I'm about as anti-fanboy as they come (I HateHateHateHateHate iTunes, Rythmbox, and all of their slow-ass database-driven spawn), and even I've been considering a Shuffle, but more as a flash-drive-cum-mp3-player than the other way around.
If they made a 2GB version and sold it for, say, $160, I'd be all over it. 1.5GB for songs, 512MB for misc files, and no freakin' cables? More Kool-Aid, please!
I've got some crow to eat, too - when it first came out, I knocked them for not having a screen. Now, though, I'm attempting to minimize the amount of crap I haul around in my pockets, and the utility has become clear to me.
Lest you think me female/gay/metro, let me please restate that iTunes sucks. Thank you.
Though I've never tried installing the server, I _have_ successfully faked out the Oracle 10 client installer on Sarge by adding an/etc/version* file. Though if you actually need support from Oracle, it's probably not a good idea.
*I can't remember exactly what it is at the moment... whatever Redhat uses. If you really wanna know, I can take a look at work tomorrow.
Why does he keep mistaking the word "use" for the word "leverage"?
Because his team leverages best-of-breed systems to utilize the synergistic effects of the paradigm shift in relationships among stakeholders and the knowledge infrastructure, silly.
BF I'd like to talk a little about tools. In particular, what tools do you need to build rather than buy?
PS Clearly, we're a Microsoft shop and we're going to leverage everything that the public can leverage, which would be Visual Studio, SDK tools, and SQL and all the tools associated with it. Custom tools that we may build would be more in the area of deployment, metrics gathering, ticketing, bug tracking, code coverage, monitoring, inventory, failure detection, and build systems.
We do leverage the Windows operating system's perfmon (performance monitor) counters, event logs, Active Directory, and things like that. But we also may supplement them with custom tools for additional granularity or debugging or logging. We also have a number of processes and tools in place to help us understand what the current state of the site is.
While all vendors on the show floor will talk to you about their products, you'll score major points and free stuff if you make an appointment to talk to them. This way the company is expecting you and will be prepare to give you their booth tour. After the tour, they always present you with a goodie bag fill with company information and, you guest it, free stuff!
Attend The CES Parties
Companies that put on parties at CES always have something to give to their guests when they leave. And there are tons of parties to attend during the 5 days that CES runs for. The problem is most, if not all, of the parties are invite only. Don't let this stop you however. Many times you can get an invite by emailing the company or going to their booth and asking for one. This really is the best way to get free stuff because you also get to attend a party as well.
Many companies that throw CES parties will have prizes to give away. That's how I got the Sony PSP. The best thing is many of these contests are the "can't lose" type. In other words, everyone who enters wins something.
Walk The Show Floor On The Last Day
The last day of CES is moving out day. This is best time to get your hands on tons of free stuff. Companies are packing things up to take home and many times they will lose their packing boxes. This is the best time to approach them to ask if there's anything they want to give away and not take home? It's amazing the amount times they will say "Help yourself to whatever you like." This is because it can cost them more to ship the products back home than the product is worth.
You won't get big items, like plasma TVs, for free but many times the companies will sell it to you for a stupidly low price. I remember one year when RCA was the official TV of CES and had their displays scatter throughout the convention center. Instead of packing the $3,000 TVs home, they offered it anyone who was willing to pay $500 for it.
Another reason to walk the show floor on the last day is you will find many abandon booths with stuff still left behind. Most of the time, the stuff is junk but you will come across some really nice stuff once in a while.
My wife turned me on to Bujold, and she'd been attempting to get me interested in Lackey, but the latter isn't really my thing.
However, I've managed to get her interested in a female SF author who writes strong female characters, which I'm rather proud of: Kay Kenyon. Some of her stuff may be a little too strong for pre-teens, but any teenager, male or female, who's in to relatively intelligent ass-kickemups should enjoy it.
Bingo. This isn't like some company deciding to forgo upgrading MS Office every two years. This is like deciding to run Cat3 in your house, instead of 5e or 6, because you've currently only got a 100Mbit hub.
Oh, and before you try to convince me that "average" users don't want to host their own content, please consider the popularity of Kazaa, Blogger, Flickr, del.icio.us, Podcasting, Myspace, and the world ending when mp3.com went tits up. There are plenty of non-geeks who want to create and share information on the net, and they're currently mostly limited to using a somebody else's machine to do it for them, because the barrier to being a "server" is so high.
What if the "average" user wants to host their own content, without worrying about some external entity having control over it?
That was the original point of the Internet - not to differentiate between content/service "providers" and "consumers," but to enable redundant p2p information sharing.
Private address space, when used according to specification, will eliminate the need for costly conversions to a new standard.
Actually, it'll eliminate the need for costly conversions to a new standard for a period of time, after which we'll all need to upgrade anyway, when it'll be even more costly.
Ladid's main point seems to be that NAT-proponents take this kind of short-term, client/server-centric view. There's nothing wrong with client/server, but it's a significant hinderance for independent development of things like VoIP, where peer-to-peer makes far more sense.
Basically, it's not just that we're running out of address space; it's also that treating NAT like anything other than a (relatively) short-term fix ultimately hinders the development of new uses for the internets.
There is a difference between giving of your own free will, and being coerced to give. It is hypocritical to berate someone for not helping if you don't do everything you can to help. If you are so concerned about the welfare of others, go to the poorest part of your town, pick up some destitute soul, and invite them to your home to sup. Go on. Get to it.
Huh?
I'm taking issue with your statement that HIV is spread through irresponsible behavior (presumably, butt sex and spiking), and therefore sufferers should be left to "take care of themselves." That's pretty excreable. It's the same as saying that if you're going 66mph in a 65 zone, you should have no right to medical care should you manage to get in a wreck.
I don't personally believe the guy should be forced to submit to further testing, but I've got no problem with making him feel like a douche about it.
I anticipated this type of response. That is why I said LARGELY spread, rather than EXCLUSIVELY spread. Thousands of people die a year in the US from automobile collisions. Do you have an automobile? If so, why not get rid of it? Maybe you've never seen a loved one mangled in a car crash. Mention you won't waste any tears for them, because you have a right to drive.
So we stop spending money on breast cancer research, because women could just lop off their titties at puberty and avoid the whole thing.
And we stop spending money on cardiovascular research and diabetes, because with the exception of people who got that way genetically, the vast majority of sufferers got that way from being irresponsible fatasses.
Or maybe we just accept the fact that we don't have the moral authority to decide whether a person deserves to be sick or not. Got a cold? You should have been wearing a HEPA filter over your face.
Is there a section on TPS reports?
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Anybody who attempts to solve their organizations' security issues by going out and buying something to slap into the network needs to be cock-punched. That much should be obvious.
On the other hand, anybody who makes a living writing books about why it's a bad idea to do it should probably be cock-punched, too.
I've sat through waaaay too many seminars taught by swaggering little ex-cop six sigma management flunkies who vomit out more technical jargon and meaningless acronyms about proccess and procedures and ISO and SOX and their frickin' CISSPs than the most autistic assembler programmer.
I was at one time considering a move toward the coporate network security area versus my current more traditional sysadmin job, but the amount of wanking that goes on at the management level in infosec would probably make me go postal.
Sorry for blathering, but this is kind of a sensitive topic for me lately.
That revolving door runs off tax dollars. Guess what? Illegal immigrants don't pay a dime in taxes (not even sales in NH) and he's having to spend an increasing amount of time dealing with them.
You're wrong.
Among other things, illegals contribute about $7 billion/year to Social Security that they'll never collect.
Not that I've got a problem with it; I think it's funny as hell.
The detective in the linked story said it best:
To Nichols, the punch was in the gut.
"It felt like I'd been had," he remembers. "I was just kind of ticked off at myself for not verifying it before I passed it along, and not making sure it was satire. I have no problem with satire. I enjoy a good joke. I just hate it when it's on me."
Anyway, I've lost count of the number of movies and TV shows I've seen where the presidential seal figures prominently in a scene or two. I wonder if they're planning on sending C&D's to the studios; after all, some idiot might think that Martin Sheen is really the President.
This 100% true story from a couple of years ago seems especially apropos.
Seriously. My wife would probably agree with you, too.
I used to carry around a bag with a USB hard drive, a USB thumb drive, a Cybertool, a cell phone (provided and required by work), a note pad, pens, pencils, and a Zaurus. Of course, I also needed the wifi card for the Zaurus, and the ethernet card with a cable, and a modem with a phone cord, just in case I needed to get in to work and there wasn't an access point handy.
Plus an umbrella. And a pack of Imitrex.
Then I realized I was basically carrying a purse.
I swapped the Cybertool for a nifty little knife that lives on my keychain with the pill case for my migraine meds and my Ritalin, ditched the hard drive, and bought a pocket-sized weekly calendar for ten bucks to replace the Zaurus. A selection of my mp3 collection lives is on my hard drive at work. I just listen to NPR when I'm in the car, which is where I keep the umbrella.
If/when I leave my current job, and my new employer doesn't require that I have a cell, I won't be replacing it.
In case you haven't figured it out, I've got some pretty harsh ADD. I've found that minimizing the ton of crap that I used to cart around with me has made life a helluva lot easier to handle.
Oh, and when I'm bored and I need something to do while waiting for a bus or eating at a restaurant, I buy a newspaper. It's amazing, really.
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The one thing that annoys me sometimes is when I accidentally try to use vi commands in a non-vi setting.
For example, more than once I have accidentally dismissed a dialog box after filling in a text box because I hit the escape key to terminate insert mode.
You know you're fucked when you're typing a paper in MS Word, and reflexively hit:w every time you want to save.
Ha. I know it, and you know it, but try telling it to my boss. I just count myself lucky that I'm allowed to run anything I want on my workstation.
Unfortunately, Win2k was pretty sketchy on qemu last time I checked, and I really didn't have the time to fuck with it, which is why I commandeered an old Windows machine.
Indeed. It's also theoretically possible to use FreeS/WAN and OpenS/WAN as a VPN client.
Unfortunately, though, the SmartWhatever management console is Windows-only, and it doesn't really work in WINE. I suppose it'd be possible to edit the policies by hand, but the prospect of doing that is pretty frightening. Hence, the crufty old 2K box on my KVM switch.
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Hear hear.
I'm working on my BS in IT (pun intended), but I've been a Linux user and/or admin for going on six years. Though I've been using one distro or another as my primary desktop for maybe 95% of that time, I've got no special disdain for the Windows users I have to support at work. We're platform neutral as much as possible. I learned to be an administrator by playing around with Linux (and to some degree, Solaris); that's what I'm most comfortable with, but I like to use the right tool for the job.
Anyway, I've got to take an Active Directory class this quarter. The instructor is a university admin with 10+ years of NT administration experience under his belt. He's a nice enough guy on an interpersonal level, but the level of absolute LOATHING that he's got for ANY non-Microsoft platform is kinda disturbing.
He's spent literally 1/3 of the first two classes trash-talking open source and *nix and doing fist-pumping, chest-thumping tributes to Redmond. Some of it has a basis in reality (eg, I doubt I'd necessarily wanna use Samba as my PDC with 60,000 users), but most of it is 10 year old aphorisms and bullshit TCO numbers that he made up five minutes earlier. The remainder is just insanity. For example, he claimed that Apache can't do virtual domains.
I don't know if that's typical in the Windows world or what - it's the first time I've run in to it, but I've never had to deal with many MS-types. Maybe I've been coddled by getting my career started at a small company full of *nix zealots and bosses who trust me to make the right decisions.
According to an electronic memo from FBI headquarters, established legal precedents indicate that conviction is most likely in cases where the content "includes bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior."
Not much of a clue, but still.
I suppose I can understand an anti-bestiality crackdown. But where's the harm in watching a grown man eat poop?
I've found the crappy little calendar on my phone is actually more convenient, since I'm not the type who actually carries a PDA around with me all day.
On the other hand, with a CF ethernet, modem, and wifi card, it's turned out to be pretty handy for network troubleshooting, ssh, etc.
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Your margins on the merch are way better, and the beer is free.
If they made a 2GB version and sold it for, say, $160, I'd be all over it. 1.5GB for songs, 512MB for misc files, and no freakin' cables? More Kool-Aid, please!
I've got some crow to eat, too - when it first came out, I knocked them for not having a screen. Now, though, I'm attempting to minimize the amount of crap I haul around in my pockets, and the utility has become clear to me.
Lest you think me female/gay/metro, let me please restate that iTunes sucks. Thank you.
Though I've never tried installing the server, I _have_ successfully faked out the Oracle 10 client installer on Sarge by adding an /etc/version* file. Though if you actually need support from Oracle, it's probably not a good idea.
*I can't remember exactly what it is at the moment... whatever Redhat uses. If you really wanna know, I can take a look at work tomorrow.
Because his team leverages best-of-breed systems to utilize the synergistic effects of the paradigm shift in relationships among stakeholders and the knowledge infrastructure, silly.
Step 3 - Make An Appointment
While all vendors on the show floor will talk to you about their products, you'll score major points and free stuff if you make an appointment to talk to them. This way the company is expecting you and will be prepare to give you their booth tour. After the tour, they always present you with a goodie bag fill with company information and, you guest it, free stuff!
Attend The CES Parties
Companies that put on parties at CES always have something to give to their guests when they leave. And there are tons of parties to attend during the 5 days that CES runs for. The problem is most, if not all, of the parties are invite only. Don't let this stop you however. Many times you can get an invite by emailing the company or going to their booth and asking for one. This really is the best way to get free stuff because you also get to attend a party as well.
Many companies that throw CES parties will have prizes to give away. That's how I got the Sony PSP. The best thing is many of these contests are the "can't lose" type. In other words, everyone who enters wins something.
Walk The Show Floor On The Last Day
The last day of CES is moving out day. This is best time to get your hands on tons of free stuff. Companies are packing things up to take home and many times they will lose their packing boxes. This is the best time to approach them to ask if there's anything they want to give away and not take home? It's amazing the amount times they will say "Help yourself to whatever you like." This is because it can cost them more to ship the products back home than the product is worth.
You won't get big items, like plasma TVs, for free but many times the companies will sell it to you for a stupidly low price. I remember one year when RCA was the official TV of CES and had their displays scatter throughout the convention center. Instead of packing the $3,000 TVs home, they offered it anyone who was willing to pay $500 for it.
Another reason to walk the show floor on the last day is you will find many abandon booths with stuff still left behind. Most of the time, the stuff is junk but you will come across some really nice stuff once in a while.
However, I've managed to get her interested in a female SF author who writes strong female characters, which I'm rather proud of: Kay Kenyon. Some of her stuff may be a little too strong for pre-teens, but any teenager, male or female, who's in to relatively intelligent ass-kickemups should enjoy it.
Bingo. This isn't like some company deciding to forgo upgrading MS Office every two years. This is like deciding to run Cat3 in your house, instead of 5e or 6, because you've currently only got a 100Mbit hub.
Can you see the irony in being required to pay money to be something other than a "good little consumer"?
Oh, and before you try to convince me that "average" users don't want to host their own content, please consider the popularity of Kazaa, Blogger, Flickr, del.icio.us, Podcasting, Myspace, and the world ending when mp3.com went tits up. There are plenty of non-geeks who want to create and share information on the net, and they're currently mostly limited to using a somebody else's machine to do it for them, because the barrier to being a "server" is so high.
What if the "average" user wants to host their own content, without worrying about some external entity having control over it?
That was the original point of the Internet - not to differentiate between content/service "providers" and "consumers," but to enable redundant p2p information sharing.
Actually, it'll eliminate the need for costly conversions to a new standard for a period of time, after which we'll all need to upgrade anyway, when it'll be even more costly.
Ladid's main point seems to be that NAT-proponents take this kind of short-term, client/server-centric view. There's nothing wrong with client/server, but it's a significant hinderance for independent development of things like VoIP, where peer-to-peer makes far more sense.
Basically, it's not just that we're running out of address space; it's also that treating NAT like anything other than a (relatively) short-term fix ultimately hinders the development of new uses for the internets.
Huh?
I'm taking issue with your statement that HIV is spread through irresponsible behavior (presumably, butt sex and spiking), and therefore sufferers should be left to "take care of themselves." That's pretty excreable. It's the same as saying that if you're going 66mph in a 65 zone, you should have no right to medical care should you manage to get in a wreck.
I don't personally believe the guy should be forced to submit to further testing, but I've got no problem with making him feel like a douche about it.
So we stop spending money on breast cancer research, because women could just lop off their titties at puberty and avoid the whole thing.
And we stop spending money on cardiovascular research and diabetes, because with the exception of people who got that way genetically, the vast majority of sufferers got that way from being irresponsible fatasses.
Or maybe we just accept the fact that we don't have the moral authority to decide whether a person deserves to be sick or not. Got a cold? You should have been wearing a HEPA filter over your face.
On the other hand, anybody who makes a living writing books about why it's a bad idea to do it should probably be cock-punched, too.
I've sat through waaaay too many seminars taught by swaggering little ex-cop six sigma management flunkies who vomit out more technical jargon and meaningless acronyms about proccess and procedures and ISO and SOX and their frickin' CISSPs than the most autistic assembler programmer.
I was at one time considering a move toward the coporate network security area versus my current more traditional sysadmin job, but the amount of wanking that goes on at the management level in infosec would probably make me go postal.
Sorry for blathering, but this is kind of a sensitive topic for me lately.
You're wrong.
Among other things, illegals contribute about $7 billion/year to Social Security that they'll never collect.
Cite.
Not that I've got a problem with it; I think it's funny as hell.
The detective in the linked story said it best:
Anyway, I've lost count of the number of movies and TV shows I've seen where the presidential seal figures prominently in a scene or two. I wonder if they're planning on sending C&D's to the studios; after all, some idiot might think that Martin Sheen is really the President.
This 100% true story from a couple of years ago seems especially apropos.
I've thought about it, but I chicken out every time.
I used to carry around a bag with a USB hard drive, a USB thumb drive, a Cybertool, a cell phone (provided and required by work), a note pad, pens, pencils, and a Zaurus. Of course, I also needed the wifi card for the Zaurus, and the ethernet card with a cable, and a modem with a phone cord, just in case I needed to get in to work and there wasn't an access point handy.
Plus an umbrella. And a pack of Imitrex.
Then I realized I was basically carrying a purse.
I swapped the Cybertool for a nifty little knife that lives on my keychain with the pill case for my migraine meds and my Ritalin, ditched the hard drive, and bought a pocket-sized weekly calendar for ten bucks to replace the Zaurus. A selection of my mp3 collection lives is on my hard drive at work. I just listen to NPR when I'm in the car, which is where I keep the umbrella.
If/when I leave my current job, and my new employer doesn't require that I have a cell, I won't be replacing it.
In case you haven't figured it out, I've got some pretty harsh ADD. I've found that minimizing the ton of crap that I used to cart around with me has made life a helluva lot easier to handle.
Oh, and when I'm bored and I need something to do while waiting for a bus or eating at a restaurant, I buy a newspaper. It's amazing, really.
You know you're fucked when you're typing a paper in MS Word, and reflexively hit :w every time you want to save.
Ha. I know it, and you know it, but try telling it to my boss. I just count myself lucky that I'm allowed to run anything I want on my workstation.
Unfortunately, Win2k was pretty sketchy on qemu last time I checked, and I really didn't have the time to fuck with it, which is why I commandeered an old Windows machine.
Unfortunately, though, the SmartWhatever management console is Windows-only, and it doesn't really work in WINE. I suppose it'd be possible to edit the policies by hand, but the prospect of doing that is pretty frightening. Hence, the crufty old 2K box on my KVM switch.
Hear hear.
I'm working on my BS in IT (pun intended), but I've been a Linux user and/or admin for going on six years. Though I've been using one distro or another as my primary desktop for maybe 95% of that time, I've got no special disdain for the Windows users I have to support at work. We're platform neutral as much as possible. I learned to be an administrator by playing around with Linux (and to some degree, Solaris); that's what I'm most comfortable with, but I like to use the right tool for the job.
Anyway, I've got to take an Active Directory class this quarter. The instructor is a university admin with 10+ years of NT administration experience under his belt. He's a nice enough guy on an interpersonal level, but the level of absolute LOATHING that he's got for ANY non-Microsoft platform is kinda disturbing.
He's spent literally 1/3 of the first two classes trash-talking open source and *nix and doing fist-pumping, chest-thumping tributes to Redmond. Some of it has a basis in reality (eg, I doubt I'd necessarily wanna use Samba as my PDC with 60,000 users), but most of it is 10 year old aphorisms and bullshit TCO numbers that he made up five minutes earlier. The remainder is just insanity. For example, he claimed that Apache can't do virtual domains.
I don't know if that's typical in the Windows world or what - it's the first time I've run in to it, but I've never had to deal with many MS-types. Maybe I've been coddled by getting my career started at a small company full of *nix zealots and bosses who trust me to make the right decisions.
Not much of a clue, but still.
I suppose I can understand an anti-bestiality crackdown. But where's the harm in watching a grown man eat poop?
Dittoed.
I've found the crappy little calendar on my phone is actually more convenient, since I'm not the type who actually carries a PDA around with me all day.
On the other hand, with a CF ethernet, modem, and wifi card, it's turned out to be pretty handy for network troubleshooting, ssh, etc.