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In addition, all weapons have been replaced with walkie-talkies ( pacify anti-war activists ), horses are replaced with broomsticks ( pacify animal-rights activists ),and hobbits are now the same height as everyone else ( pacify midget-rights activists ).
Finally, the title has been changed to "Return of the Ring",with the word "King" replaced by "popularly elected representative of the people" thoughout the movies dialogues. This is to pacify groups that felt the movie threatened democracy by glorifying the monarchy type of government.
Actually, the they are. They are guilty of copyright infringment for distributing copyrighted works without permission of the copyright holder. The reciever is not liable however. Just look back at the rebuttles to SCO's claims that companies will be financially liable if their code is found inside of Linux. Simply not true. Linus et. al. would be in trouble, but no one using the affected Linux kernels would be in any way liable for damages. When I say "liable", that doesn't immediately mean Linux et. al. woul have to pony up reimbursement for monetary damages, most likely they would have to be given notice and a grace period to remove the infriging code. If they refuse to comply, then monetary damages would be considered.
You've got that right. There was a manager fired 2 weeks ago using ssh to bypass the companies network filtering systems. Dude was probably in his 40's and probably had a hard time explaining to his family ( assuming he was married ) how he lost his job.
Just understand the risks before you try to violate company policies. Just because you managed to circumvent the technology used to implement the policy, doesn't mean you can't still lose your job for violating it. Employers for whom their data is their business are usually much harsher about policy violations than those who either don't care or don't have enough resources to prevent information leaks.
Back to understanding the risks, if you violate the company policy, they have every right to terminate your employment. One would hope to get a slap on the wrist the first time if the incident had no signs of being an intentional refusal to follow the rules, but one would not have a leg to stand on even if they skipped the warning and went straight to the more severe punishment. Bottom line, how much is bypassing the network filters worth to you?
A coworker of mine's husband had several bad run-ins with Sony "tech support" and finally banned any Sony product from entering their home. I haven't bought a sony product since 2000, and with the all the bad "word of mouth" I am getting about them, I probably won't be buying anything from them in the near future. Memory Sticks and Mini Discs are two other Sony technologies that keep me far away from their products.:)
Where I work, the effect has been the same number of persons working on projects with larger scale ( and more features ), and also completing them more quickly than previously. An unplanned side-effect of this has been an increase in the demand for technical solutions ( internal ) as customers realize we can do more than previously. Definitely the opposite of cutting staff and lower demand for software solutions, demand has increased and we are looking at increasing staff next year.
While the mini-pod is pretty small, it is still too big to conveniently carry around my neck. In cases where that is method of carrying data is preferred/required, the iPod would not be a good solution.
That said, since my employeer has now banned USB drives in the building, the iPod is looking like a good investment to listen to mp3's at work. It play mp3's right? It would be even better if it played ogg format as I am planning on moving to that format for music.
A business environment is totally differnent than a home environment. To reduce support costs, its best to establish a stable, secure, efficient, and politically correct environment. Techniques such as locking down desktop settings, only allowing Web Proxy/Filted traffic in/out of the Intranet, and implementing a walk-out policy are effective ways of mainting the environment. My senior manager told me of a company that doesn't lock anything down but enforces it's walk out policy ( you install/change something on your computer without express permission, you are fired ) has only one desktop support person per 1000 employee's, which I have never seen before. Where I work you have to be given access to the Internet, and even then you cannot download restricted file types ( all network traffic passes through a series of inline filters going in/out of the Internet ). If you are caught writing down passwords down anywhere, that is your last day on the job.
While it is in stark contrast to the freedom I enjoy on my home network, it is entirely understandable from a support/security point of view. Sure, there are people who would not abuse the system, and then again there are people who would. Is it in the business's best interests to sort out which employees fall into either category? Or is it better just to apply the same policy to everyone? Do you want HR to spend time resolving an issue where someone uses playboy bunny pictures as wallpaper? Or have a standard wallpaper set by Enterprise policy that is non-offensive to anyone?
Do you really need that Dilbert Screensaver to do your job? I have local admin rights on my system, have been given both surf and download rights, but I still won't even change my desktop wallpaper or install an unapproved application as I understand the potential costs these could generate.
And yes, I have seen people walked out because they wrote down a password on a yellow sticky note and put it on their monitor. The company provides a "password safe" application for storing these passwords. Much more secure than pasting notes on the monitor, and is a good tool for sharing passwords used by my team and also for storing my own passwords.
En sum, there are reasons for these policies. Remember that a business environment should be focused on business needs, and everything else should be tuned out.
You are missing the point. If the parent process is run under certain credentials, it's child process should also be. The software isn't broken, the OS's implementation of sudo is. I had the same problem with installing software that came packaged as a single.exe file ( setup.exe, usually ). I would start it using runas, then the exe file would extract the installation files and call the real installer program. At that point the process had reverted to the underpriveled accounts credentials b/c that is how the OS handled it, and the user got "access denied" and had to cancel the installation.
In short, the OS's implementation of sudo was broken.
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Interesting. Did this poll give the option for 'both'? Or for 'windows at work, linux at home'? I use Windows and Unix at work, and Linux at home. Well, splitting hairs I do have Windows running in a VMWare virtual machine as I haven't found a good replacement for my client/server backup software that works under Linux yet, but I am looking.
Just checking browser strings would be misleading as they are often faked on purpose, but you mentioned a poll. Is the poll still available for viewing?
Tell me about it. I feel the same way when I go to buy a car. All differnent shapes,sizes, and colors. They can't even standardize on an single engine! Why can't they just make one type of car with the exact same dimensions, colors, and features? Plus car manufacturers all pretty much just copy each other. I mean, 4 wheels, and engine, a trunk, seats...not a lot of innovation going on here.
And what is up with the car manufacturers who don't document how to use standard ( stick ) transmission? How am I supposed to figure out your need to go from neutral to first gear, second gear, etc. if they don't provide instructions to this obscure technology?
Word. I just installed Fedora Core 2 last weekend and installed the NVidia drivers with no problems. I did use the yum update utility to update all of my packages and kernel, which made me have to reinstall the NVidia drivers since my kernel had changed.
Don't be so sure. In the last couple of weeks I've had 3 Windows-only users ask for help getting starting with Linux. These people said they are sick of Microsoft bending people open plus all of the vulnerabilites that cost them time/money to fix. One of them is an intern told me he lost his entire HD to the MS Blaster virus.
Its cool to see people realize there are other OS's out there. I am starting them off with Fedora Core 2 as it is the one I am the most familiar with.
The writing is on the wall, IMHO. Microsoft has gone into a defensive pattern with Linux because it is a threat to their future profitability. I think they see it as a small smoldering cigarette on the carpet that may start a fire that can burn the entire house down. Best to stamp it out now while it is small.
The day after the City-wide Wlan was completed, it was shut down under a court injunction in response to a complaint the RIAA filed stating "Some part of this network may possible one day maybe used to for illegal sharing of copyrighted filed." When asked for proof, an RIAA official was cited as saying "I found a file called Mike_Jackson.doc on a wireless users 'My Shared Documents' folder, and most likely it is a cleverly renamed mp3 file of a Michael Jackson track."
When we asked a judge why the court responded to the complaint so quickly without due process, all we got was a "no comment" as he climbed into a new Mercedes Benz vehicle with license plate that read "luvriaa".
Its like this. When you put your site on the Internet, it is in a public space. You are acknowledging that anyone with connectivity to your site can visit it and make use of it. The fundamental purpose of the World Wide Web is sharing information. When you put a web site up, that means you have information you want to share with anyone who can connect to your site. If you don't like the cost of sharing information ( the benefit is you can access information shared by others ), then don't put it on the WWW, or find another way of sharing it.
On the other hand, the browser ( aka client ), connects to the WWW because he/she wants to access the information available that is being shared there. Generally it is a good thing to be both a sharer and a sharee, as that is generally for the common benefit of everyone involved.
I hope this clarifies how it works. Commercialism would like to make you think you should pay for and be paid for anything that a price tag can be attached to, but I heartily disagree.
A few weeks ago, I jump-started a car for complete strangers. I never even gave them my name. I helped them with the understand that the good deed was a reward in itself. Yes, I was in a hurry to get to work and had to explain why I was late, so it cost me. But someday I will be that person stuck with a dead battery, and I hope someone will stop and help me without charging for it. I appy the same philosophy to web sites./me gets off soapbox
Not really. My free website has been running for 4 years now without ads or donations. And there were free web sites before commerce had reached the net ( back in the NCSA Mosaic days). By your logic, they could not have existed..but they did. Maybe you need to narrow down what sites you are talking about when you say "free web sites need advertising", because it does not apply to all of them.
And this cannot happen with Java? I reuse Perl code I wrote years ago. It is layed out logically, everything is well named and well commented, I generally just copy a subroutine or two from my old code and reuse in whatever I am writing at the moment that is applies to. What you are describing are bad programming habits, not a bad programming language.
You have to keep in mind when you code something that reusable parts should be put in separate functions, the flow should be logical, variable/function names well documented, as well as explanations of what the included libraries do so people who come after you will have a clue how your code works and what libraries it needs to run. I could go one, but I think I have made the point clearly enough.
I agree. In my current position, I create tools/automate process for other IT groups. I was told that I cannot use C++/C/Java, probably due to the fact that the IT group knowledge base is consists of scripting languages and/applications to get the job done. Since Perl is my strongest language ( C++ is my second strongest ), I use it for the bulk of the automation tasks, which usually mix several technologies together ( say, logging app as a data source for a perl script that outputs data for flash network status console ). I inherited quite a bit of code, but am slowly replacing shell scripts with perl, log files with database tables, etc ).
I find that most languages have striking similarities, and speed of development plus existing knowledge base are factors that must be considered before choosing a specific one for the job. Do you really want to have the one guy who knows C write everying, so when he leaves all of the code he wrote is no longer maintainable? Or do you have him use a language his coworkers are familiar with so all the eggs are not in one basket?
Thanks. I am pretty much in the same boat. I run Linux as my main OS with ( to my knowledge ) makes.wmf,.mov,etc. formatted clips inaccessible. It really sucks that most movie trailers are in.mov ( Quicktime format ):(
Those days are only gone if we allow them to be. ISP's that don't follow the spirit of the Internet as designated by the creators thereof, should get out of the way and let those who will take over. It will happen that was as people like me will go with the ISP who provides the best quality of service, and blocked ports is just plain bad service.
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In addition, all weapons have been replaced with walkie-talkies ( pacify anti-war activists ), horses are replaced with broomsticks ( pacify animal-rights activists ),and hobbits are now the same height as everyone else ( pacify midget-rights activists ).
Finally, the title has been changed to "Return of the Ring",with the word "King" replaced by "popularly elected representative of the people" thoughout the movies dialogues. This is to pacify groups that felt the movie threatened democracy by glorifying the monarchy type of government.
Actually, the they are. They are guilty of copyright infringment for distributing copyrighted works without permission of the copyright holder. The reciever is not liable however. Just look back at the rebuttles to SCO's claims that companies will be financially liable if their code is found inside of Linux. Simply not true. Linus et. al. would be in trouble, but no one using the affected Linux kernels would be in any way liable for damages. When I say "liable", that doesn't immediately mean Linux et. al. woul have to pony up reimbursement for monetary damages, most likely they would have to be given notice and a grace period to remove the infriging code. If they refuse to comply, then monetary damages would be considered.
You've got that right. There was a manager fired 2 weeks ago using ssh to bypass the companies network filtering systems. Dude was probably in his 40's and probably had a hard time explaining to his family ( assuming he was married ) how he lost his job.
Just understand the risks before you try to violate company policies. Just because you managed to circumvent the technology used to implement the policy, doesn't mean you can't still lose your job for violating it. Employers for whom their data is their business are usually much harsher about policy violations than those who either don't care or don't have enough resources to prevent information leaks.
Back to understanding the risks, if you violate the company policy, they have every right to terminate your employment. One would hope to get a slap on the wrist the first time if the incident had no signs of being an intentional refusal to follow the rules, but one would not have a leg to stand on even if they skipped the warning and went straight to the more severe punishment. Bottom line, how much is bypassing the network filters worth to you?
A coworker of mine's husband had several bad run-ins with Sony "tech support" and finally banned any Sony product from entering their home. I haven't bought a sony product since 2000, and with the all the bad "word of mouth" I am getting about them, I probably won't be buying anything from them :)
in the near future. Memory Sticks and Mini Discs are two other Sony technologies that keep me far away from their products.
Where I work, the effect has been the same number of persons working on projects with larger scale ( and more features ), and also completing them more quickly than previously. An unplanned side-effect of this has been an increase in the demand for technical solutions ( internal ) as customers realize we can do more than previously. Definitely the opposite of cutting staff and lower demand for software solutions, demand has increased and we are looking at increasing staff next year.
While the mini-pod is pretty small, it is still too big to conveniently carry around my neck. In cases where that is method of carrying data is preferred/required, the iPod would not be a good solution.
That said, since my employeer has now banned USB drives in the building, the iPod is looking like a good investment to listen to mp3's at work. It play mp3's right? It would be even better if it played ogg format as I am planning on moving to that format for music.
A business environment is totally differnent than a home environment. To reduce support costs, its best to establish a stable, secure, efficient, and politically correct environment. Techniques such as locking down desktop settings, only allowing Web Proxy/Filted traffic in/out of the Intranet, and implementing a walk-out policy are effective ways of mainting the environment. My senior manager told me of a company that doesn't lock anything down but enforces it's walk out policy ( you install/change something on your computer without express permission, you are fired ) has only one desktop support person per 1000 employee's, which I have never seen before. Where I work you have to be given access to the Internet, and even then you cannot download restricted file types ( all network traffic passes through a series of inline filters going in/out of the Internet ). If you are caught writing down passwords down anywhere, that is your last day on the job.
While it is in stark contrast to the freedom I enjoy on my home network, it is entirely understandable from a support/security point of view. Sure, there are people who would not abuse the system, and then again there are people who would. Is it in the business's best interests to sort out which employees fall into either category? Or is it better just to apply the same policy to everyone? Do you want HR to spend time resolving an issue where someone uses playboy bunny pictures as wallpaper? Or have a standard wallpaper set by Enterprise policy that is non-offensive to anyone?
Do you really need that Dilbert Screensaver to do your job? I have local admin rights on my system, have been given both surf and download rights, but I still won't even change my desktop wallpaper or install an unapproved application as I understand the potential costs these could generate.
And yes, I have seen people walked out because they wrote down a password on a yellow sticky note and put it on their monitor. The company provides a "password safe" application for storing these passwords. Much more secure than pasting notes on the monitor, and is a good tool for sharing passwords used by my team and also for storing my own passwords.
En sum, there are reasons for these policies. Remember that a business environment should be focused on business needs, and everything else should be tuned out.
I helped them uninstall their OS from my computer. :)
You are missing the point. If the parent process is run under certain credentials, it's child process should also be. The software isn't broken, the OS's implementation of sudo is. I had the same problem with installing software that came packaged as a single .exe file ( setup.exe, usually ). I would start it using runas, then the exe file would extract the installation files and call the real installer program. At that point the process had reverted to the underpriveled accounts credentials b/c that is how the OS handled it, and the user got "access denied" and had to cancel the installation.
In short, the OS's implementation of sudo was broken.
Interesting. Did this poll give the option for 'both'? Or for 'windows at work, linux at home'? I use Windows and Unix at work, and Linux at home. Well, splitting hairs I do have Windows running in a VMWare virtual machine as I haven't found a good replacement for my client/server backup software that works under Linux yet, but I am looking.
Just checking browser strings would be misleading as they are often faked on purpose, but you mentioned a poll. Is the poll still available for viewing?
True. In addition to reading the brain dump, you have to have the skill to remember the answers long enough to pass the test.
Yes Virginia, this is a joke.
Cool. They finally have a computer. Now all they need is electricity...
BSA Agent: We at the B.S.A. want to protect artists by stopping illegal... ...
Me: Stop, you had me at b.s.
Tell me about it. I feel the same way when I go to buy a car. All differnent shapes,sizes, and colors. They can't even standardize on an single engine! Why can't they just make one type of car with the exact same dimensions, colors, and features? Plus car manufacturers all pretty much just copy each other. I mean, 4 wheels, and engine, a trunk, seats...not a lot of innovation going on here.
And what is up with the car manufacturers who don't document how to use standard ( stick ) transmission? How am I supposed to figure out your need to go from neutral to first gear, second gear, etc. if they don't provide instructions to this obscure technology?
Word. I just installed Fedora Core 2 last weekend and installed the NVidia drivers with no problems. I did use the yum update utility to update all of my packages and kernel, which made me have to reinstall the NVidia drivers since my kernel had changed.
I would alert NYT about the error in their article, but they require that I register on their site to do so. No thanks.
Yes Virgina, this is a joke.
Don't be so sure. In the last couple of weeks I've had 3 Windows-only users ask for help getting starting with Linux. These people said they are sick of Microsoft bending people open plus all of the vulnerabilites that cost them time/money to fix. One of them is an intern told me he lost his entire HD to the MS Blaster virus.
Its cool to see people realize there are other OS's out there. I am starting them off with Fedora Core 2 as it is the one I am the most familiar with.
The writing is on the wall, IMHO. Microsoft has gone into a defensive pattern with Linux because it is a threat to their future profitability. I think they see it as a small smoldering cigarette on the carpet that may start a fire that can burn the entire house down. Best to stamp it out now while it is small.
The day after the City-wide Wlan was completed, it was shut down under a court injunction in response to a complaint the RIAA filed stating "Some part of this network may possible one day maybe used to for illegal sharing of copyrighted filed." When asked for proof, an RIAA official was cited as saying "I found a file called Mike_Jackson.doc on a wireless users 'My Shared Documents' folder, and most likely it is a cleverly renamed mp3 file of a Michael Jackson track."
When we asked a judge why the court responded to the complaint so quickly without due process, all we got was a "no comment" as he climbed into a new Mercedes Benz vehicle with license plate that read "luvriaa".
Its like this. When you put your site on the Internet, it is in a public space. You are acknowledging that anyone with connectivity to your site can visit it and make use of it. The fundamental purpose of the World Wide Web is sharing information. When you put a web site up, that means you have information you want to share with anyone who can connect to your site. If you don't like the cost of sharing information ( the benefit is you can access information shared by others ), then don't put it on the WWW, or find another way of sharing it.
/me gets off soapbox
On the other hand, the browser ( aka client ), connects to the WWW because he/she wants to access the information available that is being shared there. Generally it is a good thing to be both a sharer and a sharee, as that is generally for the common benefit of everyone involved.
I hope this clarifies how it works. Commercialism would like to make you think you should pay for and be paid for anything that a price tag can be attached to, but I heartily disagree.
A few weeks ago, I jump-started a car for complete strangers. I never even gave them my name. I helped them with the understand that the good deed was a reward in itself. Yes, I was in a hurry to get to work and had to explain why I was late, so it cost me. But someday I will be that person stuck with a dead battery, and I hope someone will stop and help me without charging for it. I appy the same philosophy to web sites.
Not really. My free website has been running for 4 years now without ads or donations. And there were free web sites before commerce had reached the net ( back in the NCSA Mosaic days). By your logic, they could not have existed..but they did. Maybe you need to narrow down what sites you are talking about when you say "free web sites need advertising", because it does not apply to all of them.
And this cannot happen with Java? I reuse Perl code I wrote years ago. It is layed out logically, everything is well named and well commented, I generally just copy a subroutine or two from my old code and reuse in whatever I am writing at the moment that is applies to. What you are describing are bad programming habits, not a bad programming language.
You have to keep in mind when you code something that reusable parts should be put in separate functions, the flow should be logical, variable/function names well documented, as well as explanations of what the included libraries do so people who come after you will have a clue how your code works and what libraries it needs to run. I could go one, but I think I have made the point clearly enough.
I agree. In my current position, I create tools/automate process for other IT groups. I was told that I cannot use C++/C/Java, probably due to the fact that the IT group knowledge base is consists of scripting languages and /applications to get the job done. Since Perl is my strongest language ( C++ is my second strongest ), I use it for the bulk of the automation tasks, which usually mix several technologies together ( say, logging app as a data source for a perl script that outputs data for flash network status console ). I inherited quite a bit of code, but am slowly replacing shell scripts with perl, log files with database tables, etc ).
I find that most languages have striking similarities, and speed of development plus existing knowledge base are factors that must be considered before choosing a specific one for the job. Do you really want to have the one guy who knows C write everying, so when he leaves all of the code he wrote is no longer maintainable? Or do you have him use a language his coworkers are familiar with so all the eggs are not in one basket?
I'll let the reader decide for themselves.
Thanks. I am pretty much in the same boat. I run Linux as my main OS with ( to my knowledge ) makes .wmf,.mov,etc. formatted clips inaccessible. It really sucks that most movie trailers are in .mov ( Quicktime format ) :(
Those days are only gone if we allow them to be. ISP's that don't follow the spirit of the Internet as designated by the creators thereof, should get out of the way and let those who will take over. It will happen that was as people like me will go with the ISP who provides the best quality of service, and blocked ports is just plain bad service.