What I do is take my old machines, upgrade the drives and add a Linux to it, usually one of Ubuntu, Red Hat or Suse. Then go through the steps to enable "Samba". Remember the registry tweeks for XP. It takes time for novices to set this up but one you do your in the clear and copies seem to go quickly.
Once setup, XP can mount a Linux share and copies seem to go real fast. Now I guess the question is does Vista work with Linux/Samba? Maybe someone can lend some insight as my system vendor is sending me a copy of Vista and if it can't do a Linux/Samba share it is Hasta La Vista baby.
If a party doesn't show up to a court date and defend itself, the judge has to rule for the plaintiff. It's the law. Enforcing that decision is of course a different thing as spamhaus is still online.
But the judge could have also said they have no jurisdiction. Or tossed it out based on stupidity of the claim.
What will be interesting is California judge is in jurisdiction of e360 and there is not much doubt in my mind e360 sent this guy spam.
Lets hope the CA judge tosses e360 and its operators into the poor house with punitive fines and in jail for the laws broken.
It's stupid anyway. Sales taxes in Seattle are up to 9.1% which is pretty damn ridiculous. If I were living in WA and this went through, I'd move. Internet purchases help make WA living more affordable.
You should not complain so much, Washington state does not have personal income tax do they? 9% in that case would be a small amount to pay.
I wouldn't do it as many people remote work as goof off work. My experience is at most 25% of the people really work at home, and they are the ones absolutely passionate about what they do. Traits successful to work at home:
Self motivated and works on their own without any intervention
Independent and self reliant
Self disciplined
Makes a concerted effort to be available
Does not have high social needs
If the person can't demonstraight the above at the office, it will only become worse working at home.
So your major question should be are your staff suitable? My guess is some are, and many not. I am going through this with a consultant right now, he shows a low connect time, no results and is precisely a day away from being fired. Be prepared to do this for a lack of performance.
With the ATI ones say that you are a customer and would really like to see Linux support. With all the competitor ones, say that you would have bought ATI but for the driver issue. make sure you youtube it, blog it,...
I did this several times, never even got a response. I also had a ATI Video USB device, tried getting them to release the details needed to program it... no answer...
So I now buy other products and will not buy a ATI based product. If AMD management "fixes" ATI management, I might reconsider but until they are friendly to more than Microsoft they are off of my purchase list. ATI and Broadcom are on my no-buy lists.
Could be a Windows issue? Windows and PCs usually store local time, and map back to GMT through time zone info.
Where as most UNIX installs, and PC-UNIX installs where you choose network time on install would work the other way.
The important difference is GMT0 is network time, thus not calculating it once again has advantages. I have 3 un-patched systems running on the internet right now, all work just fine. Sure, a email header might be out an hour but it shouldn't make any difference.
This is an ancient problem, and the industry is learning it the hard way again. Things like time zones are in flux all the time, this state does, this state does not --. It is why UNIX has zic. You just edit the file and use zic to update the files.
Where the problem comes in is that we design applications to use local times on a GMT/network time system. Internet apps should almost never use local time and rely on unchanging GMT0.
I have started putting all new systems in with GMT0 as the system default. It prevents system apps and this Java (yes too, Java needs a patch) to get messed up. If a user wants it to be CST or MST, I set it in their profile.
Use how? What if one of the engineers needs a snippet of code, copies it from Spring, and incorporates it into their product without attribution? Suddenly, that company is legally vulnerable.
That is done and pro-actively overlooked all the time. People steal code every second of every day of every year. Need a web pull down? Go to a page that has one and copy it. Need a little help authenticating with kerberos, go download some code. How about...
The real problem is it is always the safest for legal to say no, even though they haven't read the license.
ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES ARE OFFERED. If you have a ton of money riding on finding all the right loopholes and getting everything 100% perfect, buy a tax program or use an accountant.
Ask your accountant for his guarantee. I don't think it is any different. But the benefit in seeing an accountant is they have memorized the loop holes you can tap into.
But at least with this event, those commercial tax packages better get a Linux version or lose market share. Not everyones tax is complicated enough to need an accountant.
It is also why I ceased working in "programming" teams a long time ago now. Oh, I still write code but refuse to work in "teams". Why is simple, like you you get 43 bickering idiots that can't code their shoe laces coming down on one poor coder that knows something. Work and blame tend to shift towards the few that can do and not to those that are dead weight complex types. Management are generally insatiably lost types.
What I do now is simple. I give my two cents then walk away for 1-3 months. Let others take the lime light. I wait until they are desperate for it. So desperate they will take anything. I do work on it, but low level library type stuff, not trying to anticipate the outcome of politics, just focus on the needs/value. At the 11th hour I whip up something simple and functional. I make no excuses.
Oh, occasionally someone writes something complex and tries an end run, in such cases step aside. Let it blow up real bad before your get involved. Works wonders....
My number one rule is NEVER code after a moving target - it is political suicide. If the objective moves, stop coding.
Survived this way for over 30 years...
It is also why I suspect Microsoft does not hire older programmers, older programmers know better than to work at Microsoft and would ultimately be harder to recruit. They might ask about the ratio of control idiots to real programmers.
3.11 was better than 3.1, Win95 was better than Win3.1 and so on....But was Windoze anytime the best in security protection. I dont think so.
It has however become more complex and harder to deal with. In fact, Windows security may have increased because of the obscurity of complexity. But in time as it is understood it will be the same old Virus Infested Spyware Trojaned with Adware like the rest. The next version is reputed to be Hasta.
Sounds like a serious upfront data validation issue.
However, those two fields should be of a different types and the insert
should fail.
You would think so. But it is likely a mainframe DB, not SQL and government after all. They probably like enterprise IT figured it worked because it seemed to work.
But scary that our data is so poorly validated. Proves the mess they are really in.
They might actually kill WiFi provided they can get their prices down to $49 worth of hardware and the cost of a land line, supply at least 2 computers and more bandwidth, enough for video, or at least as much as WiFi.
So when I can use 3 computers for $29/mo I am game... but forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting. Oh, and skip the roaming and by the minute charges. And can I share videos with the neighbors for free...without being monitored?
Maybe they beleive they have a solid case that postgressql infringes on their patents. They want more companies using it (and to know who) so they know who they can take to court and extort some protection money.
Maybe Microsoft planted the code in postgressql and now they want to spring a trap?
Given Micro$oft history, certainly not impossible. Plenty of people would do a cvs commit for $10G under the table. Corporate style espionage. Microsoft is a beached whale threatening to sue it's customers. Lets face it, the opening of Vista was Hasta La Vista, so last century.
Because PostgreSQL isn't licenced under the GNU GPL.
Maybe so they can include it with Microsoft Linux, stolen from open source to make them rich. M$ knows Windows is near EOL. Plus they want the PR as I run Postgress on my Linux, and MySQL on my XP PC, only because they tell me I have to run XP. Be dammed it I will stoop to M$ SQL. They want to take the shine off of MySQL. Sure rtuns nice on a 3GB AMD X2.
Microsoft is behaving like a beached whale. Are they in more trouble than anyone knows? All this recent FUD including Ballmer. BALL My Eyes Red? Cray baby cry...
As a frequent traveler I applied for a Canadian passport last October and I haven't gotten it yet... WTF
The worlds two biggest partners with the longest unprotected border have politicians that can't get along. We citizens should kick them both, but Ottawa needs a double kick.
Why not let US border patrol have access to Canadian DMV records and the other way around? Why do we need passports at all? So the terrorists can steal and forge them? Canadian DMV records are some of the best in the world.
North American computers have the info, they know all about anyone who has been here for awhile. When I returned to Alberta some years ago after being gone a long time, I was reactivated bridging my history from when I lived here before.
As for those getting turned back for once upon a time breaking the law, then don't break the law.
So for the politicians I say, Get off your bickering sorry asses and get along. Stop posturing for control and use some common sense will ya?
IBM DeskStar's, as far as I know, have been quite good - for some reason didn't use too many.
You faired much better than I. I bought 18 IBM Deskstar drives in about 2001-2003 and stopped when my failure rate skyrocked. Hitachi bought them from IBM. It went like this:
18 acquired
8 retired normal attrition
7 died in service causing interruptions
2 still in service
1 on shelf as spare/mirror
All lasted over a year, all that died in in 2-4 years of service. I only use the remaining two on non-production systems. They are non-critical.
I started buying them as I had great results using the 13GB lot. In fact, a couple were abused and kept working, so I bought the 40GB, 60GB and later 80GB. The only ones left are 40GB.
You can't have both, no matter how loudly you scream.
Trouble is how many CIO understand the technology they supervise enough to make a good business judgement?
The one thing I will tell them follows like this:
Trust your own I/T staff for maters of technical choice and direction, they have the most to gain, the most to lose and have to live with the consequences. Vendors know how to sell problems then the solutions, users know how to blame their lack of patience and personal issues on computers. I/T personnel often are the ones to eat the heat on organizational issues beyond their control. This includes the flawed systems we use today. Let I/T participate in business descisions, not to rule but nor to be a door mat for the next irrational business type having a conniption fit.
Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad? Who has determined this? Where do they live? What are their motives?
At one time when for natural reasons the earth had lots of CO2 in the atmosphere it warmed up and taller trees grew towards the poles. Great prairie fires dumped millions of tons of CO2 in weeks. Warmer temperatures and more trees resulted. This reduced CO2 and on came a subsequent ice age. It also left behind coal, natural gas and tar sands where today it is too cold for this to happen.
Nature is just fine tuning for the 6.5 new critters crawling on it. It needs to warm up to have more vegetation to scrub out the CO2. Let nature do it's thing.
Man contemplating whole scale planetary changes like this is similar to giving children an atomic bomb kit.
I will not surprised if AMD dethrones Intel again. It is a classical Intel vs. AMD battle...
I am not sure Intel ever did beat out AMD.
I went down to Best Buy where the Intel rep was hard peddling a Code Duo 2 machine and compared his $1500 machine to a AMD X2 clearance one for $600. I had nothing to do that day but be a clown, so I went and got a DVD with software on it, and said these are both XP right? Copy the contents to the hard drive and compress it. I am going to measure it. Core Duo 2 results were almost the same at more than twice the prices were less than 1% different. Not only that, I put my hand over the back of the machine to see how warm the exhaust was. AMD was noticeably cooler. So I walked out with an AMD X2.
So while in my less than perfect benchmark and testing, it is an end to end test factoring in everything. I still bought AMD. Nice machine too, runs much cooler than my P4 2.8HT. Certainly a lot faster.
I bought a nVidia card yesterday (after the Vista launch) to upgrade my aging 9800. There's a huge fucking sticker on the box saying 'Windows Vista Ready', so, I expect it to work with Vista. (It does, but I swear my ATi 9800 ran Aero slightly faster).
My - i pity you. ATI sucks. They could be good and maybe AMD management will fire all ATI management and get their collective $h1t together. I gave up ATI some 2-3 years ago. Their cards are expensive and incompatible with many other OSes. Even the Windblows drivers for video are unstable. I have had NVIDEA ever since and found they work great. But then again I don't buy the leading edge cards over $400 either.
Maybe NVIDEA can be co-operative with Linux, and when the revolution occurs the ATI and Intel shared memory horor can RIP.
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What I do is take my old machines, upgrade the drives and add a Linux to it, usually one of Ubuntu, Red Hat or Suse. Then go through the steps to enable "Samba". Remember the registry tweeks for XP. It takes time for novices to set this up but one you do your in the clear and copies seem to go quickly.
Once setup, XP can mount a Linux share and copies seem to go real fast. Now I guess the question is does Vista work with Linux/Samba? Maybe someone can lend some insight as my system vendor is sending me a copy of Vista and if it can't do a Linux/Samba share it is Hasta La Vista baby.
But the judge could have also said they have no jurisdiction. Or tossed it out based on stupidity of the claim.
What will be interesting is California judge is in jurisdiction of e360 and there is not much doubt in my mind e360 sent this guy spam.
Lets hope the CA judge tosses e360 and its operators into the poor house with punitive fines and in jail for the laws broken.
You should not complain so much, Washington state does not have personal income tax do they? 9% in that case would be a small amount to pay.
I wouldn't do it as many people remote work as goof off work. My experience is at most 25% of the people really work at home, and they are the ones absolutely passionate about what they do. Traits successful to work at home:
If the person can't demonstraight the above at the office, it will only become worse working at home.
So your major question should be are your staff suitable? My guess is some are, and many not. I am going through this with a consultant right now, he shows a low connect time, no results and is precisely a day away from being fired. Be prepared to do this for a lack of performance.
Yawn...
I did this several times, never even got a response. I also had a ATI Video USB device, tried getting them to release the details needed to program it... no answer...
So I now buy other products and will not buy a ATI based product. If AMD management "fixes" ATI management, I might reconsider but until they are friendly to more than Microsoft they are off of my purchase list. ATI and Broadcom are on my no-buy lists.
Could be a Windows issue? Windows and PCs usually store local time, and map back to GMT through time zone info.
Where as most UNIX installs, and PC-UNIX installs where you choose network time on install would work the other way.
The important difference is GMT0 is network time, thus not calculating it once again has advantages. I have 3 un-patched systems running on the internet right now, all work just fine. Sure, a email header might be out an hour but it shouldn't make any difference.
This is an ancient problem, and the industry is learning it the hard way again. Things like time zones are in flux all the time, this state does, this state does not --. It is why UNIX has zic. You just edit the file and use zic to update the files.
Where the problem comes in is that we design applications to use local times on a GMT/network time system. Internet apps should almost never use local time and rely on unchanging GMT0.
I have started putting all new systems in with GMT0 as the system default. It prevents system apps and this Java (yes too, Java needs a patch) to get messed up. If a user wants it to be CST or MST, I set it in their profile.
Use how? What if one of the engineers needs a snippet of code, copies it from Spring, and incorporates it into their product without attribution? Suddenly, that company is legally vulnerable.
That is done and pro-actively overlooked all the time. People steal code every second of every day of every year. Need a web pull down? Go to a page that has one and copy it. Need a little help authenticating with kerberos, go download some code. How about ...
The real problem is it is always the safest for legal to say no, even though they haven't read the license.
ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES ARE OFFERED. If you have a ton of money riding on finding all the right loopholes and getting everything 100% perfect, buy a tax program or use an accountant.
Ask your accountant for his guarantee. I don't think it is any different. But the benefit in seeing an accountant is they have memorized the loop holes you can tap into.
But at least with this event, those commercial tax packages better get a Linux version or lose market share. Not everyones tax is complicated enough to need an accountant.
Someone should make your blog a /. story.
It is also why I ceased working in "programming" teams a long time ago now. Oh, I still write code but refuse to work in "teams". Why is simple, like you you get 43 bickering idiots that can't code their shoe laces coming down on one poor coder that knows something. Work and blame tend to shift towards the few that can do and not to those that are dead weight complex types. Management are generally insatiably lost types.
What I do now is simple. I give my two cents then walk away for 1-3 months. Let others take the lime light. I wait until they are desperate for it. So desperate they will take anything. I do work on it, but low level library type stuff, not trying to anticipate the outcome of politics, just focus on the needs/value. At the 11th hour I whip up something simple and functional. I make no excuses.
Oh, occasionally someone writes something complex and tries an end run, in such cases step aside. Let it blow up real bad before your get involved. Works wonders....
My number one rule is NEVER code after a moving target - it is political suicide. If the objective moves, stop coding.
Survived this way for over 30 years...
It is also why I suspect Microsoft does not hire older programmers, older programmers know better than to work at Microsoft and would ultimately be harder to recruit. They might ask about the ratio of control idiots to real programmers.
3.11 was better than 3.1, Win95 was better than Win3.1 and so on....But was Windoze anytime the best in security protection. I dont think so.
It has however become more complex and harder to deal with. In fact, Windows security may have increased because of the obscurity of complexity. But in time as it is understood it will be the same old Virus Infested Spyware Trojaned with Adware like the rest. The next version is reputed to be Hasta.
Sounds like a serious upfront data validation issue.
However, those two fields should be of a different types and the insert should fail.
You would think so. But it is likely a mainframe DB, not SQL and government after all. They probably like enterprise IT figured it worked because it seemed to work.
But scary that our data is so poorly validated. Proves the mess they are really in.
They might actually kill WiFi provided they can get their prices down to $49 worth of hardware and the cost of a land line, supply at least 2 computers and more bandwidth, enough for video, or at least as much as WiFi.
So when I can use 3 computers for $29/mo I am game... but forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting. Oh, and skip the roaming and by the minute charges. And can I share videos with the neighbors for free...without being monitored?
(It's not even like they have to jump ship into OSS - Google's technology by and large is closed source, they just play ball better)
But built on open source Linux is it not? Google proves Linux can and does scale well.
I thought Microsoft was at Extort, you are missing a few steps...
Envy
Embrace
Extend
Exacerbate
Extinguish
Extort - M$ is here
Emplode
Maybe they beleive they have a solid case that postgressql infringes on their patents. They want more companies using it (and to know who) so they know who they can take to court and extort some protection money.
Maybe Microsoft planted the code in postgressql and now they want to spring a trap?
Given Micro$oft history, certainly not impossible. Plenty of people would do a cvs commit for $10G under the table. Corporate style espionage. Microsoft is a beached whale threatening to sue it's customers. Lets face it, the opening of Vista was Hasta La Vista, so last century.
Maybe so they can include it with Microsoft Linux, stolen from open source to make them rich. M$ knows Windows is near EOL. Plus they want the PR as I run Postgress on my Linux, and MySQL on my XP PC, only because they tell me I have to run XP. Be dammed it I will stoop to M$ SQL. They want to take the shine off of MySQL. Sure rtuns nice on a 3GB AMD X2.
Microsoft is behaving like a beached whale. Are they in more trouble than anyone knows? All this recent FUD including Ballmer. BALL My Eyes Red? Cray baby cry...
As a frequent traveler I applied for a Canadian passport last October and I haven't gotten it yet... WTF
The worlds two biggest partners with the longest unprotected border have politicians that can't get along. We citizens should kick them both, but Ottawa needs a double kick.
Why not let US border patrol have access to Canadian DMV records and the other way around? Why do we need passports at all? So the terrorists can steal and forge them? Canadian DMV records are some of the best in the world.
North American computers have the info, they know all about anyone who has been here for awhile. When I returned to Alberta some years ago after being gone a long time, I was reactivated bridging my history from when I lived here before.
As for those getting turned back for once upon a time breaking the law, then don't break the law.
So for the politicians I say, Get off your bickering sorry asses and get along. Stop posturing for control and use some common sense will ya?
You faired much better than I. I bought 18 IBM Deskstar drives in about 2001-2003 and stopped when my failure rate skyrocked. Hitachi bought them from IBM. It went like this:
All lasted over a year, all that died in in 2-4 years of service. I only use the remaining two on non-production systems. They are non-critical.
I started buying them as I had great results using the 13GB lot. In fact, a couple were abused and kept working, so I bought the 40GB, 60GB and later 80GB. The only ones left are 40GB.
Trouble is how many CIO understand the technology they supervise enough to make a good business judgement?
The one thing I will tell them follows like this:
Trust your own I/T staff for maters of technical choice and direction, they have the most to gain, the most to lose and have to live with the consequences. Vendors know how to sell problems then the solutions, users know how to blame their lack of patience and personal issues on computers. I/T personnel often are the ones to eat the heat on organizational issues beyond their control. This includes the flawed systems we use today. Let I/T participate in business descisions, not to rule but nor to be a door mat for the next irrational business type having a conniption fit.
Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad? Who has determined this? Where do they live? What are their motives?
At one time when for natural reasons the earth had lots of CO2 in the atmosphere it warmed up and taller trees grew towards the poles. Great prairie fires dumped millions of tons of CO2 in weeks. Warmer temperatures and more trees resulted. This reduced CO2 and on came a subsequent ice age. It also left behind coal, natural gas and tar sands where today it is too cold for this to happen.
Nature is just fine tuning for the 6.5 new critters crawling on it. It needs to warm up to have more vegetation to scrub out the CO2. Let nature do it's thing.
Man contemplating whole scale planetary changes like this is similar to giving children an atomic bomb kit.
Who the hell even THINKS about enabling telnet on any box these days?
And how many remember to run "pkgrm SUNWtnetd" to be sure.
I will not surprised if AMD dethrones Intel again. It is a classical Intel vs. AMD battle...
I am not sure Intel ever did beat out AMD.
I went down to Best Buy where the Intel rep was hard peddling a Code Duo 2 machine and compared his $1500 machine to a AMD X2 clearance one for $600. I had nothing to do that day but be a clown, so I went and got a DVD with software on it, and said these are both XP right? Copy the contents to the hard drive and compress it. I am going to measure it. Core Duo 2 results were almost the same at more than twice the prices were less than 1% different. Not only that, I put my hand over the back of the machine to see how warm the exhaust was. AMD was noticeably cooler. So I walked out with an AMD X2.
So while in my less than perfect benchmark and testing, it is an end to end test factoring in everything. I still bought AMD. Nice machine too, runs much cooler than my P4 2.8HT. Certainly a lot faster.
I bought a nVidia card yesterday (after the Vista launch) to upgrade my aging 9800. There's a huge fucking sticker on the box saying 'Windows Vista Ready', so, I expect it to work with Vista. (It does, but I swear my ATi 9800 ran Aero slightly faster).
My - i pity you. ATI sucks. They could be good and maybe AMD management will fire all ATI management and get their collective $h1t together. I gave up ATI some 2-3 years ago. Their cards are expensive and incompatible with many other OSes. Even the Windblows drivers for video are unstable. I have had NVIDEA ever since and found they work great. But then again I don't buy the leading edge cards over $400 either.
Maybe NVIDEA can be co-operative with Linux, and when the revolution occurs the ATI and Intel shared memory horor can RIP.