if you know of somewhere nice, it's best to keep quiet about it.
Problem is, how do I earn a living? I don't want to see a cut down the forest or rape the streams/lakes empty. The area does need an alternative industry.
It isn't just power, how about air conditioning and quality of life. Many of us don't like the idea of living in a concrete jungle. I would take a pay cut to live in a cabin in the mountains by some fishing streams in a heart beat. So go to central BC, with a power dam right next door, 6 months a year the cool air is supplied by mother nature and land is cheap. Or perhaps northern Alberta or even northern Saskatchewan.
Would you like your email to be read by someone you don't even know? Well that is what could happen if you hire a SysAdmin and do not conduct a background check. I know that I would actually prefer if my name was run through a background check so that management can actually trust me instead of always wondering.
Funny you should state this. Reading "other" peoples mail often leads to who is leaking SSN/employee info, credit info, customer and supplier relationships. You actually can often tell a persons demeanor and integrity by reading their email. You can see a correlation between a dysfunctional Exchange admin "wanting sex tonight..." and leaking privvy information. Same goes with system admins denying audit access to internal Information Security resources. You can tell who is a producer and who is schooled in Machiavellian and passive aggression politics. Interesting study actually. One that is grossly under tapped.
And anyone in this business that has respect for anything should not write an email or blog they would later regret. If your uncomfortable about someone you don't know reading it, you probably shouldn't send it unless it is PGP - even then you have to rust the destination.
Anyone getting privileged access should undergo a thorough background check. Management/HR is plain stupid not to.
And I still remember having to download WINSOCK because Microsoft didn't think a TCP/IP stack was necessary and the world should use NETBUI and dial up without PPP.
Microsoft's research is there though, but it's focus is squarely on anti-trust monopolization of the market. They take something like kerberos and figure out just how to make it fail when working with non-Microsoft products.
don't know why they don't just ban emails with stupid images anyways, or best yet just strip them out of the attachments. If I really want to share pictures I'll put them on a website or Flickr or something.
The answer is as simply as this.
With all the virus scanning and filtering it sells more servers. More servers is more money for M$.
Thus, don't fix it.
To show what I mean, in one environment I know they have sendmail running on 2 old 300MHz UNIX systems for 8 years relaying the mail for 10000 users. They just replaced them with Exchange 2003 - 3 quad proc Windows systems and they can't keep up and reliability dropped from 99.999 to maybe 90%. They are going back to UNIX.
Ever wonder if this was MS's plan all along? Not to win?
By funding this charade via SCO, they bought themselves time.
And the recent Micro$oft and Novell agreement makes me wonder if we even know all of what is going on. What is Micro$oft up to next? But I didn't think much of Micro$oft owning part of SCO whey back when either, but now it is apparent.
But will not catch me buying NOVL any time soon, partnerships with Micro$oft rarely do well when all is counted.
If Microsoft does take the nuclear option and attack major users of Linux over patents, who will take up arms against a company with sufficient money in the bank to buy every lawyer in the western world?
It would move offshore and underground. Just like crypto development did.
Mr. Ballmer seems to be incredibly stupid. I guess that he is little more than a boor who happened to be on the right place at the right time. I bet that MS's obnoxious image will change significantly once he and Mr. Gates (half gone, thank goodness) stop calling the shots in MS.
I am sure Ballmer (or is that bomber) is getting paid well. The question is does he believe his BS.
I had to recommend that we migrate much of our corporate network to FreeBSD, with Solaris or Debian Linux being my second choices. Thankfully, we write most of our Windows software in-house using wxWidgets for the GUI and PostgreSQL as the relational database of choice, so the transition should go fairly well.
Your well set to be free of M$ and Oracle. Well done.
If MS really thinks there are patent issues, then MS should either try to work out cross licensing deals that benefit or have the offending IP removed. Anything else is just FUD.
First, Microsoft has "invented" nothing we use today. Have they?
I would suspect, even a California judge would have to find in Linux and FOSS favor with regards to patents. Take for example the tabbed Firefox browser with a close button on the top right? How long do you think it will be before Microsoft files a patent on it, then implements it then extorts for it?
What protocols does Microsoft use today that we commonly use (securely) on the internet?
Lets expand on FUD, FFUF, Fiction, Fear, Uncertainty and Fraud from M$.
Ever notice how Firefox 2.0 get both Microsoft and Linux spelling mistakes?
No wonder why everything is going offshore in innovation, you get you ass sued off for doing in in the USA.
One problem is that employers are ambivalent about this. They put a pressure on academia to act more as job-training centers, and the students misguidedly play along: they don't want to learn about algorithms, they want to learn C++. They, and their parents, want immediately useful job skills that will get them placed the day they graduate. And employers don't want to have to spend money on on-the-job training.
The people who can master a language like C/C++ would be on the top of my employment list. Even if I was hiring them to be a manager of technical people, I would be comfortable to know they have developed a well rounded logical and rational brain. At the bottom of the list, is a I/T graduate who does not know how to program but studied passive-aggression, Machiavelli and other such self destructing office politics practiced today.
Trades and the medical profession have it right, mentor people into the positions. Certifications are a joke as it does not convey experience. Certs in fact are puke learning. Never forget the guy who was hired, fresh degree graduate, then took the time out for a MSCE cert. First thing he did was accidentally wipe out a 1 TB disk array. He is now a manger and projects usually fail and are over budget.
Read carefully, shesh, you can't mention the word Linux without the M$ crew out to twist it.
My basic point is M$ Balmer is trashing on the hand that feeds it. Sort of hypocritical don't you think? After all, would you rather use NETBUI over TCP anyone? Or NTLM over Kerberos?
Microsoft has invented NOTHING that has lasted but has redefined FFUD (Fiction/Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) to new levels. Microsoft is the commercialization of what the open world does. If Microsoft wants to lead they have to become a little more intelligent and open. And god forbid, admit that Microsoft is not the only way. There is room for other OSes, just like there is room for more than one race of people on this planet.
Now lets watch M$ pull out it's baseless patents on the very source that gave them their ideas, and source.
Who merged the Linux Genuine Advantage code into the tree?
Come on, speak up - I know it was one of you.
Funny, but the wrong thing to ask.
The right thing to ask is how much open and public domain source made it to Windows? Was not Linux preemptive multitasking before Windows, POP3, SMTP/sendmail, DNS/BIND, Kerberos, telnet, ftp, http, ssl, TCP/IP itself, and probably more. At least in concept everything in Windows even windows itself is borrowed from other peoples works. Windows itself is an extrapolation of other people's prior works at best.
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Open up your IE browser, Internet Options->Content->Certificates and then click on the intermediate and root trusted authorities. Each of these you must trust. Further, another weak point, someone else has the keys that can gerate other keys to spoof domains.
Rememeber, there are devices that can do SSL in the middle. Don't believe me, see http://www.bluecoat.com/downloads/support/BCS_tb_r everse_proxy_with_SSL.pdf Your best defence against a product like this is sign your own certs and don't give the CA to the proxy owners. This way you will get a warning when SSL in the middle hits you.
The theory is simple enough. PGP is far superior this way as you don't give out keys to a third party. A third party has no involvement so they don't need to be trusted. PGP for secure point to point is superior to SSL by a billion miles.
What products does NTP make? I was thinking of performing a boycott of what seems to be an overly-litigious company, but can't find any targets.
Their product is legal extortion. There are no avenues for you or I to boycot them. And since it worked the first time, the investors of NTP are looking for a second big payout. It would take an act of congress, literally to stop them. So write you congress person is the best you can do.
you have to make money somehow. Seems NTP's choice is to extort money using the court system.
We all knew it was extortion the first time.
What will truly be interesting is now that it is an American company on the block will the courts descion be any different? The fundimentals are exactly the same. So in theory Palm needs to cough up a lot of cash.
Until of course there is a anti-preditory law to put the NTPs out of business.
OriginalArlen writes to tell us about some compelling global warming coverage in the Washington Post.
Send some of that global warming up here to Canada will ya? It is fracking cold up here at this time of year. Could use it right about now. Natural gas/taxes are lower when it is warmer too.
I was just about to build an all-new PC, then RAM prices skyrocketed. It's ridiculous, getting 2 gb costs like $70 more in Australia now.
I guess they are price fixing again. Likely stockpiling the memory chips for the Vista roll out. Seems higher now for the same bytes as it did 3 years ago. My guess is after Vista splashes and another price fixing suit threat they will fall.
who in the hell would want a ready-built computer for him/herself? technology is so good right now, assembling one is easier than ever.
Your kidding right?
PC componet distributors prices make it pretty hard to beat and packaged (with credible warranty) system from a local store. I have built some 9 or more systems in my day but can't beat what they do today. Hard rives seem cheap but memory is priced stupid.
Ya, 98% of the PCs ship with "shared" video, which we all know is CRAP. Saves them $10 in a couple of memory chips. But the smart buyer will consider it if it is cheap enough. Then get a decent PCI-e card and slap it in to disable shared memory.
The last one I built was based on a Intel PERL motherboard from Intel, and a P4 2.8GHz HT that crapped out just outside of warranty. Mobo died I think.
Even though my most recent purchase, and AMD 64 X2 (ASUS mobo inside) I was going to load Linux on it, and never run Windows on it, it was cheaper to get another unused Microsoft tax stub than another vendor who would provide the same system minus Windows that would be just what I would build, but cost even more.
Call me an idealist but it has to happen at some point. Maybe price pressures and demand falling off will drive the linux and free software adoption we've all been waiting for.
Make me wonder why PC memory is so expensive though. Anyone else notice they are high? PC, $500, 1GB aditioanl RAM, $180. Makes no sense.
Saddam shouldn't be executed he should be kept alive in a cell for the rest of his life as a lesson for the Iraqi's to learn from.
Why not get rid of him? There is no known escape from death to walk the earth and kill some more that we know of. Saddam has killed and now, more justice than he ever gave is going to end his life of inhumanity for once and for all.
And with Saddam being dead, even a radical terrorist knows, there is no value in breaking him out of jail or killing thousands more trying to "bargain" for his release. Bargaining with terrorists never works unless it is to get them into the open for a clear shot. Putting a bullet between their ears does is both cheap and effective.
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if you know of somewhere nice, it's best to keep quiet about it.
Problem is, how do I earn a living? I don't want to see a cut down the forest or rape the streams/lakes empty. The area does need an alternative industry.
It isn't just power, how about air conditioning and quality of life. Many of us don't like the idea of living in a concrete jungle. I would take a pay cut to live in a cabin in the mountains by some fishing streams in a heart beat. So go to central BC, with a power dam right next door, 6 months a year the cool air is supplied by mother nature and land is cheap. Or perhaps northern Alberta or even northern Saskatchewan.
Would you like your email to be read by someone you don't even know? Well that is what could happen if you hire a SysAdmin and do not conduct a background check. I know that I would actually prefer if my name was run through a background check so that management can actually trust me instead of always wondering.
Funny you should state this. Reading "other" peoples mail often leads to who is leaking SSN/employee info, credit info, customer and supplier relationships. You actually can often tell a persons demeanor and integrity by reading their email. You can see a correlation between a dysfunctional Exchange admin "wanting sex tonight..." and leaking privvy information. Same goes with system admins denying audit access to internal Information Security resources. You can tell who is a producer and who is schooled in Machiavellian and passive aggression politics. Interesting study actually. One that is grossly under tapped.
And anyone in this business that has respect for anything should not write an email or blog they would later regret. If your uncomfortable about someone you don't know reading it, you probably shouldn't send it unless it is PGP - even then you have to rust the destination.
Anyone getting privileged access should undergo a thorough background check. Management/HR is plain stupid not to.
And I still remember having to download WINSOCK because Microsoft didn't think a TCP/IP stack was necessary and the world should use NETBUI and dial up without PPP.
Microsoft's research is there though, but it's focus is squarely on anti-trust monopolization of the market. They take something like kerberos and figure out just how to make it fail when working with non-Microsoft products.
don't know why they don't just ban emails with stupid images anyways, or best yet just strip them out of the attachments. If I really want to share pictures I'll put them on a website or Flickr or something.
The answer is as simply as this.
With all the virus scanning and filtering it sells more servers. More servers is more money for M$.
Thus, don't fix it.
To show what I mean, in one environment I know they have sendmail running on 2 old 300MHz UNIX systems for 8 years relaying the mail for 10000 users. They just replaced them with Exchange 2003 - 3 quad proc Windows systems and they can't keep up and reliability dropped from 99.999 to maybe 90%. They are going back to UNIX.
And the recent Micro$oft and Novell agreement makes me wonder if we even know all of what is going on. What is Micro$oft up to next? But I didn't think much of Micro$oft owning part of SCO whey back when either, but now it is apparent.
But will not catch me buying NOVL any time soon, partnerships with Micro$oft rarely do well when all is counted.
If Microsoft does take the nuclear option and attack major users of Linux over patents, who will take up arms against a company with sufficient money in the bank to buy every lawyer in the western world?
It would move offshore and underground. Just like crypto development did.
Your forgot 1a and 1b.
1a. Ballmer gets M$ developer to borrow some new feature out of FOSS
1b. Ballmer gets a patent
Before everyone rallies the troops for a war against M$, it might be wise to learn what they have up their sleeve.
Name me one top of the heap tech company that has stayed there? M$ does not need Linux to take it down, it is doing quite a good job all by itself.
Mr. Ballmer seems to be incredibly stupid. I guess that he is little more than a boor who happened to be on the right place at the right time. I bet that MS's obnoxious image will change significantly once he and Mr. Gates (half gone, thank goodness) stop calling the shots in MS.
I am sure Ballmer (or is that bomber) is getting paid well. The question is does he believe his BS.
I had to recommend that we migrate much of our corporate network to FreeBSD, with Solaris or Debian Linux being my second choices. Thankfully, we write most of our Windows software in-house using wxWidgets for the GUI and PostgreSQL as the relational database of choice, so the transition should go fairly well.
Your well set to be free of M$ and Oracle. Well done.
If MS really thinks there are patent issues, then MS should either try to work out cross licensing deals that benefit or have the offending IP removed. Anything else is just FUD.
First, Microsoft has "invented" nothing we use today. Have they?
I would suspect, even a California judge would have to find in Linux and FOSS favor with regards to patents. Take for example the tabbed Firefox browser with a close button on the top right? How long do you think it will be before Microsoft files a patent on it, then implements it then extorts for it?
What protocols does Microsoft use today that we commonly use (securely) on the internet?
Lets expand on FUD, FFUF, Fiction, Fear, Uncertainty and Fraud from M$.
Ever notice how Firefox 2.0 get both Microsoft and Linux spelling mistakes?
No wonder why everything is going offshore in innovation, you get you ass sued off for doing in in the USA.
One problem is that employers are ambivalent about this. They put a pressure on academia to act more as job-training centers, and the students misguidedly play along: they don't want to learn about algorithms, they want to learn C++. They, and their parents, want immediately useful job skills that will get them placed the day they graduate. And employers don't want to have to spend money on on-the-job training.
The people who can master a language like C/C++ would be on the top of my employment list. Even if I was hiring them to be a manager of technical people, I would be comfortable to know they have developed a well rounded logical and rational brain. At the bottom of the list, is a I/T graduate who does not know how to program but studied passive-aggression, Machiavelli and other such self destructing office politics practiced today.
Trades and the medical profession have it right, mentor people into the positions. Certifications are a joke as it does not convey experience. Certs in fact are puke learning. Never forget the guy who was hired, fresh degree graduate, then took the time out for a MSCE cert. First thing he did was accidentally wipe out a 1 TB disk array. He is now a manger and projects usually fail and are over budget.
Sue Sue Sue, I love you!
More pertinent is once all these fat lazy dinosaurs finish with each other we will get some real entertainment and not another farcing sitcom.
I guess Google scares Universal, cowards.
MySpace, big piranha are after YOU!
You don't thing Google isn't getting into entertainment in a bigway do you? Got old news, they are...
Read carefully, shesh, you can't mention the word Linux without the M$ crew out to twist it.
My basic point is M$ Balmer is trashing on the hand that feeds it. Sort of hypocritical don't you think? After all, would you rather use NETBUI over TCP anyone? Or NTLM over Kerberos?
Microsoft has invented NOTHING that has lasted but has redefined FFUD (Fiction/Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) to new levels. Microsoft is the commercialization of what the open world does. If Microsoft wants to lead they have to become a little more intelligent and open. And god forbid, admit that Microsoft is not the only way. There is room for other OSes, just like there is room for more than one race of people on this planet.
Now lets watch M$ pull out it's baseless patents on the very source that gave them their ideas, and source.
Who merged the Linux Genuine Advantage code into the tree? Come on, speak up - I know it was one of you.
Funny, but the wrong thing to ask.
The right thing to ask is how much open and public domain source made it to Windows? Was not Linux preemptive multitasking before Windows, POP3, SMTP/sendmail, DNS/BIND, Kerberos, telnet, ftp, http, ssl, TCP/IP itself, and probably more. At least in concept everything in Windows even windows itself is borrowed from other peoples works. Windows itself is an extrapolation of other people's prior works at best.
I believe thawte offers a viable and professional alternative to PGP.
Open up your IE browser, Internet Options->Content->Certificates and then click on the intermediate and root trusted authorities. Each of these you must trust. Further, another weak point, someone else has the keys that can gerate other keys to spoof domains.
Rememeber, there are devices that can do SSL in the middle. Don't believe me, see http://www.bluecoat.com/downloads/support/BCS_tb_r everse_proxy_with_SSL.pdf Your best defence against a product like this is sign your own certs and don't give the CA to the proxy owners. This way you will get a warning when SSL in the middle hits you.
The theory is simple enough. PGP is far superior this way as you don't give out keys to a third party. A third party has no involvement so they don't need to be trusted. PGP for secure point to point is superior to SSL by a billion miles.
What products does NTP make? I was thinking of performing a boycott of what seems to be an overly-litigious company, but can't find any targets.
Their product is legal extortion. There are no avenues for you or I to boycot them. And since it worked the first time, the investors of NTP are looking for a second big payout. It would take an act of congress, literally to stop them. So write you congress person is the best you can do.
you have to make money somehow. Seems NTP's choice is to extort money using the court system.
We all knew it was extortion the first time.
What will truly be interesting is now that it is an American company on the block will the courts descion be any different? The fundimentals are exactly the same. So in theory Palm needs to cough up a lot of cash.
Until of course there is a anti-preditory law to put the NTPs out of business.
OriginalArlen writes to tell us about some compelling global warming coverage in the Washington Post.
Send some of that global warming up here to Canada will ya? It is fracking cold up here at this time of year. Could use it right about now. Natural gas/taxes are lower when it is warmer too.
I was just about to build an all-new PC, then RAM prices skyrocketed. It's ridiculous, getting 2 gb costs like $70 more in Australia now.
I guess they are price fixing again. Likely stockpiling the memory chips for the Vista roll out. Seems higher now for the same bytes as it did 3 years ago. My guess is after Vista splashes and another price fixing suit threat they will fall.
http://news.com.com/Government+finds+witness+in+ RAM+price-fixing+probe/2100-1004_3-5347423.html
And old story, but still valid. I guess price fixing is lucrative in spite of the fines.
who in the hell would want a ready-built computer for him/herself? technology is so good right now, assembling one is easier than ever.
Your kidding right?
PC componet distributors prices make it pretty hard to beat and packaged (with credible warranty) system from a local store. I have built some 9 or more systems in my day but can't beat what they do today. Hard rives seem cheap but memory is priced stupid.
Ya, 98% of the PCs ship with "shared" video, which we all know is CRAP. Saves them $10 in a couple of memory chips. But the smart buyer will consider it if it is cheap enough. Then get a decent PCI-e card and slap it in to disable shared memory.
The last one I built was based on a Intel PERL motherboard from Intel, and a P4 2.8GHz HT that crapped out just outside of warranty. Mobo died I think.
Even though my most recent purchase, and AMD 64 X2 (ASUS mobo inside) I was going to load Linux on it, and never run Windows on it, it was cheaper to get another unused Microsoft tax stub than another vendor who would provide the same system minus Windows that would be just what I would build, but cost even more.
The only reason to do it is if your a hobbiest.
Call me an idealist but it has to happen at some point. Maybe price pressures and demand falling off will drive the linux and free software adoption we've all been waiting for.
Make me wonder why PC memory is so expensive though. Anyone else notice they are high? PC, $500, 1GB aditioanl RAM, $180. Makes no sense.
The man has already been stripped of his wealth and power, and imprisoned. Will killing him bring back the 148 dead Shiites?
Maybe you should ask is there any other better guaranty that Saddam will never get to kill 148 more Shiites than to kill him?
As long as he is alive, no one can say he can't kill again with the same certainty as if here were dead.
Saddam shouldn't be executed he should be kept alive in a cell for the rest of his life as a lesson for the Iraqi's to learn from.
Why not get rid of him? There is no known escape from death to walk the earth and kill some more that we know of. Saddam has killed and now, more justice than he ever gave is going to end his life of inhumanity for once and for all.
And with Saddam being dead, even a radical terrorist knows, there is no value in breaking him out of jail or killing thousands more trying to "bargain" for his release. Bargaining with terrorists never works unless it is to get them into the open for a clear shot. Putting a bullet between their ears does is both cheap and effective.