At home we are 3 intensive users sharing a 6.5mbps (~800k/sec) download and 880kbps (~120k/sec) upload.
What we do ? Well we RESPECT each other. Meaning ? We all 3 have Azureus for Bittorrent downloads, and the max upload speed we each set is 30k/sec. That means that even if all 3 of us upload at 30k/sec, there's still a 20-30k/sec available for gaming, browsing, etc. As for the download speed, we really rarely cap out the 800 barrier, so it's not much of a problem. But if it is for you, take the whole bandwidth, substract 10% of it, then split evenly between all of you by setting a maximum download speed in Azureus (I'm sure other BT clients can do this as well, but I love Azureus). TADAM !
Total time of implementation : 5 minutes. Total cost : 0$.
Well, that depends on your parents. I assume, if you're in highschool, that you still live at your parents. Sit with them, and talk about future with them. I STRONGLY recommend getting some real life work experience, preferably in a field where you know you'd like to study (and since this is slashdot I'D guess it's in the IT field, be it a sysadmin, a programmer, an engineer, whatever).
Why it depends on your parents ? Well some will tell you "You work now go get yourself an apartment and live on your life", while some other will allow you to stay home, sometimes for a small fee (hey, only fair if you work that you pay a small rent).
I went straight to college from highschool, tried 2 disciplines (legal school and computer science) and dropped out of both after half a session. Why ? Because I went from a totally controlled environment (punishment for being late in class, homeworks you have to turn-in even if they don't count on for your scores, etc) to a totally-free environment (didn't have to show up to the courses, so I almost never did, in high school I always made copies of my friend's homework because I found them stupid to do so in college I was basically screwed, can'T do that). Therefore, getting work experience would've taught me the maturity needed to go to college. And hey, I wasn't an immature brat after highschool, many people thought I was 22-24 while I was 16, but maturity isn'T about ONE thing, it's about many aspects of your life, and I believe that not many students have, no matter how intelligent, the maturity to go to college RIGHT AFTER highschool, let alone university. I'm not saying to go work 10 years; 1 to 3 will do just fine. You actually have to be disciplined and do not, I repeat, DO NOT get yourself overwhelmed with credit cards and/or other debts.
2 of my friends actually did that; one made half his CS college degree, went to work for 3-4 years, then finished the other half while still working fulltime. Another worked 4 years then decided to go back to school fulltime. Both agree that it was a GOOD thing to get work experience... I should've done the same.
Those are all cities in Quebec province, which have an area code of 819. Other area codes in Quebec are 514 (Montreal island), 450 (Montreal's south and north-shore), 418 (Quebec and Saguenay).
Whoa. I'm the IT ? Cool. I'll tell the other 99 other persons to go home... I don't need them ! I'M THE IT ! WOOHOOO !
Please come back when you got something intelligent to say instead of throwing insults at me. We're aware that Firefox would be a way better solution, but we can't rewrite all those apps without investing massive cash, and when the core company is doing shows, the IT department don't exactly get massive cash. Read my reply to Rokzy, finish high school, get a job, then maybe we'll talk.
Well, consider this. We're an ARTISTIC company. We produce shows. We're international. I'll let you guess who we are, but think Las Vegas and many shows.
We got an external audit last year, and one of the first line of the audit was : "What the hell, your company is producing shows, and you have a hundred employees in IT, and your IT costs you WAY TOO MUCH".
Therefore, we now only do projects that have an immediate benefit to our "customers" (the other departments such as casting, production, etc) rather than evolving current solutions. Rewriting 100+ rather complicated web apps (think about a casting database with thousands and thousands of artists with EVERY little information we can have about them, such as height, weight, videoclips, sound clips, paper articles, CVs, etc... and that's only one of these apps, we got tons more), all developped using MS-only proprietary stuff... And you can't blame the programmers and thinkers either, because these apps were developped years ago, in the time of IE4, where the word spyware almost didn't exist and the only other alternative was crappy Netscape 4.7... Therefore, re-writing all these apps WITHOUT interfering with the current projects that have to be delivered would require mass-hiring of temporary consultants who work at 90-100$/hr to rewrite everything. In the context where we're trying to cut costs as much as possible, what's the best alternative ? Paying me, a 45k 2nd level analyst to devote 10hrs/week to clean up those spywares, or to hire consultats that'll end up costing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars ? I mean, we're protected by firewalls, anti-spam filters, antiviruses and the like, so we never have huge impacts because of spyware, we only get like minor annoyances (user gets tired of popups happening randomly, computer is slower than usual, etc). Therefore, there is NO plus-value to migrate ALL these apps to a HTML-Compliant standard. That, plus add the fact that some EXTERNAL softwares (such as our ticketing system) are web-based and works only with IE5+, not firefox, opera or whatever other browser on the market...
We all KNOW we would be better and safer with Firefox. Heck, I've seen one of our IT architect, a guy who has high esteem among our ranks, walk around with a Firefox t-shirt this week. But we CANNOT AFFORD IT. No money, no candy. It's as simple as that.
Maybe, maybe in 2-3 years. But when you don't work in the "core" department of your company, when you are considered as an expense rather than anything else, well, you just count yourself lucky you haven't been outsourced yet.
I was at work, and I'm the only person in our helpdesk to "de-spywarise" the company's PC (I'm the only 2nd level tech analyst). I got a laptop yesterday that was infected with numerous spywares. After removing most of them with HijackThis, Spybot, CWShredder, there was a rogue entry to a file named "elitegfk.exe" in the registry that, as soon as I removed it, came back.
Easy enough I thought, I'll just remove physically the file and the process. But no; the file wasn't ANYWHERE. Yes, I unchecked the "Hide protected system files" checkbox and I was on SHOW HIDDEN FILES, so ALL files were displayed. Heck, a dir/s on the root of the filesystem didn't even work... I thought that it would be possible that the file has another name, renamed itself to that, made its dirty business then renamed itself. I fired up Filemon (from Sysinternal) and sure enough, I see plenty of activity from a process named elitegfk.exe but STILL no sign of the file and/or process. I scanned the registry, and regedit.exe took 2 seconds to complete the scan... !
I was on the verge of reformatting the system when I thought about something: I accessed the laptop through the admin share (\\computer\c$); sure enough, the file was there, sitting quietly sitting in c:\winnt\system32 (Win2k system)...
The spyware prevented its own display through taskmgr, explorer and regedit. Regedt32 didn'T work, I got a virtual memory low error when I tried to scan the registry. The ONLY way I could see the file was through Filemon AND through the file sharing...
I'm guessing next one will palliate to those things by attaching themselves to the most common troubleshootings tools like regmon and attach themselves to the SMB protocol to make sure they can't be displayed through the shares...
This is getting ridiculous. Yes, you'll tell me to switch to Firefox, but we can't; I work in an artistic company with 1000+ PC and non-tech-savyy users, and tons of internal apps that were developped either with.Net or massive ACtiveX and other MS-only stuff, so we can't switch everything to Firefox, and having 2 browsers isn't a viable option either, since most of our users would simply get confused.
I work in IT, and been working with computers since at least 7 years professionnaly.
The other day, on my lunch break, I went to look for song lyrics on the 'net. A few hours later, my comp started acting weird. I scanned it and BANG, there were quite a few spyware on it.
Granted, I was running IE (latests patches) on Win2k SP4 with a user that has administrative privileges (which no one should do but heck at my company my only user is admin on all workstations what can I say), and I didn't go surf on porn and/or discutable websites; I went to look for lyrics on regular websites.
Therefore, even though I'm really pissed when I need to clear machines that have spyware (I got 2 this morning only), it's clearly not the user's fault most of the time.
Of course our user aren't admin on their workstation but with all the BHO and ActiveX vulnerabilities, this doesn't prevent crap from being installed......
I now use Firefox at work, even though it's technically prohibited... I don't care. I'm often surfing to look for solutions for many things, and many "anti-spyware" websites contain themselves spywares... I'm not surfing with IE for NOTHING except our internal ticket application and our apps, which were developped using IE-standards.
I'm sorry, this'll sound like a troll, or flamebait, but it is not...
My question is : WHO CARES ? I mean, what the hell, why would I want to know how many people were involved in the fabrication of my fridge ?
As I said this is not intended as a flame, but I fail to see the interest.
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It's even better than just that...
One outrageous incident was his arm-wrestling showdown with the CEO of Stevens Aviation in 1992. Both Stevens and Southwest were using the advertising tagline "Plane Smart." To settle the matter, Kelleher suggested an arm-wrestling competition with the winner keeping the rights to the slogan. Kelleher lost the match,
but the event generated so much good will and publicity that Stevens let Southwest continue use of the tagline.
Why the hell the Asimov estate consented to let this drivel be filmed is beyond me.
I'm sad to say this, but I have one word for you : cash. Nothing else than cold hard cash I am sure.
I'm somewhat saddened by the fact that a Asimov book is getting put on screen with Wil Smith as main actor, but hey, that pleases the masses. I will go see it and take it for what it is (good entertainment, nothing more)... Not that I have read the book, but I plan to do it in the near future.
There have been several semi-good or plain bad movies about some of my childhoold heroes... I can think of Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Daredevil, Hulk... But then, there were some pretty good adaptations of my childhood heroes (X-Men, Spiderman)... But I would love it if Hollywood could stop destroying my childhood memories by putting out crap movies like Scooby.
Winamp 5 is out, and includes a feature that allows global hotkeys, meaning that you can control the application from any program, even though Winamp window is not the one on focus.
Now, my little brother made a Mp3 player with Visual Basic 2 years ago, and the player had that feature (he wanted to control his Mp3 player when playing games, ah, 16yo...;-)). Should he have patented the idea back then ? We'd be billionnaire... but why be billionnaire when you can be... MILLIONNAIRE !
Err, ok, no more Austin Powers for me. But that would have been total nonsense, just like this case is.
(And yes, revenge - if someone else buys stolen goods, they don't know where it come from - it could have been stolen from your house)
Eh eh eh yeah, agree.. A couple of years ago, me and my neighbour's girl bikes were stolen. 2 days after, my neighbour gets approached by someone who says "Hey, I got 2 bikes for sale, 50$ for both, they're great". Not telling the guy he got stolen, he goes and see the bikes, and it was his daughter's and mine ! He said he was interested and could get the cash in a couple of hours after he got to the bank, then proceeded to call the police. I got my bike back that way !:-)
Try this : Cirque du Soleil. I work there, but in the International HeadQuarters in Montreal, so I don't travel. But it's a GREAT company, that treats its employees really well and pays a decent salary. And there are of course travelling jobs, with the many tours (Quidam, Saltimbanco, Alegria, Varekai and Dralion). As a matter of fact, the Dralion tech is a good friend of mine... Of course, I don't get to see him much.:-P But beware, these jobs aren't available often, because the techs love their job, so we don't get many departures...
There are also some "fly-in" jobs that are based in Montreal, and I believe there are some too in Vegas and Amsterdam. Check it out !:-)
I feel just like someone who's in line to see Star Wars when Homer gets out of the theater and says "Man I don't believe Darth Vader was Luke's father !!!"
You stole the article's punch by putting in your submission. Why should I even bother reading it now?
Why don't they create a distributed client that could be ran by thousands of people at the same time to compute results? Like Distributed.net... I certainly would run such a client on my PC for the time of the tournament... I know the Fritz machine is REALLY fast, but heck, it can't be faster than 25 000 computers all running at the same time to compute the moves...
And here's the limit on your calculator (YES, I have WAY too much free time on my hands;-))
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999
This does not add to X. The "default install" you are talking about is for OpenBSD, not OpenSSH. There's a world of difference between a whole OS and a package that's part of it.
So, last week's vulnerability WAS an addition to your X, not this one.
Am REALLY TIRED of seeing that many stories on the frontpage of Slashdot that are related to p2p or the RIAA. Couldn't we put the "minor" stories like that under the YRO section ? I mean, like every story about a videogame goes under GAMES, unless it's MAJOR (say, a release of a new gaming console). The 12-YO girl who got sued HAD to be on the front page, I agree, but this...
Neway, just me.02. And admit you thought this was going to be a WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME OUR NEW FILE SHARER OVERLORD post.:-P
Do not forget that 40K$ jobs are much more frequents than 100K$ jobs.
So, yes, having a PHD means that you will request a higher salary (which is ENTIRELY normal), therefore reducing the number of opportunities you can have. But is it a bad thing ? I do not think so. Maybe you'll end up looking for a job a bit longer, but you'll most likely get a high-pay job, with many benefits, and a job you will like, or in which you'll have some type of control/supervision.
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Yeah, I know, it's weird, but it can be achieved.
At home we are 3 intensive users sharing a 6.5mbps (~800k/sec) download and 880kbps (~120k/sec) upload.
What we do ? Well we RESPECT each other. Meaning ? We all 3 have Azureus for Bittorrent downloads, and the max upload speed we each set is 30k/sec. That means that even if all 3 of us upload at 30k/sec, there's still a 20-30k/sec available for gaming, browsing, etc. As for the download speed, we really rarely cap out the 800 barrier, so it's not much of a problem. But if it is for you, take the whole bandwidth, substract 10% of it, then split evenly between all of you by setting a maximum download speed in Azureus (I'm sure other BT clients can do this as well, but I love Azureus). TADAM !
Total time of implementation : 5 minutes. Total cost : 0$.
Why it depends on your parents ? Well some will tell you "You work now go get yourself an apartment and live on your life", while some other will allow you to stay home, sometimes for a small fee (hey, only fair if you work that you pay a small rent).
I went straight to college from highschool, tried 2 disciplines (legal school and computer science) and dropped out of both after half a session. Why ? Because I went from a totally controlled environment (punishment for being late in class, homeworks you have to turn-in even if they don't count on for your scores, etc) to a totally-free environment (didn't have to show up to the courses, so I almost never did, in high school I always made copies of my friend's homework because I found them stupid to do so in college I was basically screwed, can'T do that). Therefore, getting work experience would've taught me the maturity needed to go to college. And hey, I wasn't an immature brat after highschool, many people thought I was 22-24 while I was 16, but maturity isn'T about ONE thing, it's about many aspects of your life, and I believe that not many students have, no matter how intelligent, the maturity to go to college RIGHT AFTER highschool, let alone university. I'm not saying to go work 10 years; 1 to 3 will do just fine. You actually have to be disciplined and do not, I repeat, DO NOT get yourself overwhelmed with credit cards and/or other debts.
2 of my friends actually did that; one made half his CS college degree, went to work for 3-4 years, then finished the other half while still working fulltime. Another worked 4 years then decided to go back to school fulltime. Both agree that it was a GOOD thing to get work experience... I should've done the same.
Those are all cities in Quebec province, which have an area code of 819. Other area codes in Quebec are 514 (Montreal island), 450 (Montreal's south and north-shore), 418 (Quebec and Saguenay).
Please come back when you got something intelligent to say instead of throwing insults at me. We're aware that Firefox would be a way better solution, but we can't rewrite all those apps without investing massive cash, and when the core company is doing shows, the IT department don't exactly get massive cash. Read my reply to Rokzy, finish high school, get a job, then maybe we'll talk.
Changing a few lines in some existing code and a complete rewrite is a totally different thing.
We got an external audit last year, and one of the first line of the audit was : "What the hell, your company is producing shows, and you have a hundred employees in IT, and your IT costs you WAY TOO MUCH".
Therefore, we now only do projects that have an immediate benefit to our "customers" (the other departments such as casting, production, etc) rather than evolving current solutions. Rewriting 100+ rather complicated web apps (think about a casting database with thousands and thousands of artists with EVERY little information we can have about them, such as height, weight, videoclips, sound clips, paper articles, CVs, etc... and that's only one of these apps, we got tons more), all developped using MS-only proprietary stuff... And you can't blame the programmers and thinkers either, because these apps were developped years ago, in the time of IE4, where the word spyware almost didn't exist and the only other alternative was crappy Netscape 4.7... Therefore, re-writing all these apps WITHOUT interfering with the current projects that have to be delivered would require mass-hiring of temporary consultants who work at 90-100$/hr to rewrite everything. In the context where we're trying to cut costs as much as possible, what's the best alternative ? Paying me, a 45k 2nd level analyst to devote 10hrs/week to clean up those spywares, or to hire consultats that'll end up costing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars ? I mean, we're protected by firewalls, anti-spam filters, antiviruses and the like, so we never have huge impacts because of spyware, we only get like minor annoyances (user gets tired of popups happening randomly, computer is slower than usual, etc). Therefore, there is NO plus-value to migrate ALL these apps to a HTML-Compliant standard. That, plus add the fact that some EXTERNAL softwares (such as our ticketing system) are web-based and works only with IE5+, not firefox, opera or whatever other browser on the market...
We all KNOW we would be better and safer with Firefox. Heck, I've seen one of our IT architect, a guy who has high esteem among our ranks, walk around with a Firefox t-shirt this week. But we CANNOT AFFORD IT. No money, no candy. It's as simple as that.
Maybe, maybe in 2-3 years. But when you don't work in the "core" department of your company, when you are considered as an expense rather than anything else, well, you just count yourself lucky you haven't been outsourced yet.
Easy enough I thought, I'll just remove physically the file and the process. But no; the file wasn't ANYWHERE. Yes, I unchecked the "Hide protected system files" checkbox and I was on SHOW HIDDEN FILES, so ALL files were displayed. Heck, a dir /s on the root of the filesystem didn't even work... I thought that it would be possible that the file has another name, renamed itself to that, made its dirty business then renamed itself. I fired up Filemon (from Sysinternal) and sure enough, I see plenty of activity from a process named elitegfk.exe but STILL no sign of the file and/or process. I scanned the registry, and regedit.exe took 2 seconds to complete the scan... !
I was on the verge of reformatting the system when I thought about something: I accessed the laptop through the admin share (\\computer\c$); sure enough, the file was there, sitting quietly sitting in c:\winnt\system32 (Win2k system)...
The spyware prevented its own display through taskmgr, explorer and regedit. Regedt32 didn'T work, I got a virtual memory low error when I tried to scan the registry. The ONLY way I could see the file was through Filemon AND through the file sharing...
I'm guessing next one will palliate to those things by attaching themselves to the most common troubleshootings tools like regmon and attach themselves to the SMB protocol to make sure they can't be displayed through the shares...
This is getting ridiculous. Yes, you'll tell me to switch to Firefox, but we can't; I work in an artistic company with 1000+ PC and non-tech-savyy users, and tons of internal apps that were developped either with .Net or massive ACtiveX and other MS-only stuff, so we can't switch everything to Firefox, and having 2 browsers isn't a viable option either, since most of our users would simply get confused.
Anyway.
The other day, on my lunch break, I went to look for song lyrics on the 'net. A few hours later, my comp started acting weird. I scanned it and BANG, there were quite a few spyware on it.
Granted, I was running IE (latests patches) on Win2k SP4 with a user that has administrative privileges (which no one should do but heck at my company my only user is admin on all workstations what can I say), and I didn't go surf on porn and/or discutable websites; I went to look for lyrics on regular websites.
Therefore, even though I'm really pissed when I need to clear machines that have spyware (I got 2 this morning only), it's clearly not the user's fault most of the time.
Of course our user aren't admin on their workstation but with all the BHO and ActiveX vulnerabilities, this doesn't prevent crap from being installed......
I now use Firefox at work, even though it's technically prohibited... I don't care. I'm often surfing to look for solutions for many things, and many "anti-spyware" websites contain themselves spywares... I'm not surfing with IE for NOTHING except our internal ticket application and our apps, which were developped using IE-standards.
My question is : WHO CARES ? I mean, what the hell, why would I want to know how many people were involved in the fabrication of my fridge ?
As I said this is not intended as a flame, but I fail to see the interest.
I'm sad to say this, but I have one word for you : cash. Nothing else than cold hard cash I am sure.
I'm somewhat saddened by the fact that a Asimov book is getting put on screen with Wil Smith as main actor, but hey, that pleases the masses. I will go see it and take it for what it is (good entertainment, nothing more)... Not that I have read the book, but I plan to do it in the near future.
There have been several semi-good or plain bad movies about some of my childhoold heroes... I can think of Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Daredevil, Hulk... But then, there were some pretty good adaptations of my childhood heroes (X-Men, Spiderman)... But I would love it if Hollywood could stop destroying my childhood memories by putting out crap movies like Scooby.
(Mods : this isn't a flamebait, it's supposed (and I say supposed (god I hate imbricated parenthesis)) to be funny)
What is MESC ? Mescaline ? Aaaah, you meant Minesweeper Consultant and Solitary Expert. If Illiad was dead, he'd be turning around in his tomb.
Now, my little brother made a Mp3 player with Visual Basic 2 years ago, and the player had that feature (he wanted to control his Mp3 player when playing games, ah, 16yo... ;-)). Should he have patented the idea back then ? We'd be billionnaire... but why be billionnaire when you can be... MILLIONNAIRE !
Err, ok, no more Austin Powers for me. But that would have been total nonsense, just like this case is.
Eh eh eh yeah, agree.. A couple of years ago, me and my neighbour's girl bikes were stolen. 2 days after, my neighbour gets approached by someone who says "Hey, I got 2 bikes for sale, 50$ for both, they're great". Not telling the guy he got stolen, he goes and see the bikes, and it was his daughter's and mine ! He said he was interested and could get the cash in a couple of hours after he got to the bank, then proceeded to call the police. I got my bike back that way ! :-)
Of Jean-Luc Picard? :-)
There are also some "fly-in" jobs that are based in Montreal, and I believe there are some too in Vegas and Amsterdam. Check it out ! :-)
You stole the article's punch by putting in your submission. Why should I even bother reading it now?
Why don't they create a distributed client that could be ran by thousands of people at the same time to compute results? Like Distributed.net... I certainly would run such a client on my PC for the time of the tournament... I know the Fritz machine is REALLY fast, but heck, it can't be faster than 25 000 computers all running at the same time to compute the moves...
And here's the limit on your calculator (YES, I have WAY too much free time on my hands ;-))
9 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
So, last week's vulnerability WAS an addition to your X, not this one.
Neway, just me .02. And admit you thought this was going to be a WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME OUR NEW FILE SHARER OVERLORD post. :-P
You had a CounterStrike teacher ???
So, yes, having a PHD means that you will request a higher salary (which is ENTIRELY normal), therefore reducing the number of opportunities you can have. But is it a bad thing ? I do not think so. Maybe you'll end up looking for a job a bit longer, but you'll most likely get a high-pay job, with many benefits, and a job you will like, or in which you'll have some type of control/supervision.