Shoot, you should be keeping track _anyway_, if nothing else for your reviews. I wrote a personal webapp that makes it easy for me to keep track of what I do, especially since I'm working on lots of little things and several big things. Then when review time comes around I can just review the year's work, filter out the misc cruft, rewrite the remaining into several paragraphs, and submit that.
I'm fairly introverted (18 out of 20) but I also make time to walk around Operations (I'm a Unix Admin) and chat. While I'm not a sports person, there are folks who share the same interests. So finding out about a few guys who play guitar lets me chat about guitars (or bass). I get to poke at the guys who ride cruisers (I'm not quite old enough for a cruiser yet:) ) and share stories about my own touring rides (going to Alaska again next year). Several are gamers of one sort or another so there's some cross discussion there, even over in Engineering where there's a fellow Shadowrun gamer and another guy who plays Bass.
Heck when I worked at IBM, one of the jobs was remote 100% remote (me here, a couple of folks in Rochester NY, one in Seattle, one in Austin, a couple in New Jersey, and a couple of guys in Boston where the contract was). I had a problem with it _because_ there was no interaction outside of work conversation.
Sure, you're a working guy but networking, even amongst your coworkers is important.
It actually seemed like he was comparing the connectivity of ISS and the Iran Nuclear Facilities. I don't think he knew what virus/malware was actually on ISS.
"See, just like the Iranians, air gap doesn't mean you can't be infected."
Really, how do you know that? The article doesn't identify the malware.
Kaspersky compares the situation to the Stuxnet virus where even without internet access, malware can infect systems but he has no apparent knowledge of the actual virus(s) that are on ISS.
No worse than "Mother's Day" or "Father's Day", both started to honor parents but promoted by commercial industries. All started out as a celebration but all plus Thanksgiving (Black Friday) and Christmas have become outlets for crass commercialism.
You are coming to the posting early. As the thread matures, other folks will come along and mod him (or her) up. That's how it works with a system of unpaid moderators. You'll get the folks who will mod him down and others who'll mod him right back up. Eventually it'll balance out and the more thoughtful will have moderated him to +5 Insightful.
Unfortunately most drivers aren't all that aware of their surroundings. Under normal circumstances, I'm riding my bike where I feel comfortable. On one of the edge lanes (left mostly) and on the right side to protect my lane from intruders. So I'll scoot up or back depending on the visibility of the guy to my right and making sure I am visible (so I don't ride in blind spots). I'm quite aware of left turns especially when there's a big truck or bus in the left turn lane where oncoming left turners can't see me if I'm on the left side of the lane until it's too late. I do not zip up a right lane past moving traffic since folks can move over at the last sec taking me out.
I will take advantage of openings where I have plenty of room in order to get away from potentially dangerous situations so I can see those manhole covers.:) I make sure my movement will not cause an aware driver to hit his or her brakes when I do make my move. And I might pick it up a little in order to get past but drop right back down to regular speed once in the clear again.
But in general I'm super aware of my surroundings and ride my bike in accordance with my perception.
(And no, I'm not doing 90 in a 30. That's just crazy anyway.)
Actually it was Moria with fancy graphics. The problem I had with Diablo is the same one I had with Moria. Each time you went down into the dungeon, the map was different. Nethack saved the levels so going through them was the same each time you went, for that character's incarnation. I was much more of a fan (and programmer for a bit) of Nethack.
Well, I don't accept connections on Facebook from anyone at work. Too many folks who have distasteful lives (and I don't want them knowing my stuff either). I have received the occasional Facebook chick spam. I figure it's porn and I certainly don't need Facebook to find porn:)
I deleted my Linkedin profile a week or two ago so no connections there either. Way too many headhunter spams ("we have a sysadmin job in New Jersey for 6 months for $20 an hour" or better "we are a temp agency, do you need any accounting people?"), marketing spams ("we have this awesome windows management tool" You do know I'm a Unix admin, right?), folks who have no idea of what I do who think I'm a great C programmer, and quite a few folks I have no idea who they are who want to link. So not seeing any benefit, I bailed.
I also don't click on such attachments or Facebook posts. I have relatives sending me links to such Christmas or Birthday card sites and I choose not to click the link. Just a tad paranoid I guess.
In reading the article:
The experiment also shows that attractive women get special treatment in the male-dominated IT industry. The majority of individuals who went out of their way to help Emily Williams were men. The team actually tried a similar test in parallel with a fake male social media profile and got no useful connections.
I wonder if they though to try it with a plainer woman. Since women are so underrepresented in IT, any woman might have received the "special treatment".
In general though, I think it's true. Social Networking, either by Social Media or in person will certainly eventually gain you access. Folks are helpful. At work the Customer Service folks get the most awards for being helpful. Upper management even had a Customer Service demonstration for our last company wide meeting. I think it'll take a big change to get that sort of behavior changed.
[John]
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Hmm, my experience with Basic (ibm basica and gwbasic with some quickbasic and other flavors) and C (Turbo and Microsoft mostly), my experience with RDBMs (dbase III+ and Paradox), my experience creating websites using vi. Add in my experience as a sysadmin using edlin, qedit, and vi plus experience with awk, sed, sh, ksh, bash, plus perl scripting. Then my searching around 6 or 7 years ago brings me to all the discussion over the years about LAMP; Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (although now it includes Perl and Python).
So, experience and knowledge tells me to use... PHP and MySQL.
XP and Win7 both had driver problems. One driver version bricked my machine and I had to reinstall the entire system and restore from backup. Regular blue screens on startup in both systems.
Sucked it up and bought nVidia last December. Sure, I had driver problems as well but reverting them to 306 has kept me from experiencing a single driver problem since (other than the incessant notifications that my driver is out of date).
That assumes the standard street cop thinks that far ahead.
[John]
Re:It was already a dangerous site to visit ...
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I appreciate your input. Still, no one has come up with what the next step after PHP is. Ruby? Perl? Python? It's not like there's someone out there going "ooh, good job on that PHP website and the work you're doing looks like you understand what you need. Now that you know that, you should start using JQuery to replace the hacked up Javascript and Forth to build websites. Here are a couple of good websites to get you transitioned from PHP to Forth."
It's cool and all to denigrate the folks who are trying but if all you hear is "PHP is crap and folks who program in it are illiterate newbies" without some suggestion as to where to go next, folks will simply ignore the ranting and move on (and continue using PHP).
As a sysadmin, I really liked the Rosetta Stone website so I could take my linux and Solaris skills and start working on AIX and HP-UX fairly quickly. Is there such a PHP -> Forth website?
Meh, grow up. Been doing tech work for over 40 years now. Haven't been replaced yet, but I also keep up on new tech and stay curious. If you get set in your ways and decide that your current skill set will keep you in Doritos and Mountain Dew forever, you _will_ be replaced.
And jeeze, get over the "Obamacare" rhetoric. It just makes you look like a spoiled child who's not getting their way.
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Shoot, you should be keeping track _anyway_, if nothing else for your reviews. I wrote a personal webapp that makes it easy for me to keep track of what I do, especially since I'm working on lots of little things and several big things. Then when review time comes around I can just review the year's work, filter out the misc cruft, rewrite the remaining into several paragraphs, and submit that.
[John]
Awwwwwwww
Can I keep my Soft Kitty poster up? :)
[John]
I'm fairly introverted (18 out of 20) but I also make time to walk around Operations (I'm a Unix Admin) and chat. While I'm not a sports person, there are folks who share the same interests. So finding out about a few guys who play guitar lets me chat about guitars (or bass). I get to poke at the guys who ride cruisers (I'm not quite old enough for a cruiser yet :) ) and share stories about my own touring rides (going to Alaska again next year). Several are gamers of one sort or another so there's some cross discussion there, even over in Engineering where there's a fellow Shadowrun gamer and another guy who plays Bass.
Heck when I worked at IBM, one of the jobs was remote 100% remote (me here, a couple of folks in Rochester NY, one in Seattle, one in Austin, a couple in New Jersey, and a couple of guys in Boston where the contract was). I had a problem with it _because_ there was no interaction outside of work conversation.
Sure, you're a working guy but networking, even amongst your coworkers is important.
[John]
It actually seemed like he was comparing the connectivity of ISS and the Iran Nuclear Facilities. I don't think he knew what virus/malware was actually on ISS.
"See, just like the Iranians, air gap doesn't mean you can't be infected."
[John]
Really, how do you know that? The article doesn't identify the malware.
Kaspersky compares the situation to the Stuxnet virus where even without internet access, malware can infect systems but he has no apparent knowledge of the actual virus(s) that are on ISS.
[John]
No worse than "Mother's Day" or "Father's Day", both started to honor parents but promoted by commercial industries. All started out as a celebration but all plus Thanksgiving (Black Friday) and Christmas have become outlets for crass commercialism.
[John]
It's already at Score 2 Insightful. :)
[John]
You are coming to the posting early. As the thread matures, other folks will come along and mod him (or her) up. That's how it works with a system of unpaid moderators. You'll get the folks who will mod him down and others who'll mod him right back up. Eventually it'll balance out and the more thoughtful will have moderated him to +5 Insightful.
[John]
I guess power's never gone out at your place, eh? You should get out of your basement more often.
[John]
Unfortunately most drivers aren't all that aware of their surroundings. Under normal circumstances, I'm riding my bike where I feel comfortable. On one of the edge lanes (left mostly) and on the right side to protect my lane from intruders. So I'll scoot up or back depending on the visibility of the guy to my right and making sure I am visible (so I don't ride in blind spots). I'm quite aware of left turns especially when there's a big truck or bus in the left turn lane where oncoming left turners can't see me if I'm on the left side of the lane until it's too late. I do not zip up a right lane past moving traffic since folks can move over at the last sec taking me out.
I will take advantage of openings where I have plenty of room in order to get away from potentially dangerous situations so I can see those manhole covers. :) I make sure my movement will not cause an aware driver to hit his or her brakes when I do make my move. And I might pick it up a little in order to get past but drop right back down to regular speed once in the clear again.
But in general I'm super aware of my surroundings and ride my bike in accordance with my perception.
(And no, I'm not doing 90 in a 30. That's just crazy anyway.)
[John]
I thought about that but how would you prove it? If you're caught driving as if you were an 'A' driver but with a 'B' license you go to jail?
[John]
That's humorous that you associate a single post on Slashdot with all of America. Not to mention the handle is 'paiute' which is an Indian tribe :)
[John]
Wasn't this the guy who said he had internet controllable lights but in fact it was just randomly flashing lights?
[John]
Yea, I've had quite a few headhunter's trying to get me to submit my resume to them but no actual Job Offers.
[John]
Well, that is what I said.
'i kan reed', eh :)
[John]
Actually it was Moria with fancy graphics. The problem I had with Diablo is the same one I had with Moria. Each time you went down into the dungeon, the map was different. Nethack saved the levels so going through them was the same each time you went, for that character's incarnation. I was much more of a fan (and programmer for a bit) of Nethack.
[John ]
Well, I don't accept connections on Facebook from anyone at work. Too many folks who have distasteful lives (and I don't want them knowing my stuff either). I have received the occasional Facebook chick spam. I figure it's porn and I certainly don't need Facebook to find porn :)
I deleted my Linkedin profile a week or two ago so no connections there either. Way too many headhunter spams ("we have a sysadmin job in New Jersey for 6 months for $20 an hour" or better "we are a temp agency, do you need any accounting people?"), marketing spams ("we have this awesome windows management tool" You do know I'm a Unix admin, right?), folks who have no idea of what I do who think I'm a great C programmer, and quite a few folks I have no idea who they are who want to link. So not seeing any benefit, I bailed.
I also don't click on such attachments or Facebook posts. I have relatives sending me links to such Christmas or Birthday card sites and I choose not to click the link. Just a tad paranoid I guess.
In reading the article:
The experiment also shows that attractive women get special treatment in the male-dominated IT industry. The majority of individuals who went out of their way to help Emily Williams were men. The team actually tried a similar test in parallel with a fake male social media profile and got no useful connections.
I wonder if they though to try it with a plainer woman. Since women are so underrepresented in IT, any woman might have received the "special treatment".
In general though, I think it's true. Social Networking, either by Social Media or in person will certainly eventually gain you access. Folks are helpful. At work the Customer Service folks get the most awards for being helpful. Upper management even had a Customer Service demonstration for our last company wide meeting. I think it'll take a big change to get that sort of behavior changed.
[John]
Hmm, my experience with Basic (ibm basica and gwbasic with some quickbasic and other flavors) and C (Turbo and Microsoft mostly), my experience with RDBMs (dbase III+ and Paradox), my experience creating websites using vi. Add in my experience as a sysadmin using edlin, qedit, and vi plus experience with awk, sed, sh, ksh, bash, plus perl scripting. Then my searching around 6 or 7 years ago brings me to all the discussion over the years about LAMP; Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (although now it includes Perl and Python).
So, experience and knowledge tells me to use... PHP and MySQL.
So I'm good.
Thanks.
[John]
Did the same thing last December.
[John]
XP and Win7 both had driver problems. One driver version bricked my machine and I had to reinstall the entire system and restore from backup. Regular blue screens on startup in both systems.
Sucked it up and bought nVidia last December. Sure, I had driver problems as well but reverting them to 306 has kept me from experiencing a single driver problem since (other than the incessant notifications that my driver is out of date).
[John]
I had enough problems with my last Radeons. No thanks.
[John]
Where's that article on Oregon taxing for miles driven?
[John]
That assumes the standard street cop thinks that far ahead.
[John]
I appreciate your input. Still, no one has come up with what the next step after PHP is. Ruby? Perl? Python? It's not like there's someone out there going "ooh, good job on that PHP website and the work you're doing looks like you understand what you need. Now that you know that, you should start using JQuery to replace the hacked up Javascript and Forth to build websites. Here are a couple of good websites to get you transitioned from PHP to Forth."
It's cool and all to denigrate the folks who are trying but if all you hear is "PHP is crap and folks who program in it are illiterate newbies" without some suggestion as to where to go next, folks will simply ignore the ranting and move on (and continue using PHP).
As a sysadmin, I really liked the Rosetta Stone website so I could take my linux and Solaris skills and start working on AIX and HP-UX fairly quickly. Is there such a PHP -> Forth website?
[John]
Meh, grow up. Been doing tech work for over 40 years now. Haven't been replaced yet, but I also keep up on new tech and stay curious. If you get set in your ways and decide that your current skill set will keep you in Doritos and Mountain Dew forever, you _will_ be replaced.
And jeeze, get over the "Obamacare" rhetoric. It just makes you look like a spoiled child who's not getting their way.
[John]