We, the authors of the CIA World Fact Book, were under the mistaken belief that it was the People's Republic Of China (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html) - "mainland China" - who asserted sovereignty over Tibet, not Taiwan, (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tw.html), which is an island off the south east coast of PRC. Thank you for the clarification. We must have overlooked the invasion of the mainland while we were looking for those pesky weapons of mass destruction.
We've got a small favor to ask - can you state that Palestine and Israel are in fact several thousand miles apart, and thereby ending one Middle East conflict? Oh, and the Department of Defence would like to know if you could move Iraq and Afganistan to a more temperate climate, and prefeably to somewhere where the transport costs are lower.
We have also liaised with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan pn your behalf, and report that the translation the speaker was looking for in that awkward silence was "idiot."
The problem with this otherwise insightful observation is that parents have the reasonable expectation that their children will eventually master the new tools, and will quite likely surpass the parents' proficiency.
So it's all really about your expectation of the student? Are you teaching them what they want to know, or what you think they should know because that's what the kids know?
I teach IT to the more experienced in our society. You'd be surpised how quickly they do pick it up and what level they get to when their teachers stop teaching them like they're kids and listen to what it is they want to know. They don't give a rats about tcp/ip- they want to read their email. What is perceived as "senility" or "stupidity" is often just a lack of confidence in an area that has only just appeared in the context of their lifetimes. They didn't grow up with beige boxes. It's not second nature- yet.
And because it's about confidence, sometimes it takes a little longer. That's all. Give them some credit.
I've got a degree in CompSc a couple of years ago. I'm thinking of doing my Masters next year. My current setup is 1500 ADSL into a dedicated firewall into an http://ltsp.org/ box with file server sitting in the rack, with several workstations (that can boot into Windows for gaming or off the network) scattered around the house all running gigabit, plus a wireless network so I can connect my debian-running laptop and PDA. I've got another box in the rack recording my tv shows and churning out my MP3s. I built all the boxes and did all the cabling. I'm currently waiting on a card so I can build an Asterisk box and move voice onto VoIP. I have some pretty cool lan parties fragging three 18-24 year olds while we eat pizzas and drink a few beers (age for drinking is 18 here), and I built their computers cos they haven't got an interest in building them. Sound like I'm a typical geek?
Those 18-24 year olds are my sons.
I should have realised I'm too old to know how to do all this. What ever was I thinking?
Are you entirely certain this is a good idea? Aging parents + new technology = unending tech support calls and the increasing likelihood of parricide...
As opposed to when you were young, and they were showing you how to do something with technology that was new to you? Like, say, ride a bike? Use a spoon? Walk? How many times did you ask for their help???
Who bought you your first computer?
You have to give back. And instead of it being a chore, you should be grateful you can.
A newbie is a newbie is a newbie - no matter what age.
He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere.
There's a thought. North Korea running their nuclear research program using windows. I guess that's one way of stalling their research.
"Microsoft Windows. Your new weapon of mass destruction."
Well, it looks like hell's frozen over if there's penguins in their future.
On the serious side, as much as Telstra is everything described above, this is a big win for OSS generally. Telstra are so profit conscious they must see the TCO as being Linix's way. Looks like Steve Ballmer's FUD-laden visit to Siggy (the CEO of Telstra) was a waste fo his time, not ours.
Ah yes... The Outback Steakhouse menu... Where the only thing I recognised on the menu was Fosters- that was brewed in Canada. And the server thought my accent was South African.
This is the story in Australia. I used to be in the part of the telco that provided this... assistance.
And as far as people hearing that their phone is tapped by hearing the interception team- not going to happen. Corocodile clips on a wire may look good in movies, but switches are a lot easier to work on.
Telcos and ISP must provide assistance to police and intelligence agencies to interecept phone calls and interent trasnmissions. It's a requirement of their licences. We used to do landline, mobile (cell), and internet- including VoIP, email, chat and web browsing.
To get the intercept, the police must get an interception warrant from the court. Intelligence agencies (ASIO- Aust. CIA equiv.) have to get a warrant signed by the Attorney General. And it's not difficult to get a warrant- it is in fact rare to get one knocked back. Once that's been signed, the telco or ISP has 4 hours to get the intercept in place.
Australia has the highest rate of police intercepts in the world. The justification for this is that it is cheaper to set up an intercept that physical surveillance. So there's an awful lot of it. And an awful lot of irrelevant data obtaned- and not discarded.
The telcos provide a report to the Privacy Commissioner on the numbers of interceptions done each year. Not who, just he numbers. ASIO doesn't do any reporting.
The agencies also don't mind droping trojans onto people's win boxes. I saw the test of one- and it wasn't bad. Wasn't good, but wasn't bad.
If you would like to learn how to get around them, sorry. That one will cost big,
"the bike messenger who awakens from a collision-induced coma 28 days after the animal facility break-in, then leaves his London hospital bed to wander through the nearly empty city..."
That was my reaction too. AS I wrote err... for... the internet oracle once, scripts are like programming- if it works, just reuse it in your new situation. Ain't been nothing new for years. Aren't I cynical!!!:-)
the last 7 years accounts as required by my taxation authorities
correspdondence relating to contracts. One never knows when those pesky lawyers may drop by.
work in progress. I get paid by the hour, and I don't get paid by the hour to start from scratch again because I lost what I'd already done.
completed projects - I can't guarantee my customers keep secured copies, and I can make it available to them. For a price, of course.
snippets of my own code that I can reuse
disk images so I can rebuild the server quickly, reduce downtime and kickstart the other machines across the network.
and that's a two person plus a few staff operation.
When you're running a business of nay size- and certainly in this jurisdiction- backups are almost mandatory. Data loss - by act of god or shredder - isn't an excuse.
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s /ch.html) - "mainland China" - who asserted sovereignty over Tibet, not Taiwan, (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /tw.html), which is an island off the south east coast of PRC. Thank you for the clarification. We must have overlooked the invasion of the mainland while we were looking for those pesky weapons of mass destruction.
We, the authors of the CIA World Fact Book, were under the mistaken belief that it was the People's Republic Of China (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
We've got a small favor to ask - can you state that Palestine and Israel are in fact several thousand miles apart, and thereby ending one Middle East conflict? Oh, and the Department of Defence would like to know if you could move Iraq and Afganistan to a more temperate climate, and prefeably to somewhere where the transport costs are lower.
We have also liaised with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan pn your behalf, and report that the translation the speaker was looking for in that awkward silence was "idiot."
Thanks.
The problem with this otherwise insightful observation is that parents have the reasonable expectation that their children will eventually master the new tools, and will quite likely surpass the parents' proficiency.
So it's all really about your expectation of the student? Are you teaching them what they want to know, or what you think they should know because that's what the kids know?
I teach IT to the more experienced in our society. You'd be surpised how quickly they do pick it up and what level they get to when their teachers stop teaching them like they're kids and listen to what it is they want to know. They don't give a rats about tcp/ip- they want to read their email. What is perceived as "senility" or "stupidity" is often just a lack of confidence in an area that has only just appeared in the context of their lifetimes. They didn't grow up with beige boxes. It's not second nature- yet.
And because it's about confidence, sometimes it takes a little longer. That's all. Give them some credit.
I've got a degree in CompSc a couple of years ago. I'm thinking of doing my Masters next year. My current setup is 1500 ADSL into a dedicated firewall into an http://ltsp.org/ box with file server sitting in the rack, with several workstations (that can boot into Windows for gaming or off the network) scattered around the house all running gigabit, plus a wireless network so I can connect my debian-running laptop and PDA. I've got another box in the rack recording my tv shows and churning out my MP3s. I built all the boxes and did all the cabling. I'm currently waiting on a card so I can build an Asterisk box and move voice onto VoIP. I have some pretty cool lan parties fragging three 18-24 year olds while we eat pizzas and drink a few beers (age for drinking is 18 here), and I built their computers cos they haven't got an interest in building them. Sound like I'm a typical geek?
Those 18-24 year olds are my sons.
I should have realised I'm too old to know how to do all this. What ever was I thinking?
As opposed to when you were young, and they were showing you how to do something with technology that was new to you? Like, say, ride a bike? Use a spoon? Walk? How many times did you ask for their help???
Who bought you your first computer?
You have to give back. And instead of it being a chore, you should be grateful you can.
A newbie is a newbie is a newbie - no matter what age.
You're thinking of the People's Front of Judea. We're the Judean People's Front. Splitters!
He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere.
There's a thought. North Korea running their nuclear research program using windows.
I guess that's one way of stalling their research.
"Microsoft Windows. Your new weapon of mass destruction."
I can see it now....
A mass meeting is happening in Baghdad as we speak.
From the dias: "So, anyway, what has the coalition ever given us?"
From the floor: "The aquaduct...."
(Anyone not familiar with The Life Of Brian need not reply.)
On the serious side, as much as Telstra is everything described above, this is a big win for OSS generally. Telstra are so profit conscious they must see the TCO as being Linix's way. Looks like Steve Ballmer's FUD-laden visit to Siggy (the CEO of Telstra) was a waste fo his time, not ours.
Well, of course it's going to reboot on the fly....
Ah yes... The Outback Steakhouse menu... Where the only thing I recognised on the menu was Fosters- that was brewed in Canada. And the server thought my accent was South African.
This is the story in Australia. I used to be in the part of the telco that provided this... assistance.
And as far as people hearing that their phone is tapped by hearing the interception team- not going to happen. Corocodile clips on a wire may look good in movies, but switches are a lot easier to work on.
Telcos and ISP must provide assistance to police and intelligence agencies to interecept phone calls and interent trasnmissions. It's a requirement of their licences. We used to do landline, mobile (cell), and internet- including VoIP, email, chat and web browsing.
To get the intercept, the police must get an interception warrant from the court. Intelligence agencies (ASIO- Aust. CIA equiv.) have to get a warrant signed by the Attorney General. And it's not difficult to get a warrant- it is in fact rare to get one knocked back. Once that's been signed, the telco or ISP has 4 hours to get the intercept in place.
Australia has the highest rate of police intercepts in the world. The justification for this is that it is cheaper to set up an intercept that physical surveillance. So there's an awful lot of it. And an awful lot of irrelevant data obtaned- and not discarded.
The telcos provide a report to the Privacy Commissioner on the numbers of interceptions done each year. Not who, just he numbers. ASIO doesn't do any reporting.
The agencies also don't mind droping trojans onto people's win boxes. I saw the test of one- and it wasn't bad. Wasn't good, but wasn't bad.
If you would like to learn how to get around them, sorry. That one will cost big,
"the bike messenger who awakens from a collision-induced coma 28 days after the animal facility break-in, then leaves his London hospital bed to wander through the nearly empty city..."
:-)
That was my reaction too. AS I wrote err... for... the internet oracle once, scripts are like programming- if it works, just reuse it in your new situation. Ain't been nothing new for years. Aren't I cynical!!!
Well, for a start, my backups include:
- the last 7 years accounts as required by my taxation authorities
- correspdondence relating to contracts. One never knows when those pesky lawyers may drop by.
- work in progress. I get paid by the hour, and I don't get paid by the hour to start from scratch again because I lost what I'd already done.
- completed projects - I can't guarantee my customers keep secured copies, and I can make it available to them. For a price, of course.
- snippets of my own code that I can reuse
- disk images so I can rebuild the server quickly, reduce downtime and kickstart the other machines across the network.
and that's a two person plus a few staff operation.When you're running a business of nay size- and certainly in this jurisdiction- backups are almost mandatory. Data loss - by act of god or shredder - isn't an excuse.