Agreed. I had one interviewer last year ask for access to previous customer data. I used to work in the Banking and Energy Generation/Supply industries, so I simply told the interviewer that I value my business relationships too much to turn over confidential information to a stranger.
If you want to know if someone knows how to configure Samba, give the applicant the criteria you want fulfilled, have them write a smb.conf file, run testparm against it, and then see if it fulfills your criteria.
Every admin has their personal preferences how to code and solve problems. If you find someone who can solve yours, let them do what they do best and hire them.
As a former IBM employee, I am disappointed to see the company that gave us some of the best typewriters in the world, the mainframe and the Personal Computer, producing this sort of drek after slashing jobs in the US.
I guess it was a matter of time before "IBM India Research Lab" produced something like this. They certainly haven't been producing any real business machines or providing decent customer service to IBM Global Services customers.
Look for more of the same from IBM. IBMs CEO Sam Palmisano has said repeatedly in the past year that IBM will be focusing more on "analytics".
Most of the people I have ever worked with or for that swore regularly when trying to have a discussion struck me as unbalanced and erratic. This is not the sort of behavior that you want to display in front of a prospective client that you do business with and have them feel confident giving you money.
The behavior might be fitting in an army barracks, but it's not something that is appropriate in the office.
I'm not sure I agree about this being a bad article. Sure the things the author goes into are things that are second nature for experienced linux users, but people who have only been exposed to Red Hat or Fedora might not be familiar with all of the logs that are collected in/var/log and might not really know just how useful grep and dmesg can be. It might not warrant it's own webpage, but I hope the author considers posting it as a sticky to Linuxquestions.net
1) What is your name?
"Cowboy Neil" 2) What is your quest?
"To fix the bricked file server" 3) What is the Emacs key binding for going to the previous line and decreasing the indent?
"What? I don't know tha.. AARRRRGGGHHHHH!"
Yes, the linux community will quickly find and provide patches for the vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, the admins of the servers will get behind in their patching or just complacent.
Someone I travel to work with got called at 4am one morning by his co-lo with the message "You're box is trying to root all the other boxes in the cages, we're pulling the network cable indefinitely."
It was later determined that he got rooted through a 4 month old SSL vulnerability. The patch was available, he just assumed that a linux box in a well managed co-lo would be secure enough.
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You forgot: "TTL expired in transit" %
Agreed. I had one interviewer last year ask for access to previous customer data. I used to work in the Banking and Energy Generation/Supply industries, so I simply told the interviewer that I value my business relationships too much to turn over confidential information to a stranger. If you want to know if someone knows how to configure Samba, give the applicant the criteria you want fulfilled, have them write a smb.conf file, run testparm against it, and then see if it fulfills your criteria. Every admin has their personal preferences how to code and solve problems. If you find someone who can solve yours, let them do what they do best and hire them.
When I was in college, it wasn't a good night out unless I swapped saliva with a coed.
Ahhh, I see the grammar Na'vi's are out in force.
It isn't spelt 'checks' it's 'cheques' in the UK - for fucks sake get it right.
Don't you mean "for fuques sake"?
Where's the "My nipples explode with delight!"+1 mod when I need it?
Unfortunately, it's completely unservicable.
I heard that if you open the case to check the hardware, there is always a dead CPU.
As a former IBM employee, I am disappointed to see the company that gave us some of the best typewriters in the world, the mainframe and the Personal Computer, producing this sort of drek after slashing jobs in the US.
I guess it was a matter of time before "IBM India Research Lab" produced something like this. They certainly haven't been producing any real business machines or providing decent customer service to IBM Global Services customers.
Look for more of the same from IBM. IBMs CEO Sam Palmisano has said repeatedly in the past year that IBM will be focusing more on "analytics".
How about a billboard with Natalie Portman in hot grits, wearing a t-shirt? ...that gets wet when it rains!
How do you hold the Wii controller with your boxing gloves on?
Yours truly,
Chicago, Illinois
Since it would be in space, wouldn't it make you more similar to Flash Gordon? BTW, He'll save every one of us.
No big deal. The plains of Nebraska and Kansas will go from producing Shredded Wheat to producing "Shredded Tweet".
Probably the same thing that happens when a vandal takes a screwdriver or crowbar to your trunk lock or a rock to your side windows.
Fat chance. That dialog was far more coherent than anything Boll has ever directed.
I seriously doubt the investment group is going to sue IBM.
Not if this particular member has any say in it. He's got too much stock at stake in IBM.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay about The Turk in 1836 titled "Maelzel's Chess Player".
I'll up you a ROTS reference...
"Where is...SCO?"
"It's dead Darl, you killed it."
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!"
(The emporer laughs wildly)
Whoa. Careful, you dont want to wind up like this guy.
Now you're just contradicting.
Most of the people I have ever worked with or for that swore regularly when trying to have a discussion struck me as unbalanced and erratic. This is not the sort of behavior that you want to display in front of a prospective client that you do business with and have them feel confident giving you money.
The behavior might be fitting in an army barracks, but it's not something that is appropriate in the office.
I'm not sure I agree about this being a bad article. Sure the things the author goes into are things that are second nature for experienced linux users, but people who have only been exposed to Red Hat or Fedora might not be familiar with all of the logs that are collected in /var/log and might not really know just how useful grep and dmesg can be. It might not warrant it's own webpage, but I hope the author considers posting it as a sticky to Linuxquestions.net
1) What is your name?
"Cowboy Neil"
2) What is your quest?
"To fix the bricked file server"
3) What is the Emacs key binding for going to the previous line and decreasing the indent?
"What? I don't know tha.. AARRRRGGGHHHHH!"
Even "Zero" can be measured. I propose they call it "NULL".
Yes, the linux community will quickly find and provide patches for the vulnerabilities.
Unfortunately, the admins of the servers will get behind in their patching or just complacent.
Someone I travel to work with got called at 4am one morning by his co-lo with the message "You're box is trying to root all the other boxes in the cages, we're pulling the network cable indefinitely."
It was later determined that he got rooted through a 4 month old SSL vulnerability. The patch was available, he just assumed that a linux box in a well managed co-lo would be secure enough.
The amount of heat energy released from a large mass impacting another large mass can be pretty significant.