Again you must look at it internationally as well, US laws, do not necessarily apply in other countries. Also if the machine has been classified by the company, or government.
Most jobs, I have seen recently have non-compete clauses that can have many clauses, among many others.
Some of the clauses, seen.
- Non Compete, for 6 months after you leave their employment.
- Non Compete without permission until either the company or you have ceased to exist.
- All things done on company owned property is property of the company. This can be from writing your own code to your resume. (Open Source coders have to be aware of this one, as the company can enforce their rights and the next question, oh but how will they know, some companies I have seen, the machines had keyloggers and such on them)
- All things done while under the employ of a company can be property of the company. This leads to, a company developing an online calculator, and you create a New eco-friendly engine, that runs on water, they could take this as their own property.
For Contractors, there are also some clauses
- All work done under the contract is the property of the company, you may not use it for your portfolio, or use it in other applications.
They also sometimes will have non-compete clauses.
Other items to look for in a contract, who will own patents, and remember the company itself may have a process patent, though it may not be valid anymore, but even going through court with it being invalid, could still be costly. Research based companies usually have clauses regarding patentable items, and usually they are more all-inclusive, such as all work done towards patents while you work for them is property of the company (though sometimes it's good, because they also have the money to spend to research the patentability, and to do the patent work)
The basic rule, read the contract in full detail, and if you have any questions, talk to a lawyer. Or move on, and find something new to do.
First I do find one positive with the current changes, with Halloween being part of DST now, it's easier for younger kids to go out with daylight. Parents could get their kids out and back, when it's still relatively light.
But either way up north DST doesn't always make a lot of difference, except that it does mean that we don't have sunrise at 4:30am and sunset at 8:30pm. Compared to the 5:30am to 9:30pm.
One problem with Elastic Bands, is that they dry out and become brittle over time, the vibration could in itself cause them to break. To prevent this, it would require going in on a regular basis and replacing the elastic bands, or adding moisture to them.
If I recall, there was a/. article a few years ago that this is pretty much all it was. It was basically a UPS for Peak power time(though not sold as such), to reduce your peak power demand. At night it would charge the batteries and during the day it would feed back the power.
Why not spend the money on developing mram to be used for storage, then you can shutdown and startup really fast. Oh wait Microsoft will find a way to slow that down anyways.
Not only is this news for nerds, it's new for fisherman, earthworm admirers, birds, fish, and the mighty wormavore.
Kernel changes I wanted in as of v1.0
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Way back when, I made a comment that the kernel should, be more modular, that was done. But I also stated that the development of the Kernel, and the Drivers should be seperated.
This is to save on these massive downloads required these days, also to allow for faster development of both kernels, and drivers.
One requirement of this, would be to build out driver stubs, so that there would be standardize the communication between the kernel and the drivers.
- Some of the benefits would be to have faster development schedules.
- Reduce the downloads.
- Provide a method for Hardware modules to communicate with the kernel. Allows for commercial modules to be used, and to provide a method for the kernels to be developed without kernel specific code.
- Removes the requirement for kernel specific modules. Some hardware doesn't have even upto date drivers because of changes with the kernel. (VMWare has this problem with the VMWare-Tools, considering the code hasn't changed that much there is at least 2 #ifdef's for the 2.6.* kernels).
- Allows for urgent updates of individual drivers. eg. e1000
- Distributions would upgrade more frequently, instead of back porting some fixes.
- Reduced bandwidth requirements, don't have to download a 50-60M tar.gz for the kernel, or 17+M for the kernel.
- Ultimately, it would eliminate a person from making a change in an area of the kernel, that affects many other modules, which results in changes in those modules or bugs in those modules.
All of this would allow for greater development speed, improved security, reduction of bugs.
This isn't news, unless you state it has created a new ocean today. Which if it has, we better put our heads between our legs and kiss our butts goodbye.
in the dotcom era, there was a english company trying to buy decomissioned oil rigs, to use them as Datacenters. At the time they had both Fibre and Satellite uplinks. You may also be able to change these rigs to generate green power as well.
I see many options as potential to limit the security risks.
1) DNS moves to TCP only, the negative side to this, DNS becomes slower.
2) A simple solution, might be to modify the resolvers, so they resolve from multiple sources, and compare the responses. These could both be from the same server or from companion servers in the same network.
3)Add a token to the DNS query. This could be done via a hash with the hostname and a salt.
4) Single level Recursion, each level will only request from an upstream dns server, allows for limiting access, but requires a complete overhaul of the DNS infrastructure.
5) DNSSEC
One issue that people seem to realize is that with a self-signed certificate is the whole man in the middle attack, it really doesn't add a great deal of security. With the DNS cache poisioning attacks, Gratitious ARP, an attacker can actually use this to his benefit. If someone is always adding the same certificate, they will just add the certificate without reviewing it.
At one of my pervious companies, the mail system was available via web, and some one got personal information because the mail admins refused to spend the money on a certificate and people became so accustomed to allowing certificates because of them, that when a change occured, people just thought it was a change in certificate and they had access to the information.
If you really want to secure it, don't do self-signed, build out a local PKI infrastructure that signs, and add that certificate to your browser. You have more control even, but again I wouldn't use it for external clients.
As for the author, it's not Firefox alone IE7 does the same thing.
The one solution for you people who want it free, is to encourage the browsers to support CACert(www.cacert.org), which uses a web of trust infrastucture
I actually went out originally and bought Acronis True Image Home http://www.acronis.com/, for my home system, it's already saved me once.
- It does disk images, as well as file based images.
- Incremental and Differential
- Scheduled backups
- Password Protected images.
- Operates online to do images.
Also if you use the Secure Zone, you can do live restores (Acronis Snap Restore), which would allow you to start a complete restore of the system, and after the essential files are loaded up, it would boot up and restore files in the background, so you can run the system while it's in the process of restoring the complete system.
But for $50 US it's a good steal.. My only issue is that you lose download rights after a certain period of time, unless you pay more for that. That I would like changed, but for $50 it's already saved me once. And at work it's become very useful, especially the workstation version that can make images to FTP servers, instead of requiring special severs. Also they have a Universal Restore addon option, that replaces the drivers in the HAL for XP.. though it doesn't work for Unix, but it's not often hard to make a unix box work with new hardware (as long are your modifying the correct kernel).
j.
Again we don't know what the full effect of these attacks are, it does state he attacked "Seattle's Northwest Hospital" what if this attack caused 1 or more important systems to die. I know many hospitals around here, are computerizing the control of their power distribution, in the building or other internal services such as your records.
Now depending on what was done, if it was a simple DoS of the computers, he could have knocked caused internal services to be interrupted, if it was a Trojan, what says he couldn't steal personal information, for fraud or other crimes.
But there's another part of the equation, the cost to the companies themselves and organizations themselves, I think DoD can cover their costs, with cleaning up. But what about the other organizations like the hospital, or school board, their costs ineviable get passed down to the consumer, in this case children, or the ill.
So be aware the damages may not be so cut and dry, or so linearly connected, or even time wise connected, again what if his actions caused someone to die earlier, the manslaughter laws in many places only allows for killing the person "prematurely" in the act of committing a crime.
My 2 cents, or has inflation raised it to 5 cents now.
J.
Well VMWare and Wyse have come out and released a new Wyse Thin Client that supports VMware's remote console.
http://www.wyse.com/about/news/pr/2006/0802_VMware VDI.asp
There is a seminar going around for this, but you might have to ask either VMware or Wyse about this.
People seem to forget the Mail-in rebates are not done by the stores themself, but by the manufacturer through a 3rd party. Though Mail-in rebates still suck the big one. The should just get rid of them.
J.
One thing that all of the people have forgotten is that The law of conservation of energy. How does having all of these Windmills, and Ocean current turbines, and such effect our environment. Remembering that both the winds and ocean currents influence global weather patterns.
Now when we put up these millions of devices up, could we not be causing environmental damage anyways. It might explain why the winters are so damn cold, or it could just be old age too.
Just what I have been thinking about.
Most consumer routing products are quite capable of running IPv6 if (keyword here) it gets compiled into the binary. Most of the products I have seen are running some form of Linux firmware. Most of the higher end networking products have had IPv6 for many years, though some products may need CAM cards to take advantage of this.
My only issue for IPv6 is older operating systems that are still used, in the consumer market, Win9x, WinNT, and even Win2k do not have IPv6 stacks (though Win2k last I remember had a beta version available).
But this is where the NAT to IPv4 address space would be more useful. But again there was one RFC out in the 80's that could have given us more time, by giving new classes of IP Addresses, in smaller blocks then a/24. But that's an argument for another day.
One thing that people seem to forget with Batteries. THEY ARE TOXIC WASTE!! From Car Batteries down to your everyday AA battery. A quote from http://www.cawrecycles.org/
"Virtually all household batteries, including rechargeable and one-time use (alkaline) batteries, contain hazardous materials and their disposal in landfill is prohibited. As many as 300 million batteries are landfilled in California each year."
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Again you must look at it internationally as well, US laws, do not necessarily apply in other countries. Also if the machine has been classified by the company, or government.
Most jobs, I have seen recently have non-compete clauses that can have many clauses, among many others.
Some of the clauses, seen.
- Non Compete, for 6 months after you leave their employment.
- Non Compete without permission until either the company or you have ceased to exist.
- All things done on company owned property is property of the company. This can be from writing your own code to your resume. (Open Source coders have to be aware of this one, as the company can enforce their rights and the next question, oh but how will they know, some companies I have seen, the machines had keyloggers and such on them)
- All things done while under the employ of a company can be property of the company. This leads to, a company developing an online calculator, and you create a New eco-friendly engine, that runs on water, they could take this as their own property.
For Contractors, there are also some clauses
- All work done under the contract is the property of the company, you may not use it for your portfolio, or use it in other applications.
They also sometimes will have non-compete clauses.
Other items to look for in a contract, who will own patents, and remember the company itself may have a process patent, though it may not be valid anymore, but even going through court with it being invalid, could still be costly. Research based companies usually have clauses regarding patentable items, and usually they are more all-inclusive, such as all work done towards patents while you work for them is property of the company (though sometimes it's good, because they also have the money to spend to research the patentability, and to do the patent work)
The basic rule, read the contract in full detail, and if you have any questions, talk to a lawyer. Or move on, and find something new to do.
First I do find one positive with the current changes, with Halloween being part of DST now, it's easier for younger kids to go out with daylight. Parents could get their kids out and back, when it's still relatively light.
But either way up north DST doesn't always make a lot of difference, except that it does mean that we don't have sunrise at 4:30am and sunset at 8:30pm. Compared to the 5:30am to 9:30pm.
Shouldn't it have been Stupid .+ Tricks. Though Next week it will be stupid human tricks.
One problem with Elastic Bands, is that they dry out and become brittle over time, the vibration could in itself cause them to break. To prevent this, it would require going in on a regular basis and replacing the elastic bands, or adding moisture to them.
Here are links to both the Article and the company referred to in the article.
Store Your Own Juice
Gridpoint
If I recall, there was a /. article a few years ago that this is pretty much all it was. It was basically a UPS for Peak power time(though not sold as such), to reduce your peak power demand. At night it would charge the batteries and during the day it would feed back the power.
Why not spend the money on developing mram to be used for storage, then you can shutdown and startup really fast. Oh wait Microsoft will find a way to slow that down anyways.
Not only is this news for nerds, it's new for fisherman, earthworm admirers, birds, fish, and the mighty wormavore.
This is to save on these massive downloads required these days, also to allow for faster development of both kernels, and drivers.
One requirement of this, would be to build out driver stubs, so that there would be standardize the communication between the kernel and the drivers.
- Some of the benefits would be to have faster development schedules.
- Reduce the downloads.
- Provide a method for Hardware modules to communicate with the kernel. Allows for commercial modules to be used, and to provide a method for the kernels to be developed without kernel specific code.
- Removes the requirement for kernel specific modules. Some hardware doesn't have even upto date drivers because of changes with the kernel. (VMWare has this problem with the VMWare-Tools, considering the code hasn't changed that much there is at least 2 #ifdef's for the 2.6.* kernels).
- Allows for urgent updates of individual drivers. eg. e1000
- Distributions would upgrade more frequently, instead of back porting some fixes.
- Reduced bandwidth requirements, don't have to download a 50-60M tar.gz for the kernel, or 17+M for the kernel.
- Ultimately, it would eliminate a person from making a change in an area of the kernel, that affects many other modules, which results in changes in those modules or bugs in those modules.
All of this would allow for greater development speed, improved security, reduction of bugs.
This isn't news, unless you state it has created a new ocean today. Which if it has, we better put our heads between our legs and kiss our butts goodbye.
in the dotcom era, there was a english company trying to buy decomissioned oil rigs, to use them as Datacenters. At the time they had both Fibre and Satellite uplinks. You may also be able to change these rigs to generate green power as well.
I see many options as potential to limit the security risks. 1) DNS moves to TCP only, the negative side to this, DNS becomes slower. 2) A simple solution, might be to modify the resolvers, so they resolve from multiple sources, and compare the responses. These could both be from the same server or from companion servers in the same network. 3)Add a token to the DNS query. This could be done via a hash with the hostname and a salt. 4) Single level Recursion, each level will only request from an upstream dns server, allows for limiting access, but requires a complete overhaul of the DNS infrastructure. 5) DNSSEC
One issue that people seem to realize is that with a self-signed certificate is the whole man in the middle attack, it really doesn't add a great deal of security. With the DNS cache poisioning attacks, Gratitious ARP, an attacker can actually use this to his benefit. If someone is always adding the same certificate, they will just add the certificate without reviewing it. At one of my pervious companies, the mail system was available via web, and some one got personal information because the mail admins refused to spend the money on a certificate and people became so accustomed to allowing certificates because of them, that when a change occured, people just thought it was a change in certificate and they had access to the information. If you really want to secure it, don't do self-signed, build out a local PKI infrastructure that signs, and add that certificate to your browser. You have more control even, but again I wouldn't use it for external clients. As for the author, it's not Firefox alone IE7 does the same thing. The one solution for you people who want it free, is to encourage the browsers to support CACert(www.cacert.org), which uses a web of trust infrastucture
Qmail I think is the best bloatfree software I have seen. The only problem with it is setting it up is a little on the annoying side.
I actually went out originally and bought Acronis True Image Home http://www.acronis.com/, for my home system, it's already saved me once. - It does disk images, as well as file based images. - Incremental and Differential - Scheduled backups - Password Protected images. - Operates online to do images. Also if you use the Secure Zone, you can do live restores (Acronis Snap Restore), which would allow you to start a complete restore of the system, and after the essential files are loaded up, it would boot up and restore files in the background, so you can run the system while it's in the process of restoring the complete system. But for $50 US it's a good steal.. My only issue is that you lose download rights after a certain period of time, unless you pay more for that. That I would like changed, but for $50 it's already saved me once. And at work it's become very useful, especially the workstation version that can make images to FTP servers, instead of requiring special severs. Also they have a Universal Restore addon option, that replaces the drivers in the HAL for XP.. though it doesn't work for Unix, but it's not often hard to make a unix box work with new hardware (as long are your modifying the correct kernel). j.
Again we don't know what the full effect of these attacks are, it does state he attacked "Seattle's Northwest Hospital" what if this attack caused 1 or more important systems to die. I know many hospitals around here, are computerizing the control of their power distribution, in the building or other internal services such as your records. Now depending on what was done, if it was a simple DoS of the computers, he could have knocked caused internal services to be interrupted, if it was a Trojan, what says he couldn't steal personal information, for fraud or other crimes. But there's another part of the equation, the cost to the companies themselves and organizations themselves, I think DoD can cover their costs, with cleaning up. But what about the other organizations like the hospital, or school board, their costs ineviable get passed down to the consumer, in this case children, or the ill. So be aware the damages may not be so cut and dry, or so linearly connected, or even time wise connected, again what if his actions caused someone to die earlier, the manslaughter laws in many places only allows for killing the person "prematurely" in the act of committing a crime. My 2 cents, or has inflation raised it to 5 cents now. J.
Well VMWare and Wyse have come out and released a new Wyse Thin Client that supports VMware's remote console. http://www.wyse.com/about/news/pr/2006/0802_VMware VDI.asp
There is a seminar going around for this, but you might have to ask either VMware or Wyse about this.
People seem to forget the Mail-in rebates are not done by the stores themself, but by the manufacturer through a 3rd party. Though Mail-in rebates still suck the big one. The should just get rid of them. J.
This guy has a better idea to liquid cooling. Just look, there's no need for me to say anything more. http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=submersion .html
One thing that all of the people have forgotten is that The law of conservation of energy. How does having all of these Windmills, and Ocean current turbines, and such effect our environment. Remembering that both the winds and ocean currents influence global weather patterns. Now when we put up these millions of devices up, could we not be causing environmental damage anyways. It might explain why the winters are so damn cold, or it could just be old age too. Just what I have been thinking about.
How about creating a patent for the US Government, then you can take them to court over patent infringements
Then there is Vista, at least one of the many many many many versions
Most consumer routing products are quite capable of running IPv6 if (keyword here) it gets compiled into the binary. Most of the products I have seen are running some form of Linux firmware. Most of the higher end networking products have had IPv6 for many years, though some products may need CAM cards to take advantage of this. My only issue for IPv6 is older operating systems that are still used, in the consumer market, Win9x, WinNT, and even Win2k do not have IPv6 stacks (though Win2k last I remember had a beta version available). But this is where the NAT to IPv4 address space would be more useful. But again there was one RFC out in the 80's that could have given us more time, by giving new classes of IP Addresses, in smaller blocks then a /24. But that's an argument for another day.
One thing that people seem to forget with Batteries. THEY ARE TOXIC WASTE!! From Car Batteries down to your everyday AA battery. A quote from http://www.cawrecycles.org/ "Virtually all household batteries, including rechargeable and one-time use (alkaline) batteries, contain hazardous materials and their disposal in landfill is prohibited. As many as 300 million batteries are landfilled in California each year."