you obviously aren't a sys admin. UPS is not protection against your systems power failing, just against it losing mains power.
what if a gecko crawls into your PSU and blows it? what if your mobo packs it in? all these = power failure.
has the whole fcking world gone mad? employers are trying to extend their grasp beyond the time you work for them now?
all i can say is if i found a clause like this in a contract i was offered my response would be - great boss, since your stopping me from being able to live, i will be staying at your house and eating your food for 2 years.
put it in personal terms like that and it quickly shows itself to be a total load of crap.
that this manucatured code that comes out of india and russia is complete shit.
this is fine by me, fire away move your development to india, get an application which bearly compiles and give untold told trouble. it just allows me to change more for my services when it fails.
i can promise you, that there isn't a single piece of paper handed to sco from ibm that hasn't be examined to the Nth degree. so i completely ignore their claim of "discovering" anything given to them unintentionally. until they hand overf said memos i think their bullshiting. and we all know sco's record of handing over evidence to back up their claims. this darl character is a big big wanker plain and simple. and did anyone RTA? does this journo have sco stock or something, way to talk up this bullshit statement.
i'm amazed people think this is hard to fix.
1. you cannot demand license for a patent unless you can demonstrate your invention working.
2. your patent application is not complete until you sell over 100 products based directly on this invention.
his means you must have to have a significant, orginal idea that people are willing to buy on it's own without having the money extorted from them. i know people will moan about the having to sell something, but guess what chumps? this is whats wrong with these bullshit patents, they sell nothing just run around making threats.
OH-MY-GOD. i CANNOT BELIEVE your tripe is +5 insightful.
"an exploit that may only take 3-4 lines of code to perform?" -- stop sinking to the base level of fear by ignorance, that line is pure bullshit.
"how much expertise would be needed to catch that?" -- well if theres people smart enough to write it, there's people smart enough to read it and catch malware.
"hire the experts to write the code in the first place" -- your just another mindless tool all caught up in the supposed mystery of closed source companies, its pure crap, you know what an expert is? a drip under pressure. which is exactly what this greenhills fool is.
what you forget is this is just america, the rest of the world doesn't give a stuff about american laws, we will just make our own devices and our own content if the USA insists on this rubbish.
end game.
"They are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail."
they are upset because these 3 together have the ability to keep MS out of the server arena entirely. the 3 main services your going to want to run on any network are likely to be web, email and file sharing.
i'm not much of a red hat user i guess, i use suse but i find their use of customised scripts etc to be a painful deviation that just confuses people when they can't do the same thing on another distro. from the little i've seen red hat is even worse for this and only helps to give the linux community this image of a fragmented OS whic really isn't the case at all.
i certainly wouldn't go anywhere near saying redhat is a defacto standard.
the moment we move towards apps only working on certain distributions is the moment i forget linux exists along with NT.
the only reason any admin with a clue would welcome this is to make migration to OSS smoother and faster, allowing you to keep those old NT systems available while you move.
why on earth you'd want to have NT as your OS but run everything under a unix emulation shell is beyond me.
then you must have some kind of super dialup, or have plenty of time on your hands because theres no way in hell you can open multiple screens over VNC and not be waiting up to 5 seconds per screen. and terminal services completely shits on VNC for speed since it's instructions on drawing the window, not just a compressed image of it like VNC, and i STILL from terminal services un acceptable over dialup.
and your missing the point here, it's his private time, why the hell should he be forced to spend more of his personal time working for these pigs because they want to save $20 a month?
your Sir, obviously have no fucking idea.
"decided that a a regular dial-up account, an automated phone call, SMS or Blackberry messages work just as well to "solve issues after hours"
have you EVER attempted to use a remote desktop over dialup? this is a common method for solving issues, on windows systems its the ONLY remote method. and should hack your way through the refreshing windows on one terminal, try opening a 2nd and your screwed.
i'm also guessing but you know i'm probably right here, that this mans company doesn't feel they need to pay him for call outs.
this is disgustingly common and sickens me that your even posting on slashdot. get the fuck out.
no i think you need the question again. "long term" implies keeping the data safe and offline, it certainly doesn't imply any need to have it instantly accessable.
if he is running a business and living off this data, then he's a complete fool for not having a raid + backup of this data in the first place. what if theres a fire/spillage? whats his raid going to do for him then? ohh wait.. HE NEEDS OFFLINE BACKUP!
actually the porn business is always right up there with technology. no other industry exploits security flaws as much, they were easily the earily adopters of streaming media and i'm sure most of the internet economy is based on porn.
your a moron, CSS and region encoding has NOTHING to do with dvd technology, CSS and regions is just something added to the CONTENT contained on the media.
dim wits like you who think these technologies are tied to each other allow these media thugs to dominate the market as they do.
this bullshit. the systems your talkign about a crap house and never work properly. sure if you listen to the sales hype, but i'm not sceptical then that
how did you score that job? call me crasy but i'd love to work in iraq. i find the idea of helping build things from the ground up exciting and once in a live time chance.
my primary experience is in linux/bsd admin/ network admin. but given that i can handle anything IT and i'm not afraid to do it tough.
have any of you 419 baiters considered sending these scammers virus infected files, getting them to run them and taking them out on a semi perminate bases. if you wiped their hd it would probably save some people getting scammed
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you obviously aren't a sys admin. UPS is not protection against your systems power failing, just against it losing mains power. what if a gecko crawls into your PSU and blows it? what if your mobo packs it in? all these = power failure.
has the whole fcking world gone mad? employers are trying to extend their grasp beyond the time you work for them now? all i can say is if i found a clause like this in a contract i was offered my response would be - great boss, since your stopping me from being able to live, i will be staying at your house and eating your food for 2 years. put it in personal terms like that and it quickly shows itself to be a total load of crap.
that this manucatured code that comes out of india and russia is complete shit. this is fine by me, fire away move your development to india, get an application which bearly compiles and give untold told trouble. it just allows me to change more for my services when it fails.
i can promise you, that there isn't a single piece of paper handed to sco from ibm that hasn't be examined to the Nth degree. so i completely ignore their claim of "discovering" anything given to them unintentionally. until they hand overf said memos i think their bullshiting. and we all know sco's record of handing over evidence to back up their claims.
this darl character is a big big wanker plain and simple. and did anyone RTA? does this journo have sco stock or something, way to talk up this bullshit statement.
i'm amazed people think this is hard to fix. 1. you cannot demand license for a patent unless you can demonstrate your invention working. 2. your patent application is not complete until you sell over 100 products based directly on this invention. his means you must have to have a significant, orginal idea that people are willing to buy on it's own without having the money extorted from them. i know people will moan about the having to sell something, but guess what chumps? this is whats wrong with these bullshit patents, they sell nothing just run around making threats.
OH-MY-GOD. i CANNOT BELIEVE your tripe is +5 insightful. "an exploit that may only take 3-4 lines of code to perform?" -- stop sinking to the base level of fear by ignorance, that line is pure bullshit. "how much expertise would be needed to catch that?" -- well if theres people smart enough to write it, there's people smart enough to read it and catch malware. "hire the experts to write the code in the first place" -- your just another mindless tool all caught up in the supposed mystery of closed source companies, its pure crap, you know what an expert is? a drip under pressure. which is exactly what this greenhills fool is.
what you forget is this is just america, the rest of the world doesn't give a stuff about american laws, we will just make our own devices and our own content if the USA insists on this rubbish. end game.
"They are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail." they are upset because these 3 together have the ability to keep MS out of the server arena entirely. the 3 main services your going to want to run on any network are likely to be web, email and file sharing.
i'm not much of a red hat user i guess, i use suse but i find their use of customised scripts etc to be a painful deviation that just confuses people when they can't do the same thing on another distro. from the little i've seen red hat is even worse for this and only helps to give the linux community this image of a fragmented OS whic really isn't the case at all.
i certainly wouldn't go anywhere near saying redhat is a defacto standard. the moment we move towards apps only working on certain distributions is the moment i forget linux exists along with NT.
the only reason any admin with a clue would welcome this is to make migration to OSS smoother and faster, allowing you to keep those old NT systems available while you move. why on earth you'd want to have NT as your OS but run everything under a unix emulation shell is beyond me.
you must have been very very lucky is all i can say.
then you must have some kind of super dialup, or have plenty of time on your hands because theres no way in hell you can open multiple screens over VNC and not be waiting up to 5 seconds per screen. and terminal services completely shits on VNC for speed since it's instructions on drawing the window, not just a compressed image of it like VNC, and i STILL from terminal services un acceptable over dialup. and your missing the point here, it's his private time, why the hell should he be forced to spend more of his personal time working for these pigs because they want to save $20 a month?
your Sir, obviously have no fucking idea. "decided that a a regular dial-up account, an automated phone call, SMS or Blackberry messages work just as well to "solve issues after hours" have you EVER attempted to use a remote desktop over dialup? this is a common method for solving issues, on windows systems its the ONLY remote method. and should hack your way through the refreshing windows on one terminal, try opening a 2nd and your screwed. i'm also guessing but you know i'm probably right here, that this mans company doesn't feel they need to pay him for call outs. this is disgustingly common and sickens me that your even posting on slashdot. get the fuck out.
no i think you need the question again. "long term" implies keeping the data safe and offline, it certainly doesn't imply any need to have it instantly accessable. if he is running a business and living off this data, then he's a complete fool for not having a raid + backup of this data in the first place. what if theres a fire/spillage? whats his raid going to do for him then? ohh wait.. HE NEEDS OFFLINE BACKUP!
peopel raid is not a backup, it's redunancy.
too right brother. people should get a license to have kids AND have a computer
actually the porn business is always right up there with technology. no other industry exploits security flaws as much, they were easily the earily adopters of streaming media and i'm sure most of the internet economy is based on porn.
your a moron, CSS and region encoding has NOTHING to do with dvd technology, CSS and regions is just something added to the CONTENT contained on the media. dim wits like you who think these technologies are tied to each other allow these media thugs to dominate the market as they do.
this bullshit. the systems your talkign about a crap house and never work properly. sure if you listen to the sales hype, but i'm not sceptical then that
kk, tims@cqpl.com.au i already get a huge amount of spam. whats another 100 emails a day
hey if the pay is right i could do that no sweat. can you tell me who was doing the hiring? i so maybe i could hook myself up
how did you score that job? call me crasy but i'd love to work in iraq. i find the idea of helping build things from the ground up exciting and once in a live time chance. my primary experience is in linux/bsd admin/ network admin. but given that i can handle anything IT and i'm not afraid to do it tough.
have any of you 419 baiters considered sending these scammers virus infected files, getting them to run them and taking them out on a semi perminate bases. if you wiped their hd it would probably save some people getting scammed
your posting as anonymous coward, hence your opinion does not matter