And the Hon Xenophon is asking a reasonable question that can be expanded. Does a specific organization deserve tax benefits? To my mind the answer would be only if they can prove social benefit.
For instance. A soup kitchen run by atheists would qualify as they are providing a tangeble service to society. The atheist association who sponsor it, not so much.
Read the article and the attached PDF and there was no mention of their rationale of testing. These numbers could be based on tests and they could be based on the lower torso. I'm not saying they are shills for anyone, but this is "NOT NEWS" until they give us the rationale for coming to these conclusions.
I have a jabber server set up for our small office, and it's main purpose is to see who is at their desk. Rarely is it used for actual communication. People get work done, and you don't have to play phone tag with answering machines.
It won't work. After zombie-pron-server-9 you have run out of effective numbers. I'd suggest zps000001 as a naming convention as it allows a million servers into your cluster. It also has the advantage of allowing different types of servers. Such as warez (zws000001), music (zms00001) or any of possibly 26 different categories. One step further would be to name the pc after the campus they are used at. So you get hozps00001 for a head office workstation. All other details should be saved in the asset register.
You do have a point. The fact that Ubuntu Server doesn't come with XWindows or in fact anything installed shouldn't enter into it.:-)
Although it's nice to see GNU/Linux winning where it was technically the best and cheapest option rather than something mandated by a manager who has just been wined and dined by big business. (Works for public service somewhere. Sees this scenario again and again)
Innovation doesn't always mean writing a new program.
But innovation does mean creating something new, or improving on what is out there. A good portion of Microsoft's innovation was to purchase or copy software companies who were doing innovative things. The only new thing here is the word software in the previous sentence.
Do you have the space for the rack required? No? this becomes a building problem. Add Months Next check to see you have enough Air Conditioning to keep the puppy cool? No add Weeks Next check power. No? Add days. Next check Network infrastructure. No? Add weeks. Next have equipment delivered. I have premium service with Fortune 500 suppliers. 6 Working Days Next Half a day to configure the Chassis. Half a day to configure the SAN 2 hours each for each blade. Preliminary UAT (However long the customer takes) Install the software the user wants x 32
[sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk). [IT to Sales] Let me assess the risk for you. [IT to Sales and Admin] This is risky... Are you sure? [Sales] Yes! [Admin] (flips coin) Yes! [IT to Sales and Admin] On your head be it. I have this in writing. [Sales] Yay! I get new toy.
[Admin] Turn it off. [IT] Told you so. Next time round, the coin will be more likely to land Tails at step 5
And the difference here is not to say no. IT rarely makes money for the company. The best it can do is to save the company money. IT should be working with the business to make them as profitable as possible.
As far as metrics are concerned, my favorite metric is service uptime during core business hours. A workstation may not be a service, but access to Email for sales staff may well be. Access to Email for other sections may not be.
Feeding trolls, but I keep seeing these memes over and over. They need a good dose of ridicule.
Why should Copyright/Trademark/patent holders lose revenue without compensation? How do they lose revenue again? Please explain. As far as I can tell, they just fail to make revenue.
ISPs are making money from illegal acts - Ignoring Copyright/ Using unlicensed trademarks/infringing on patents. Please note that all of the above crimes have civil remedies. Please also note that to steal something requires a component whereby the legal owner is deprived of the stolen items use. This does not happen in copyright infringement as me sharing your tune does not prevent you from selling said tune. This does not happen in trademark law, as you can continue to use the trademark even if I use it too. This does not happen in patent law as you can continue using methods and inventions even if I am also using them. Stealing is not going on. Please refrain from using this term as it weakens your own arguement.
That potentially amkes them complicit in the illegal act. Possibly. Just as selling a jemmy bar at a hardware store could make you complicit to burglary. Should hardware stores stop selling jemmy bars because they might be used in a crime?
In future please do not assume that there is such a thing as IP. IP stands for Internet Protocol. (c) stands for copyright. (TM) stands for Trademark and Patent #123,456,789 stands for a patent.
Networking does not have to be in "meatspace". But it does need to happen if you want your career to move forward. (By that I mean doing something more interesting than what you are doing now. Not further up the management chain, unless this takes you as interesting.)
Web pages will get your CV on the table. A good one may get you to Interview. Afterwards, it's reputation that gets you the job. I am asked frequently "You used to work for XYZ, did you know John Smith?". I have nothing invested in John Smith's career, but a positive review there will get John Smith halfway home in the interview.
Networking is an important skill. This is because you are essentially dealing with people no matter what your job is. The addage that "It's not what you know but who you know." is true. There is no escaping it. You can be the bee's knees on a subject, but if you don't make the right connections, then you won't be able to pick up the next job when the time comes up.
Being good at your job is important now. Being able to network is important when moving on.
For example. I worked my way up from answering phones to being in charge of a 2000 seat campus by a combination of learning new skills from a range of experienced techs. Then (due in part to the smooth running of the site, and due to having made friends with the regional manager) I was asked to monitor the health of the regions equipment. Now I was in charge of 500 switches, 50 routers and 80 servers. Monitoring their general wellbeing. I was able to get the jump on around 50% of errors by watching anomalies before they became a problem. Something that takes reasonable technical skill. (Yes, any charlie can read a log, but reading 80 of them daily and filtering for weird stuff takes some perl.)
Then sweeping changes occurred to that technical team and most of the operation was to be outsourced, my job included. I could have stayed on as a contractor working on the same system, but due to my networking skills, was able to use this to land a promotion. I am now working on a network 10 times the original size doing really cool stuff.
The moral of the story is tech out the wazoo will only get you so far. Networking is a skill that will get you further.
Piffle. Do you think actors do the plays of Shakespere out of the goodness of their own hearts? Do string quartets fail to make a buck out of playing "Bloody Pachabel's Canon" at weddings? Do the works of Jane Austin continue to be published in DeadTreeFormat despite being in the public domain and downloadable from the Gutenberg Project?
You make money from the public domain by making the product better or more accessible to the users. Marketers would just have to value add to the product.
Not really, people who code for open source have a vested interest in doing things once, doing them properly and never having to do them again. This is usually because the individual coders reputation is on the line. Thus we see the ultimate Open Source solution for anti virus is to remove the vectors which viruses cannot attack.
Built in security beats tacked onto the side any day.
Now I know that Open Source still has bugs that allow viruses to propagate, but the solution is usually that the writers of the original code fix the hole rather than someone else selling a tacked on solution.
Having been on the receiving end of the DRM rasberry, that is not the case. The fourth install brings up a dialog saying "You can not play this game"
The bit that irritates me is I purchased this game on disk and was installing this on my First PC when I got the message. I'll be looking for a crack in the next week or 2 if their support number give me the run around.
1) Cut up Visa card 2) Pay off debt 3) ??? (fail to pay interest on the money you now spend) 4) PROFIT!!!
Cant see a problem with people boycotting payment systems. If people don't use a payment system, stores will stop offering that system. System reinvents or dies.
Security nut for local network speaking. Since Security is the antithesis of Usability, you are not popular for doing your job. If you introduce a new security regime that makes things "hard" for people to do their jobs you are seen as a roadblock in the road of progress. If your security regime is not tight enough you are blamed for data leaks.
With this in mind, you need to derive your happiness from other places than peoples praise. I'd say the GPs post example is of a person who has learned to derive happiness from both family life and playing in a band.
I know I get happiness not from doing the security work, but from other sources that are funded by the security work. I can definitely corroborate the correlation with more anecdotal evidence of my own experience.
I for one welcome our.deb overlords. Having a strict policy on packaging is a very good idea. It allows installation of software to also include reasonably rapid upgrading and patching as required.
So the pain is felt by the developer once working their way through the policies. the users never(for various values of never) need to deal with trying to clean up a crufted system. And let's be honest. If Linux is better, more attractive, and easier to use and maintain, it stops being a toy, and starts being a desktop/laptop contender.
I was talking to a friend of mine about how easy it was to patch an entire debian based system (provided you trust the up stream patchers)over a Microsoft XP system. Then I asked the question why havn't Microsoft supplied a similar system? After install, a vendor enters a URL into a list of URLs outlining the location of any patch/upgrade files in.msp or.msi format. The WSUS system kicks off simply checking version numbers of the.msi out there to the one installed. If the version is different, flag for patching/upgrading. If you like you can add certification/hashes/biometrics to the system. The user still ends up with a fully patched system.
Truth is, there is no money in it for Microsoft. It would merely be supplying a useful service to vendors/users and make it a responsible part of the computing ecosystem.
I hope for the sake of Dell that they are packaging properly, and that they also provide the Dell repository as part of the system. It would make sense to me, and Dell do seem to want this to work. (although there may need to be mods to the repository system to allow only paying users to download products. Yes, yes all software should be free, but until software patents are crushed under the heel of RMS, we still have to contend with licencing fees.)
I for one am opposed to overtabbing. I write a lot of scripting that may need editing in situ with a cheap and nasty text editor (notepad). The default number of spaces in a tab is therefore 8. If we use your last example we find that we are going 16 spaces deep to look at "stuff". Now if we have a couple of loops and some more if in, this can get to 64 deep before we get to "buriedStuff". If you use the first convention, this is reduced to 32 deep.
if (something is somethingElse) {
stuff } else {
other stuff }
is my personal preference since I read this as "If something is something else then, do stuff. Else [then] do otherstuff." I tend to associate open curlies as "then do" tabs as commas and closing curlies as fullstops.
There is a law in Australia (at least in Victoria) that states that any cat or dog at least 100 meters from a house is a feral animal. (Insert sanity clauses about an animal on a leash etc.) So provided the trapper sets his traps away from houses, he is not criminally irresponsible.
The laws were brought in to improve the chances of native animals survival.
The morality of the situation is up to the individual. I'd prefer the ongoing existance of the bilby over the ongoing existance of a domesticated animal whose owner is too damn lazy to control.
The other thing I have observed is a simple overheating problem when using intensive Wifi for extended periods. 4 hours of solid bittorrents tends to do evil things to my router.
I keep meaning to stick a heatsink and a fan on processors to see if this improves.
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Coffee spurt moment. well done.
And the Hon Xenophon is asking a reasonable question that can be expanded. Does a specific organization deserve tax benefits? To my mind the answer would be only if they can prove social benefit.
For instance. A soup kitchen run by atheists would qualify as they are providing a tangeble service to society. The atheist association who sponsor it, not so much.
Read the article and the attached PDF and there was no mention of their rationale of testing. These numbers could be based on tests and they could be based on the lower torso. I'm not saying they are shills for anyone, but this is "NOT NEWS" until they give us the rationale for coming to these conclusions.
I have a jabber server set up for our small office, and it's main purpose is to see who is at their desk. Rarely is it used for actual communication. People get work done, and you don't have to play phone tag with answering machines.
You are bringing a cricket bat to a boxing match.
My money is on the bloke with the cricket bat. The bloke with the gloves is gone.
There is nothing to stop Walmart from not selling A the Sony Vaio WGA3. There is no laws to stop Walmart from not selling any Sony product at all.
but there is a law against Walmart preventing me from buying the shop next door and selling extended warranty on products purchased from walmart.
Are you demented?
What gave it away?
It won't work. After zombie-pron-server-9 you have run out of effective numbers. I'd suggest zps000001 as a naming convention as it allows a million servers into your cluster. It also has the advantage of allowing different types of servers. Such as warez (zws000001), music (zms00001) or any of possibly 26 different categories. One step further would be to name the pc after the campus they are used at. So you get hozps00001 for a head office workstation. All other details should be saved in the asset register.
But Person 1 uploads without downloading. therefore up = down 0 loss 0 gain.
You do have a point. The fact that Ubuntu Server doesn't come with XWindows or in fact anything installed shouldn't enter into it. :-)
Although it's nice to see GNU/Linux winning where it was technically the best and cheapest option rather than something mandated by a manager who has just been wined and dined by big business. (Works for public service somewhere. Sees this scenario again and again)
Innovation doesn't always mean writing a new program.
But innovation does mean creating something new, or improving on what is out there. A good portion of Microsoft's innovation was to purchase or copy software companies who were doing innovative things. The only new thing here is the word software in the previous sentence.
Nope. A month sounds about right.
Do you have the space for the rack required? No? this becomes a building problem. Add Months
Next check to see you have enough Air Conditioning to keep the puppy cool? No add Weeks
Next check power. No? Add days.
Next check Network infrastructure. No? Add weeks.
Next have equipment delivered. I have premium service with Fortune 500 suppliers. 6 Working Days
Next Half a day to configure the Chassis.
Half a day to configure the SAN
2 hours each for each blade.
Preliminary UAT (However long the customer takes)
Install the software the user wants x 32
Actually a month is very conservative.
[sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[IT to Sales] Let me assess the risk for you.
[IT to Sales and Admin] This is risky... Are you sure?
[Sales] Yes!
[Admin] (flips coin) Yes!
[IT to Sales and Admin] On your head be it. I have this in writing.
[Sales] Yay! I get new toy.
[Admin] Turn it off.
[IT] Told you so.
Next time round, the coin will be more likely to land Tails at step 5
And the difference here is not to say no. IT rarely makes money for the company. The best it can do is to save the company money. IT should be working with the business to make them as profitable as possible.
As far as metrics are concerned, my favorite metric is service uptime during core business hours. A workstation may not be a service, but access to Email for sales staff may well be. Access to Email for other sections may not be.
Feeding trolls, but I keep seeing these memes over and over. They need a good dose of ridicule.
Why should Copyright/Trademark/patent holders lose revenue without compensation? How do they lose revenue again? Please explain. As far as I can tell, they just fail to make revenue.
ISPs are making money from illegal acts - Ignoring Copyright/ Using unlicensed trademarks/infringing on patents. Please note that all of the above crimes have civil remedies. Please also note that to steal something requires a component whereby the legal owner is deprived of the stolen items use. This does not happen in copyright infringement as me sharing your tune does not prevent you from selling said tune. This does not happen in trademark law, as you can continue to use the trademark even if I use it too. This does not happen in patent law as you can continue using methods and inventions even if I am also using them. Stealing is not going on. Please refrain from using this term as it weakens your own arguement.
That potentially amkes them complicit in the illegal act. Possibly. Just as selling a jemmy bar at a hardware store could make you complicit to burglary. Should hardware stores stop selling jemmy bars because they might be used in a crime?
In future please do not assume that there is such a thing as IP. IP stands for Internet Protocol. (c) stands for copyright. (TM) stands for Trademark and Patent #123,456,789 stands for a patent.
My keyboard is now covered in coffee.
That would never have happened if I had this tech in place. I would have spat all over the floor/screen/ZCam.
Networking does not have to be in "meatspace". But it does need to happen if you want your career to move forward. (By that I mean doing something more interesting than what you are doing now. Not further up the management chain, unless this takes you as interesting.)
Web pages will get your CV on the table. A good one may get you to Interview. Afterwards, it's reputation that gets you the job. I am asked frequently "You used to work for XYZ, did you know John Smith?". I have nothing invested in John Smith's career, but a positive review there will get John Smith halfway home in the interview.
Networking is an important skill. This is because you are essentially dealing with people no matter what your job is. The addage that "It's not what you know but who you know." is true. There is no escaping it. You can be the bee's knees on a subject, but if you don't make the right connections, then you won't be able to pick up the next job when the time comes up.
Being good at your job is important now. Being able to network is important when moving on.
For example. I worked my way up from answering phones to being in charge of a 2000 seat campus by a combination of learning new skills from a range of experienced techs. Then (due in part to the smooth running of the site, and due to having made friends with the regional manager) I was asked to monitor the health of the regions equipment. Now I was in charge of 500 switches, 50 routers and 80 servers. Monitoring their general wellbeing. I was able to get the jump on around 50% of errors by watching anomalies before they became a problem. Something that takes reasonable technical skill. (Yes, any charlie can read a log, but reading 80 of them daily and filtering for weird stuff takes some perl.)
Then sweeping changes occurred to that technical team and most of the operation was to be outsourced, my job included. I could have stayed on as a contractor working on the same system, but due to my networking skills, was able to use this to land a promotion. I am now working on a network 10 times the original size doing really cool stuff.
The moral of the story is tech out the wazoo will only get you so far. Networking is a skill that will get you further.
Piffle. Do you think actors do the plays of Shakespere out of the goodness of their own hearts? Do string quartets fail to make a buck out of playing "Bloody Pachabel's Canon" at weddings? Do the works of Jane Austin continue to be published in DeadTreeFormat despite being in the public domain and downloadable from the Gutenberg Project?
You make money from the public domain by making the product better or more accessible to the users. Marketers would just have to value add to the product.
Not really, people who code for open source have a vested interest in doing things once, doing them properly and never having to do them again. This is usually because the individual coders reputation is on the line. Thus we see the ultimate Open Source solution for anti virus is to remove the vectors which viruses cannot attack.
Built in security beats tacked onto the side any day.
Now I know that Open Source still has bugs that allow viruses to propagate, but the solution is usually that the writers of the original code fix the hole rather than someone else selling a tacked on solution.
Having been on the receiving end of the DRM rasberry, that is not the case. The fourth install brings up a dialog saying "You can not play this game"
The bit that irritates me is I purchased this game on disk and was installing this on my First PC when I got the message. I'll be looking for a crack in the next week or 2 if their support number give me the run around.
1) Cut up Visa card
2) Pay off debt
3) ??? (fail to pay interest on the money you now spend)
4) PROFIT!!!
Cant see a problem with people boycotting payment systems. If people don't use a payment system, stores will stop offering that system. System reinvents or dies.
Security nut for local network speaking. Since Security is the antithesis of Usability, you are not popular for doing your job. If you introduce a new security regime that makes things "hard" for people to do their jobs you are seen as a roadblock in the road of progress. If your security regime is not tight enough you are blamed for data leaks.
With this in mind, you need to derive your happiness from other places than peoples praise. I'd say the GPs post example is of a person who has learned to derive happiness from both family life and playing in a band.
I know I get happiness not from doing the security work, but from other sources that are funded by the security work. I can definitely corroborate the correlation with more anecdotal evidence of my own experience.
Now I must get back to writing more policy.
I for one welcome our .deb overlords. Having a strict policy on packaging is a very good idea. It allows installation of software to also include reasonably rapid upgrading and patching as required.
So the pain is felt by the developer once working their way through the policies. the users never(for various values of never) need to deal with trying to clean up a crufted system. And let's be honest. If Linux is better, more attractive, and easier to use and maintain, it stops being a toy, and starts being a desktop/laptop contender.
I was talking to a friend of mine about how easy it was to patch an entire debian based system (provided you trust the up stream patchers)over a Microsoft XP system. Then I asked the question why havn't Microsoft supplied a similar system? After install, a vendor enters a URL into a list of URLs outlining the location of any patch/upgrade files in .msp or .msi format. The WSUS system kicks off simply checking version numbers of the .msi out there to the one installed. If the version is different, flag for patching/upgrading. If you like you can add certification/hashes/biometrics to the system. The user still ends up with a fully patched system.
Truth is, there is no money in it for Microsoft. It would merely be supplying a useful service to vendors/users and make it a responsible part of the computing ecosystem.
I hope for the sake of Dell that they are packaging properly, and that they also provide the Dell repository as part of the system. It would make sense to me, and Dell do seem to want this to work. (although there may need to be mods to the repository system to allow only paying users to download products. Yes, yes all software should be free, but until software patents are crushed under the heel of RMS, we still have to contend with licencing fees.)
I for one am opposed to overtabbing. I write a lot of scripting that may need editing in situ with a cheap and nasty text editor (notepad). The default number of spaces in a tab is therefore 8. If we use your last example we find that we are going 16 spaces deep to look at "stuff". Now if we have a couple of loops and some more if in, this can get to 64 deep before we get to "buriedStuff". If you use the first convention, this is reduced to 32 deep.
if (something is somethingElse) {
stuff
} else {
other stuff
}
is my personal preference since I read this as "If something is something else then, do stuff. Else [then] do otherstuff." I tend to associate open curlies as "then do" tabs as commas and closing curlies as fullstops.
There is a law in Australia (at least in Victoria) that states that any cat or dog at least 100 meters from a house is a feral animal. (Insert sanity clauses about an animal on a leash etc.) So provided the trapper sets his traps away from houses, he is not criminally irresponsible.
The laws were brought in to improve the chances of native animals survival.
The morality of the situation is up to the individual. I'd prefer the ongoing existance of the bilby over the ongoing existance of a domesticated animal whose owner is too damn lazy to control.
The other thing I have observed is a simple overheating problem when using intensive Wifi for extended periods. 4 hours of solid bittorrents tends to do evil things to my router.
I keep meaning to stick a heatsink and a fan on processors to see if this improves.
After reading the article (a novel concept for slashdot I know), the answer to both your questions is "Yes".