I manage Unix systems so having it be wide screen helps with longer lines.
But I also write code so having a portrait screen helps when I'm reading documentation (PDFs for example).
So I have a four monitor setup. Two Landscape (one reversed above my number 1 landscape monitor) and Two Portrait; one to the left and one to the right of the two center monitors. Works well for web browsing and coding where I want more side to side screen space and gaming and works well when coding and I need directories to the left and pdfs to the right. The top screen has my debugger or Firebug if I'm working on a web page.
For me, rpg.net, tdpri.com, sport-touring.org. I also pay for access to the Ubisoft forums by buying their product (Rocksmith and $1,500 of DLC). I've paid money for other sites but stopped paying and going for various reasons. Sport-touring.net was bought out by Vertical Scope and the place is inundated by ads. The posts have dropped off quite a bit and folks are over on STo instead. Sportbikes is another one bought by Vertical Scope that I originally paid for access but dropped off of after the purchase. I paid for access to another gaming site but when they changed the layout to make it impossible to read on a tablet, I bailed and haven't been back.
I've had the Disable Advertising checkbox for Slashdot for years so I figure I've paid my dues with postings, as inane as they are:)
I also have a server for my own personal stuff that I pay about $1,000 a year for. Lots of space and ram and pretty good support. Been using them for years. I host my pictures (32,000 pics), blog, vanity site, forum for my ex's hobby, and various programming and game sites. I don't use any advertising. I figure I don't get enough traffic to justify it:)
I think the problem is if the ads weren't so intrusive, folks wouldn't go looking for an ad blocker (or write one). I think I was first annoyed (that I can recall) by the "hit the monkey" ads. I didn't click it however it was distracting. I started in on hosts file but eventually I found ABP and started using that. I use a tablet for much of my off-computer browsing and there are enough crazy ads that my browser crashes to the home screen several times a week. Just this morning I went to a news site and there was a video which auto-started.
That means you'll have more of a problem getting people off of ABP than if the ads weren't so intrusive in the beginning as to have folks looking for a solution like ABP. Heck, new users now are inundated by intrusive ads and popups not to mention drive by malware. Folks like me recommend ABP and NoScript by default.
For those of us who don't know, a "selfie stick" is just a long pole or boom with a mount for a phone so you can take a picture from farther away or without the phone being in the picture.
I've seen them mostly for folks riding on the dirt where they have a GoPro or something on the end and are taking shots of the front of the vehicle zooming through the dirt.
if the union stops working towards worker interests and starts going to management interests, then its time for now management. so once again: its important to be involved. go to your union meetings, vote in your union elections. otherwise you give up control to those who do participate....very much like our public electoral process.
Not zealotry. I'm not a fan of having to install extra software such as Ruby or other agents on every server. If I can't manage every server with the tool, then I continue using what I do now or look for a tool that doesn't need an agent. Heck, security requirements make installing extra software a bear due to dependencies. I have to manually install and chase down the additional packages. We have quite a few older systems which don't support these agents, even cfengine. So having an agentless tool to do configuration management is the goal. I am considering Ansible but if it doesn't work, I'll continue to use my ssh based scripts.
Why not? I'm using it for a couple of my sites. Comments must be approved by me and I've locked down access to the admin directory to only accept logins from my home machine.
Instead of saying "Why?", provide suggestions as to a good replacement.
"WordPress has so many security holes mostly due to unsecure themes and plugins. Why not use Drupal or at least make sure you follow these steps to secure your site."
It's just annoying to hear "what a piece of shit, what idiot uses [whatever you don't particularly like]?" Folks like me will simply disregard your comment as unhelpful and continue using whatever software (or Wine or Whiskey or Car or Programming Language or Beer or Blog Software or Linux distro (or BSD distro)) you don't particularly like.
The one that sneaks in ad emails at the top of your inbox so you click on it by accident? I've done that a few times when the connection is slow. Rat bastards.
It was a combination of similar events. He'd been caught taking video inside the company, walking around with his iPad up and recording. Evernote was the well known trigger. And he was a manager (still is just somewhere else). We are pretty picky about electronics. The sign at the front entrance says we're not allowed to bring in USB keys and other personal electronics (like laptops or wireless only tablets). But again, that is more to the "don't let personal devices access the corporate wired/wireless network" and "don't plug personal USB keys into your laptop or the servers". The company supplies hardened USB keys if necessary. Heck, we're not permitted to take pictures of servers in the data center. I have access to the data center archives so can use company approved server images (helps when we have remote hands out and we don't want the wrong server powered off).
I will say that the company deals with human lives in the US and Canada on a daily basis. We were even the subject of a recent Slashdot article:)
Having internal company correspondence, communication between groups and corporate offices will have valuable company information in Facebook's hands. We've had people walked out, fired, for using Evernote in meetings.
Remember what Zuckerman said.
"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.
I got so overwhelmed with Taiwan web server attack attempts that I finally blocked Taiwan on my old server. On the new server I use fail2ban with the additional configuration of permanently blocking IPs that repeatedly attempt to break in (that would be any ssh attempt).
Not sure why college is relevant. Quite a few of my peers here haven't gone to college and are in IT. Maybe a specialized branch requires college? On my team, half have college, half don't.
Now I'm curious. How do you make a job more attractive to women? I can think of a few things of course like sexist comments (I haven't heard a blonde joke in 10 years but there are a few opposite of sausage fest type comments; old girl's network for instance). But what job conditions make a job attractive to a woman?
Sorry. Don't drink coffee either. I was raised a bit as a Mormon (family converted about the time I expect you'd start drinking tea, coffee, alcohol; around 14) and never got the taste as a "growing up" experience. The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.
I have to agree. I deleted my linkedin account a year ago (a few months after folks started recommending me when they had no idea what my skill set was) due to the amount of spam, both email and by phone. Spam has gradually dropped to about one a week on average and no more phone calls.
You're assuming the custom application startup script on a linux system does the same thing on an HP-UX system which is where I have the issue. If exit code 5 on an HP-UX system means reboot the system and the system reboots over and over again, I would (and do) expect there to be some way of stopping it other than going into the management console, halting the reboot loop, and loading up the kernel in single user mode. That seems pretty broken. If the running of the application/service is so critical, it should simply not run or if it's critical to a followup application, there should be a message or signal to that script that tells it to not start up or just look for the service to be actually running before starting.
Dev created a startup script for their application and used an error code which upon exiting forced the HP-UX system to reboot. Which it did, over and over again. That's what happens when Dev uses Fedora to develop software on that is subsequently used on HP-UX (in this case). Still waiting on Dev to correct this.
Honestly as someone who's responsible for RHEL/CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and some oddballs, I'd be quite happy with running OpenBSD on my servers in place or even addition to RHEL. However, like Debian based systems, if the vendors we use only support Red Hat (and the other servers we have), we are pretty much stuck. Until HP and Symantec say we can use it, it's pretty much out as an option to our devs.
(Which doesn't mean they don't try to slip one in now and then, which annoys the heck out of them when we refuse the project as the environment isn't supported.)
You can ask that, but you won't get a sensible answer. What will happen instead is that they pick some other part of your post, only respond to that, and call you a misogynist, racist, or some other name.
That's odd because that is what happens when I bring up a different viewpoint. All of a sudden I'm being dogpiled because I said 'dogpiled' and 'wtf did you mean about _that_!'. It's frustrating enough that I step away from the thread and forum.
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I manage Unix systems so having it be wide screen helps with longer lines.
But I also write code so having a portrait screen helps when I'm reading documentation (PDFs for example).
So I have a four monitor setup. Two Landscape (one reversed above my number 1 landscape monitor) and Two Portrait; one to the left and one to the right of the two center monitors. Works well for web browsing and coding where I want more side to side screen space and gaming and works well when coding and I need directories to the left and pdfs to the right. The top screen has my debugger or Firebug if I'm working on a web page.
[John]
For me, rpg.net, tdpri.com, sport-touring.org. I also pay for access to the Ubisoft forums by buying their product (Rocksmith and $1,500 of DLC). I've paid money for other sites but stopped paying and going for various reasons. Sport-touring.net was bought out by Vertical Scope and the place is inundated by ads. The posts have dropped off quite a bit and folks are over on STo instead. Sportbikes is another one bought by Vertical Scope that I originally paid for access but dropped off of after the purchase. I paid for access to another gaming site but when they changed the layout to make it impossible to read on a tablet, I bailed and haven't been back.
I've had the Disable Advertising checkbox for Slashdot for years so I figure I've paid my dues with postings, as inane as they are :)
I also have a server for my own personal stuff that I pay about $1,000 a year for. Lots of space and ram and pretty good support. Been using them for years. I host my pictures (32,000 pics), blog, vanity site, forum for my ex's hobby, and various programming and game sites. I don't use any advertising. I figure I don't get enough traffic to justify it :)
[John]
Shame on you for not knowing that ladies can have girlfriends.
[John]
I think the problem is if the ads weren't so intrusive, folks wouldn't go looking for an ad blocker (or write one). I think I was first annoyed (that I can recall) by the "hit the monkey" ads. I didn't click it however it was distracting. I started in on hosts file but eventually I found ABP and started using that. I use a tablet for much of my off-computer browsing and there are enough crazy ads that my browser crashes to the home screen several times a week. Just this morning I went to a news site and there was a video which auto-started.
That means you'll have more of a problem getting people off of ABP than if the ads weren't so intrusive in the beginning as to have folks looking for a solution like ABP. Heck, new users now are inundated by intrusive ads and popups not to mention drive by malware. Folks like me recommend ABP and NoScript by default.
[John]
I didn't realize there was a "men's" chess league. Why is there a "woman's" chess league?
[John]
Ahh, that explains the regulatory issues. Thanks.
[John]
For those of us who don't know, a "selfie stick" is just a long pole or boom with a mount for a phone so you can take a picture from farther away or without the phone being in the picture.
I've seen them mostly for folks riding on the dirt where they have a GoPro or something on the end and are taking shots of the front of the vehicle zooming through the dirt.
[John]
if the union stops working towards worker interests and starts going to management interests, then its time for now management.
so once again: its important to be involved. go to your union meetings, vote in your union elections.
otherwise you give up control to those who do participate....very much like our public electoral process.
Sounds like a HOA.
[John]
Not zealotry. I'm not a fan of having to install extra software such as Ruby or other agents on every server. If I can't manage every server with the tool, then I continue using what I do now or look for a tool that doesn't need an agent. Heck, security requirements make installing extra software a bear due to dependencies. I have to manually install and chase down the additional packages. We have quite a few older systems which don't support these agents, even cfengine. So having an agentless tool to do configuration management is the goal. I am considering Ansible but if it doesn't work, I'll continue to use my ssh based scripts.
[John]
Yea, we're evaluating config management tools and have excluded puppet and chef specifically because it requires a ruby instance.
[John]
Why not? I'm using it for a couple of my sites. Comments must be approved by me and I've locked down access to the admin directory to only accept logins from my home machine.
Instead of saying "Why?", provide suggestions as to a good replacement.
"WordPress has so many security holes mostly due to unsecure themes and plugins. Why not use Drupal or at least make sure you follow these steps to secure your site."
It's just annoying to hear "what a piece of shit, what idiot uses [whatever you don't particularly like]?" Folks like me will simply disregard your comment as unhelpful and continue using whatever software (or Wine or Whiskey or Car or Programming Language or Beer or Blog Software or Linux distro (or BSD distro)) you don't particularly like.
[John]
Yep. I have to approve all comments.
[John]
The one that sneaks in ad emails at the top of your inbox so you click on it by accident? I've done that a few times when the connection is slow. Rat bastards.
[John]
It was a combination of similar events. He'd been caught taking video inside the company, walking around with his iPad up and recording. Evernote was the well known trigger. And he was a manager (still is just somewhere else). We are pretty picky about electronics. The sign at the front entrance says we're not allowed to bring in USB keys and other personal electronics (like laptops or wireless only tablets). But again, that is more to the "don't let personal devices access the corporate wired/wireless network" and "don't plug personal USB keys into your laptop or the servers". The company supplies hardened USB keys if necessary. Heck, we're not permitted to take pictures of servers in the data center. I have access to the data center archives so can use company approved server images (helps when we have remote hands out and we don't want the wrong server powered off).
I will say that the company deals with human lives in the US and Canada on a daily basis. We were even the subject of a recent Slashdot article :)
[John]
Not just no, but fuck no.
Having internal company correspondence, communication between groups and corporate offices will have valuable company information in Facebook's hands. We've had people walked out, fired, for using Evernote in meetings.
Remember what Zuckerman said.
"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.
[John]
I got so overwhelmed with Taiwan web server attack attempts that I finally blocked Taiwan on my old server. On the new server I use fail2ban with the additional configuration of permanently blocking IPs that repeatedly attempt to break in (that would be any ssh attempt).
[John]
"Based on the back cover."
[John]
Not sure why college is relevant. Quite a few of my peers here haven't gone to college and are in IT. Maybe a specialized branch requires college? On my team, half have college, half don't.
[John]
Now I'm curious. How do you make a job more attractive to women? I can think of a few things of course like sexist comments (I haven't heard a blonde joke in 10 years but there are a few opposite of sausage fest type comments; old girl's network for instance). But what job conditions make a job attractive to a woman?
[John]
*raises hand*
Sorry. Don't drink coffee either. I was raised a bit as a Mormon (family converted about the time I expect you'd start drinking tea, coffee, alcohol; around 14) and never got the taste as a "growing up" experience. The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.
[John]
I have to agree. I deleted my linkedin account a year ago (a few months after folks started recommending me when they had no idea what my skill set was) due to the amount of spam, both email and by phone. Spam has gradually dropped to about one a week on average and no more phone calls.
[John]
You're assuming the custom application startup script on a linux system does the same thing on an HP-UX system which is where I have the issue. If exit code 5 on an HP-UX system means reboot the system and the system reboots over and over again, I would (and do) expect there to be some way of stopping it other than going into the management console, halting the reboot loop, and loading up the kernel in single user mode. That seems pretty broken. If the running of the application/service is so critical, it should simply not run or if it's critical to a followup application, there should be a message or signal to that script that tells it to not start up or just look for the service to be actually running before starting.
[John]
Dev created a startup script for their application and used an error code which upon exiting forced the HP-UX system to reboot. Which it did, over and over again. That's what happens when Dev uses Fedora to develop software on that is subsequently used on HP-UX (in this case). Still waiting on Dev to correct this.
[John]
Honestly as someone who's responsible for RHEL/CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and some oddballs, I'd be quite happy with running OpenBSD on my servers in place or even addition to RHEL. However, like Debian based systems, if the vendors we use only support Red Hat (and the other servers we have), we are pretty much stuck. Until HP and Symantec say we can use it, it's pretty much out as an option to our devs.
(Which doesn't mean they don't try to slip one in now and then, which annoys the heck out of them when we refuse the project as the environment isn't supported.)
[John]
You can ask that, but you won't get a sensible answer. What will happen instead is that they pick some other part of your post, only respond to that, and call you a misogynist, racist, or some other name.
That's odd because that is what happens when I bring up a different viewpoint. All of a sudden I'm being dogpiled because I said 'dogpiled' and 'wtf did you mean about _that_!'. It's frustrating enough that I step away from the thread and forum.
[John]