In the last case I would go to court and he would have to prove his accusations, or pay me damages
Only under legal systems derived from British common law, others (including the US?) lay the burden of proof on you. They require you to prove that you are not an unwashed sodomite rather than the other way round. Unfortunately this is one area where British law is sadly lacking (i.e. a libel defendant is presumed guilty until proven otherwise).
I could, but as a sometime denizen of the Monastery I know that using the correct tool for the job (Pan) is an easier option and avoids unnecessary ork;)
None that I'm aware of. RFC2616 does not specify the referer header as being required, it merely allows it's implementation. Nowhere does it stipulate that access to a site may not be refused based on the value of the referer either so I guess that puts paid to arguments that Opera and Mozilla break the standards.
Many 'programmers' these days really know nothing about computers. I know it's a scary concept but it's true. I work tech support and I'm a hobbyist who dabbles in a little programming from time to time (been doing it 20 years so I've picked up a thing or two) and yet I constantly find that, outside the areas where they work, many of these guys know next to nothing. They just aren't the geek Gods any more, they're business analysts who did a course on Java.
That said, we have at least one Oracle God. He may not know computers in general but he knows the entire Oracle system inside out, back to front, and sideways. He's expensive but oh boy is he worth it, he never has to clean up when it hits the fan because he makes sure it never hits the fan in the first place but if it DID hit the fan he's someone I'd definitely want around to pick up the pieces.
You're right, I did mean Goering. You're also right to a certain extent about Murdoch although Bush and Blair have certainly given him plenty to work with. I think it's safe to say that Murdoch is the most powerful person in the world right now.
Is it, in fact, enough safer that we can feel justified in basically ticking off the entire rest of the world aside from England
Don't think we're not pissed off, we are. We just don't blame you, we blame Blair for being such a slimy bastard and ignoring the largest protest ever held in the UK. Oh, and your media for skewing things to the point where a large part of the US has gone from opposing the war to supporting it (insert Goebels quote about patriotism here).
I also recognize that it is not gaurentteed to produce a more stable or more representative or more efffective from of government.
Who says a government has to be effective? I'd consider an ineffectual government that doesn't interfere in my life to be a huge improvement on the current interfering, lying, nannying swine we have in the UK.
It's still the lead story over here and the site is up and not too slow, it died briefly under the initial rush but overall I'd say it's performed much better than most.
I should add, I'm the author of that little benchmark you mentioned:)
I think you'll find he can't produce the code because he wouldn't recognise it if you hit him over the head with it. He seems to be under the impression that it's a seperate component and not part of an existing one and seriously believes it's a complex piece of work when it's trivial (I hope Emir charged him a boatload of cash for those 9 lines).
Parent is not insightful. This has been said 100000000000 times before. Slashdot mods suck, and only mod up posts they agree with.
Parent is informative. Under UK law the definition of theft is "Dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it" and US law is basically the same. In the case of file sharing the property owner is not permanently deprived of their property therefore it's not theft.
I'm not an apologist for file sharers but copyright infringement is not theft, it's copyright infringement. That's why it's called copyright infringement and not theft.
As a side note, if the RIAA did manage to get copyright infringement redefined as theft then "I didn't know" would become a valid defence as the dishonesty requirement would not be met.
Paxman. Right, uh . . can you help us with this then . . ?
You stated in your statement that the Leader of the Opposition had said that I (that is, you) personally told Mr Lewis that the governor of Parkhurst should be suspended immediately, and that when Mr Lewis objected as it was an operational matter, "I threatened to INSTRUCT HIM to do it".
Derek Lewis says "Howard had CERTAINLY told me that the Governor of Parkhurst should be suspended, and had threatened to overrule me". Are you saying Mr Lewis is lying ?
Howard. I have given a full account of this, and the position is what I told the House of Commons, and let me tell you what the position is ..
Paxman. (Interrupts) So you ARE saying that Mr Lewis lied ?
Howard. (re-interrupts) Let me tell you exactly what the position is. I was entitled to be consulted and I was consulted, I was entitled to express an opinion and I did express an opinion. I was not entitled to INSTRUCT Derek Lewis what to do, and I did NOT instruct him what to do.
Paxman. Well, HIS version ..
Howard. And you will understand and recall that Mr Marriot was NOT suspended, he was MOVED, and Derek Lewis told the select committee of the House of Commons that it was his opinion, Derek Lewis's opinion, that he should be moved immediately. That is what happened.
Paxman. Mr Lewis says "I (that is, Mr Lewis), told him what we had decided about Marriot, and why" . . "he, (that is, you), exploded - simply moving the governor was politically unpalatable, it sounded indecisive, it would be seen as a fudge. If I did not change my mind and suspend Marriot he would have to consider overruling me."
Howard. Mr Marriot ..
Paxman. You can't BOTH be right.
Howard. Mr Marriot was NOT suspended. I was entitled to express my views, I was entitled to be consulted ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. I . . I . . was not entitled to INSTRUCT Derek Lewis, and I did not instruct him.
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. The truth of the matter is that Mr Marriot was not suspended. I ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . . did not ..overrule Derek Lewis.
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you THREATEN to overrule him ?
Howard. I took advice on what I could or could not do ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him Mr Howard ?
Howard. . . and I acted scrupulously in accordance with that advice, I did NOT overrule Derek Lewis ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . Mr Marriot was NOT suspended.
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. (pauses). I have accounted for my decision to dismiss Derek Lewis ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . in GREAT detail, before the House of Commons ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) I note that you're not answering the question of whether you THREATENED to overrule him.
Howard. Well, the important aspect of this which is very clear to bear in mind ..
Paxman. (Interrupting) I'm sorry, I'm going to be frightfully rude, I'm sorry, but it's a straight yes or no question which requires a straight yes or no answer. Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. I discussed this matter with Derek Lewis. I gave him the benefit of my opinion. I gave him the benefit of my opinion in strong language. But I did not instruct him because I was not ENTITLED to instruct him, I was entitled to express my opinion, and that is what I did.
Paxman. With respect, that is NOT answering the question of whether you THREATENED to overrule him.
if you need a command line, it is only because the author of your software was TOOO GOD DAMN FUCKING LAZY to spend a little bit of time making a usable GUI.
Um...who mentioned software? If I want to find the free disk space on 50 mail servers all I have to do is get out my little bash script and run it. Doing this in Windows with a batch file is a nightmare (trust me, I struggled with it for ages! NT4 has no way of getting the free space on a drive without all the other junk that dir outputs) yet using bash I did it in a few minutes.
Command lines are fantastic for repetitive little jobs that need doing regularly, just script it once and next time it's a 5 second job. Word processing from a command line is (IMO) an exercise in masochism but for admin related tasks it can be a godsend.
Your phone line can be crappy enough to not allow a modem to dial out, yet still be used to make calls. This can, and does happen frequently.
This is a matter that can be diagnosed over the phone. I've never had a line so bad that the computer didn't register a dial tone though.
Phone messaging services that use a broken dial tone to indicate waiting messages (e.g. BT 1571) are a regular cause of no-dial tone errors on a laptop when the phone line is working perfectly.
4. When a manager tells you he can't log into his email, assume that he had neglected to skip every step required to log in to email before checking the email system. Managers often enjoy having their intelligence insulted.
I work a helpdesk providing first line support to around 4500 users, I can tell you from experience that the problem is usually at the users end whether they be admin assistant or director. Of course while I talk you through checking the mail settings I'm simultaneously remoting onto your mailserver and pinging your machine but you don't see that. All you will see is that I ask you to do some stuff and (barring a completely stuffed server) within 5 minutes you're back up and running. I don't have time to wase explaining everything I'm doing at my end and you aren't interested and don't have the time to listen to me. You ring, I fix quickly and efficiently. Everyone's happy. Most of the "email" problems I get are nothing to do with the mail server, it's just that being unable to access email is the first thing users notice and the most common cause is a laptop user with an improperly seated network cable.
7. When the printer won't print, and you've had the user reset his machine at least 3 times, you may then diagnose the printer. Not before.
You reset the netport while I restart the spooler (the NT server spooler is notorious but not half as much as netports are). Again, 5 minutes max and you're good to go.
10. When a project manager tells you he needed something yesterday, that means you can wait 364 days before getting it done.
If a project manager needs it yesterday then he's not managing his project very well. Give us even a days notice and we can probably do it, ask for it today and you're probably dreaming unless it's a config change. Ask for domain admin rights and you're in cloud cuckoo land, you can probably get local admin but never domain admin. No way, not never. I don't need root on your projects development boxes, you don't need domain admin rights. Oh, and when you ask for permissions we get you to complete and sign a form for a reason, we're not being awkward. It takes 2 minutes to complete, get it signed, and fax it. No we won't do it without one.
11. Even though there are commercials on the radio training idiots to do your job, you are an irreplaceable resource.
And you can be replaced by any idiot with an MBA, doesn't mean they'd be any good though. I love my job, I provide a high level of customer focused service. I help people get things done. Sometimes I have to say no in order to protect the integrity of the network or because of some policy but every day I help my users be more productive. Most of the time when users make a request where the answer is "No" it's because they don't know the proper way of doing it. I'll outline the alternative and do that for them instead.
The US economy is not doing well at all, over the last 2 years the dollar has lost 40c against the pound which is fantastic for us British consumers because we can buy all your goods for peanuts. The US economy looks like it's heading for a huge crash, some countries are already buying euros instead of dollars, the US cannot sustain it's current course without an economic disaster. Your balance of payments shows a 144.9 billion dollar deficit and no country on Earth can sustain that.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see the US economy tank even more than it already is but the writing is on the wall and we'll all suffer because of it.
Interesting address. There seem to be a few businesses coming up for that address in Google but this appears to be the main one, printers of "California's Gay Bi-weekly":)
I never use a domain registrar (like active-domain) for DNS, I use public-dns.org instead. All I want from a domain registrar is a domain registration, simple. Public-dns.org is free and extremely reliable, they also support TXT records so SPF is no problem with them.
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Surely you mean, "One of the more brilliant insights of Juvenal"? Heinlein was undoubtedly brilliant but not, on this occasion, original.
Only under legal systems derived from British common law, others (including the US?) lay the burden of proof on you. They require you to prove that you are not an unwashed sodomite rather than the other way round. Unfortunately this is one area where British law is sadly lacking (i.e. a libel defendant is presumed guilty until proven otherwise).
I could, but as a sometime denizen of the Monastery I know that using the correct tool for the job (Pan) is an easier option and avoids unnecessary ork ;)
TB can't post to the monastery though, no way to sacrifice the chicken.
It was.
None that I'm aware of. RFC2616 does not specify the referer header as being required, it merely allows it's implementation. Nowhere does it stipulate that access to a site may not be refused based on the value of the referer either so I guess that puts paid to arguments that Opera and Mozilla break the standards.
Many 'programmers' these days really know nothing about computers. I know it's a scary concept but it's true. I work tech support and I'm a hobbyist who dabbles in a little programming from time to time (been doing it 20 years so I've picked up a thing or two) and yet I constantly find that, outside the areas where they work, many of these guys know next to nothing. They just aren't the geek Gods any more, they're business analysts who did a course on Java. That said, we have at least one Oracle God. He may not know computers in general but he knows the entire Oracle system inside out, back to front, and sideways. He's expensive but oh boy is he worth it, he never has to clean up when it hits the fan because he makes sure it never hits the fan in the first place but if it DID hit the fan he's someone I'd definitely want around to pick up the pieces.
You're right, I did mean Goering. You're also right to a certain extent about Murdoch although Bush and Blair have certainly given him plenty to work with. I think it's safe to say that Murdoch is the most powerful person in the world right now.
Don't think we're not pissed off, we are. We just don't blame you, we blame Blair for being such a slimy bastard and ignoring the largest protest ever held in the UK. Oh, and your media for skewing things to the point where a large part of the US has gone from opposing the war to supporting it (insert Goebels quote about patriotism here).
Who says a government has to be effective? I'd consider an ineffectual government that doesn't interfere in my life to be a huge improvement on the current interfering, lying, nannying swine we have in the UK.
I told him to go blow a goat. He don't email me no more now :(
Parent was moderated funny but informative would be just as good, the code in question really IS an if/else round a colspan.
It's still the lead story over here and the site is up and not too slow, it died briefly under the initial rush but overall I'd say it's performed much better than most. I should add, I'm the author of that little benchmark you mentioned :)
I think you'll find he can't produce the code because he wouldn't recognise it if you hit him over the head with it. He seems to be under the impression that it's a seperate component and not part of an existing one and seriously believes it's a complex piece of work when it's trivial (I hope Emir charged him a boatload of cash for those 9 lines).
Parent is informative. Under UK law the definition of theft is "Dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it" and US law is basically the same. In the case of file sharing the property owner is not permanently deprived of their property therefore it's not theft.
I'm not an apologist for file sharers but copyright infringement is not theft, it's copyright infringement. That's why it's called copyright infringement and not theft.
As a side note, if the RIAA did manage to get copyright infringement redefined as theft then "I didn't know" would become a valid defence as the dishonesty requirement would not be met.
They missed a major free one, public-dns.org has supported TXT records for some time now.
Paxman. Right, uh . . can you help us with this then . . ?
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You stated in your statement that the Leader of the Opposition had said that I (that is, you) personally told Mr Lewis that the governor of Parkhurst should be suspended immediately, and that when Mr Lewis objected as it was an operational matter, "I threatened to INSTRUCT HIM to do it".
Derek Lewis says "Howard had CERTAINLY told me that the Governor of Parkhurst should be suspended, and had threatened to overrule me". Are you saying Mr Lewis is lying ?
Howard. I have given a full account of this, and the position is what I told the House of Commons, and let me tell you what the position is .
Paxman. (Interrupts) So you ARE saying that Mr Lewis lied ?
Howard. (re-interrupts) Let me tell you exactly what the position is. I was entitled to be consulted and I was consulted, I was entitled to express an opinion and I did express an opinion. I was not entitled to INSTRUCT Derek Lewis what to do, and I did NOT instruct him what to do.
Paxman. Well, HIS version .
Howard. And you will understand and recall that Mr Marriot was NOT suspended, he was MOVED, and Derek Lewis told the select committee of the House of Commons that it was his opinion, Derek Lewis's opinion, that he should be moved immediately. That is what happened.
Paxman. Mr Lewis says "I (that is, Mr Lewis), told him what we had decided about Marriot, and why" . . "he, (that is, you), exploded - simply moving the governor was politically unpalatable, it sounded indecisive, it would be seen as a fudge. If I did not change my mind and suspend Marriot he would have to consider overruling me."
Howard. Mr Marriot .
Paxman. You can't BOTH be right.
Howard. Mr Marriot was NOT suspended. I was entitled to express my views, I was entitled to be consulted .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. I . . I . . was not entitled to INSTRUCT Derek Lewis, and I did not instruct him.
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. The truth of the matter is that Mr Marriot was not suspended. I .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . . did not .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you THREATEN to overrule him ?
Howard. I took advice on what I could or could not do .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him Mr Howard ?
Howard. . . and I acted scrupulously in accordance with that advice, I did NOT overrule Derek Lewis .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . Mr Marriot was NOT suspended.
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. (pauses). I have accounted for my decision to dismiss Derek Lewis .
Paxman. (Interrupting) Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. . . in GREAT detail, before the House of Commons .
Paxman. (Interrupting) I note that you're not answering the question of whether you THREATENED to overrule him.
Howard. Well, the important aspect of this which is very clear to bear in mind .
Paxman. (Interrupting) I'm sorry, I'm going to be frightfully rude, I'm sorry, but it's a straight yes or no question which requires a straight yes or no answer. Did you threaten to overrule him ?
Howard. I discussed this matter with Derek Lewis. I gave him the benefit of my opinion. I gave him the benefit of my opinion in strong language. But I did not instruct him because I was not ENTITLED to instruct him, I was entitled to express my opinion, and that is what I did.
Paxman. With respect, that is NOT answering the question of whether you THREATENED to overrule him.
Howard. It's dealing with the relev
Um...who mentioned software? If I want to find the free disk space on 50 mail servers all I have to do is get out my little bash script and run it. Doing this in Windows with a batch file is a nightmare (trust me, I struggled with it for ages! NT4 has no way of getting the free space on a drive without all the other junk that dir outputs) yet using bash I did it in a few minutes.
Command lines are fantastic for repetitive little jobs that need doing regularly, just script it once and next time it's a 5 second job. Word processing from a command line is (IMO) an exercise in masochism but for admin related tasks it can be a godsend.
Phone messaging services that use a broken dial tone to indicate waiting messages (e.g. BT 1571) are a regular cause of no-dial tone errors on a laptop when the phone line is working perfectly.
I work a helpdesk providing first line support to around 4500 users, I can tell you from experience that the problem is usually at the users end whether they be admin assistant or director. Of course while I talk you through checking the mail settings I'm simultaneously remoting onto your mailserver and pinging your machine but you don't see that. All you will see is that I ask you to do some stuff and (barring a completely stuffed server) within 5 minutes you're back up and running. I don't have time to wase explaining everything I'm doing at my end and you aren't interested and don't have the time to listen to me. You ring, I fix quickly and efficiently. Everyone's happy. Most of the "email" problems I get are nothing to do with the mail server, it's just that being unable to access email is the first thing users notice and the most common cause is a laptop user with an improperly seated network cable.
You reset the netport while I restart the spooler (the NT server spooler is notorious but not half as much as netports are). Again, 5 minutes max and you're good to go.
If a project manager needs it yesterday then he's not managing his project very well. Give us even a days notice and we can probably do it, ask for it today and you're probably dreaming unless it's a config change. Ask for domain admin rights and you're in cloud cuckoo land, you can probably get local admin but never domain admin. No way, not never. I don't need root on your projects development boxes, you don't need domain admin rights. Oh, and when you ask for permissions we get you to complete and sign a form for a reason, we're not being awkward. It takes 2 minutes to complete, get it signed, and fax it. No we won't do it without one.
And you can be replaced by any idiot with an MBA, doesn't mean they'd be any good though. I love my job, I provide a high level of customer focused service. I help people get things done. Sometimes I have to say no in order to protect the integrity of the network or because of some policy but every day I help my users be more productive. Most of the time when users make a request where the answer is "No" it's because they don't know the proper way of doing it. I'll outline the alternative and do that for them instead.
The US economy is not doing well at all, over the last 2 years the dollar has lost 40c against the pound which is fantastic for us British consumers because we can buy all your goods for peanuts. The US economy looks like it's heading for a huge crash, some countries are already buying euros instead of dollars, the US cannot sustain it's current course without an economic disaster. Your balance of payments shows a 144.9 billion dollar deficit and no country on Earth can sustain that.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see the US economy tank even more than it already is but the writing is on the wall and we'll all suffer because of it.
Interesting address. There seem to be a few businesses coming up for that address in Google but this appears to be the main one, printers of "California's Gay Bi-weekly" :)
I never use a domain registrar (like active-domain) for DNS, I use public-dns.org instead. All I want from a domain registrar is a domain registration, simple. Public-dns.org is free and extremely reliable, they also support TXT records so SPF is no problem with them.