Let's face it. Only a handful pursue with tenacity the desire to regularly inform the world of what they're thinking about or what they are doing. A fraction of these actually have something interesting to say.
Blogging will go down the route of 27 MHz CB radios. Nice to have tried it but most information you think interests the world just doesn't.
So I'll be able to archive parts of my sorry life. But who would care?
If I were great a few people would be interested in anything I wrote in my life. The odds are nobody will be.
The problem with being able to store anything almost indefinitely is that the sheer amount of data will overwhelm and hence reduce it's significance. Much like the million monkeys producing works of Shakespeare and that you'd have to wade through so much crap before recognizing a work. (And then you just have a copy.)
and proprietary unix was always much easier than windows
Nope. UNIX was/is much easier to maintain when setup half decent. Keeping 10 workstations running was peanuts compared to Windows. To install it you needed to know your stuff. No deceptive comfy pillow was supplied. Ever installed SunOS 4? Ever added a 3rd party SCSI disk?
If it is large enough (which it doesn't seem to be) you should divide stuff up in modules. Start from OSI layer 1 and work your way up.
Per site, draw down the physical segments of your network (LANs, PTP connections, routers, bridges, switches, modems, etc...)
If you manage MAC addresses -in which case I pity you- throw these in your inventory database, spreadsheet, backside of used envelope, etc...
Relate your IP networks to the physical segments you drew up before
Draw in the non IP-based protocols (NetBEUI/NetBIOS, IPX, SNA) and have them make sense in some kind of table.
Document vital routing/bridging protocols like OSPF, BGP, SNA, SRB
Document vital networking services like DNS, DHCP, BOOTP.
Document vital directory services like ADS, NDS, YP, LDAP-based.
Take care about email (as this typically will combine DNS and directory service.)
Let OS installations be done by sysadmins. Limit yourself to recommendations.
If it's small, you probably wind up merging loads of stuff into one document in which a serious amounts of stuff is considered to be "the network" although it isn't.
Having said this, there are places to go other than/. to get this information. You're not the first person that has to do this. Must be a slow day here.
I am anti hand guns because there is enough evidence connecting hand gun ownership to deaths by it. (Will NOT provide references.) The more hand guns owned in a society, the more casualties. The US as the predominant example have developed into a society where raising your voice is considered more threatening and rude than bearing fire arms. (However I am fascinated by the technology used in fire arms.)
I also have never engaged in paint balling. I probably never will.
But, I see absolutely NO connection between playing paint ball and the killing of people with fire arms. I take Mrs. Merkel wants to make a political gesture in showing she actually cares about the killings and that she is taking the matter seriously. If at voting sensibility is completely absent, the Germans are screwed. I wonder whether a ban of such a social activity does not violate other, more important laws.
Be aware of how a sell or no-sell will affect you. Questions here are more important than answers. The answers you will provide yourselves in the course of growing awareness.
What's fair money?
More than you can imagine you would be worth?
How much did you imagine to be worth?
What will your position be after the sell?
How long will you have to be employed by the buyer?
After the sell, will you be able to work in your field and compete with the company you just sold?
Will you be happy to suddenly being managed by some guy waving spreadsheets that is very friendly with senior management?
Why are you being bought?
How will a sell affect you? Do they want you bad enough because they genuinely like what you produce and want to offer the product to their customers. Or, because they want to kill off competition beforehand. Or, because they are planning ahead scenarios of what will happen after the crisis. What if you don't sell? Will they attempt to crush you?
You're probably doing something the way it should be done. Or you're the troll of the month. Anyway, all the best.
Great video. One thing though. The gamers I know find very few compelling reasons for moving. Unless there's some saucy nudity or a clue hidden in the corner of the 3D room, they'll not move. And so the 3D illusion slowly degrades to good ole 3d. Much like going to the gym. You almost always have time but mostly you can't be bothered.
Date us and you're bound to spend an evening next to an exhilarating man with fascinating and stylish accessories.
(Which is not to be confused with "an idiot with silly geeky props where you wonder how and when within the next 37 seconds he will offer you eternal faith [and a lifestyle minimizing the chance of osteoporosis]")
Great pictures BTW. Got me into over-autistic mood for the best part of 20 minutes.
The body either loves or hates discontinuous functions.
Sudden rise of caffeine level: A high.
Sharp drop of caffeine level: Auch!
Rocket-like acceleration: Elation.
Instant deceleration: Death?
In other words, detox gently.
I now stay on 2 cups of damn good coffee a day (breakfast and lunch) and I'm fine. On weekends I don't get withdrawal symptoms when I take less.
Oh, and try kicking sodas altogether. Apart from the caffeine overdose, the sugar transforms into fat almost instantly. Or, the aspartame poisons you. Also, you'll realize that very few sodas actually taste good.
There was I contemplating an Anroid based phone, knowing that it's open nature would allow hooking up my notebook. Why would I browse through a letter box when I have a 17'' screen at hand?
The ToS with T-Mobile seems to degrade Anroid based phones to gadgets. One compelling reason NOT to buy.
I hate you all and I think you all will never appreciate VI in half as deep a level as I do. Yeah? Go to Windows hell for all I care. Yeah?
No, wait, I didn't really mean that. Yeah? I wanted to say how much I love you guys. Yeah? And how much I think you connect with me on a VI level. Yeah?
Dear/., could we have a 5 seconds rule here as well? Yeah? Also, could all my foes and freaks get a 5000 second rule? Pleeeeeaaaase? Yeah?
CAR's first ride in the Tata Nano felt far more significant and exciting than a first drive in a Ferrari or Lamborghini
Emphasis mine.
I have never driven Ferrari or a Lamborghini but I can tell the writer is an utter moron. I'm fine with pushing compares to make a point but this is ridiculous. Compare the car with a high quality compact car which costs 10 times more and whose customers will shy away from an ugly little piece of shit like the Nano.
Imagine this guy at a cocktail party making a point for the stone age.
"Wouldn't it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment... But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along."
Here on/. we probably all have a bit of Josh in us. In the way that we know more stuff than others because we probably care and because we can be arsed to read a manual once in a while.
Nothing bad in that. Except that the Josh in you should grow up and accept that documentation HAS to be written. Eventually you might wind up actually documenting by default, generating man pages, Javadoc and understanding/writing technical architecture documents.
Regardless how brilliant you are, tedious things like documenting you'll have to learn.
Rudeness is a symptom of hiding insecurity. (Then even brilliancy may be driven by insecurity.) Rudeness is IMHO never excusable. I take the Josh in TA isn't likely to be rude to his bosses.
I bet the outfit Josh is working for doesn't give dick about a tiny bit of quality (write doc, know where they are, know who should be informed, check documenting is actually done, etc...) That's probably because quality costs. I take a long shot in saying that management most likely knows they are not paying for quality and that eventually when Josh leaves they'll get a new Josh.
In Josh'es defense: Some time your coworkers don't even know how to read basic documentation and even if everything is around they still find something to complain.
More likely though, if you start digging into his code you'll find it's horrible and that you shouldn't touch the system with a barge pole.
Reminds me of story by Woddy Allen where two university professors had an argument about whether the bell marked the ending of a lesson or the beginning of a new one.
As an IT pro, I recognize the significance of/bin/sh and I am very grateful for to Steve Bourne for his creation. It's the smallest (that's a good thing), consistent and standardized command set for setting up environments to run programs.
My scripting rules on UNIX like systems:
Anything that can be done in/bin/sh I DO in/bin/sh.
Anything slightly more complex I do in Perl.
Anything truly complex I write in Java.
For writing scripts I NEVER, EVER use slightly enhanced shells like (t)csh (know for having bugs), ksh (used to be proprietary) or bash (too many features I DON'T want for simple scripts).
People that resort to slightly enhanced shells for scripting qualify themselves as being... let's say... inexperienced.
It pisses me off when I have to look up special csh, ksh or bash constructs in order to understand scripts.
Fancy variables? Reconsider or write Perl.
Fancy condition checking? Reconsider or write Perl.
Fancy arithmetic? Reconsider or write Perl.
Fancy system access (e.g. ipc)? Write Perl.
However, my favorite INTERACTIVE shell is bash. It gets the/bin/sh syntax and offers stuff that makes you extremely quick when working interactively.
Babies, unlike farm animals, aren't normally used for food. So, applying the logic above, it wouldn't make economic sense to raise them just to burn them.
I'd be voting for you, should we elect a/. advocate for, say, free software. Just to hear your arguments. In fact, I tried getting into your rhetoric mood to come up with a few possible examples. And failed. Horribly so.
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Let's face it. Only a handful pursue with tenacity the desire to regularly inform the world of what they're thinking about or what they are doing. A fraction of these actually have something interesting to say.
Blogging will go down the route of 27 MHz CB radios. Nice to have tried it but most information you think interests the world just doesn't.
So I'll be able to archive parts of my sorry life. But who would care?
If I were great a few people would be interested in anything I wrote in my life. The odds are nobody will be.
The problem with being able to store anything almost indefinitely is that the sheer amount of data will overwhelm and hence reduce it's significance. Much like the million monkeys producing works of Shakespeare and that you'd have to wade through so much crap before recognizing a work. (And then you just have a copy.)
and proprietary unix was always much easier than windows
Nope. UNIX was/is much easier to maintain when setup half decent. Keeping 10 workstations running was peanuts compared to Windows. To install it you needed to know your stuff. No deceptive comfy pillow was supplied. Ever installed SunOS 4? Ever added a 3rd party SCSI disk?
If it is large enough (which it doesn't seem to be) you should divide stuff up in modules. Start from OSI layer 1 and work your way up.
If it's small, you probably wind up merging loads of stuff into one document in which a serious amounts of stuff is considered to be "the network" although it isn't.
/. to get this information. You're not the first person that has to do this. Must be a slow day here.
Having said this, there are places to go other than
I am anti hand guns because there is enough evidence connecting hand gun ownership to deaths by it. (Will NOT provide references.) The more hand guns owned in a society, the more casualties. The US as the predominant example have developed into a society where raising your voice is considered more threatening and rude than bearing fire arms. (However I am fascinated by the technology used in fire arms.)
I also have never engaged in paint balling. I probably never will.
But, I see absolutely NO connection between playing paint ball and the killing of people with fire arms. I take Mrs. Merkel wants to make a political gesture in showing she actually cares about the killings and that she is taking the matter seriously. If at voting sensibility is completely absent, the Germans are screwed. I wonder whether a ban of such a social activity does not violate other, more important laws.
What's fair money?
How will a sell affect you? Do they want you bad enough because they genuinely like what you produce and want to offer the product to their customers. Or, because they want to kill off competition beforehand. Or, because they are planning ahead scenarios of what will happen after the crisis. What if you don't sell? Will they attempt to crush you?
You're probably doing something the way it should be done. Or you're the troll of the month. Anyway, all the best.
'Nuff said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Great video. One thing though. The gamers I know find very few compelling reasons for moving. Unless there's some saucy nudity or a clue hidden in the corner of the 3D room, they'll not move. And so the 3D illusion slowly degrades to good ole 3d. Much like going to the gym. You almost always have time but mostly you can't be bothered.
... suspect China is being used as a white rat ...
By now everyone should know it's the rats that are using us (or the Chinese in this case).
See how romantic geeks can be?
Date us and you're bound to spend an evening next to an exhilarating man with fascinating and stylish accessories.
(Which is not to be confused with "an idiot with silly geeky props where you wonder how and when within the next 37 seconds he will offer you eternal faith [and a lifestyle minimizing the chance of osteoporosis]")
Great pictures BTW. Got me into over-autistic mood for the best part of 20 minutes.
I'd rather cut off my penis with a rusty butter knife.
FYI, it's french and is to be pronounced with a francophone accent: Andbrick
In other words, detox gently.
I now stay on 2 cups of damn good coffee a day (breakfast and lunch) and I'm fine. On weekends I don't get withdrawal symptoms when I take less.
Oh, and try kicking sodas altogether. Apart from the caffeine overdose, the sugar transforms into fat almost instantly. Or, the aspartame poisons you. Also, you'll realize that very few sodas actually taste good.
Maybe they [Apple] really are a great company.
Yeah, lift yer skirt and drop yer knickers. You raunchy skank! (He typed from his MacBook Pro)
There was I contemplating an Anroid based phone, knowing that it's open nature would allow hooking up my notebook. Why would I browse through a letter box when I have a 17'' screen at hand?
The ToS with T-Mobile seems to degrade Anroid based phones to gadgets. One compelling reason NOT to buy.
I hate you all and I think you all will never appreciate VI in half as deep a level as I do. Yeah? Go to Windows hell for all I care. Yeah?
/., could we have a 5 seconds rule here as well? Yeah? Also, could all my foes and freaks get a 5000 second rule? Pleeeeeaaaase? Yeah?
No, wait, I didn't really mean that. Yeah? I wanted to say how much I love you guys. Yeah? And how much I think you connect with me on a VI level. Yeah?
Dear
CAR's first ride in the Tata Nano felt far more significant and exciting than a first drive in a Ferrari or Lamborghini
Emphasis mine.
I have never driven Ferrari or a Lamborghini but I can tell the writer is an utter moron. I'm fine with pushing compares to make a point but this is ridiculous. Compare the car with a high quality compact car which costs 10 times more and whose customers will shy away from an ugly little piece of shit like the Nano.
Imagine this guy at a cocktail party making a point for the stone age.
They have surgical procedures to fix that.
Nah. I'd hate the rash and I'd have to update my wardrobe tastefully.
"Wouldn't it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment ... But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along."
Exactly what a gal really wants.
Except, I'm a bloke.
Here on /. we probably all have a bit of Josh in us. In the way that we know more stuff than others because we probably care and because we can be arsed to read a manual once in a while.
Nothing bad in that. Except that the Josh in you should grow up and accept that documentation HAS to be written. Eventually you might wind up actually documenting by default, generating man pages, Javadoc and understanding/writing technical architecture documents.
Regardless how brilliant you are, tedious things like documenting you'll have to learn.
Rudeness is a symptom of hiding insecurity. (Then even brilliancy may be driven by insecurity.) Rudeness is IMHO never excusable. I take the Josh in TA isn't likely to be rude to his bosses.
I bet the outfit Josh is working for doesn't give dick about a tiny bit of quality (write doc, know where they are, know who should be informed, check documenting is actually done, etc...) That's probably because quality costs. I take a long shot in saying that management most likely knows they are not paying for quality and that eventually when Josh leaves they'll get a new Josh.
In Josh'es defense: Some time your coworkers don't even know how to read basic documentation and even if everything is around they still find something to complain.
More likely though, if you start digging into his code you'll find it's horrible and that you shouldn't touch the system with a barge pole.
Reminds me of story by Woddy Allen where two university professors had an argument about whether the bell marked the ending of a lesson or the beginning of a new one.
My scripting rules on UNIX like systems:
What exactly are the advantages over just simply using a boat?
That you don't have to climb up the mast?
I wonder what millage you get. My bet is that a car is way cheaper (but a different vehicle altogether.)
Just like with water skiing I see no practical use whatsoever for this device. However, when on holidays, I'd be queuing to try it out.
Wouldn't be surprised if the hose stabilizes it like a tail stabilizes a kite.
Someone forgot to put a where clause on that delete.
If only. Any clause narrows down a result which in this deletion case is undesired.
Babies, unlike farm animals, aren't normally used for food. So, applying the logic above, it wouldn't make economic sense to raise them just to burn them.
I'd be voting for you, should we elect a /. advocate for, say, free software. Just to hear your arguments. In fact, I tried getting into your rhetoric mood to come up with a few possible examples. And failed. Horribly so.