The other moral is that you're an asshole who thinks he knows more than he does. Windows isn't that hard, and pretty much every modern Linux boot disk can mount a Windows partition of any kind, so you could have easily done data recovery at bare minimum before doing the "damn the data and re-image". It wouldn't have even taken any special skills on your part, no knowledge about how Windows works, just an external drive and your existing Linux "skills".
I hope she eventually found a competent tech instead of a self-aggrandizing, elitist prick.
I've heard it... never experienced it though. Seems like it mostly happens to people who install and remove programs all day long, download crapware, and so on. Doesn't happen to a normally used system where you install the programs you need to be productive and then just use them.
Dirty little secret: "rot" can happen to any OS if you add and remove enough things. Especially if you don't know or don't care exactly what you're adding and removing.
Your brother doesn't already help with that stuff? I fix my brother's computer (even his work machine) pretty much any time he wants, and in return he helps me with various construction projects when he has the time, and vice versa. I have no idea what the score is any more, because we never really kept track, but I do know that he could call me up any time day or night and ask me for something and I'd do it, and he'd do the same for me. Because we respect each other and wouldn't ask something unreasonable, or if it is over and above it's because it's basically an emergency.
Sounds like your brother needs to learn a little respect.
The nice (bad) thing about Windows is it depends on extensions to run things. You can rename any.exe to a.com or even.bat I believe and it'll run fine. Most apps will just do name-based interception so you could have made a copy of notepad.exe as notepad.com and it would have worked. It's something I had to do with regedt32.exe once when I think it was Sasser or something took over the association for.exe filetypes.
The middle class pays more by percentage of their income than the upper class (even if it's not more total). The middle class also lives much closer to the line of having to cut out various expenses if income changes, as compared to the rich. We already are putting our money where our mouths are.
Safari can really restrict access to all porn over the Internet? As opposed to every single other filtering mechanism that has ever existed? And on a phone nonetheless?
Nope. But it will sure as shit limit the expansion of the target market. I'd consider an iPhone except for all the shit that Apple has pulled, as well as the deep tying of it to iTunes which is a flaming pile of shit.
The problem is simply that you're getting older. Focusing close and far require different shapes for the eye, and as you get older your eyes and eye muscles get less plastic and less able to make those large adjustments. Basically, your choice is to focus far and use reading glasses, or focus close and need distance glasses. Use a secondary device to create your second focal point.
That may have been true in the early 90's. Currently, it's not. From Wikipedia:
On the other hand, according to the 2006 NIST Special Publication 800-88 (p. 7): "Studies have shown that most of today’s media can be effectively cleared by one overwrite" and "for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001 (over 15 GB) the terms clearing and purging have converged."[1] An analysis by Wright et al. of recovery techniques, including magnetic force microscopy, also concludes that a single wipe is all that is required for modern drives. They point out that the long time required for multiple wipes "has created a situation where many organisations ignore the issue all together – resulting in data leaks and loss. "
Just because there's a DoD spec for doing it doesn't mean it's necessary or that the spec isn't out of date with technology. Or it's just politically useful to keep it around. Scientifically, there's no current way for someone to even theoretically recover any data from a zero'd drive.
A classic black body absorbs all frequencies. This is a very specific frequency absorption. No idea what it'd be useful for, but it's still a technically impressive capability that wasn't available before
Suspicious? It means they're giving you more than you pay for. The speeds they advertise are maximum speeds... there are many servers on the Internet that can't sustain 10Mbps downloads, and there are many reasons why it may be slow getting all the way to you. Benchmarking sites are selected because they have excess bandwidth that they can play with. What about something like Netflix... does that go fast for you?
Really, 10Mbps may not be blow your hair back fast, but it's most certainly "broadband" as far as application use is concerned.
Naah. Co-ops are sued by incumbents that are too lazy to actually build out the infrastructure that they've been taking federal money to do. Welcome to the future.
Trust has everything to do with it. Why would you give anyone root access if you didn't trust them?
All human relationships come down to trust at some point or another. If you don't recognized that, you're in for a world of hurt in the business world.
It depends entirely on the terms of separation. If he's leaving of his own volition I most certainly would keep trusting a previously trusted administrator to clean up correctly.
If he's being removed "for cause", definitely not. Being downsized... it depends on the person. Contrary to popular belief, most people really are good people and typically do the right thing. That's why 10% of former sysdamins still have access to their old accounts, and yet the previous businesses aren't being attacked.
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The other moral is that you're an asshole who thinks he knows more than he does. Windows isn't that hard, and pretty much every modern Linux boot disk can mount a Windows partition of any kind, so you could have easily done data recovery at bare minimum before doing the "damn the data and re-image". It wouldn't have even taken any special skills on your part, no knowledge about how Windows works, just an external drive and your existing Linux "skills".
I hope she eventually found a competent tech instead of a self-aggrandizing, elitist prick.
Growing up's a bitch, isn't it?
- Fellow old person
I've heard it... never experienced it though. Seems like it mostly happens to people who install and remove programs all day long, download crapware, and so on. Doesn't happen to a normally used system where you install the programs you need to be productive and then just use them.
Dirty little secret: "rot" can happen to any OS if you add and remove enough things. Especially if you don't know or don't care exactly what you're adding and removing.
Your brother doesn't already help with that stuff? I fix my brother's computer (even his work machine) pretty much any time he wants, and in return he helps me with various construction projects when he has the time, and vice versa. I have no idea what the score is any more, because we never really kept track, but I do know that he could call me up any time day or night and ask me for something and I'd do it, and he'd do the same for me. Because we respect each other and wouldn't ask something unreasonable, or if it is over and above it's because it's basically an emergency.
Sounds like your brother needs to learn a little respect.
I don't know about "substantially". I've got a couple of scars from those cheap as shit cases that must have been made by Schick or Gillette.
Paranoia?
On Windows 7 if I type a URL into a Windows Explorer window it opens it in Firefox (my default browser).
The nice (bad) thing about Windows is it depends on extensions to run things. You can rename any .exe to a .com or even .bat I believe and it'll run fine. Most apps will just do name-based interception so you could have made a copy of notepad.exe as notepad.com and it would have worked. It's something I had to do with regedt32.exe once when I think it was Sasser or something took over the association for .exe filetypes.
The middle class pays more by percentage of their income than the upper class (even if it's not more total). The middle class also lives much closer to the line of having to cut out various expenses if income changes, as compared to the rich. We already are putting our money where our mouths are.
Safari can really restrict access to all porn over the Internet? As opposed to every single other filtering mechanism that has ever existed? And on a phone nonetheless?
Nope. But it will sure as shit limit the expansion of the target market. I'd consider an iPhone except for all the shit that Apple has pulled, as well as the deep tying of it to iTunes which is a flaming pile of shit.
Yes?
Our Puritan roots have never claimed "sanity" as a strong point
The problem is simply that you're getting older. Focusing close and far require different shapes for the eye, and as you get older your eyes and eye muscles get less plastic and less able to make those large adjustments. Basically, your choice is to focus far and use reading glasses, or focus close and need distance glasses. Use a secondary device to create your second focal point.
It sure cost a lot to get good, though
The single time one of them went mach 3.2, it destroyed the Mig's engines. Just like it would with the SR-71.
Flash on Android is a choice. It's not on the iPad.
The correct slashdot memo is:
Choice = good
No choice = bad
It's $99 to sign up as a developer. As long as you make more than $99 before you get banned, you're coming out ahead.
That may have been true in the early 90's. Currently, it's not. From Wikipedia:
Just because there's a DoD spec for doing it doesn't mean it's necessary or that the spec isn't out of date with technology. Or it's just politically useful to keep it around. Scientifically, there's no current way for someone to even theoretically recover any data from a zero'd drive.
...you do realize that everything is exactly as you say it should be, right? That's pretty much universal with all SSDs that I'm aware of.
How to perform an SSD secure erase to via ATA commands: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
I apologize if your post was sarcasm. It's hard to tell on the Internet, and other people may not recognize it as such.
A classic black body absorbs all frequencies. This is a very specific frequency absorption. No idea what it'd be useful for, but it's still a technically impressive capability that wasn't available before
Suspicious? It means they're giving you more than you pay for. The speeds they advertise are maximum speeds... there are many servers on the Internet that can't sustain 10Mbps downloads, and there are many reasons why it may be slow getting all the way to you. Benchmarking sites are selected because they have excess bandwidth that they can play with. What about something like Netflix... does that go fast for you?
Really, 10Mbps may not be blow your hair back fast, but it's most certainly "broadband" as far as application use is concerned.
Naah. Co-ops are sued by incumbents that are too lazy to actually build out the infrastructure that they've been taking federal money to do. Welcome to the future.
Trust has everything to do with it. Why would you give anyone root access if you didn't trust them?
All human relationships come down to trust at some point or another. If you don't recognized that, you're in for a world of hurt in the business world.
It depends entirely on the terms of separation. If he's leaving of his own volition I most certainly would keep trusting a previously trusted administrator to clean up correctly.
If he's being removed "for cause", definitely not. Being downsized... it depends on the person. Contrary to popular belief, most people really are good people and typically do the right thing. That's why 10% of former sysdamins still have access to their old accounts, and yet the previous businesses aren't being attacked.