Actually, that's been the case in California since 2000 California in general, and has been the case in the SF Bay Area and LA Area for much longer.
It's really odd though. There are still communities in California which are 90% white. Those places are pretty freaky, and really out of touch with the rest of the state.
Around year 2000, a friend of mine printed up a bunch of flack jackets that said (In BIG letters) 'FBI'. In small letters above 'FBI', it had the disclaimer "Not a member of the".
When we wore these jackets in public, we would be harrassed by many people (particularly drunk peopople). They had the gall to accuse us of being members of the FBI, called us "Fucking pigs!", etc.
Can you imagine?!? We often needed to calm them down and explain "Sir, sir! It clearly says here", *point*, "that I am *not* a member of the FBI."
They usually didn't get it.
Haven't worn that jacket in a while. It became very un-funny to some people, especially the cops.
oh there's a smashing idea! private citizens' initiatives at law enforcement always turn out to be fair and equatible treatments of not only the letter but the spirit of the law.
Right on. How much do want to bet that using this tactic, the RIAA harasses a disproportinate percentage of non-whites?
Those aren't probes, those are martians running around with a bunch of teeny pieces from the probe-formally-known-as-Beagle_2.
If you look in the upper right hand corner of the photo, you can even see a Martian mooning us...
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And beyond that, do you folks think that certification provides a decent learning path.
Pretend that I want to learn more Java|Oracle|Unix sysadmin, etc, and might go through my local university extension. If I learn just from books, it seems like I will only learn some aspects of a topic, and will neglect other chunks. A classroom and teacher help to provide a more well rounded learning experience.
I don't want to pay $1000 for the actual certification test, and don't care too much about becoming certified. I just want to learn useful stuff. Would it be worth it to just follow the syllabus for the Certification?
"Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack." - uhhh.... eeyeah.
Yes, things will be much better when the new P2P model opens up all sorts of new vulnerabilities on every home computer!
Perhaps the statement that bash is the default shell on most system seems overly broad
He said Bourne (sh), not Bash. I'm don't agree that his statement is overly broad, Bourne is the default shell on the greatest number of installed systems. Most admins work on systems where Bourne is the default shell.
I guess that's why I listen to alot of public radio. The music will sometimes go on for hours without any commercials, and is only interupted once in a while by station identification. I can listen for weeks and always hear new music from a dozen different genres, and never hear the same song twice.
Even when public radio does have commercials, they are usually short.
And yes, I donate money to public radio, because of the quality of their content.
Used an XM radio once, nice idea, really poor selection of stations.
"Hot hits from KISS-XM!", top 40s, classic rock, all the usual music that you will hear on some Clearchannel radio station in Anytown, USA.
News from CNN and Fox news, which I can get from dozens of different sources, all of whom report the exact same stories with the same opinions.
Not very revolutionary.
Really, what makes XM better then the zillions of crap commercial radio stations already available in my area?
Unfortunately, I can't listen to internet radio from work. Sysadmins don't want me to use that bandwidth (or rather, me and the 200 other employees). Can't listen to internet radio from the car either...
He also got the first Nigerian Scam I saw via fax.
Hey, the Nigerian Scam was making the rounds years ago, before email became popular. I remember first seeing it over 10 years ago when I was a temp worker at the university.
And that's nothing, according to Snopes, the first varient of this scam was in the 1920's.
I'm going to be a fucking millionaire over this one!
You're wasting you time! You'll never make a million dollars off of this game. You should just sell the game to Parker Brothers for $200 and be done with it.
People who've had their ears damaged by gunfire, jackhammers or punk rock have traditionally had two choices: get hearing aids, or suffer in silence.
Ha! I wish I could suffer in silence.
I haven't had a silent moment in probably 10 years (or more). Why? Because I have tinnitus, which is a constant high-pitched ringing noise-like sensation in my ears. I am not hearing a real noise, but something between my ears and my brain decide to generate a ringing noise which I hear every second of every day.
If it is really quiet, the ringing can be very loud and unsettling. I've learned to deal with it. Usually the normal background noise in an office can mask the noise.
I sleep with an airfilter on at night, on a low setting. The grey/white noise is loud enough to mask the ringing. Music/television are too distracting for sleep. My parents live in the country, and it's quiet. Hope I don't forget a noise generator...
It was hard to sleep in Europe. Tourist hotels are usually pretty loud, and earplugs make it so I can only hear the ringing. Drunk Austrians running up and down the street 3:30AM, singing at the top of their lungs... ack!:)
Oddly, one alcoholic drink subdues my sensation of the ringing.
As a side effect, I have a really hard time hearing people in a crowded room, even if they are two feet from me. I can't carry on a conversation in most bars. Quiet resturants are great.
My dad has it also. So either we have the same genetic predisposition to tinitus, or we have a genetic predisposition to listen to loud music:) Or both.
Damn you Einstuerzende Neubauten and your damn forks on garbage can lids! And Black Flag and Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin and Metallica! Damn you to hell!:)
I enjoyed it also, but mostly because of Johnny Depp's character. He was anything but predictable and standard, and saved the movie from being just yet-another-pirate movie.
Why not just use software that does not need such expensive protection? At least you don't recomend anti-virus software on every machine, like the author complained of, but all such junk fails because they are all bandaids on top of flawed design. How can you say that Winblows can be secure after the last three years of internet destabilizing worms and viruses that mostly targeted big corporate networks?
I think the security of a network depends more on what measures the admin takes to secure it then on the OS itself. A patched, firewalled Windows network is more secure then an open Unix network.
In this example, the crackers got in through the Unix servers on the rogue network, not the Windows or Unix servers on the official network. Why? Poor administation...
Every server product has flaws.
The security measures for Unix networks are similar as they are for Windows networks: Robust firewall, patched systems, intrusion detection, control over access points, etc.
They all have Windoze on the desktop recieving email with Lookout and brownsing the net with IE. What bigger set of holes do you need?
With a good firewall, server-based virus scanning on the mailserver, and patched systems, they can be pretty secure.
Now, I have to ask you what kind of developers do you have that can't figure out ssh?
The impatient kind who don't read manuals? Or people who don't realize why passwords should be encyrpted on the network?
I've met dozens of developers who couldn't get ssh to work because of the permissions on their.ssh directory were incorrect, or didn't know how to add a key...
Corporate policy mandated by clueless admin?
The point here is that they bypassed corporate policy the admininstrators, and maintained a their own little insecure network.
Note, I'm not talking about my workplace. My employeer is more clueful about security.
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What gizmos and conveniences do you expect your home will have in a year or two?"
Broken gizmos. Lots of them. Warrantee expired.
Actually, that's been the case in California since 2000 California in general, and has been the case in the SF Bay Area and LA Area for much longer.
It's really odd though. There are still communities in California which are 90% white. Those places are pretty freaky, and really out of touch with the rest of the state.
True story
Around year 2000, a friend of mine printed up a bunch of flack jackets that said (In BIG letters) 'FBI'. In small letters above 'FBI', it had the disclaimer "Not a member of the".
When we wore these jackets in public, we would be harrassed by many people (particularly drunk peopople). They had the gall to accuse us of being members of the FBI, called us "Fucking pigs!", etc.
Can you imagine?!? We often needed to calm them down and explain "Sir, sir! It clearly says here", *point*, "that I am *not* a member of the FBI."
They usually didn't get it.
Haven't worn that jacket in a while. It became very un-funny to some people, especially the cops.
oh there's a smashing idea! private citizens' initiatives at law enforcement always turn out to be fair and equatible treatments of not only the letter but the spirit of the law.
Right on. How much do want to bet that using this tactic, the RIAA harasses a disproportinate percentage of non-whites?
Those aren't probes, those are martians running around with a bunch of teeny pieces from the probe-formally-known-as-Beagle_2 .
If you look in the upper right hand corner of the photo, you can even see a Martian mooning us...
And beyond that, do you folks think that certification provides a decent learning path.
Pretend that I want to learn more Java|Oracle|Unix sysadmin, etc, and might go through my local university extension. If I learn just from books, it seems like I will only learn some aspects of a topic, and will neglect other chunks. A classroom and teacher help to provide a more well rounded learning experience.
I don't want to pay $1000 for the actual certification test, and don't care too much about becoming certified. I just want to learn useful stuff. Would it be worth it to just follow the syllabus for the Certification?
"Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack." - uhhh.... eeyeah.
Yes, things will be much better when the new P2P model opens up all sorts of new vulnerabilities on every home computer!
Perhaps the statement that bash is the default shell on most system seems overly broad
He said Bourne (sh), not Bash. I'm don't agree that his statement is overly broad, Bourne is the default shell on the greatest number of installed systems. Most admins work on systems where Bourne is the default shell.
Really? Could you please provide some reasons why Arch is better then CVS instead of just pasting a link?
Are the authors of the book praising CVS? Or are they just using it as an example "given that CVS is free and widely used"?
How the heck did this get a +4 Informative?
I guess that's why I listen to alot of public radio. The music will sometimes go on for hours without any commercials, and is only interupted once in a while by station identification. I can listen for weeks and always hear new music from a dozen different genres, and never hear the same song twice.
Even when public radio does have commercials, they are usually short.
And yes, I donate money to public radio, because of the quality of their content.
If XM was more like this, I'd pay.
Used an XM radio once, nice idea, really poor selection of stations.
"Hot hits from KISS-XM!", top 40s, classic rock, all the usual music that you will hear on some Clearchannel radio station in Anytown, USA.
News from CNN and Fox news, which I can get from dozens of different sources, all of whom report the exact same stories with the same opinions.
Not very revolutionary.
Really, what makes XM better then the zillions of crap commercial radio stations already available in my area?
Unfortunately, I can't listen to internet radio from work. Sysadmins don't want me to use that bandwidth (or rather, me and the 200 other employees). Can't listen to internet radio from the car either...
He also got the first Nigerian Scam I saw via fax.
Hey, the Nigerian Scam was making the rounds years ago, before email became popular. I remember first seeing it over 10 years ago when I was a temp worker at the university.
And that's nothing, according to Snopes, the first varient of this scam was in the 1920's.
Those aren't dreadlocks... those are posix threads! Or deadlocks. Or ... or...
And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll ./ your house down!
I'm going to be a fucking millionaire over this one!
You're wasting you time! You'll never make a million dollars off of this game. You should just sell the game to Parker Brothers for $200 and be done with it.
Personally, I'm just waiting for the day where I can clone myself, and then just have the surgeons do an inner ear transplant.
While they're at it, maybe they can fix my eyes...
My eyes are going, my ears are going...
"Chew, if you can only see what I've seen with your eyes."
People who've had their ears damaged by gunfire, jackhammers or punk rock have traditionally had two choices: get hearing aids, or suffer in silence.
:)
:) Or both.
:)
Ha! I wish I could suffer in silence.
I haven't had a silent moment in probably 10 years (or more). Why? Because I have tinnitus, which is a constant high-pitched ringing noise-like sensation in my ears. I am not hearing a real noise, but something between my ears and my brain decide to generate a ringing noise which I hear every second of every day.
If it is really quiet, the ringing can be very loud and unsettling. I've learned to deal with it. Usually the normal background noise in an office can mask the noise.
I sleep with an airfilter on at night, on a low setting. The grey/white noise is loud enough to mask the ringing. Music/television are too distracting for sleep. My parents live in the country, and it's quiet. Hope I don't forget a noise generator...
It was hard to sleep in Europe. Tourist hotels are usually pretty loud, and earplugs make it so I can only hear the ringing. Drunk Austrians running up and down the street 3:30AM, singing at the top of their lungs... ack!
Oddly, one alcoholic drink subdues my sensation of the ringing.
As a side effect, I have a really hard time hearing people in a crowded room, even if they are two feet from me. I can't carry on a conversation in most bars. Quiet resturants are great.
My dad has it also. So either we have the same genetic predisposition to tinitus, or we have a genetic predisposition to listen to loud music
Damn you Einstuerzende Neubauten and your damn forks on garbage can lids! And Black Flag and Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin and Metallica! Damn you to hell!
I enjoyed it also, but mostly because of Johnny Depp's character. He was anything but predictable and standard, and saved the movie from being just yet-another-pirate movie.
And my god, Pirates of the Carribean 2 ???
Just in time for winter break, when some crackers have loads of free time.
Um, Merry Christmas you poor netadmins...
My point is that there were 2 reasons: support AND cost.
No problems here, I just wanted to clarify.
If support was really the only issue, why didn't you go with Star Office, which has support?
Hmmmm, I'm not allowed to vote for that bug. Are only certain people allowed to vote?
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But I can vote for this related 'MailNews' bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300
Why not just use software that does not need such expensive protection? At least you don't recomend anti-virus software on every machine, like the author complained of, but all such junk fails because they are all bandaids on top of flawed design. How can you say that Winblows can be secure after the last three years of internet destabilizing worms and viruses that mostly targeted big corporate
networks?
I think the security of a network depends more on what measures the admin takes to secure it then on the OS itself. A patched, firewalled Windows network is more secure then an open Unix network.
In this example, the crackers got in through the Unix servers on the rogue network, not the Windows or Unix servers on the official network. Why? Poor administation...
Every server product has flaws.
The security measures for Unix networks are similar as they are for Windows networks: Robust firewall, patched systems, intrusion detection, control over access points, etc.
They all have Windoze on the desktop recieving email with Lookout and brownsing the net with IE. What bigger set of holes do you need?
.ssh directory were incorrect, or didn't know how to add a key...
With a good firewall, server-based virus scanning on the mailserver, and patched systems, they can be pretty secure.
Now, I have to ask you what kind of developers do you have that can't figure out ssh?
The impatient kind who don't read manuals? Or people who don't realize why passwords should be encyrpted on the network?
I've met dozens of developers who couldn't get ssh to work because of the permissions on their
Corporate policy mandated by clueless admin?
The point here is that they bypassed corporate policy the admininstrators, and maintained a their own little insecure network.
Note, I'm not talking about my workplace. My employeer is more clueful about security.
Yes, you are completely right. This is cruel to a dog.
However, I see people do this to their dogs sometimes, and nobody complained.
Now, if the dog looked more like a human, I think people would care.