Didn't mean to imply it would work from a legal standpoint. Intent is to try to shock some reality into the (theoretical) mind of the PHB. Granted this is normally a futile undertaking. But if the fool actually signed such a thing.. "Hey, boss's boss, take a look at..". Alternative, noted by many others, is to rat out to someone like the BSA thugs; am trying for a "nicer" solution.
An addition to this written and signed statement, have your boss agree to indemnify you against any and all legal action that may result from such activity, expressly including that he/she will personally pay any resulting fines and serve any resulting prison time. Might get the point across.
And, if your boss is dumb enough to actually sign such a thing, and if you want the job, show the signed statement to his/her boss.
Tell the new owner "With all due respect, that 1% is propaganda from someone trying to sell you something. It does not remotely reflect reality.
One percent is 24 minutes per 40 hour week, or just under 5 minutes per day. If you think about it, odds are you are already putting in that much time on "admin" tasks just for yourself. Network admin for 30 people? Figure on at least an hour a week just to run thru the checklist to verify that there is nothing that needs done (no patches, no viruses, no disk space problems, etc, etc). More realistic guess, having been there at several jobs, figure at least 10% of your time (4 hours/week) for routine tasks that you "already" know how to do (or quickly learn). Add training/study time. Automatic bump to 100%+ for chasing down and correcting any problems.
Oh yeah, be sure to ask your new owner about overtime!
Article: Wish list item. Over the years I've accumulated bookmark files from Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, and Lynx. I would like something that would reconcile these various files and formats into a single file, ask/delete duplicates, etc. These duplicates would include "Hey dummy, you have the same url in 3 different folders. Do you want to delete..". Mentioned elsewhere, also some easy way to scan, verify, find, and ask/delete dead links.
Iirc from job 2 years back, depends on how you have it config'd. Yes, you can set it up very sloppily, thus easily spoofed. Otoh default setup on RH9 was maybe too accurate, in that it logged the mozilla's that came with RH, Debian, and SuSE on 3 separate rows even tho all were (supposedly) the same version.
Microsoft's EULA's have always promised to reimburse the user "The cost of the software, or $5, whichever is larger"
Um, no, not always. Earlier EULA's
promised that if you couldn't read the
installation media they would replace or refund at
their option. That was it. Once you got it loaded
on the machine, any problems and you were SOL.
MS's promises beyond that came.. iirc it was
shortly before the idi.., er, pundits started
squawking about "indemnification".
Okaaay. So tell me, just how much skill does it take to break a window and carry off the hardware?
I don't want to have to pay an extra 10% for my car so Ford can pay network security people outrageous salaries to protect my costumer information.
Um, in effect you already do. And it isn't about protecting your information per se, it's SOX-404 and other legal requirements. (I am currently on contract at Ford, working linux/unix admin and security compliance.)
.. potential six figure salary..
Six figures, yeah, right. Takes me about 18 months to gross six figures, at Ford, in Dearborn. Bosses boss recently 'celebrated' 20 years at Ford, and he isn't pulling down six figures a year. DC area does, but have you bothered to check the high cost of living there? Appears you are buying the propaganda and hype instead of checking the facts.
A reasonable and relatively light sentence suitable for a first offender.. public horse-whipping, one lash per spam, per recipient. For a second offense, erect a gallows and publicly hang 'em high. All those in favor?
Hmm. Purely subjective, based solely on personal observation. The absolute number of Windows(tm) systems appears to be growing. The relative number of Windows(tm) systems, ie percentage of all systems, appears to be shrinking. SWAG? Was mid-90's, currently low-80's.
Couple jobs back we had 300+ servers and 24 admins. Root passwords were stored in a single encrypted pgp file on a host to which we all had normal access (eg the local mail server), thus only had to remember that one (extra) password. Access was via get/put/view wrapper scripts. View script just dumped to stdout so 'view | grep somehost' would work. Modify was get/vi/put. Get just redirected 'view' to a file. Edit to taste. Put renamed old as 'old.`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`, encrypted your edited file, then deleted your working copy.
an extreme example like this shows the evils of patents.
Now you have me wondering.. is that the point? Even considering the source, maybe, just maybe, they are trying to illustrate how broken the system is in a way that even Joe/Jane Sheeple Constituent can understand (and ridicule) ?
Cassette is the WORST FORMAT EVER RELEASED. It is the lowest quality, and the most error prone, even more error prone than r2r AND the fidelity is terrible.
Guessing you have never even heard of 8-track tapes, much less listened to any.
If this scheme were magically globally implemented today it would reduce email spam by 50% at most, and for a few weeks at best. I see zero reason to believe that one month from now the spam rate would be even 1% less than it was yesterday, especially considering this years virus fun so far. Nor will it reduce the CAN-SPAM oxymoron of "legitmate spam", eg attempts to sell the political candidates.
With no reason to believe this RFC will accomplish even its purported intent no one sane will waste time and money to implement it. Expect the few morons who do to block more legit mail than spam.
What they do need: 1) ftp-able ISOs. No jigdo crap.
You mean like this one, or would you prefer a different mirror.
2) Recent updates. Something from the 21st century would be nice.
Well, could be wrong, but looks like gnome 2.6.0 packages began appearing on 3/27 for x86, and yesterday for power pc. How much more recent do you want? (does any other distro have gnome 2.6 yet?)
Debian's "stable" is positively ancient.
True, and I'm not happy about it either. But as I understand it consensus last summer was to wait on the new installer. Holdup seems to be getting folks to test it on all the different platforms Debian supports. Meanwhile Debian's "testing" is more stable than most folks releases; hell, so's their "unstable" for that matter.
Last I read Debian hopes to release "Sarge" this summer. You can help that happen by testing the installer.
Good catch. Iirc both were new with Opera 3. Send-only email client was for posting news via nntp, relatively minor to also support smtp.
Re "if ever", expect Opera has always supported ftp. Never tried, maybe even gopher, etc. To me that's still "just a browser". Ymmv.
Basic "can't win" point stands. Earlier Opera was diss'd for not having Netscape-like support for email, address book, etc. Now it does (?) and people are griping about that.
Me? I'd prefer they implement as separate programs, integrated so each invokes the other(s) by default, but configurable so they could run anything, with some pre-defineds for those who prefer eg the standard OSX email client.
It's cleaner to provide well-defined applications to do certain functions..
Which is why I prefer mutt, kmail, etc, detest evolution, outlook, other everything+kitchen-sink apps.
What makes this "can't win" amusing, go back a few versions. Opera was just a browser, arguably the best on the market, yet heavily diss'd for not having.. mail, address book,...
While Safari is clearly much better than IE, some of its design decisions are annoying, and don't care for Mac's email client. When I get back to the Mac I will definitely download this latest Opera, give it a shot.
Lindon, Utah-based SCO said at least four companies, including CA, have received the license to use Linux.
Microsoft Corp... and Sun Microsystems Inc..., which are competing fiercely for market share in selling computer server operating systems, have license deals with SCO to use Unix.
So the four* so-called "Linux licenses" they have sold are to Microsoft, Sun**, CA, and EV1. Of those arguably only EV1 knew (or cared) they were getting any such thing. Yup, persuasive proof of "respecting the IP holder's claims". Riight.
* - Iirc quote was "less than fifty" so guess they didn't exactly lie
** - An in-the-trenches Sun tech claims "word is" that Sun was after drivers to use in x86, did not know about nor intentionally fund SCO's attack plans. Not displeased mind, but not exactly a willing accomplice either. (No evidence here to decide fact or spin.)
In a Microsoft Shop developers will use Microsoft SourceSafe. period.
No, they won't. Can think of several shops/teams using PVCS, plus a handful on other products, but none using MSS. Up front (purchase) cost isn't much of an issue. Time cost (TCO) very much is. MSS is simply much too slow to be competitive.
Horse manure. It is very obvious that you have never done any coding for an embedded industrial or medical control system. Inadequate software can and has resulted in deaths (and thank God it wasn't my code).
Granted that, outside of fiction, I have not yet heard of a computer picking up a knife and stabbing someone 37 times in the back (worst case of suicide they'd ever seen).
'Never once been' is ambiguously phrased, believe you mean your systems have never been cracked. Congrats. Ours either. You are correct, keep up with patches, monitor (eg aide), so far zero problems. Wish everyone did. Got loaned to team in another wing to help them recover when they were cracked via
snmp
and again when they didn't bother to patch a new box for
sadmind. Some people refuse to learn.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, fine, so they picked marketing name. Now what version is it really? Eg W2K was 5.0 and XP was 5.1. So is this 5.2, or 6.0, or what?
Didn't mean to imply it would work from a legal standpoint. Intent is to try to shock some reality into the (theoretical) mind of the PHB. Granted this is normally a futile undertaking. But if the fool actually signed such a thing .. "Hey, boss's boss, take a look at ..". Alternative, noted by many others, is to rat out to someone like the BSA thugs; am trying for a "nicer" solution.
An addition to this written and signed statement, have your boss agree to indemnify you against any and all legal action that may result from such activity, expressly including that he/she will personally pay any resulting fines and serve any resulting prison time. Might get the point across.
And, if your boss is dumb enough to actually sign such a thing, and if you want the job, show the signed statement to his/her boss.
Parent is correct, the stock 'ID as IE' string appends the Opera info. Any "fault" here is in the stats program.
Actually there are two in the area; the 'monster' one on Bethel, and a smaller one in Westerville.
Tell the new owner "With all due respect, that 1% is propaganda from someone trying to sell you something. It does not remotely reflect reality.
One percent is 24 minutes per 40 hour week, or just under 5 minutes per day. If you think about it, odds are you are already putting in that much time on "admin" tasks just for yourself. Network admin for 30 people? Figure on at least an hour a week just to run thru the checklist to verify that there is nothing that needs done (no patches, no viruses, no disk space problems, etc, etc). More realistic guess, having been there at several jobs, figure at least 10% of your time (4 hours/week) for routine tasks that you "already" know how to do (or quickly learn). Add training/study time. Automatic bump to 100%+ for chasing down and correcting any problems.
Oh yeah, be sure to ask your new owner about overtime!
Parent: Look at Firefox Extensions >> Bookmarks, maybe try eg Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.1, etc.
Article: Wish list item. Over the years I've accumulated bookmark files from Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, and Lynx. I would like something that would reconcile these various files and formats into a single file, ask/delete duplicates, etc. These duplicates would include "Hey dummy, you have the same url in 3 different folders. Do you want to delete ..". Mentioned elsewhere, also some easy way to scan, verify, find, and ask/delete dead links.
Iirc from job 2 years back, depends on how you have it config'd. Yes, you can set it up very sloppily, thus easily spoofed. Otoh default setup on RH9 was maybe too accurate, in that it logged the mozilla's that came with RH, Debian, and SuSE on 3 separate rows even tho all were (supposedly) the same version.
These crimes are done by semi-skilled people
Okaaay. So tell me, just how much skill does it take to break a window and carry off the hardware?
I don't want to have to pay an extra 10% for my car so Ford can pay network security people outrageous salaries to protect my costumer information.
Um, in effect you already do. And it isn't about protecting your information per se, it's SOX-404 and other legal requirements. (I am currently on contract at Ford, working linux/unix admin and security compliance.)
Six figures, yeah, right. Takes me about 18 months to gross six figures, at Ford, in Dearborn. Bosses boss recently 'celebrated' 20 years at Ford, and he isn't pulling down six figures a year. DC area does, but have you bothered to check the high cost of living there? Appears you are buying the propaganda and hype instead of checking the facts.
A reasonable and relatively light sentence suitable for a first offender .. public horse-whipping, one lash per spam, per recipient. For a second offense, erect a gallows and publicly hang 'em high. All those in favor?
Hmm. Purely subjective, based solely on personal observation. The absolute number of Windows(tm) systems appears to be growing. The relative number of Windows(tm) systems, ie percentage of all systems, appears to be shrinking. SWAG? Was mid-90's, currently low-80's.
Couple jobs back we had 300+ servers and 24 admins. Root passwords were stored in a single encrypted pgp file on a host to which we all had normal access (eg the local mail server), thus only had to remember that one (extra) password. Access was via get/put/view wrapper scripts. View script just dumped to stdout so 'view | grep somehost' would work. Modify was get/vi/put. Get just redirected 'view' to a file. Edit to taste. Put renamed old as 'old.`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`, encrypted your edited file, then deleted your working copy.
an extreme example like this shows the evils of patents.
Now you have me wondering .. is that the point? Even considering the source, maybe, just maybe, they are trying to illustrate how broken the system is in a way that even Joe/Jane Sheeple Constituent can understand (and ridicule) ?
Show, yes. Iirc he's from Minnesota.
Cassette is the WORST FORMAT EVER RELEASED. It is the lowest quality, and the most error prone, even more error prone than r2r AND the fidelity is terrible.
Guessing you have never even heard of 8-track tapes, much less listened to any.
If this scheme were magically globally implemented today it would reduce email spam by 50% at most, and for a few weeks at best. I see zero reason to believe that one month from now the spam rate would be even 1% less than it was yesterday, especially considering this years virus fun so far. Nor will it reduce the CAN-SPAM oxymoron of "legitmate spam", eg attempts to sell the political candidates.
With no reason to believe this RFC will accomplish even its purported intent no one sane will waste time and money to implement it. Expect the few morons who do to block more legit mail than spam.
What they do need: 1) ftp-able ISOs. No jigdo crap.
You mean like this one, or would you prefer a different mirror.
2) Recent updates. Something from the 21st century would be nice.
Well, could be wrong, but looks like gnome 2.6.0 packages began appearing on 3/27 for x86, and yesterday for power pc. How much more recent do you want? (does any other distro have gnome 2.6 yet?)
Debian's "stable" is positively ancient.
True, and I'm not happy about it either. But as I understand it consensus last summer was to wait on the new installer. Holdup seems to be getting folks to test it on all the different platforms Debian supports. Meanwhile Debian's "testing" is more stable than most folks releases; hell, so's their "unstable" for that matter.
Last I read Debian hopes to release "Sarge" this summer. You can help that happen by testing the installer.
Good catch. Iirc both were new with Opera 3. Send-only email client was for posting news via nntp, relatively minor to also support smtp.
Re "if ever", expect Opera has always supported ftp. Never tried, maybe even gopher, etc. To me that's still "just a browser". Ymmv.
Basic "can't win" point stands. Earlier Opera was diss'd for not having Netscape-like support for email, address book, etc. Now it does (?) and people are griping about that.
Me? I'd prefer they implement as separate programs, integrated so each invokes the other(s) by default, but configurable so they could run anything, with some pre-defineds for those who prefer eg the standard OSX email client.
It's cleaner to provide well-defined applications to do certain functions ..
Which is why I prefer mutt, kmail, etc, detest evolution, outlook, other everything+kitchen-sink apps.
What makes this "can't win" amusing, go back a few versions. Opera was just a browser, arguably the best on the market, yet heavily diss'd for not having .. mail, address book, ...
While Safari is clearly much better than IE, some of its design decisions are annoying, and don't care for Mac's email client. When I get back to the Mac I will definitely download this latest Opera, give it a shot.
So the score is SCO 4 GPL 4,000,000.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed ..
Lindon, Utah-based SCO said at least four companies, including CA, have received the license to use Linux.
Microsoft Corp. .. and Sun Microsystems Inc. .., which are competing fiercely for market share in selling computer server operating systems, have license deals with SCO to use Unix.
So the four* so-called "Linux licenses" they have sold are to Microsoft, Sun**, CA, and EV1. Of those arguably only EV1 knew (or cared) they were getting any such thing. Yup, persuasive proof of "respecting the IP holder's claims". Riight.
* - Iirc quote was "less than fifty" so guess they didn't exactly lie
** - An in-the-trenches Sun tech claims "word is" that Sun was after drivers to use in x86, did not know about nor intentionally fund SCO's attack plans. Not displeased mind, but not exactly a willing accomplice either. (No evidence here to decide fact or spin.)
In a Microsoft Shop developers will use Microsoft SourceSafe. period.
No, they won't. Can think of several shops/teams using PVCS, plus a handful on other products, but none using MSS. Up front (purchase) cost isn't much of an issue. Time cost (TCO) very much is. MSS is simply much too slow to be competitive.
computers cannot kill or injure people
Horse manure. It is very obvious that you have never done any coding for an embedded industrial or medical control system. Inadequate software can and has resulted in deaths (and thank God it wasn't my code).
Granted that, outside of fiction, I have not yet heard of a computer picking up a knife and stabbing someone 37 times in the back (worst case of suicide they'd ever seen).
'Never once been' is ambiguously phrased, believe you mean your systems have never been cracked. Congrats. Ours either. You are correct, keep up with patches, monitor (eg aide), so far zero problems. Wish everyone did. Got loaned to team in another wing to help them recover when they were cracked via snmp and again when they didn't bother to patch a new box for sadmind. Some people refuse to learn.