Workplace social networks and cloud computing means that the need for a centralized IT department will go away.
But borne from the ashes of the 'centralized IT department' come the 'social networking support department'. Because no matter how intuitive you make it, someone won't get it. That fact, combined with the problem that the larger your corporation becomes, the more obfuscated every little thing is (I work for GE).
...I'd taken an old P2 200, flipped the screen around, threw a wireless card in it, and made a digital picture frame for my grandmother for Mother's Day two years ago. Been meaning to revisit that project.
Another option is just as a heads-up display. I've got an old Compaq Presario hanging off my wall which does nothing but shell outputs of the status of my network, as well as a buffer for the latest SNMP traps. It blinks in big red text if anything goes particularly sideways (fatal trap). Took a fair bit of scripting, but it was fun.
Uh, no. This is slashdot.
Simply put, you don't need to know that password. You need to know the password of the administrator account on that machine.
As for web traffic? Forward filtering? Firewall off everything but 80 and 443 for that host, and then record every TX/RX it makes.
...why they aren't using a live-capture system to make a mirror of every message the White House SMTP system handles? Yeah, I realise that that sort of thing is daunting from a general IT perspective - storage, maintenance, uptime, logistics, but it's one of those necessary things.
No no. That crazy, white-haired scientist can be found attempting to scale a clock-tower on an industrial-strength extension cable. In a lightning storm.
And in this we'll see the XO version of a 'geek' - the power user who is more apt at correcting an outstanding issue with the OLPC than his or her peers. He has a problem, and it's fixed. His buddy has the same problem. 'Hey, let me look at that for you.' Fixed. Social skills on the up-and-coming, hopefully more successful than the rest of us.
Christmas eve and I'm in the office. What a fucking loser.
Dvorak proclaimed that Microsoft's beloved Windows Vista was a flop, and that they should go back to formulae on the entire project. That it was yet-another-hackneyed add-on to Windows XP (as XP was, itself, a bit of a build upon 2000). That's the sort of thing you face when you build generation upon generation of crap code.
Just saying, not everything that comes out of his mouth is complete bunk. Sure, he tests the envelope, but it's not so far out there.
I always treated the character 007 more as a title than an actual person. The line of work is hazardous, and surely there was more than one, because the last guy took a bullet or forgot that the pen was poison and not antidote.
You're all old enough - and should have been at this long enough - to know that Microsoft has a habit of taking a look at specifications and RFCs, saying 'Hmm... those are nice suggestions..' and then throwing the stack out the window.
Further, why does anyone use Hotmail any more, any way? There aren't enough other free providers out in the world yet?
2K SP3 & SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2 provided the ability to merge the service pack into the base install for the operating system. The final product is usually referred to as a 'slipstream' install - it allows you to install Windows XP without having to patch to the absolute gills, just the muck from after the latest slipstreamed service pack.
After slipstreaming SP2 into my base XP install disk, a flat-format install did take a bit longer, but device propagation was FAR, FAR IMPROVED. There were a few other niceties, but they go beyond the scope of this post. I wouldn't be surprised if they're referring to changes made in the slipstream of the base install.
In the movie "Mission to Mars", Gary Sinise's character McConnell used a squirt-bag of Dr. Pepper to locate the leak in their aircraft. Just having something airborne to show the 'funnel effect' of the sucking would be invaluable.
Plus, it doesn't really matter how big the hole is. The soda's going to vent itself, regardless of the size of the breach.
Our failures are known. Our successes are not.
I'm an infrastructure engineer for a corner of one of the worlds largest corporations. So long as business ops are proceeding smoothly, no one cares or complains.
For a while now Elaine's been complaining about my snoring, and I believed her that I snore, but I never knew how bad it was. There'd be times in the middle of the night where she'd shove me in frustration and I'm like, "What! How could I be snoring, I've been lying here awake!" which was of course total B.S. I told her to record me one night so I could hear for myself, which she avoided for a while, but finally did using our camera in video mode. I finally learned why our bedroom furniture is always in different places in the morning and why a team of confused seismologists is always wandering around our block. And that I look cute when I'm sleeping.
So off I went to spend a night at a sleep clinic to find out if I have the same thing that both my dad has and my brother have (being that apnea can be genetic, it was almost a foregone conclusion). Good thing I have a bemused curiosity about things like this, like the "collection" room when I went to make sure my "equipment" wasn't "shooting blanks" so I could have "money-sucking kids that won't give you a moment's peace and will draw on your walls and by the way, we'll have TWO AT A TIME which'll make life hell so GOOD LUCK."
Except there wasn't any porn! Only a TV with just network channels so I was forced to watch "So You Think You Can Be Smarter Than a Fifth Grader Who Forgets the Lyrics or No Deal: Fiji". Shows like this are why Elaine is grateful for Pay-per-view and Netflix during the summer. At least it helped put me to sleep so the guys in white coats could start their study. Until they woke me up at 2am and said COULD YOU NOT SNORE SO LOUD YOU'RE WAKING UP THE OTHER SNORING PATIENTS.
When I went in to see the doctor to get my results, I was already resigned to the fact that I might need to get the same surgery that my brother did, which fixed his problem. But the guy said, "your apnea is so bad, surgery wouldn't help." All right! I dodged THAT bullet. Apparently I had short breathing stoppages fifty-two times in an hour. The normal rate is about three.
So at home, I'm now trying to wear a CPAP mask to bed to help me breathe better, stop snoring and get more restful sleep. (I get "CPAP" and "pap smear" confused, I don't even know what "pap smear" is but I know I don't want it on my face) And it's been tough so far. It's too hot and humid these days to be wearing a large mask on your face all night, especially one that needs to be tight enough so there's no air leaks, and that's blowing air at you so hard you feel like you're sky diving (or: think Jackie Chan, Operation Condor, wind tunnel). But I'm trying. Like with everything, I know I'll get used to it eventually.
At least Elaine gets to fulfill her lifelong dream of sleeping with Darth Vader. C'mon girls, admit it, I know there's plenty of you out there.
Please. There are ways to do this safely without constant connectivity. You have a router that's connected for a sum total of five minutes - a random five minutes, mind you, but five minutes - not even five minutes, really. As long as it takes to xmit the data to a proxy server on the perimeter, which can then host it for whoever wants to come along and read the report at 3pm that day. Or whatever specified interval.
In other news, Playboy Magazine recently launched Playboy.com, which allows the worlds premier men's magazine to be made available online! You can skip the brief article, and go straight to the archives [NSFW].
That assumes a two-dimensional topology. PCBs do not suffer that same constraint (e.g. they have more than a single layer to work with). Any side of a six-sided cube is adjacent to any other side, assuming that you have the ability to transport a unit along the interior of the cube. If you took all six processors, and wired them with the same theory, no processor is more than one hop away from any other.
I have a ThinkPad R52 (1849-4WU) which uses an Intel 2950ABG card - works AWESOME with KNetworkManager. This particular series of laptop (R52) was the last that was actually produced by IBM - the R60 series which debuted a short eight months later hold the Lenovo brand. Those use the Intel 3945ABG wireless chipset. The R60 in question also uses the Intel-integrated graphics adapter, wherein the R52 uses an ATi FireGL adapter. I work with both of these models on a day-to-day basis, and the R52 (pre-Lenovo) is rock-fucking-solid. The R60s leave something to be desired.
I've run both Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and openSuSE 10.2 on both machines, and the R52 comes out far and above over the R60's compatability. The R60 is a faster machine, given, but there's so much stuff that doesn't 'just work' that it makes the overall experience cumbersome. Support for the 'older' Intel wireless chipset is much better - there seem to be a few bucks with the Intel 3945 series (i.e. changing wireless networks on the fly causes the machine to stop. Hard.)
openSuSE is a thing of beauty on these machines, and I really hope that Lenovo continues to support this initiative. I'm not 100% on the up-and-up with the Microsoft/Novell deal and what implications it might have, but from a technical forefront, this is a good move for Lenovo to make, if they can work out the minor driver issues.
I need to get my hands on a newer-model ThinkPad, and tinker with it. Perhaps the standing has improved.
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Could someone with a bit more enlightenment spell out what this means for subscribers, please?
Workplace social networks and cloud computing means that the need for a centralized IT department will go away.
But borne from the ashes of the 'centralized IT department' come the 'social networking support department'. Because no matter how intuitive you make it, someone won't get it. That fact, combined with the problem that the larger your corporation becomes, the more obfuscated every little thing is (I work for GE).
...I'd taken an old P2 200, flipped the screen around, threw a wireless card in it, and made a digital picture frame for my grandmother for Mother's Day two years ago. Been meaning to revisit that project. Another option is just as a heads-up display. I've got an old Compaq Presario hanging off my wall which does nothing but shell outputs of the status of my network, as well as a buffer for the latest SNMP traps. It blinks in big red text if anything goes particularly sideways (fatal trap). Took a fair bit of scripting, but it was fun.
"If you're filing jointly, you have bigger problems than your tax liability."
Such as?
Uh, no. This is slashdot. Simply put, you don't need to know that password. You need to know the password of the administrator account on that machine. As for web traffic? Forward filtering? Firewall off everything but 80 and 443 for that host, and then record every TX/RX it makes.
Ye could paint it in black, no?
...why they aren't using a live-capture system to make a mirror of every message the White House SMTP system handles? Yeah, I realise that that sort of thing is daunting from a general IT perspective - storage, maintenance, uptime, logistics, but it's one of those necessary things.
What flavor of linux (as guest) are you seeing this with?
No no. That crazy, white-haired scientist can be found attempting to scale a clock-tower on an industrial-strength extension cable. In a lightning storm.
And in this we'll see the XO version of a 'geek' - the power user who is more apt at correcting an outstanding issue with the OLPC than his or her peers. He has a problem, and it's fixed. His buddy has the same problem. 'Hey, let me look at that for you.' Fixed. Social skills on the up-and-coming, hopefully more successful than the rest of us.
Christmas eve and I'm in the office. What a fucking loser.
Dvorak proclaimed that Microsoft's beloved Windows Vista was a flop, and that they should go back to formulae on the entire project. That it was yet-another-hackneyed add-on to Windows XP (as XP was, itself, a bit of a build upon 2000). That's the sort of thing you face when you build generation upon generation of crap code.
Just saying, not everything that comes out of his mouth is complete bunk. Sure, he tests the envelope, but it's not so far out there.
Now why would you go and do that?
I always treated the character 007 more as a title than an actual person. The line of work is hazardous, and surely there was more than one, because the last guy took a bullet or forgot that the pen was poison and not antidote.
You're all old enough - and should have been at this long enough - to know that Microsoft has a habit of taking a look at specifications and RFCs, saying 'Hmm... those are nice suggestions..' and then throwing the stack out the window.
Further, why does anyone use Hotmail any more, any way? There aren't enough other free providers out in the world yet?
2K SP3 & SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2 provided the ability to merge the service pack into the base install for the operating system. The final product is usually referred to as a 'slipstream' install - it allows you to install Windows XP without having to patch to the absolute gills, just the muck from after the latest slipstreamed service pack.
After slipstreaming SP2 into my base XP install disk, a flat-format install did take a bit longer, but device propagation was FAR, FAR IMPROVED. There were a few other niceties, but they go beyond the scope of this post. I wouldn't be surprised if they're referring to changes made in the slipstream of the base install.
In the movie "Mission to Mars", Gary Sinise's character McConnell used a squirt-bag of Dr. Pepper to locate the leak in their aircraft. Just having something airborne to show the 'funnel effect' of the sucking would be invaluable. Plus, it doesn't really matter how big the hole is. The soda's going to vent itself, regardless of the size of the breach.
Our failures are known. Our successes are not. I'm an infrastructure engineer for a corner of one of the worlds largest corporations. So long as business ops are proceeding smoothly, no one cares or complains.
[ Posted from Alien Loves Predator ]
Thursday, August 2, 2007, 11:08am ET
CPAP Hooray
I have sleep apnea! Wooooo! High-five.
For a while now Elaine's been complaining about my snoring, and I believed her that I snore, but I never knew how bad it was. There'd be times in the middle of the night where she'd shove me in frustration and I'm like, "What! How could I be snoring, I've been lying here awake!" which was of course total B.S. I told her to record me one night so I could hear for myself, which she avoided for a while, but finally did using our camera in video mode. I finally learned why our bedroom furniture is always in different places in the morning and why a team of confused seismologists is always wandering around our block. And that I look cute when I'm sleeping.
So off I went to spend a night at a sleep clinic to find out if I have the same thing that both my dad has and my brother have (being that apnea can be genetic, it was almost a foregone conclusion). Good thing I have a bemused curiosity about things like this, like the "collection" room when I went to make sure my "equipment" wasn't "shooting blanks" so I could have "money-sucking kids that won't give you a moment's peace and will draw on your walls and by the way, we'll have TWO AT A TIME which'll make life hell so GOOD LUCK."
Except there wasn't any porn! Only a TV with just network channels so I was forced to watch "So You Think You Can Be Smarter Than a Fifth Grader Who Forgets the Lyrics or No Deal: Fiji". Shows like this are why Elaine is grateful for Pay-per-view and Netflix during the summer. At least it helped put me to sleep so the guys in white coats could start their study. Until they woke me up at 2am and said COULD YOU NOT SNORE SO LOUD YOU'RE WAKING UP THE OTHER SNORING PATIENTS.
When I went in to see the doctor to get my results, I was already resigned to the fact that I might need to get the same surgery that my brother did, which fixed his problem. But the guy said, "your apnea is so bad, surgery wouldn't help." All right! I dodged THAT bullet. Apparently I had short breathing stoppages fifty-two times in an hour. The normal rate is about three.
So at home, I'm now trying to wear a CPAP mask to bed to help me breathe better, stop snoring and get more restful sleep. (I get "CPAP" and "pap smear" confused, I don't even know what "pap smear" is but I know I don't want it on my face) And it's been tough so far. It's too hot and humid these days to be wearing a large mask on your face all night, especially one that needs to be tight enough so there's no air leaks, and that's blowing air at you so hard you feel like you're sky diving (or: think Jackie Chan, Operation Condor, wind tunnel). But I'm trying. Like with everything, I know I'll get used to it eventually.
At least Elaine gets to fulfill her lifelong dream of sleeping with Darth Vader. C'mon girls, admit it, I know there's plenty of you out there.
Please. There are ways to do this safely without constant connectivity. You have a router that's connected for a sum total of five minutes - a random five minutes, mind you, but five minutes - not even five minutes, really. As long as it takes to xmit the data to a proxy server on the perimeter, which can then host it for whoever wants to come along and read the report at 3pm that day. Or whatever specified interval.
In other news, Playboy Magazine recently launched Playboy.com, which allows the worlds premier men's magazine to be made available online! You can skip the brief article, and go straight to the archives [NSFW].
'Starlight! Starlight!'
That assumes a two-dimensional topology. PCBs do not suffer that same constraint (e.g. they have more than a single layer to work with). Any side of a six-sided cube is adjacent to any other side, assuming that you have the ability to transport a unit along the interior of the cube. If you took all six processors, and wired them with the same theory, no processor is more than one hop away from any other.
...I see what you did there.
I have a ThinkPad R52 (1849-4WU) which uses an Intel 2950ABG card - works AWESOME with KNetworkManager. This particular series of laptop (R52) was the last that was actually produced by IBM - the R60 series which debuted a short eight months later hold the Lenovo brand. Those use the Intel 3945ABG wireless chipset. The R60 in question also uses the Intel-integrated graphics adapter, wherein the R52 uses an ATi FireGL adapter. I work with both of these models on a day-to-day basis, and the R52 (pre-Lenovo) is rock-fucking-solid. The R60s leave something to be desired.
I've run both Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and openSuSE 10.2 on both machines, and the R52 comes out far and above over the R60's compatability. The R60 is a faster machine, given, but there's so much stuff that doesn't 'just work' that it makes the overall experience cumbersome. Support for the 'older' Intel wireless chipset is much better - there seem to be a few bucks with the Intel 3945 series (i.e. changing wireless networks on the fly causes the machine to stop. Hard.)
openSuSE is a thing of beauty on these machines, and I really hope that Lenovo continues to support this initiative. I'm not 100% on the up-and-up with the Microsoft/Novell deal and what implications it might have, but from a technical forefront, this is a good move for Lenovo to make, if they can work out the minor driver issues.
I need to get my hands on a newer-model ThinkPad, and tinker with it. Perhaps the standing has improved.
You could forego the Corvette option and get a Camaro, instead. Those things can become mobile three-story defense platforms, with a sense of humor.