I think that a lot of the problem with this is that laptops tends to be quite different parts-wise, and what is true to one doesn't stay true to another. In particular, I remember reading that while some people had decoded the way to manipulate the screen for XX laptop, they could not do the same for the display on laptop YY.
Does anyone remember a post some time ago with a thread about "bugs" in PC hardware. Apparently ants and such are attracted to the radiation or vibration/whatever from a PC. They also find the coating on many motherboards mighty tasty.
I wonder if the ants are enjoying the vibes in their new home, or if they secretly plotting a way to escape and dig into that tasty tasty motherboard.
But... somehow I have a problem seeing this net me a job on my resume:
Skills:
Virus Creation
System Cracking
Advanced infection techniques
Comment:
While I realize the above skills may not be entirely useful for the position described, I have noted that you do have an internet connection to your primary server via IP address 66.35.250.150. Would you like me to tell you your root password during an interview, or should I be ready work at 8:30am tomorrow?
Not like a few years ago when students were enrolling because they wanted to make a quick buck. I'll take quality over quantity
For a lot of people around here, it was a case of getting a decent job at all. Unfortunately, many employment advisors etc pushed them towards the computing field, ending them up in programming courses.
What these advisors don't seem to understand... yes, IT was a booming job market. However, it does require a certain mindset. In my course, which wasn't overly difficult to me, we had an influx of laid-off government workers from forestry and other IT-unrelated sectors. Some actually were decent coders... others simply floundered.
In addition, many who got good marks because of "book skills" simply don't cope well with real-life situations.
It's one thing to study up for test-time by memorizing keywords or phrases, methodologies, etc (some of which were completely useless crap IMHO, as I've never seen them used in the field) - it's quite another to be vaulted into a job situation... where your production server suddenly crashes continually while running a critical financial application running on COBOL.
OK, maybe not COBOL, but in many cases linux or related. Skills at finding information and solutions to problems from google, newgroups, and manuals - quickly and effectively - is a skills that often gets overlooked. The ability to cope in a crisis where the problem isn't obviously in a book, or is just unknown, is often more built-in than learned.
I'm not saying that some people from other industries can't learn to code, or be admins. It's just that many don't develop the love that comes with the position, it's just a job. Being able to punch in code for hours on end... look at the clock and suddenly realize you've been at it for 5 hours... and think "wow, what a rush, that was awesome" is just something that is beyond the average person. Equivilate it to a "jogger's high" - which is something many geeks will equally not experience... it's what seperates true geeks from trained nerds.
IT workers that lack the fundamental passion are glutting the market because people have been given the idea that "IT will get you a job", "IT is the place to be," "They're looking for workers like you." In the end, they make us all look bad, and make it very difficult for those who truly love IT to get the jobs we love. It's not just about grades (though the do indicate skill) or resumes, it's about passion.
Of course. And there are newgroup readers that will harvest those files too. I'm not sure about ratings though... a ratings and "trust" system would go above and beyond the standard usenet crap. Not to mention the fact that on usenet one often runs across virii or pr0n that is just plain sick, if not often illegal.
Well, perhaps more particularly in BC, or the one I graduated from... they have 2 semesters with COBOL and VAX courses. I found them completely useless, but hey I was good at it so anyone wanted to hire a COBOL coder for $50-$100/h, feel free to call me, or try and find some of our cheaper students by dropping in the local college.
A very large "computer" (some are more comparable nowadays to an advanced calculator) to which remote terminals connect in order to function. In short, big ugly was-once-super-powerful computer that is the master of a network or portion thereof.
Look for something like a big box with lots of wires, maybe some tapes attached, a little rust on the side, and a weeping IT admin beside it.
But from a "trusted" channel. A little better than MS's version of trusted (trust it or it won't work), and you can always unsubscribe from a channel that starts broadcasting content you don't like.
I was thinking in terms of sharing common music interests (great for indie stuff), but I suppose you could start little clans for those who have certain fetishes in pr0n or gamez as well.
It's just getting better...
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I've often wished that the "genre" search in the various filesharing apps would work better (or in some cases, exist). Personally, I've had a lot better luck finding music I like by searching by genre on mp3.com etc than downloading mainstream crap from Kazaa, etc.
This sounds like a great tool to cut down on mouseclicks and leave me with a nice shiney playlist to listen to in the morning.
It isn't really that such a law is being passed. There's nothing wrong with measures against youth playing violent games, etc... the problem is in making it a strict law. It's also a little odd to aim in particular against police-shooting games as opposed to violence against humans in general.
That's why we have things like ESRB ratings. Really, it would be much more intelligent to make ratings mandatory, and require (as many stores do anyhow) parental permission before buying adult-rated games. In the end though, I suppose this isn't going to stop mom or dad from picking up the latest shooter game with cops in the gunsites, under the tires, etc etc - so life will continue as normal for those whose parents buy such games.
So to relate this to the article, I'd say that a letter from the FTC that doesn't threaten *legal* action will provide no more incentive to these system administrators to close the relays; thus the letters become little more than a waste of paper...
My question is... how many people are simply ignorant of the nature of an open relay, or don't know they are running one. Personally, I see no reason at all that I would want to have a relay open to spammers who could steal my bandwidth/CPU/etc to send crapmail. I don't both using a relay on my own server (just use my ISP's, and let my users use theirs) - but I've heard that at my place of employment we used to have on huge open relay, simply because nobody knew better.
At the least, these letters for some can perhaps serve as an education, after which we can do better at seeing which user are left flowing the "good neighbour" concept of the internet
Indeedy, this is what I do most often. After all, to anyone else "code is code." They have no understanding of what I'm working on, so I can sometimes get some productive learning of my own during the "spare" time.
Currently, I'm trying to learn more about writing X11-applications, particularly using openGL. I've got Mesa3d, but no luck yet getting anything to work.
And think about how the net is making all this possible. As high-speed increases, we get fast downloads of large volumes of data, streamed video or audio. Seriously, if the scientific community could be completely open about things, such as say AIDS... a global open net discussion might come up with a solution (provided they can adequately filter the trolls).
Blogs are spawning online science journals... medical information wants to be free
Dilbert may teach skills at work-avoidance, but the BOFH teaches not only work avoided... but how to deal with those that insist on interrupting your nap-time.
In my case, it's not that I don't always work hard, it's that sometimes it's not feasible to do so. Big projects get delayed, and sometimes you can wade through the miriad of little subproject to find there's not really a lot to do. Now, it may just be a matter of waiting until situation X is resolved before your project is ready to resume (e.g. need a part, or a PO, or something that has to be supplied by another party) and I find myself hanging without a lot to do. Appearing to look busier than I am helps avoid the impression that I do nothing - especially since my work schedule keeps my past normal staff, which means they don't see the times when I'm at work for extra hours trying to fix a mangled server.
The worst is when you have a major problem that needs a-fixing, and it keeps you from doing other productive work.
E.g. you need the internet to work, but the current office problem is a downed connection from the provider. Everybody else stops by your desk 5-10 times to bother you as to the connection will be restored... and sitting around waiting for the service call doesn't look overly productive when they stop in.
Did this where I worked
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Basically we had a system hooked up to a digital camera that recorded to temporary files. If something tripped off a sensor, it was configured to save the previous X moments of video rather than dumping the cache file. Really, it makes sense, since for spontaneous events you really want what happened to get your attention, not necessarily what happens afterwards (or both).
As for the duration of recording... wouldn't it be nice if the recordings weren't viewable by the officers on duty. That way, it could be juggled to a little over 5 minutes (or a lot over), and anyone trying to "wait out" before pressing record would be S.O.L.
Don't you just love the way they call it "copy protection", rather than "copy prevention", a more accurate term?
Actually, it doesn't do a great job of prevention either. However, it tries to "protect" the medium against "unauthorized" copying - which it doesn't really do a good job of either, making current CD's sometimes easier to copy than play on standard devices!
Don't most video cards have options to run in either "performance" or "quality" mode by default. Not entirely sure about 'nix drivers (yes, I use windows to game), but all of mine in the last few years gave me an option.
The article says that ATI's response was that this "slider" didn't work. I don't really see a reason to strongly doubt this, ATI is well-known for little-to-large driver messups - but how about patches or revisions to fix it?
Why not? If we assume that machines are more moral or at least more logical than humans?
The Matrix could be a primer case for humans to re-interact with machines. With current tech levels, plugging the humans is in completely unnecessary for the machines, they could just get a bunch of semi-lobotomized humans with only the growth and energy-production processes needed... no requirement for higher thinking.
I think the machines would understand that not all humans are bad, just like the movie is trying to make us realize that whilst there are "evil" machines... there are others that the humans depend on which are neutral, and others which may not view humans as opposition. If Zion was destroyed several times... well, there may have been many strongholds and perhaps this "Zion" is one of the last, it's towards the core of the earth after all. That being said, what about exploration beyond earth. We've got another 100 years... no moon colonies?? Maybe "Earth" isn't even Earth, but another less habitable planet.
One thing is for sure, the Matrix is intended to provide action while making us think about the reality of our existance, how we live our lives, what values make us human, and how we define reality. I think that in the end there will be either an end-cap to this, or a very large twist from Ep1 and Ep2.
Certain racial characteristics also tend to breed more true. See the common results of "person of obvious ethnicity bred with caucasian blonde" etc. Yes, the racial traits may be dulled down, but they will still breed through... and those carrying the traits could perhaps breed it more truely depending on gene recession, etc.
But the architect states that he wasn't able to create proper Matrices... because he's too logical (as he prefers to think it, too perfect) and his mechanistic mind cannot assimilate a blend of ideal/believable world for humans.
Didn't he mention another that had to help come up with that. A lesser mind. Perhaps he/she is the key to the Matrix?
Ummm... first of all, this requires terminal access.
Set up your local groups/etc right then... chmod 750/usr/bin/ypcat
jdoe@mypc:/$ ypcat
bash:/usr/bin/ypcat: Permission denied
Suddenly you need "root" or a valid yp user.
If somebody already has such access, I've got more problems than any that come along with the YP tools or NIS.
Slashdot Mirror
I think that a lot of the problem with this is that laptops tends to be quite different parts-wise, and what is true to one doesn't stay true to another. In particular, I remember reading that while some people had decoded the way to manipulate the screen for XX laptop, they could not do the same for the display on laptop YY.
Does anyone remember a post some time ago with a thread about "bugs" in PC hardware. Apparently ants and such are attracted to the radiation or vibration/whatever from a PC. They also find the coating on many motherboards mighty tasty.
I wonder if the ants are enjoying the vibes in their new home, or if they secretly plotting a way to escape and dig into that tasty tasty motherboard.
Skills:
Comment:
While I realize the above skills may not be entirely useful for the position described, I have noted that you do have an internet connection to your primary server via IP address 66.35.250.150. Would you like me to tell you your root password during an interview, or should I be ready work at 8:30am tomorrow?
Not like a few years ago when students were enrolling because they wanted to make a quick buck. I'll take quality over quantity
For a lot of people around here, it was a case of getting a decent job at all. Unfortunately, many employment advisors etc pushed them towards the computing field, ending them up in programming courses.
What these advisors don't seem to understand... yes, IT was a booming job market. However, it does require a certain mindset. In my course, which wasn't overly difficult to me, we had an influx of laid-off government workers from forestry and other IT-unrelated sectors. Some actually were decent coders... others simply floundered.
In addition, many who got good marks because of "book skills" simply don't cope well with real-life situations.
It's one thing to study up for test-time by memorizing keywords or phrases, methodologies, etc (some of which were completely useless crap IMHO, as I've never seen them used in the field) - it's quite another to be vaulted into a job situation... where your production server suddenly crashes continually while running a critical financial application running on COBOL.
OK, maybe not COBOL, but in many cases linux or related. Skills at finding information and solutions to problems from google, newgroups, and manuals - quickly and effectively - is a skills that often gets overlooked. The ability to cope in a crisis where the problem isn't obviously in a book, or is just unknown, is often more built-in than learned.
I'm not saying that some people from other industries can't learn to code, or be admins. It's just that many don't develop the love that comes with the position, it's just a job. Being able to punch in code for hours on end... look at the clock and suddenly realize you've been at it for 5 hours... and think "wow, what a rush, that was awesome" is just something that is beyond the average person. Equivilate it to a "jogger's high" - which is something many geeks will equally not experience... it's what seperates true geeks from trained nerds.
IT workers that lack the fundamental passion are glutting the market because people have been given the idea that "IT will get you a job", "IT is the place to be," "They're looking for workers like you." In the end, they make us all look bad, and make it very difficult for those who truly love IT to get the jobs we love. It's not just about grades (though the do indicate skill) or resumes, it's about passion.
Of course. And there are newgroup readers that will harvest those files too. I'm not sure about ratings though... a ratings and "trust" system would go above and beyond the standard usenet crap. Not to mention the fact that on usenet one often runs across virii or pr0n that is just plain sick, if not often illegal.
Well, perhaps more particularly in BC, or the one I graduated from... they have 2 semesters with COBOL and VAX courses. I found them completely useless, but hey I was good at it so anyone wanted to hire a COBOL coder for $50-$100/h, feel free to call me, or try and find some of our cheaper students by dropping in the local college.
Joke or serious question?
A very large "computer" (some are more comparable nowadays to an advanced calculator) to which remote terminals connect in order to function. In short, big ugly was-once-super-powerful computer that is the master of a network or portion thereof.
Look for something like a big box with lots of wires, maybe some tapes attached, a little rust on the side, and a weeping IT admin beside it.
But from a "trusted" channel. A little better than MS's version of trusted (trust it or it won't work), and you can always unsubscribe from a channel that starts broadcasting content you don't like.
I was thinking in terms of sharing common music interests (great for indie stuff), but I suppose you could start little clans for those who have certain fetishes in pr0n or gamez as well.
I've often wished that the "genre" search in the various filesharing apps would work better (or in some cases, exist). Personally, I've had a lot better luck finding music I like by searching by genre on mp3.com etc than downloading mainstream crap from Kazaa, etc.
This sounds like a great tool to cut down on mouseclicks and leave me with a nice shiney playlist to listen to in the morning.
It isn't really that such a law is being passed. There's nothing wrong with measures against youth playing violent games, etc... the problem is in making it a strict law. It's also a little odd to aim in particular against police-shooting games as opposed to violence against humans in general. That's why we have things like ESRB ratings. Really, it would be much more intelligent to make ratings mandatory, and require (as many stores do anyhow) parental permission before buying adult-rated games. In the end though, I suppose this isn't going to stop mom or dad from picking up the latest shooter game with cops in the gunsites, under the tires, etc etc - so life will continue as normal for those whose parents buy such games.
you might have a lot of common interests to talk about...
Just don't be offended if nobody wants to shake your hand...
So to relate this to the article, I'd say that a letter from the FTC that doesn't threaten *legal* action will provide no more incentive to these system administrators to close the relays; thus the letters become little more than a waste of paper...
My question is... how many people are simply ignorant of the nature of an open relay, or don't know they are running one. Personally, I see no reason at all that I would want to have a relay open to spammers who could steal my bandwidth/CPU/etc to send crapmail. I don't both using a relay on my own server (just use my ISP's, and let my users use theirs) - but I've heard that at my place of employment we used to have on huge open relay, simply because nobody knew better.
At the least, these letters for some can perhaps serve as an education, after which we can do better at seeing which user are left flowing the "good neighbour" concept of the internet
Indeedy, this is what I do most often. After all, to anyone else "code is code." They have no understanding of what I'm working on, so I can sometimes get some productive learning of my own during the "spare" time.
Currently, I'm trying to learn more about writing X11-applications, particularly using openGL. I've got Mesa3d, but no luck yet getting anything to work.
Know a good newbie resource for such things?
Nah, the brains of those in the judicial and political brances are way too expensive for experimentation.
Rat brains come at a hefty discount because they're already used... a nice-fresh politician brain has very little wear and tear.
And think about how the net is making all this possible. As high-speed increases, we get fast downloads of large volumes of data, streamed video or audio. Seriously, if the scientific community could be completely open about things, such as say AIDS... a global open net discussion might come up with a solution (provided they can adequately filter the trolls).
Blogs are spawning online science journals... medical information wants to be free
Dilbert may teach skills at work-avoidance, but the BOFH teaches not only work avoided... but how to deal with those that insist on interrupting your nap-time.
In my case, it's not that I don't always work hard, it's that sometimes it's not feasible to do so. Big projects get delayed, and sometimes you can wade through the miriad of little subproject to find there's not really a lot to do. Now, it may just be a matter of waiting until situation X is resolved before your project is ready to resume (e.g. need a part, or a PO, or something that has to be supplied by another party) and I find myself hanging without a lot to do. Appearing to look busier than I am helps avoid the impression that I do nothing - especially since my work schedule keeps my past normal staff, which means they don't see the times when I'm at work for extra hours trying to fix a mangled server.
The worst is when you have a major problem that needs a-fixing, and it keeps you from doing other productive work. E.g. you need the internet to work, but the current office problem is a downed connection from the provider. Everybody else stops by your desk 5-10 times to bother you as to the connection will be restored... and sitting around waiting for the service call doesn't look overly productive when they stop in.
Basically we had a system hooked up to a digital camera that recorded to temporary files. If something tripped off a sensor, it was configured to save the previous X moments of video rather than dumping the cache file. Really, it makes sense, since for spontaneous events you really want what happened to get your attention, not necessarily what happens afterwards (or both).
As for the duration of recording... wouldn't it be nice if the recordings weren't viewable by the officers on duty. That way, it could be juggled to a little over 5 minutes (or a lot over), and anyone trying to "wait out" before pressing record would be S.O.L.
Don't you just love the way they call it "copy protection", rather than "copy prevention", a more accurate term?
Actually, it doesn't do a great job of prevention either. However, it tries to "protect" the medium against "unauthorized" copying - which it doesn't really do a good job of either, making current CD's sometimes easier to copy than play on standard devices!
"No terminal accsess"
Not a complete solution, there are always other exploits... but it helps.
Don't most video cards have options to run in either "performance" or "quality" mode by default. Not entirely sure about 'nix drivers (yes, I use windows to game), but all of mine in the last few years gave me an option.
The article says that ATI's response was that this "slider" didn't work. I don't really see a reason to strongly doubt this, ATI is well-known for little-to-large driver messups - but how about patches or revisions to fix it?
Why not? If we assume that machines are more moral or at least more logical than humans?
The Matrix could be a primer case for humans to re-interact with machines. With current tech levels, plugging the humans is in completely unnecessary for the machines, they could just get a bunch of semi-lobotomized humans with only the growth and energy-production processes needed... no requirement for higher thinking.
I think the machines would understand that not all humans are bad, just like the movie is trying to make us realize that whilst there are "evil" machines... there are others that the humans depend on which are neutral, and others which may not view humans as opposition. If Zion was destroyed several times... well, there may have been many strongholds and perhaps this "Zion" is one of the last, it's towards the core of the earth after all. That being said, what about exploration beyond earth. We've got another 100 years... no moon colonies?? Maybe "Earth" isn't even Earth, but another less habitable planet.
One thing is for sure, the Matrix is intended to provide action while making us think about the reality of our existance, how we live our lives, what values make us human, and how we define reality. I think that in the end there will be either an end-cap to this, or a very large twist from Ep1 and Ep2.
Certain racial characteristics also tend to breed more true. See the common results of "person of obvious ethnicity bred with caucasian blonde" etc. Yes, the racial traits may be dulled down, but they will still breed through... and those carrying the traits could perhaps breed it more truely depending on gene recession, etc.
But the architect states that he wasn't able to create proper Matrices... because he's too logical (as he prefers to think it, too perfect) and his mechanistic mind cannot assimilate a blend of ideal/believable world for humans.
Didn't he mention another that had to help come up with that. A lesser mind. Perhaps he/she is the key to the Matrix?
ypcat
/usr/bin/ypcat /usr/bin/ypcat: Permission denied
Ummm... first of all, this requires terminal access.
Set up your local groups/etc right then...
chmod 750
jdoe@mypc:/$ ypcat
bash:
Suddenly you need "root" or a valid yp user.
If somebody already has such access, I've got more problems than any that come along with the YP tools or NIS.