows drones (it's amazing how the average windows user is daunted simply by the task of opening up command prompt to use a command like "ipconfig")
Of course, there is "aptitude" (dselect is frankly often more scary than anything CLI), but I'm not sure if there's a similar X-based interface
There are many forms of "tournament" which you can pay for and lose, and yes, golf is one of them. You're not paying five bucks a hole with odds on you beating him, you're paying a flat entry fee with a flat prize to be one.
There is a distinction between "games of skill" and "gambling." I believe this is why things like MacDonalds' "monopoly" games etc have that "skill testing question."
In fact, I worked at a company that made golf-related (pay-per-use, you can win a prize for a good shot) games. There were certain things we had to do to ensure that we were classified as a skill game and not a form of gambling.
That perhaps somebody could blame serial killers on Microsoft, or perhaps SCO? I mean, it seems that everyone out there has a scapegoat for their own actions, so perhaps at least we can find somebody we don't like to blame too.
I'm sorry mommy, I didn't steal that chocolate bar, since name is "Henry" it is obviously my intellectual property and I had a right to it!
No, properly interface meaning simply being able to get along with guys without getting your ass whipped, or a female without tripping over your tongue 100 times over. It doesn't afflict all of the geek population, but some cannot even speak to a woman without turning red and getting very confused.
I don't remember I personally was quite that bad way back when... but I do remember not having any of the social skills to interact (interface) with a girl on any level (let alone a physical one). Today most of my better friends are girls and it's no problemo. In fact, geeks probably make better guy-friends than many over-testosteroned-do-me-baby type guys I've met.
It's not that they wouldn't do anything else... it's just that if a person had a significant other (and a relationship decent enough to get lucky), then said person would hopefully have something better to do than do dipshit things like creating viruses.
Getting laid certainly hasn't distracted me from coding, or games, it's part of who I am and what I do... but as per stupid things such as virus writing... well a g/f is a much better thing. Virus writing for many is a cheap thrill... generally representing a lack of other forms of entertainment
We used to have a guy at the office who got hilarious voicemails. His number was very easy (2 digits only, something like 545-4454). He used to get little kids who mashed the numbers and would get his phone, then talk into the phone. One little girl was singing for him for about 2 minutes before mommy took away the phone.
Playing those silly voicemails for us in the morning always amused us. The great thing about a shared-cubie environment is that if you get along with your cubemates it makes the day pass faster, don't be afraid to say hi, and if you get a chocolate bar don't be afraid to share.
It's like your own little community, so you can even do things like perhaps bring some nice plants, or a pie or something to share. Yes, sharing nice food usually goes over well (but no smelly fish for lunch, eat that in the lunchroom)
Make a compilable module for the kernel. It doesn't actually have to be in the kernel-proper code to be useful as lots of companies release 3rd-party kernel-module-source (my fasttrak promise TX2000 pro RAID card, and also the DIGI multiport card for example).
If it's useful and stable enough to be of benefit to the linux users at large, perhaps you could then lobby to have it put in the base kernel. One trick would simply be to find out a new technology or popular device that is coming out and create a decent driver module for it...
If you could laminate without turning the paper black.
It wouldn't really protect it from heat anyhow. It's not like a thin layer of plastic will keep the heat off. Photocopying is the best bet.
Which reminds me... thermal paper is a neat thermometer. I've noticed that leaving some receipts in the car gives me varying degrees of darkness depending on how hot the day is:-)
You would never hear of people using the term "18 year-old girl, probably still a virgin"
It might be noted that while many indicate that the writer was male, the original article was in fact ambiguous as to the gender of the virus writer. Could be a girl, for all we know.
Oh, and again, part of the whole virgin thing is that if said individual were able to get some, it would probably be much more appealing that writing stupid viruses, correct?
Who would understand he was actually writing a virus? Well, perhaps a fellow coder, a hacker, a classmate?
But then that brings the question: such individuals are usually fairly close-knit. If you're around the dude long enough to realize his code is a blaster-variant, and he is somewhat of a friend, or good associate, would you turn him in? How many geeks would?
It's a hard decision, especially with a decent chance that with the current upset over said viruses even a script-kiddy variant-writer is going to get lynched after being caught. It'd make him/her a good example for other would-be virus writers, but would you do it to somebody you know?
Of course, many such geeks are vain. It could have been somebody declaring, "you think blaster was bad... wait until you see the badass variant I'm writing. I'm going to 0WZ0R J00"...
Actually, considering the self-deprecating humour on slashdot, I wouldn't read too much into it. How many of us have joked about "slashdot readers being virgins." Mainly because we have a large geeky population, and many (but not all) of said geeky population lack the social skills to properly interface with members of the same gender, let alone the opposite sex.
The virgin isn't really a reference to sexual activity per-se, so much as it is a reference to the fact that somebody with so much a lack of a "life" probably is very likely sitting in front of a PC 24/7 and not meeting women.
Actually, sounds a lot like me in High School. Except that I didn't write viruses (custom backdoors to deal with people in the lab I didn't like, yes, but the teachers knew and found it amusing), and I now do have a social/sex life in addition to geeky pursuits.
Of course... another trademark of my geekdom is that said social life usually falls on the backburner whenever the newest Final Fantasy or RPG comes out... luckily the g/f is into 'em too (though I haven't gotten her on Warcraft/Starcraft or FPS yet).
I've configured 2 servers with Promise cards. They have a "partial open source" module which you can compile to fit your kernel. Worked fine for everyting between 2.4.18-2.4.22
So far, I've found that using the open-source module works just fine.... my only beef being that you have to compile SCSI support (as a module) into the kernel in order for it to load properly. Ah well.
Now the RIAA can start making disc more fragile and easier to scratcha and I will be forced to buy the same disc over and over during the course of my lifetime
That's not the problem. The problem will the combination of shitty discs, uncopyable discs (hell, sometimes even unplayable), and no P2P.
Copyable discs would allow you to back up shitty disks.
P2P would allow you to reattain and recreate shitty discs
But of course the RIAA wants neither of these, which is really just further proof that they're trying to market limited-use media.
Indeed, the start-up issue is probably the biggest. After all, once the generators are up and running then the battery isn't needed.
I wonder if it has some sort of "inform" option that automatically starts the generators when power blanks, or if that gives personnel 7 minutes to do so before things start blanking out.
But is this about protocol, or a mix of something including implementation? There may be a lot ways of embedding stuff (in fact, there are), but if the patent is held up by court and covers the general browser-plugin process...
It won't matter how it's done, the plugins would be disallowed... they'd have to find another way.
Configuring linux initially tends to dull usability. It can be a pain (finding drivers, etc). However, in my case after I finished setting up my desktop system, installing the programs I wanted, etc etc... everything runs nicely. I think that most semi-intelligent windows users could find their way around my system (iceWM with an XP theme, dfm for desktop).
Now, getting the thing set up was a pain, and I went through many desktop distros that were difficult to use, but now I do truely find my 'nix desktop more convenient to use (except for games). Morphix/Knoppix make the initial configuration/detection easier too, and apt-get is great for installing software (unstable being much nicer for desktop than stable though). Why do I need windows? For all the common day-to-day stuff I do, either desktop works the same... though my 'nix is better at a few things and windoze at others, in the end they come fairly close.
That is shouldn't be (and isn't) illegal to download/copy your legit CD's, but sharing out the Mp3 files to those that don't have legit files is. RIAA nastygrams hit mostly people who share out, although I'm sure they're targetting some heavy downloaders too.
For myself, I've got a few CD's with skip-scratches, and one that fell between the seat and got scratched up quite badly. The original CD's were also a bit difficult to rip (which is one of the bigger problems are far as backup). So sometime when I'm not busy, I'll download the tracks all off Kazaa, and re-burn the discs that are fubared, probably into an Mp3-disk collection too. My originals have long since moved from my car to a safe place anyhow. Now, this could put me on the RIAA radar, but not so much as if I went and shared out said files to the masses. Of course, if nobody shared then P2P would die anyhow... which is why we have a real problem.
There is no way for P2P to identify legit owners of CD's, so we just share indescriminately. There is also no way for the RIAA to identify non-legit owners, so they just sue/nastygram indescriminately. Neither is right, though I smack the RIAA for being wayyyy too lawsuit friendly (esp in cases when the material is not infringing but their filters misidentify it), unfortunately there's no happy solution for either of us. I'm not going to buy a new CD because the damn things scratch too bloody easily, RIAA is not going to let people continue to trade off Brittney and BSB without paying for them...
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What makes a good Vs a bad boss, and... as much as some people may b*tch about their boss, do they think they could do a better job. Hey, bosses do dumb things, but as a worker have you done worse?.
I've been lucky as far as my bosses. In most cases, the best thing I can say about them is that they've known when to trust my judgement and do my job. In others, they've kept people off my back who would have otherwise distracted me from doing more important work (got something for me to do, talk to the boss about it first).
And, when things have blown up beyond my control (
Some of my cooler bosses have had a smattering of technical knowledge. Many like techie toys, and I've found it cool to help them learn to use 'em. I think that it's great to have a boss that understands to some extent what you are doing, but better to have one who knows his/her limitations. In the end, having a boss that helps you do your job is much better than one who knows your job.
Any responses on what makes a good boss? How well do you think you would do in management?
There have been issues with this in many local gov't jobs over the last decade (not mine, thankfully my boss is a good one). The main issue being that the unions made firing incompetents difficult, demoting them almost impossible, but moving them "up" easier. So, eventually the fat rises, and the competents stay down because they are needed, but incompetents get moved up because it's the only way to get rid of them. It's sad when it happens, but it does.
The best boss is one who knows how to keep you on track, keep other people from getting in the way, and not get in your way him/herself
If popular sites started blocking their servers in the referer? How about if they were blocked by slashdot, etc?
Methinks they would be looking for some way to cry "lawsuit" within a fortnight.
Just curious, which solution are you using to implement this, and do you have a method that works on a per-virtualhost setting.
We want: Those who worry about deep-linking to their sites to use referer blocking or a similar method.
We don't want: A full block implemented by an ISP preventing linking to individual users' personal webspace (i.e. they aren't AOL pages, it's blocking personal user pages too). Account lockups after bandwidth overuse etc etc are still acceptable, not allowing users to link from their own journals isn't
Please see comment marked in bold for the difference.
Some people are daunted by the mere act of having to type commands in on a keyboard. If it's not sitting-here-in-front-of-me-waiting-for-my-mousecl ick it wouldn't be easy enough for some windows drones (it's amazing how the average windows user is daunted simply by the task of opening up command prompt to use a command like "ipconfig")
Of course, there is "aptitude" (dselect is frankly often more scary than anything CLI), but I'm not sure if there's a similar X-based interface
There are many forms of "tournament" which you can pay for and lose, and yes, golf is one of them. You're not paying five bucks a hole with odds on you beating him, you're paying a flat entry fee with a flat prize to be one.
There is a distinction between "games of skill" and "gambling." I believe this is why things like MacDonalds' "monopoly" games etc have that "skill testing question."
In fact, I worked at a company that made golf-related (pay-per-use, you can win a prize for a good shot) games. There were certain things we had to do to ensure that we were classified as a skill game and not a form of gambling.
That perhaps somebody could blame serial killers on Microsoft, or perhaps SCO? I mean, it seems that everyone out there has a scapegoat for their own actions, so perhaps at least we can find somebody we don't like to blame too.
I'm sorry mommy, I didn't steal that chocolate bar, since name is "Henry" it is obviously my intellectual property and I had a right to it!
No, properly interface meaning simply being able to get along with guys without getting your ass whipped, or a female without tripping over your tongue 100 times over. It doesn't afflict all of the geek population, but some cannot even speak to a woman without turning red and getting very confused.
I don't remember I personally was quite that bad way back when... but I do remember not having any of the social skills to interact (interface) with a girl on any level (let alone a physical one). Today most of my better friends are girls and it's no problemo. In fact, geeks probably make better guy-friends than many over-testosteroned-do-me-baby type guys I've met.
It's not that they wouldn't do anything else... it's just that if a person had a significant other (and a relationship decent enough to get lucky), then said person would hopefully have something better to do than do dipshit things like creating viruses.
Getting laid certainly hasn't distracted me from coding, or games, it's part of who I am and what I do... but as per stupid things such as virus writing... well a g/f is a much better thing. Virus writing for many is a cheap thrill... generally representing a lack of other forms of entertainment
We used to have a guy at the office who got hilarious voicemails. His number was very easy (2 digits only, something like 545-4454). He used to get little kids who mashed the numbers and would get his phone, then talk into the phone. One little girl was singing for him for about 2 minutes before mommy took away the phone.
Playing those silly voicemails for us in the morning always amused us. The great thing about a shared-cubie environment is that if you get along with your cubemates it makes the day pass faster, don't be afraid to say hi, and if you get a chocolate bar don't be afraid to share.
It's like your own little community, so you can even do things like perhaps bring some nice plants, or a pie or something to share. Yes, sharing nice food usually goes over well (but no smelly fish for lunch, eat that in the lunchroom)
Make a compilable module for the kernel. It doesn't actually have to be in the kernel-proper code to be useful as lots of companies release 3rd-party kernel-module-source (my fasttrak promise TX2000 pro RAID card, and also the DIGI multiport card for example).
If it's useful and stable enough to be of benefit to the linux users at large, perhaps you could then lobby to have it put in the base kernel. One trick would simply be to find out a new technology or popular device that is coming out and create a decent driver module for it...
If you could laminate without turning the paper black.
:-)
It wouldn't really protect it from heat anyhow. It's not like a thin layer of plastic will keep the heat off. Photocopying is the best bet.
Which reminds me... thermal paper is a neat thermometer. I've noticed that leaving some receipts in the car gives me varying degrees of darkness depending on how hot the day is
I wonder if SCO is joining the protest, their website seems to be down lately a lot too!
It's up right now. Perhaps if enough slashdotters could visit them and help them protest a bit more?
You would never hear of people using the term "18 year-old girl, probably still a virgin"
It might be noted that while many indicate that the writer was male, the original article was in fact ambiguous as to the gender of the virus writer. Could be a girl, for all we know.
Oh, and again, part of the whole virgin thing is that if said individual were able to get some, it would probably be much more appealing that writing stupid viruses, correct?
Who would understand he was actually writing a virus? Well, perhaps a fellow coder, a hacker, a classmate?
But then that brings the question: such individuals are usually fairly close-knit. If you're around the dude long enough to realize his code is a blaster-variant, and he is somewhat of a friend, or good associate, would you turn him in? How many geeks would?
It's a hard decision, especially with a decent chance that with the current upset over said viruses even a script-kiddy variant-writer is going to get lynched after being caught. It'd make him/her a good example for other would-be virus writers, but would you do it to somebody you know?
Of course, many such geeks are vain. It could have been somebody declaring, "you think blaster was bad... wait until you see the badass variant I'm writing. I'm going to 0WZ0R J00"...
Actually, considering the self-deprecating humour on slashdot, I wouldn't read too much into it. How many of us have joked about "slashdot readers being virgins." Mainly because we have a large geeky population, and many (but not all) of said geeky population lack the social skills to properly interface with members of the same gender, let alone the opposite sex.
The virgin isn't really a reference to sexual activity per-se, so much as it is a reference to the fact that somebody with so much a lack of a "life" probably is very likely sitting in front of a PC 24/7 and not meeting women.
Actually, sounds a lot like me in High School. Except that I didn't write viruses (custom backdoors to deal with people in the lab I didn't like, yes, but the teachers knew and found it amusing), and I now do have a social/sex life in addition to geeky pursuits.
Of course... another trademark of my geekdom is that said social life usually falls on the backburner whenever the newest Final Fantasy or RPG comes out... luckily the g/f is into 'em too (though I haven't gotten her on Warcraft/Starcraft or FPS yet).
Fastrak Source
/proc/scsi/FastTrak or something like that if I remember correctly...
I've been using this to support our TX2000 Pro cards under Debian, seeing as though the pre-compiled drivers are for winblows/Redhate/Suse...
Worked fine for me. Not huge on stats, but you can cat
I've configured 2 servers with Promise cards. They have a "partial open source" module which you can compile to fit your kernel. Worked fine for everyting between 2.4.18-2.4.22
So far, I've found that using the open-source module works just fine.... my only beef being that you have to compile SCSI support (as a module) into the kernel in order for it to load properly. Ah well.
Now the RIAA can start making disc more fragile and easier to scratcha and I will be forced to buy the same disc over and over during the course of my lifetime
That's not the problem. The problem will the combination of shitty discs, uncopyable discs (hell, sometimes even unplayable), and no P2P.
Copyable discs would allow you to back up shitty disks.
P2P would allow you to reattain and recreate shitty discs
But of course the RIAA wants neither of these, which is really just further proof that they're trying to market limited-use media.
Indeed, the start-up issue is probably the biggest. After all, once the generators are up and running then the battery isn't needed.
I wonder if it has some sort of "inform" option that automatically starts the generators when power blanks, or if that gives personnel 7 minutes to do so before things start blanking out.
posted his personal info on slashdot. The last few times I've seen it happen it's gotten some amusing results.
Give us the home mailing address of the spammer, our response will be "in the mail" in no time!!
They'd create a proprietary tangential protocol
But is this about protocol, or a mix of something including implementation? There may be a lot ways of embedding stuff (in fact, there are), but if the patent is held up by court and covers the general browser-plugin process...
It won't matter how it's done, the plugins would be disallowed... they'd have to find another way.
Configuring linux initially tends to dull usability. It can be a pain (finding drivers, etc). However, in my case after I finished setting up my desktop system, installing the programs I wanted, etc etc... everything runs nicely. I think that most semi-intelligent windows users could find their way around my system (iceWM with an XP theme, dfm for desktop).
Now, getting the thing set up was a pain, and I went through many desktop distros that were difficult to use, but now I do truely find my 'nix desktop more convenient to use (except for games). Morphix/Knoppix make the initial configuration/detection easier too, and apt-get is great for installing software (unstable being much nicer for desktop than stable though). Why do I need windows? For all the common day-to-day stuff I do, either desktop works the same... though my 'nix is better at a few things and windoze at others, in the end they come fairly close.
That is shouldn't be (and isn't) illegal to download/copy your legit CD's, but sharing out the Mp3 files to those that don't have legit files is. RIAA nastygrams hit mostly people who share out, although I'm sure they're targetting some heavy downloaders too.
For myself, I've got a few CD's with skip-scratches, and one that fell between the seat and got scratched up quite badly. The original CD's were also a bit difficult to rip (which is one of the bigger problems are far as backup). So sometime when I'm not busy, I'll download the tracks all off Kazaa, and re-burn the discs that are fubared, probably into an Mp3-disk collection too. My originals have long since moved from my car to a safe place anyhow. Now, this could put me on the RIAA radar, but not so much as if I went and shared out said files to the masses. Of course, if nobody shared then P2P would die anyhow... which is why we have a real problem.
There is no way for P2P to identify legit owners of CD's, so we just share indescriminately. There is also no way for the RIAA to identify non-legit owners, so they just sue/nastygram indescriminately. Neither is right, though I smack the RIAA for being wayyyy too lawsuit friendly (esp in cases when the material is not infringing but their filters misidentify it), unfortunately there's no happy solution for either of us. I'm not going to buy a new CD because the damn things scratch too bloody easily, RIAA is not going to let people continue to trade off Brittney and BSB without paying for them...