Phishing, two-factor, switch swap, vCenter install, training and service repairs.
This is a typical week on an IT service desk, and not even specialized knowledge is required. These same type of randomer problems occurred all the time even 15 years ago. So long as you leverage the flow of communication to users, they are generally more than accepting of timelines that are longer than 'right now'.
Another article from GMGruman plugging his own article while expressing his contempt for standard IT practices.
His last article posted to reddit, highlighted his fundamental misunderstandings about IT security. This is just another nail in the coffin
Even a basic google search shows how utterly idiotic his stances are on corporate tech. Seems as though he jumps on the curtains of the newest trend, then either glorifies or demonizes it without actually comprhending. Example http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/54796/pc-world-calls-ipad-buyers-idiots/
My condolences to their in house IT who must auto-forward his calls to a queue that noone answers.
I would hold these on the same regard as I do radar/laser speed detectors. The purpose is to remove unwanted occurences. Stolen cars, uninsured drivers, Repeat DUI offenders, etc. These are all things noone whats to see, they simply add to the burdens of other around them. While the world isn't always fair, why should technology be condemned on that principle?
The whole series is a total of 10 - 2 hour events. Now with all respects, how much more space would someone need.
The series revolves around three families spaced out over 50 years of history. From strange lights over Nazi Germany, to modern day. As far as the first airing, it appears as though each family will receive 3 - 2 hours episodes, then a 2 hour finalie where everyone is brought together.
Myself, I was rather appauled by the use of Steven Speilberg so prominently. Each of these episodes was directed by a different director, then Speilberg looked it over and tried to alter it ever so slightly IN THE POST PRODUCTION!. By tagging on a big league name, the further drew people in. That mixed with constant TV commercial marketing.
Another technology promising the world. I recall a year or so back of the forthcoming Blu-Ray DVDS which would hold a whole season of Sponge Bob Square pants, or 3-4 hours of HDTV. Why will such media never exist? It doesn't fit a buisness model. Right now they can sell two episodes for $12.99 and pace that all out over 12 disks. Then why compress it all into one? There is no profitable reason to.
The real question is though, by the time Divx player become common, as in afforable enough for a majority of/.'rs, will blue ray dvd be the next big rave?
With "potential" *couph vaporware couph* to contain some 15+hours of video, why not just have 10 movie ondemand on one disk. The entire series of Star Trek Movies that you can switch with a single press of a button.
It is my beleif that we will see less and less of these players that have the capabilites of manipulation as DRM locks down in a deathgrip to hold onto its business model. Sad but true.
The infrastructure of the internet has evolved out of the past few decades yet many key parts are still integral to the existance of the Internet.
After 9/11 several security consultants met in a Senate hearing and demonstrated in a simulation, how the removal of a few key segments could cripple internet traffic (granted some of the plan involved small amount of urban sabatoge).
The internet if scaled down could be compareable to the P2P networks. 90% of content on the internet is provided by less than 10% of computers connected.
The people at http://www.niiip.org/ have amazing documents with regard to security and how the infrastructure of the internet works. Well worth a read.
Another good spot for information, though slightly tainted, is http://www.iisweb.com/. They offer a skewed view of security, as well as some examples of "Worse Case Senarios"
Perhaps some day nanotechnology can help me aim better with a railgun like the friggin bots?
But in all seriousness, nanotechnology I forsee being used for malicious means much, much, much more often then for good. The splendid benifits have to weighted against the possible problems of abuse. If I understand my science fiction correctly, it would be quite simple to carry these little buggers in your lungs, exhale them in a crowd of important people, then once you leave the proximity, they go rampaging through someones body until they destroy something vital. A silent assasin much easier to disperse than any poison, and practically untraceable.
I truly find it awe inspiring that a computer literate person can speak so fluid with common lusers.
I work as a Web Admin for www.moparcollection.com, and I get the most stupidest request from or Sales team and even from customer service over how to work the web. Perhaps if we would require a common computer literacy test before someone can get online, we could eliminate this mentality that "Computers are Bad, all they do is give me spam and steal my credit cards". Then again, with something like that you'd be sure the RIAA would write up the text for it, then the MPAA would sue them under the DMCA for copywrite infringement for the use of the work "Hackers"
I'm wondering if a public networking system is really worth the risk. By offering a public service, you simple open so many problems caused by unadept users, malicous users, and abuse. Broadband is an excellent tool to be used, however the nightmare of getting everyone hooked up correctly, not to mention managing to keep those users connected must be a nightmare.
By offering it as a wide user base, it allows a malicous user to have a network of people to choose from. Due to the general publics disregard of security, updates and firewalls, this make them sitting ducks to becoming pawns for a Denial of service attack. How long would it be before hackers have a huge network of computers to do their bidding, by simply making a few stokes of the pen on his PDA?
In all truth, can anyone beyond hardcore geeks tell the difference in you desktop when you swap from 16 bit color to 32-bit color? the difference there is a few million colors, so what with the big deal with a loss of 61,000?
even with 4K colors, you can accuratly display any photo on your PDA with minimal loss of quality.
Excellent example, the color books at Sherwin Williams, you really think that have over 4000 different colors in that book, and most of those almost look that same as another color.
Opera's interface wasn't anything revolutionary in the first place. It definatly had quite a few advantages when it came to user interactivity with it mouse movement recognition, and caching techniques, but left room for quite a bit of improvement.
Hopefully the change from Legacy will not literally remove them from the game like it did intially for Netscape.
The marketing of these new chips I still find is a low blow ment to take advantage of the stupid minded. AMD, I beleive, will never admit that their new naming scheme is supposed to make it seem like their new chips are equal in clock speed to the P4 counterparts. Sure you get the more operations per cycle, but people want bigger numbers
This was the same struggle that destoryed the Mac platform, people dont care about "What its supposed to do" I just want the fastest, biggest number I can get.
The advance release almost seems to cry "Intel is winning so we're going to release a chip so far ahead of schedule we can't sell it right now"
A few weeks after my start date as a new Web Admin, I find our neighborhood IS director has installed a WebsenseTM client on our web access portal.
After many heated battles with the COO, I lost my fight to maintain a open portal for both the IS and IT Departments. The web has lost all sense of worth to us now. Imagine any security setting available, then jack it up 3 more levels, that is the extent of our denials. No FTP, No search engine , No IM client existant (at least that we have tried) has access. This hinders our work severly all in the guise of "Corporate Efficency".
Any request for these type of access surrounded in forms, "Who its for" "Where its going" so on and so forth. A simple file transfer or upload is so difficult. An alternative like this would be a godsend for my comrades and I, even if it is against our internet policy and could get us fired. It would be easier to be unemployeed than the BS we have to take now
On on path, we have no privacy, the other we are shrouded in obscurity.
My opinion, I don't care if someone knows where I drive everyday. Why should I? I'm not doing anything wrong, so what does it matter if Big Brother knows that I had McDonalds last night, or I watched LOTR on DVD? If your not doing anything wrong, then whats the problem?
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Phishing, two-factor, switch swap, vCenter install, training and service repairs. This is a typical week on an IT service desk, and not even specialized knowledge is required. These same type of randomer problems occurred all the time even 15 years ago. So long as you leverage the flow of communication to users, they are generally more than accepting of timelines that are longer than 'right now'.
A 3-17% yield decrease leads to a 80-350% increase in price? Call me skeptical, but this seems a bit out of band.
Another article from GMGruman plugging his own article while expressing his contempt for standard IT practices. His last article posted to reddit, highlighted his fundamental misunderstandings about IT security. This is just another nail in the coffin Even a basic google search shows how utterly idiotic his stances are on corporate tech. Seems as though he jumps on the curtains of the newest trend, then either glorifies or demonizes it without actually comprhending. Example http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/54796/pc-world-calls-ipad-buyers-idiots/ My condolences to their in house IT who must auto-forward his calls to a queue that noone answers.
I would hold these on the same regard as I do radar/laser speed detectors. The purpose is to remove unwanted occurences. Stolen cars, uninsured drivers, Repeat DUI offenders, etc. These are all things noone whats to see, they simply add to the burdens of other around them. While the world isn't always fair, why should technology be condemned on that principle?
..you can only realize the truth, that the Windows codes is the virus.
Ahh the timeless question
Does capacity expand revelvant to the expansion of porn?
Or is it that more porn must be made to fill the space?
The whole series is a total of 10 - 2 hour events. Now with all respects, how much more space would someone need.
The series revolves around three families spaced out over 50 years of history. From strange lights over Nazi Germany, to modern day. As far as the first airing, it appears as though each family will receive 3 - 2 hours episodes, then a 2 hour finalie where everyone is brought together.
Myself, I was rather appauled by the use of Steven Speilberg so prominently. Each of these episodes was directed by a different director, then Speilberg looked it over and tried to alter it ever so slightly IN THE POST PRODUCTION!. By tagging on a big league name, the further drew people in. That mixed with constant TV commercial marketing.
Look like Jon should look at the Bot AI so it stops cratering.
Player 0
Bot -1
Another technology promising the world. I recall a year or so back of the forthcoming Blu-Ray DVDS which would hold a whole season of Sponge Bob Square pants, or 3-4 hours of HDTV. Why will such media never exist? It doesn't fit a buisness model. Right now they can sell two episodes for $12.99 and pace that all out over 12 disks. Then why compress it all into one? There is no profitable reason to.
The real question is though, by the time Divx player become common, as in afforable enough for a majority of /.'rs, will blue ray dvd be the next big rave?
With "potential" *couph vaporware couph* to contain some 15+hours of video, why not just have 10 movie ondemand on one disk. The entire series of Star Trek Movies that you can switch with a single press of a button.
It is my beleif that we will see less and less of these players that have the capabilites of manipulation as DRM locks down in a deathgrip to hold onto its business model. Sad but true.
The infrastructure of the internet has evolved out of the past few decades yet many key parts are still integral to the existance of the Internet.
After 9/11 several security consultants met in a Senate hearing and demonstrated in a simulation, how the removal of a few key segments could cripple internet traffic (granted some of the plan involved small amount of urban sabatoge).
The internet if scaled down could be compareable to the P2P networks. 90% of content on the internet is provided by less than 10% of computers connected.
The people at http://www.niiip.org/ have amazing documents with regard to security and how the infrastructure of the internet works. Well worth a read.
Another good spot for information, though slightly tainted, is http://www.iisweb.com/. They offer a skewed view of security, as well as some examples of "Worse Case Senarios"
Perhaps some day nanotechnology can help me aim better with a railgun like the friggin bots? But in all seriousness, nanotechnology I forsee being used for malicious means much, much, much more often then for good. The splendid benifits have to weighted against the possible problems of abuse. If I understand my science fiction correctly, it would be quite simple to carry these little buggers in your lungs, exhale them in a crowd of important people, then once you leave the proximity, they go rampaging through someones body until they destroy something vital. A silent assasin much easier to disperse than any poison, and practically untraceable.
Yup, anything you want that has a Dodge, Mopar, Chrysler, Hemi, or Dodge Motorsports mark, we have
I truly find it awe inspiring that a computer literate person can speak so fluid with common lusers. I work as a Web Admin for www.moparcollection.com, and I get the most stupidest request from or Sales team and even from customer service over how to work the web. Perhaps if we would require a common computer literacy test before someone can get online, we could eliminate this mentality that "Computers are Bad, all they do is give me spam and steal my credit cards". Then again, with something like that you'd be sure the RIAA would write up the text for it, then the MPAA would sue them under the DMCA for copywrite infringement for the use of the work "Hackers"
I'm wondering if a public networking system is really worth the risk. By offering a public service, you simple open so many problems caused by unadept users, malicous users, and abuse. Broadband is an excellent tool to be used, however the nightmare of getting everyone hooked up correctly, not to mention managing to keep those users connected must be a nightmare.
By offering it as a wide user base, it allows a malicous user to have a network of people to choose from. Due to the general publics disregard of security, updates and firewalls, this make them sitting ducks to becoming pawns for a Denial of service attack. How long would it be before hackers have a huge network of computers to do their bidding, by simply making a few stokes of the pen on his PDA?
In all truth, can anyone beyond hardcore geeks tell the difference in you desktop when you swap from 16 bit color to 32-bit color? the difference there is a few million colors, so what with the big deal with a loss of 61,000?
even with 4K colors, you can accuratly display any photo on your PDA with minimal loss of quality.
Excellent example, the color books at Sherwin Williams, you really think that have over 4000 different colors in that book, and most of those almost look that same as another color.
Again, legislation being used in a way it was not intentionally ment to be used for.
When will that court case with the Supreme Court happen, that will nullify this law as unconstitutional and let us have our freedom of speech?
I know something is in the works with the ACLU and a college student who wants to crack encrypted web filters
Opera's interface wasn't anything revolutionary in the first place. It definatly had quite a few advantages when it came to user interactivity with it mouse movement recognition, and caching techniques, but left room for quite a bit of improvement.
Hopefully the change from Legacy will not literally remove them from the game like it did intially for Netscape.
The marketing of these new chips I still find is a low blow ment to take advantage of the stupid minded. AMD, I beleive, will never admit that their new naming scheme is supposed to make it seem like their new chips are equal in clock speed to the P4 counterparts. Sure you get the more operations per cycle, but people want bigger numbers
This was the same struggle that destoryed the Mac platform, people dont care about "What its supposed to do" I just want the fastest, biggest number I can get.
The advance release almost seems to cry "Intel is winning so we're going to release a chip so far ahead of schedule we can't sell it right now"
A few weeks after my start date as a new Web Admin, I find our neighborhood IS director has installed a WebsenseTM client on our web access portal. After many heated battles with the COO, I lost my fight to maintain a open portal for both the IS and IT Departments. The web has lost all sense of worth to us now. Imagine any security setting available, then jack it up 3 more levels, that is the extent of our denials. No FTP, No search engine , No IM client existant (at least that we have tried) has access. This hinders our work severly all in the guise of "Corporate Efficency". Any request for these type of access surrounded in forms, "Who its for" "Where its going" so on and so forth. A simple file transfer or upload is so difficult. An alternative like this would be a godsend for my comrades and I, even if it is against our internet policy and could get us fired. It would be easier to be unemployeed than the BS we have to take now
We find ourselves at a cross roads
On on path, we have no privacy, the other we are shrouded in obscurity.
My opinion, I don't care if someone knows where I drive everyday. Why should I? I'm not doing anything wrong, so what does it matter if Big Brother knows that I had McDonalds last night, or I watched LOTR on DVD? If your not doing anything wrong, then whats the problem?