If you do a good job managing and it's for semething useful is it any different to tech side?
I say make sure you leave tech's to do the work. Take advice from them on how long things take. Don't try and make work fit into a dead line.
Manage in the way that others could have managed to get the best from you.
The best managers I've worked with are enablers. They clear the path for progress and wrap themselves around the project as its flak jacket and as a result have a project team that tries hard in return. And even winges to you rather than about you.
Only do secure work from a "live CD". Have the secure data on an external (maybe caddy removable hard disk), say USB disk. Make sure that disk is encrypted.
You obivously have the issues of physical access. If your data is small enough you can keep it on you along with your OS. Or you will need a safe.
Make sure your live CD does not connect to the internet or any network, maybe don't include any networking as part of it. Even if your data is encrypted once someone has it in there possession you can consider it able to be read ultimately.
Only work in a sealed room where no one can see you type and you probably want a darkened box to put over your keyboard when it comes to typing in passwords just to further reduce the chance of being seen.
You can't afford to use a keyboard that someone else has access to in case they bug it. Use an infrared projected keyboard or fold up one that you can take with you.
Of course your machine just sitting there in your absence could be compromised. So you need to carry that with you or lock it away securely when you are not present.
I did probably become able to use C in about two days. Fifteen years of use later and it was somewhere along that stretch that I would say I became competent in C. ("Competent" of course still being subjective and my conception of that is probably higher than most but not as high as some; as I am competent to write code for things like braking systems and engine contollers where mishaps matter.)
I was writing things in Ruby almost immediately. Could I program in Ruby (make use of the "Ruby way") after a couple of days? No.
Part of that is of course learning the magic condensed into some of Ruby's constructs and the object oriented manner of it takes longer (with coming from a different way of working). I haven't tried to use it in a large way but I'm sure as I attempt to build serious applications in it it will take more than two days before I consider I can program as Ruby rather than in Ruby.
They can get around that at the large commercial level like Levis did to Tesco to stop Tesco bringing jeans into Europe. (IP infringement).
What thet can't stop is the same prduct being brought cheap in say Spain being sold in the UK less than they target the price at their.
Of course making area blocked items could mean they can sell products into one area that don't work in another. I hope they give them a different name though otherwise hopefully someone will sue them for faulty products.
I would compare it more to automated ballista in other peoples gardens and going in to shut them down or going over and closing your neighbours gates to stop the bad guys going and putting one of their automated ballista on the neighbours lawns.
I do however agree it is unlikely. Mind you, if music giants want to treat music like the crown jewels it as example partly opens the door of credibility to such a defense.
Be interesting to see if you could use the "reasonable force" defence for actions such as writing a palladin worm.
"I was just taking reasonable steps to protect my property from the attacks of others"
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Trusted or treachorous computing...
"they" don't trust you. Hence they want your box sealed (hence closed) so that you cannot fiddle and use works on your box authorised for another box. Hence RMS labelling it treachorous rather than trusted.
Trusted would be where you could verify that the application you use is signed by whom you expected and trust it I suppose.
This form of trusted should be able to exist with the freedoms protected by free software. The former probably cannot.
Time we moved to electronic number plates. You get in and insert your license. Your license then negotiates a plate ID for the car that is loaded up and off you go. That way you can be the insured rather than the car.
You incoprorate it at your choice. You agree to the terms of your own choice. You do not have to incorporate the GPL code unless you want its facilities.
GPL provides you the oppotunity to include, modify or derive from the product it covers. A traditional prop' license is not as generous.
I suppose the GPL, if it finishes the revolution, returns the tailor to the high street in place of rows of factory produced clothes in integer, generic sizes. It would make the world a much easier place to get a suit that fits completely.
It might be nice to have a mini rsync sort of thing that allows you to just download locally the limited set of things you want to install. From which you can install to many machines.
That would be handy to me.
And no I don't have time to scratch my own itch at present.
I've spent the last two years doing a law conversion and have been considering it as a career to move into from being an engineer.
I love engineering but began to hate the way it is done in the companies I have worked for and with seeming particular Cambridge attitudes how it is difficult to get anyone to listen if you're in a room with people all with Phd or 1st from Cambridge. Then when you are right again you just think what is the point, if they listened they could have avoided this, etc...
I also have a problem in that I won't kiss butt nor wear a tie. Two other factors that are a major hinderance.
The problem with picking something like law is it takes years to train and you start on the low end of the cash again. So I'd advise, do something that pays the bills but doesn't wear you out and you can get into rapidly (bus drivers wanted around York!). Meanwhile work on estabilishing your own business in the area you want to work and enjoy most.
That way you get to do things the way you want in a field that interests you. However you still have to do some crap but at least it is for you.
It's also the simplicity of licensing if you could get everything you need with GPL software. Cuts out the whole license trace police force that is required.
I'm sure there are other simplicity elements to the whole thing too.
"anything that I know is untrue or wrong in any piece"
I suspect you don't read many articles to their conclusion on that basis.
I totally agree with the sentiment though. As a result every few weeks I spend more time responding to articles, listing their errors, than reading them. It is tiring and tiresome. I mainly focus on BBC tech articles in case you fancy splitting the corrections:-)
Maybe that is the level that law should be measured by. If it hurts people (considering companies as legal persons) then it is wrong. Better to have a nominal benefit and no one hurt than attempt to determine the impossible balance of the scales in weighing "does it hurt more than it benefits". It's one possible solution to the complex equations I don't doubt there are others.
I think much more complex issues and problems are actually dealt with successfully this is just different because the people with the most sway have too much wealth and future wealth to lose.
It might be a hoax but your comment about waiting for Notes everyday might be another reason to roll out something new.
If there is a lot of older stuff still in use and now a cheap way to step across the board to something new and hopefully for you faster. Then it makes a lot of sense.
Would that give them in theory the largest single amount of computing to bring to bare anywhere? All the cumulative capacity of the workstations and the bigger machines as one usable mass.
I would be slightly pedantic over what you say and question that they love them as opposed to know no different. Amounts to the same result but can be countered in a different manner.
I don't know which it is but amongst most people I know it is the knows no different. Once I have introduced people to OOffice they are quite happy. Especially when I point out that the unlicensed software they were running could be years in prison and/or significant fine if the authorities ever chose to take it seriously.
I always go for the carrot and stick explanation to them!
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Sim city plug in. You can drop into a city you are developing and run it as a complex sim. Maybe on another machine.
Yes various GTA style in city games.
Battles done with something like Art of War
Railroad Tycoon for when you hit the Railroad advancement.
Moving into Third Reich style strategic battles when you get to the modern armour.
With of course a good first person shooter sort for going on spying and asassinations.
The list just goes on...
I say make sure you leave tech's to do the work. Take advice from them on how long things take. Don't try and make work fit into a dead line.
Manage in the way that others could have managed to get the best from you.
The best managers I've worked with are enablers. They clear the path for progress and wrap themselves around the project as its flak jacket and as a result have a project team that tries hard in return. And even winges to you rather than about you.
You obivously have the issues of physical access. If your data is small enough you can keep it on you along with your OS. Or you will need a safe.
Make sure your live CD does not connect to the internet or any network, maybe don't include any networking as part of it. Even if your data is encrypted once someone has it in there possession you can consider it able to be read ultimately.
Only work in a sealed room where no one can see you type and you probably want a darkened box to put over your keyboard when it comes to typing in passwords just to further reduce the chance of being seen.
You can't afford to use a keyboard that someone else has access to in case they bug it. Use an infrared projected keyboard or fold up one that you can take with you.
Of course your machine just sitting there in your absence could be compromised. So you need to carry that with you or lock it away securely when you are not present.
How far do you want to go with this?
I did probably become able to use C in about two days. Fifteen years of use later and it was somewhere along that stretch that I would say I became competent in C. ("Competent" of course still being subjective and my conception of that is probably higher than most but not as high as some; as I am competent to write code for things like braking systems and engine contollers where mishaps matter.)
I was writing things in Ruby almost immediately. Could I program in Ruby (make use of the "Ruby way") after a couple of days? No.
Part of that is of course learning the magic condensed into some of Ruby's constructs and the object oriented manner of it takes longer (with coming from a different way of working). I haven't tried to use it in a large way but I'm sure as I attempt to build serious applications in it it will take more than two days before I consider I can program as Ruby rather than in Ruby.
What thet can't stop is the same prduct being brought cheap in say Spain being sold in the UK less than they target the price at their.
Of course making area blocked items could mean they can sell products into one area that don't work in another. I hope they give them a different name though otherwise hopefully someone will sue them for faulty products.
No small (or even large) concern can realistically claim to have not infringed a patent for anything modern and nominally (or more) complex.
That to me is the biggest flaw to the system.
I do however agree it is unlikely. Mind you, if music giants want to treat music like the crown jewels it as example partly opens the door of credibility to such a defense.
"I was just taking reasonable steps to protect my property from the attacks of others"
"they" don't trust you. Hence they want your box sealed (hence closed) so that you cannot fiddle and use works on your box authorised for another box. Hence RMS labelling it treachorous rather than trusted.
Trusted would be where you could verify that the application you use is signed by whom you expected and trust it I suppose.
This form of trusted should be able to exist with the freedoms protected by free software. The former probably cannot.
Sounds like the other guy is having tantrums about nothing. Surely it's a tribute to the originators that others want what they have done!
Taking what's best is the power of freedom in software.
Time we moved to electronic number plates. You get in and insert your license. Your license then negotiates a plate ID for the car that is loaded up and off you go. That way you can be the insured rather than the car.
GPL provides you the oppotunity to include, modify or derive from the product it covers. A traditional prop' license is not as generous.
I suppose the GPL, if it finishes the revolution, returns the tailor to the high street in place of rows of factory produced clothes in integer, generic sizes. It would make the world a much easier place to get a suit that fits completely.
That would be handy to me.
And no I don't have time to scratch my own itch at present.
Or words to that effect?
Please can anyone identify whose idea that was?
I've always found the more you know the more you know there is to know. Usually leaving you chasing a rainbow.
Searching for x free 86 turns up the home page as number one.
I love engineering but began to hate the way it is done in the companies I have worked for and with seeming particular Cambridge attitudes how it is difficult to get anyone to listen if you're in a room with people all with Phd or 1st from Cambridge. Then when you are right again you just think what is the point, if they listened they could have avoided this, etc...
I also have a problem in that I won't kiss butt nor wear a tie. Two other factors that are a major hinderance.
The problem with picking something like law is it takes years to train and you start on the low end of the cash again. So I'd advise, do something that pays the bills but doesn't wear you out and you can get into rapidly (bus drivers wanted around York!). Meanwhile work on estabilishing your own business in the area you want to work and enjoy most.
That way you get to do things the way you want in a field that interests you. However you still have to do some crap but at least it is for you.
I'm sure there are other simplicity elements to the whole thing too.
I suspect you don't read many articles to their conclusion on that basis.
I totally agree with the sentiment though. As a result every few weeks I spend more time responding to articles, listing their errors, than reading them. It is tiring and tiresome. I mainly focus on BBC tech articles in case you fancy splitting the corrections:-)
I think much more complex issues and problems are actually dealt with successfully this is just different because the people with the most sway have too much wealth and future wealth to lose.
Does that mean the anchor in orbit needs to be regularly refueled?
Does anyone have any math's on this?
If there is a lot of older stuff still in use and now a cheap way to step across the board to something new and hopefully for you faster. Then it makes a lot of sense.
Would that give them in theory the largest single amount of computing to bring to bare anywhere? All the cumulative capacity of the workstations and the bigger machines as one usable mass.
I don't know which it is but amongst most people I know it is the knows no different. Once I have introduced people to OOffice they are quite happy. Especially when I point out that the unlicensed software they were running could be years in prison and/or significant fine if the authorities ever chose to take it seriously.
I always go for the carrot and stick explanation to them!