I think it's about time for name servers to become P2P, or perhaps something like bit torrent.
That was the original goal anyways! If one node goes down, the whole thing won't go down. Thoughts?
I have been trying for the past month to get 3.0.0 to work with a Windows 2000 PDC, and still can't get ir right. I've gotten everyting BUT Samba to do it, (actually my goal is to authorize users from Active Directory to access shares and what-not). Part of the reason Linux is still hurting is beucase you have to jump through hoops to get this stuff running. I spent a whole day jacking around getting dependinces going for this and it really pist me off that Samba didn't list them. My vote -- Linux still ain't ready. Too much work to do the easiest things (or at least should be easy). I have yet to find a HOWTO that was up to date and actually worked for what I needed it to do... Linux documentation sucks. Yes, this may sound like flaimbait (and it's not), but how much easier is it for Windows to get things going before Linux? I can get my Win2K PDC up faster and more secure than I can my Linux box because of problems like these. (Go figure, this issue happened recently to me... so yeah)
What will really impress me, is when a distro can do this out of the box. Communicate to Linux and Windows securely (without a registry hack on the Windows side... I don't play plaintext security.. it's like going without a condom). This will allow admins to 'try' linux for their bosses and allow a migration over. Some small buisnesses can't afford a sink or swim solution.
My $0.02
I'm 20 years old, and work as a solo IT Tech for a small company. It's not that I'm unwilling to work for 1/10 of my wage, it's that I _cant_ work for that. How much does a car cost? Insurance (I'm under 25, and my insurance is around $300 on a perfect record)? Living costs? I'm a teen, I can't afford to do jack-diddly-squat. This out-sourcing is seriously screwing me over. Teens already have it hard enough getting loans, going to college, and getting job becuase they lack experiance, but now if they don't work for under minimum wage, well then, they are asking for too much. Innovate? Hmm, who will I get to fund me for this? I'm not a compnay, I'm not a teenage, no one will lend me money. Work flippin burgers you say? That won't ever get me anywhere, beucase it's not IT experiance and if I don't bend to the burger flipping hours (becuase of my college schedule) I'm fired. Work or quit school? Hmm, No money==no place to live.. hmm. Ok, lets quit school, perhaps I could learn from books and get certified. But wait, what about the experiance? I've been in this position becuase, except that I said screw the burger flipping and rolled the dice on another job. I got paid $6.50 when the previous guy made $12.00. I feel screwed over, but I guess that's how it is. I recall an article off of MSN a long time ago called "College for suckers" and it talked about how other countries pay for thier people to have education, here you get in debt. Becusae of that debt you need the money. It's not a "want" for money as much as it is the "need" for money.
I understand your pain, your got screwed over something stupid. Should you have shredded it? Yes. Should you have had to? No.
Do I like my computer every single time I go to get a coke out of the fridge? No. Am I stupid for not trust people in my house? Perhaps.
Anyways...
check to see for fee's on that credit card (IE: Call them, check the number on the back of the credit card). Here you have two options. You can ask for a manager. If you decide to go this route, as soon as a human hits the phone tell them you want to speak to a manager and they cannot deal with you, don't give them a chance to say a word until they say over you "Yes sir/man, I will get a manager". Be unreasonable or you will lose this situation. Do not threaten or curse at any time. When I manager gets on the phone, tell them what happened. (IE: That you were at the mall, wanted the card, read the fine printer, threw it away, the m0nk3ys picked it up and forged your sig.) Demand that something happen to this person and that your credit card be cancelled (or make a deal such that no fees are applied at all).
OR
If the credit card has no fees (or you negotiated this from the manager in the previous paragraph) keep the account open and cut the credit card. Having that credit open, but not used will help your credit rating. For example, getting auto loans, personal loans, etc. Heck, it's not a bad idea to use it occassionally to up your score, but I would suggest only doing so if you have the cash to send away quickly, waiting for the grace period to end ant sending it at the last minute is a Bad Idea (TM). Following this method could help your score, and in the future get you a chance at a better credit card that won't screw you (oxymoron anyone?) or perhaps one that screws you less.
I used Slackware 9.0 for the past 4 months, and found some problems. USB mouse issues, USB drive issues, nforce2 problems (I couldn't enable DMA, and my hdd speed transfered at 3.39MB per second, and it 6.6MB per second if I tweaked with -c3 -m16 via hdparm), and misc annoyances that seems to be misconfigured (such as sendmail).
I decided to whack (fdisk) my Linux partition and rebuild with 9.1!
Wow, am I amazed. Mozilla's fonts actually don't SUCK when i read slashdot, USB devices work happily, my hdd is in DMa mode and x-fers at 34MB per second.
Before anyone asks, yes, I did try upping my kernel to the latest stable and still had these issues. Granted I could have fixxed the Mozilla issue myself, however I'm lazy and it wasn't _that_ important enough for me to care.
Above all, it supported my nforce2 happily without me having to tweak my stuff. It also allowed me to configure my rc.M startup for software, which was very nice!
Indeed, very true.
As stated before, if the time-frame is very limited then they do not have time to train new software engineers. HOWEVER, it's been my experiance that some management is willing to deal with the pain (whatever it is) ad bite the bullet than be put in a vice and threatened. My boss has been known to fire the last eletrical engineer because that engineer wouldn't get on a plane to do something that wasn't in his job description. Sure, most of us don't have an exact job description however for a general manager to terminate his last eltrical engineer becuase of something silly such as that (actually the electrical engineer's reply was something to the effect of "That's not in my job, you can't make me do it". and the response to that was "You work for me, you will do whatever I tell you to").
Their are three different types of management. Micro, macro, and dumbass. Sometims they can be two of three. Micro management normally refuses to be in a threatened position, rather you invoked it or not. Yet again, I write this IMHO and experiance.
If you were wise enough (we all make mistakes...) and aren't in too much debt, try perhaps going job searching [monster.com] is your best bet.
As with any job shift, it will be painful. The question that falls into your pants is: Is getting my brain fried better or worse than the pain of another job? Can I afford another job? Are they any jobs open that I have experiance with?
IANAL, but I was informed that a salary position can not be docked for quantity or quality of work. Use that to our advantage.
"The war against spam needs to be fought on many fronts simultaneously, one of which is legal."
The front that I see the least amount of fighting on is the front for the "common" people, such as mom's and grandpa's and mediocre people who aren't a power user.
If everyone sent 1 (yes that's one) email to thier senator giving thier two cents and perhaps an idea or two, actions would most likely be taken quicker due to the over whelming emails.
I recently read an article which claimed that 6% of the people they send to complain about spam, yet they still receive 10% (this article is somewhere on/. but I currently forgot the location.. the percentages may be off) of the people still purchasing those "make your dick bigger" and "viagra" products. That leaves 84% of the rest of the people they send to keeping thier mouth shut. Assuming that even half of those accounts don't exist (or are hotmail accounts that aren't checked on a regular basis) that still leaves 34% of the population doing NOTHING.
As much as I'm against chain letters or anything of the like (due to the evolving nature of them) it seems that someone needs to get out to everyone (TV or radio commercials?) to get out and yell at thier ISP or senator for it.
So many people believe the "oh, I'm just one person, I don't count" and they lack the idea that no you don't count if your the only one sending something or one of few, however if you help others get the word out and make many do something from one person, you DID make a difference. And thus, the "one person" theory does work.
Yoda has a phrase that would be great for finishing this comment:
"Do or do not. There is no try."
One month later headlines state:
"Beano out of buisness"
hmm or even better:
"Highly paid job, $10.00 / hour, just sit on the pot with plug stuck up oraphus"
Three weeks later, un-employment is nearly non-existant. heh
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's about time for name servers to become P2P, or perhaps something like bit torrent. That was the original goal anyways! If one node goes down, the whole thing won't go down. Thoughts?
I have been trying for the past month to get 3.0.0 to work with a Windows 2000 PDC, and still can't get ir right. I've gotten everyting BUT Samba to do it, (actually my goal is to authorize users from Active Directory to access shares and what-not). Part of the reason Linux is still hurting is beucase you have to jump through hoops to get this stuff running. I spent a whole day jacking around getting dependinces going for this and it really pist me off that Samba didn't list them. My vote -- Linux still ain't ready. Too much work to do the easiest things (or at least should be easy). I have yet to find a HOWTO that was up to date and actually worked for what I needed it to do... Linux documentation sucks. Yes, this may sound like flaimbait (and it's not), but how much easier is it for Windows to get things going before Linux? I can get my Win2K PDC up faster and more secure than I can my Linux box because of problems like these. (Go figure, this issue happened recently to me... so yeah) What will really impress me, is when a distro can do this out of the box. Communicate to Linux and Windows securely (without a registry hack on the Windows side... I don't play plaintext security.. it's like going without a condom). This will allow admins to 'try' linux for their bosses and allow a migration over. Some small buisnesses can't afford a sink or swim solution. My $0.02
I'm 20 years old, and work as a solo IT Tech for a small company.
It's not that I'm unwilling to work for 1/10 of my wage, it's that I _cant_ work for that.
How much does a car cost? Insurance (I'm under 25, and my insurance is around $300 on a perfect record)? Living costs?
I'm a teen, I can't afford to do jack-diddly-squat. This out-sourcing is seriously screwing me over. Teens already have it hard enough getting loans, going to college, and getting job becuase they lack experiance, but now if they don't work for under minimum wage, well then, they are asking for too much.
Innovate? Hmm, who will I get to fund me for this? I'm not a compnay, I'm not a teenage, no one will lend me money. Work flippin burgers you say? That won't ever get me anywhere, beucase it's not IT experiance and if I don't bend to the burger flipping hours (becuase of my college schedule) I'm fired. Work or quit school? Hmm, No money==no place to live.. hmm. Ok, lets quit school, perhaps I could learn from books and get certified. But wait, what about the experiance? I've been in this position becuase, except that I said screw the burger flipping and rolled the dice on another job. I got paid $6.50 when the previous guy made $12.00. I feel screwed over, but I guess that's how it is. I recall an article off of MSN a long time ago called "College for suckers" and it talked about how other countries pay for thier people to have education, here you get in debt. Becusae of that debt you need the money. It's not a "want" for money as much as it is the "need" for money.
I understand your pain, your got screwed over something stupid. Should you have shredded it? Yes. Should you have had to? No. Do I like my computer every single time I go to get a coke out of the fridge? No. Am I stupid for not trust people in my house? Perhaps. Anyways... check to see for fee's on that credit card (IE: Call them, check the number on the back of the credit card). Here you have two options. You can ask for a manager. If you decide to go this route, as soon as a human hits the phone tell them you want to speak to a manager and they cannot deal with you, don't give them a chance to say a word until they say over you "Yes sir/man, I will get a manager". Be unreasonable or you will lose this situation. Do not threaten or curse at any time. When I manager gets on the phone, tell them what happened. (IE: That you were at the mall, wanted the card, read the fine printer, threw it away, the m0nk3ys picked it up and forged your sig.) Demand that something happen to this person and that your credit card be cancelled (or make a deal such that no fees are applied at all). OR If the credit card has no fees (or you negotiated this from the manager in the previous paragraph) keep the account open and cut the credit card. Having that credit open, but not used will help your credit rating. For example, getting auto loans, personal loans, etc. Heck, it's not a bad idea to use it occassionally to up your score, but I would suggest only doing so if you have the cash to send away quickly, waiting for the grace period to end ant sending it at the last minute is a Bad Idea (TM). Following this method could help your score, and in the future get you a chance at a better credit card that won't screw you (oxymoron anyone?) or perhaps one that screws you less.
I used Slackware 9.0 for the past 4 months, and found some problems. USB mouse issues, USB drive issues, nforce2 problems (I couldn't enable DMA, and my hdd speed transfered at 3.39MB per second, and it 6.6MB per second if I tweaked with -c3 -m16 via hdparm), and misc annoyances that seems to be misconfigured (such as sendmail). I decided to whack (fdisk) my Linux partition and rebuild with 9.1! Wow, am I amazed. Mozilla's fonts actually don't SUCK when i read slashdot, USB devices work happily, my hdd is in DMa mode and x-fers at 34MB per second. Before anyone asks, yes, I did try upping my kernel to the latest stable and still had these issues. Granted I could have fixxed the Mozilla issue myself, however I'm lazy and it wasn't _that_ important enough for me to care. Above all, it supported my nforce2 happily without me having to tweak my stuff. It also allowed me to configure my rc.M startup for software, which was very nice!
Indeed, very true. As stated before, if the time-frame is very limited then they do not have time to train new software engineers. HOWEVER, it's been my experiance that some management is willing to deal with the pain (whatever it is) ad bite the bullet than be put in a vice and threatened. My boss has been known to fire the last eletrical engineer because that engineer wouldn't get on a plane to do something that wasn't in his job description. Sure, most of us don't have an exact job description however for a general manager to terminate his last eltrical engineer becuase of something silly such as that (actually the electrical engineer's reply was something to the effect of "That's not in my job, you can't make me do it". and the response to that was "You work for me, you will do whatever I tell you to"). Their are three different types of management. Micro, macro, and dumbass. Sometims they can be two of three. Micro management normally refuses to be in a threatened position, rather you invoked it or not. Yet again, I write this IMHO and experiance. If you were wise enough (we all make mistakes...) and aren't in too much debt, try perhaps going job searching [monster.com] is your best bet. As with any job shift, it will be painful. The question that falls into your pants is: Is getting my brain fried better or worse than the pain of another job? Can I afford another job? Are they any jobs open that I have experiance with? IANAL, but I was informed that a salary position can not be docked for quantity or quality of work. Use that to our advantage.
"The war against spam needs to be fought on many fronts simultaneously, one of which is legal." The front that I see the least amount of fighting on is the front for the "common" people, such as mom's and grandpa's and mediocre people who aren't a power user. If everyone sent 1 (yes that's one) email to thier senator giving thier two cents and perhaps an idea or two, actions would most likely be taken quicker due to the over whelming emails. I recently read an article which claimed that 6% of the people they send to complain about spam, yet they still receive 10% (this article is somewhere on /. but I currently forgot the location.. the percentages may be off) of the people still purchasing those "make your dick bigger" and "viagra" products. That leaves 84% of the rest of the people they send to keeping thier mouth shut. Assuming that even half of those accounts don't exist (or are hotmail accounts that aren't checked on a regular basis) that still leaves 34% of the population doing NOTHING.
As much as I'm against chain letters or anything of the like (due to the evolving nature of them) it seems that someone needs to get out to everyone (TV or radio commercials?) to get out and yell at thier ISP or senator for it.
So many people believe the "oh, I'm just one person, I don't count" and they lack the idea that no you don't count if your the only one sending something or one of few, however if you help others get the word out and make many do something from one person, you DID make a difference. And thus, the "one person" theory does work.
Yoda has a phrase that would be great for finishing this comment:
"Do or do not. There is no try."
One month later headlines state: "Beano out of buisness" hmm or even better: "Highly paid job, $10.00 / hour, just sit on the pot with plug stuck up oraphus" Three weeks later, un-employment is nearly non-existant. heh