If you still have an insanely high-paying IT job, give thanks and keep saving. Chances are good that you won't have it much longer between offshore outsourcing and a whole ton of unemployed IT ppl willing to do your job for less $$$.
Let's face it. IT salaries got way ahead of themselves in during the boom. Now the pendulum swings the other way
Have you looked at what a teacher makes or any other number of degree-requiring professions? CAD$40k might sound sucky to you, but I'm betting there's a lot of unemployed IT ppl out there right now who'd take it in a snap.
Not that I love MS, but to be fair, I did get this from RH yesterday:
1. Topic:
Updated Ethereal packages that fix a number of exploitable security issues are now available.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, ia64 Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386 Red Hat Linux 8.0 - i386 Red Hat Linux 9 - i386
3. Problem description:
Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.
A number of security issues affect Ethereal. By exploiting these issues, it may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully-malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
A buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed GTP MSISDN string. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0925 to this issue.
Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed ISAKMP or MEGACO packets. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0926 to this issue.
A heap-based buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the SOCKS dissector. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0927 to this issue.
Users of Ethereal should update to these erratum packages containing Ethereal version 0.9.16, which is not vulnerable to these issues.
As somebody pointed out to me not too long ago, as long as MS talks about security holes that are remotely exploitable, I don't think Linux has anything to worry about.
Interesting that this should come up on the same day that NPR's Morning Edition [npr.org] (just audio, sorry) reported that the US is blocking an attempt by UNESCO to allow countries to subsidize their national film industries to preserve cultural identity.
Can you explain to me how UNESCO is preventing countries from preserving their cultural identity via their national film industries?
Ohhhh... I see. It's because UNESCO isn't giving them the money to help that this is happening.
If it's so gaddamned important to the affected contried, why aren't they funding it themseleves. I mean, come on, who cares more about Littledogshittia's ancient movies than Littledogshittians?
"I know this feature might be misunderstood and might PO some people. I know the manual could do a better job explaining it. These are all things that we at Belkin are working to remedy."
I am one of those unfortunate people who cannot sleep on a plane, even with 20mg of Ambien coursing through my veins (which knocks my ass flat when I'm on the ground).:(
Fortunately most of my flying is in C (thanks to a zillion FF miles) so I get laptop power. I jusst comfort myself with this week's delivery from Netflix.
Well, I routinely get 5 to 6 hours on my iPod and that is plenty for me. I have never had to have more battery life even on cross country plane flights or drives
Some of us travel internationally. My shortest flight in my 150k butt-in-seat miles this year is 11 hours. I guess I'm in the niche.
The invoice gets sent to the Accounts Payable department, who has probably never heard of the registrar because the domain was initially paid for by some worker-bee in the IT department who then used an expense report form to get reimbursed for setting it up. When renewal comes along, said worker-bee, who has listed his company's Accounts Payable department as the billing entity (because he thinks he's doing the right thing) assumes that it will be handled.
Unfortunately, the AP department deals with things like Approved Vendor Lists and Purchase Orders. Upon receiving the invoice and not being able to correlate it to either of these lists, it goes off to invoice purgatory, where it sits until somebody squawks and gets the invoice paid.
No, sarcasm is not lost on me at all. The term "sidetalking" without a link to the URL is meaningless (unless you really have so much time on your hands that looking for dorky web sites is how you spend it).
Now if it said sidetalking then that would have been sarcastic.
Now, if one were referring to sidetalking as speaking as if in an aside, let me say to the rest of the readers, "Is this guy a dick or what?"
Sticking your finger in your ear and talking into your wrist makes you look cool? I guess if you never want to get laid again, it might.
Maybe they could figure out a way to put the mouthpiece on a pinky wring. Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone. You'd still look dorky as hell, but at least people would know what you were doing.
I offer that 2/3rds of all web servers and 2/3rds of the Web are far from the same thing. While I have no firm idea how to accurately measure the Web, I'd offer that either total content or total content that is actually viewed would make for a far more intersting statistic.
Whether this makes Apache's percentage larger or smaller, I have no idea there either. I think that the claim as written is inaccurate.
Or how about just banning egregious shipping charges. You pop on over to your favorite comparison shopping portal only to find that the first N cheapest all charge $30 shipping & handling to send something weighing less than a pound via UPS Ground. eBay "Buy It Now" sellers seem especially prone to this.
They're your friends, family and/or neighbors. In short, they are people who view a computer as merely a tool, not a hobby or profession.
It would be interesting to run this every year and study trends. I expect that Joe & Mary Sixpack are becoming more aware of spam very quickly.
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Let's face it. IT salaries got way ahead of themselves in during the boom. Now the pendulum swings the other way
Have you looked at what a teacher makes or any other number of degree-requiring professions? CAD$40k might sound sucky to you, but I'm betting there's a lot of unemployed IT ppl out there right now who'd take it in a snap.
Not that I love MS, but to be fair, I did get this from RH yesterday:
1. Topic:
Updated Ethereal packages that fix a number of exploitable security issues
are now available.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, ia64
Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386
Red Hat Linux 8.0 - i386
Red Hat Linux 9 - i386
3. Problem description:
Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.
A number of security issues affect Ethereal. By exploiting these issues,
it may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by
injecting a purposefully-malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing
someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
A buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
malformed GTP MSISDN string. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0925 to
this issue.
Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (crash) via certain malformed ISAKMP or MEGACO packets. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name
CAN-2003-0926 to this issue.
A heap-based buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly
execute arbitrary code via the SOCKS dissector. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0927
to this issue.
Users of Ethereal should update to these erratum packages containing
Ethereal version 0.9.16, which is not vulnerable to these issues.
Sigh.
As somebody pointed out to me not too long ago, as long as MS talks about security holes that are remotely exploitable, I don't think Linux has anything to worry about.
Now they just need to do a press release naming the marketer that thought it up, saying that he was fired for cause. :)
Can you explain to me how UNESCO is preventing countries from preserving their cultural identity via their national film industries?
Ohhhh... I see. It's because UNESCO isn't giving them the money to help that this is happening.
If it's so gaddamned important to the affected contried, why aren't they funding it themseleves. I mean, come on, who cares more about Littledogshittia's ancient movies than Littledogshittians?
OK, using which basis then?
From what to what?
Oh please.
[grabs crotch] Remedy this!
Not me, he'd probably start using time-space continuum cheats. :)
I am one of those unfortunate people who cannot sleep on a plane, even with 20mg of Ambien coursing through my veins (which knocks my ass flat when I'm on the ground). :(
Fortunately most of my flying is in C (thanks to a zillion FF miles) so I get laptop power. I jusst comfort myself with this week's delivery from Netflix.
Some of us travel internationally. My shortest flight in my 150k butt-in-seat miles this year is 11 hours. I guess I'm in the niche.
Of course, I was doing housekeeping and they were all duplicates, but hey, I deleted them, right? :)
Unfortunately, the AP department deals with things like Approved Vendor Lists and Purchase Orders. Upon receiving the invoice and not being able to correlate it to either of these lists, it goes off to invoice purgatory, where it sits until somebody squawks and gets the invoice paid.
Now if it said sidetalking then that would have been sarcastic.
Now, if one were referring to sidetalking as speaking as if in an aside, let me say to the rest of the readers, "Is this guy a dick or what?"
Maybe they could figure out a way to put the mouthpiece on a pinky wring. Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone. You'd still look dorky as hell, but at least people would know what you were doing.
Whether this makes Apache's percentage larger or smaller, I have no idea there either. I think that the claim as written is inaccurate.
If I get too fat, I die. If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die.
I know that the charge claims to be "handling". However, it sure seems a lot more like "lowballing the cost and making it up on handling" to me.
Or how about just banning egregious shipping charges. You pop on over to your favorite comparison shopping portal only to find that the first N cheapest all charge $30 shipping & handling to send something weighing less than a pound via UPS Ground. eBay "Buy It Now" sellers seem especially prone to this.
can't the 4 of you just get together over a beer?
2) Frequent waiters buy cards to shorten their wait too.
3) The majority of waiters now have cards
4) Not enough people get screened
5) Screeners no longer alllow card holders a "free ride"
but hey, at least Brill and his investors get rich.
They're your friends, family and/or neighbors. In short, they are people who view a computer as merely a tool, not a hobby or profession. It would be interesting to run this every year and study trends. I expect that Joe & Mary Sixpack are becoming more aware of spam very quickly.
And breakign the law in many Bible Belt States. :)