If the predecessor does write the passwords down, he deserves to be fired.
That's knee-jerk stupidity, and you should be ashamed of your non-thinking fundamentalism.
Passwords do need to be written down, and stored in "escrow". I put the list of passwords in an envelope, lick seal it, sign and date the seam, and then seal it again with clear packing tape. Give it to the boss to put in his safe.
Yes, it's easy to open, but you'd know whether someone tried to tamper with it.
It's the difference between 24k gold teeth, and 24k gold plated teeth. With plastic spinners.
As funny as that is, the only people with tatoos in the "upper crust of society" are pseudo-rebellious college students who get them burned off as soon as they enter the business world or the matriarch controlling the trust fund hears that Missy has a tramp stamp.
Would you be so naive and parochial to suggest that having a body covered with prison tats is not an indicator of social class today?
You need to turn off (foolish) righteous indignation and re-read #28058181. Mainly the last paragraph:
If you don't accept that example, consider drug and gang tatoos. Yes, they elevate somebody in their social group, but no, that does not equate to status in society as a whole.
This is why, even though I am an atheist, I could never look my fundamentalist Christian relatives in the eye and say with certainty that based solely on the archeological record that evolution was a fact.
Only when the hard science of genomics arrived could I say with certainty that evolution is a Fact and not just neat ideas.
I've just gotten tired of Yet Another Uber-Aggressive Fight Babe stories. They've become too common for me to suspend disbelief that there really are that many physically aggressive women in this world that beat up men on a regular basis.
Looking attractive is a judgement of sexual appeal. Looking good is a judgement of aesthetics. A vase rarely looks attractive, but is more often said to look good.
Ah. ISTM, though, that in humans "looking attractive" and "looking good" are co-mingled, at least when looking at members of the opposite sex (with obvious exclusions for family, and "opposite" switching to "same" for homosexuals).
By telling her the truth, we only buy clothes that she's going to feel good in and actually wear, so we save lots of money buying clothes that are going to sit on the shelf and make her feel bad.
I think this is something that only "science people" with committed SOs could get away with...
I'm not even married, but I know that when my GF asks if she looks fat in those jeans, the correct answer is "Of course not, dear".
When my wife asks how an outfit looks, I (politely) tell her the truth.
Why? Because we've all cringed at women wearing inappropriate or unattractive clothes, and neither of us wants her to look anything but attractive. Fortunately, she has good taste, so I rarely say anything but positives or mild negatives like "the shoes are too dark/clunky/etc".
While I dislike Gartner about as much as anyone on this list, we must remember that this report is 5 YEARS OLD. I would be surprised if there WERE any large-scale mature Linux desktop sites back then.
Still, it's a steaming pile of FUD: before companies started rolling out Windows in a big way, how many large-scale Windows sites were there?
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FYI there are always 2 versions of BIOS!
That definitely was not always true. Only when (a) companies realized that people "bricked" their mobos on a regular basis, and (b) EEPROM prices dropped while capacity increased, did manufactures start putting in dual BIOSs.
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I hope that someone who is more familiar with this will fill in the details, but as I recall one of IBM's mainframe did this back in the 1970's.
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This idea of putting Linux itself into the BIOS is okay if and only if the chip containing the BIOS is replaceable. In other words, the chip should not be soldered to the board.
You're joking, right? Right????
Because if not, read this then flagellate yourself 20 times with an RS232 cable.
If they don't come up with a pure technical reason, a proof for forking the project rather than "big company hate" or conspiracy theories, they are already taking this decision politically.
Why can't it just be that they have finally admitted that MySQL really sucks at anything but simple queries.
What they should do is start anew with the PostgreSQL codebase. It already has an Oracle "skin", so why not a MySQL "skin"
(Fundamentally altering the environment and driving megafauna to extinction) worked for the aborigines.
Shame on you for not realizing that only White European Americans are allowed to be criticized. Brown People are allowed to do any fscking thing they want, because they are "closer to nature". And oppressed by the White Man, even 20,000 years ago.
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you could use something like, wait for it... Network Password Manager.
Except that our systems aren't Windows. Or Unix, for that matter...
... and do you update this envelope every 90 days when the password changes?
Yup. Change all the passwords, make a new document and seal it up.
No no, you want to keep everything in your head, that way you can't be replaced by someone cheaper!
Attitudes like this are why people in the building trades don't hire "whites" anymore: harder work for less pay.
If the predecessor does write the passwords down, he deserves to be fired.
That's knee-jerk stupidity, and you should be ashamed of your non-thinking fundamentalism.
Passwords do need to be written down, and stored in "escrow". I put the list of passwords in an envelope, lick seal it, sign and date the seam, and then seal it again with clear packing tape. Give it to the boss to put in his safe.
Yes, it's easy to open, but you'd know whether someone tried to tamper with it.
comes from us hiring Afghans to fight the Soviets.
Do you really think that????
and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
Which is belied by the fact that we and the Soviets never incinerated the world in nuclear armageddon.
It's the difference between 24k gold teeth, and 24k gold plated teeth. With plastic spinners.
As funny as that is, the only people with tatoos in the "upper crust of society" are pseudo-rebellious college students who get them burned off as soon as they enter the business world or the matriarch controlling the trust fund hears that Missy has a tramp stamp.
Would you be so naive and parochial to suggest that having a body covered with prison tats is not an indicator of social class today?
You need to turn off (foolish) righteous indignation and re-read #28058181. Mainly the last paragraph:
archeologists can make stupid assumptions
This is why, even though I am an atheist, I could never look my fundamentalist Christian relatives in the eye and say with certainty that based solely on the archeological record that evolution was a fact.
Only when the hard science of genomics arrived could I say with certainty that evolution is a Fact and not just neat ideas.
people who discriminate between "new money" and "old money".
Even in Boston, "old money" was once "new money", and in a generation or two, new money becomes old money.
My GF would whoop your ass.
She's definitely not uber aggressive or anything like that.
That's my point! Just because a woman *can* go around beating men up, doesn't mean that they *want* to.
(My wife studies Karate for 7 years, so it's not like I'm opposed to physically-fit women who can take care of themselves...)
A cartoon is supposed to be justification that lots of women are Uber-Aggressive Fight Babes?
I've just gotten tired of Yet Another Uber-Aggressive Fight Babe stories. They've become too common for me to suspend disbelief that there really are that many physically aggressive women in this world that beat up men on a regular basis.
Looking attractive is a judgement of sexual appeal. Looking good is a judgement of aesthetics. A vase rarely looks attractive, but is more often said to look good.
Ah. ISTM, though, that in humans "looking attractive" and "looking good" are co-mingled, at least when looking at members of the opposite sex (with obvious exclusions for family, and "opposite" switching to "same" for homosexuals).
You wrote:
To which I replied
To which you replied
I don't understand your final reply.
You should keep in mind that looking good and looking attractive are two different things.
How so, on a woman?
By telling her the truth, we only buy clothes that she's going to feel good in and actually wear, so we save lots of money buying clothes that are going to sit on the shelf and make her feel bad.
I think this is something that only "science people" with committed SOs could get away with...
The contrast between your comment and your signature is tellingly insightful.
I'm not even married, but I know that when my GF asks if she looks fat in those jeans, the correct answer is "Of course not, dear".
When my wife asks how an outfit looks, I (politely) tell her the truth.
Why? Because we've all cringed at women wearing inappropriate or unattractive clothes, and neither of us wants her to look anything but attractive. Fortunately, she has good taste, so I rarely say anything but positives or mild negatives like "the shoes are too dark/clunky/etc".
While I dislike Gartner about as much as anyone on this list, we must remember that this report is 5 YEARS OLD. I would be surprised if there WERE any large-scale mature Linux desktop sites back then.
Still, it's a steaming pile of FUD: before companies started rolling out Windows in a big way, how many large-scale Windows sites were there?
FYI there are always 2 versions of BIOS!
That definitely was not always true. Only when (a) companies realized that people "bricked" their mobos on a regular basis, and (b) EEPROM prices dropped while capacity increased, did manufactures start putting in dual BIOSs.
I hope that someone who is more familiar with this will fill in the details, but as I recall one of IBM's mainframe did this back in the 1970's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
When mainframes were Really Really Expensive, it was the only way for small shops to have a development "machine".
Basically, every user who logged onto the system got their own virtualized private OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_Monitor_System
This idea of putting Linux itself into the BIOS is okay if and only if the chip containing the BIOS is replaceable. In other words, the chip should not be soldered to the board.
You're joking, right? Right????
Because if not, read this then flagellate yourself 20 times with an RS232 cable.
If they don't come up with a pure technical reason, a proof for forking the project rather than "big company hate" or conspiracy theories, they are already taking this decision politically.
Why can't it just be that they have finally admitted that MySQL really sucks at anything but simple queries.
What they should do is start anew with the PostgreSQL codebase. It already has an Oracle "skin", so why not a MySQL "skin"
(Fundamentally altering the environment and driving megafauna to extinction) worked for the aborigines.
Shame on you for not realizing that only White European Americans are allowed to be criticized. Brown People are allowed to do any fscking thing they want, because they are "closer to nature". And oppressed by the White Man, even 20,000 years ago.