*LART-LART-LART* How may times do I have to tell you there is no conspiracy ?
Next thing Microsoft will invent (look mom, Microsoft is inventing again!!) will be running executables personally signed by Bill Gates. I should see the next-generation viruses then! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!:)
IMO - those doing the plugins must have some fucking [1] clues about the target systems. Way too often boody M$ programmers are porting [2] idjiot code to say - Unix - with lots of repercussions [3].
Sadly good unix programmers are rare - and good windows programmers are close to non-existant.
Besides - I miss those days when you could do a whole lot of things just with a terminal and lynx.
Why the hell do we need Flash, Java, even damn graphics?
[1] In the reproduction sense - able to multiply
[2] For some values of "porting"
[3] Need I remind you of *coughsputter*flashplugin*cough*?
Ermm - naah - I hate to take something and don't give something in exchange.:)
So I'll change yours for our reformed-communists (soon to be elected), nationalists nazi-in-disguise (too close to be elected as well), liberals, christian-democrats (previously in power), liberals (all sort of them), social-democrats. Though I claim the good part of the minorities - you can have the gipsies too:) They're bonus!:)
This is way cool. I wish that was done in.au as well - but then again, it is still better from what is here... Damn #@$!@ RomTelecom.
Hey - Canada, may I borrow your Govt.? Please?!:)
I need to kill Kenny! you bastards!
As far as I remember MCI was there last year or in 1998 (not sure) when I recall reading about ppl in the NOCs wearing T-shirts with a banned picture of a digger... I think they got their fibers cut 3 or 4 times in the same summer.
That was fun! (NOT!) So there - nothing is new under the sun.
This is the chance for those lusers to get a working neuron and improve their condition. Hell - even sawdust would improve it.
On the other hand - I'm afraid the resources are rather limited - remember that one with "Population on Earth is increasing in number - however, the intelligence amount is constant"
Well well well... I guess one had to see it coming - after all the blooming delays they pulled ever since they "proudly" announced the close release (NOT!) of the P]||[. Like... "lookie here - we just found a new design bug in our kick-ass processor - I guess we won't release it now.. Sorry suckers - how about waiting until $NEXT_ATTEMPT. You still have front seats - right in front of the fan - don't bring your own shit - we'll take care of that"
BTW: is anyone willing to take a bet that in the first 3-4 months there will be at least one bug in their *not-so-SMP* P]||[ ?
INTEL! Ditch this shitty processor business and start growing mushrooms... they work better and faster - and they can grow in clusters already.:)
IPv6, and the Tooth Fairy...
I think you meant FuckUp Fairy... There are already too many lusers out there in the world - lurking more or less. One can only imagine how much "nicer" the some IT-related jobs will become! Oh dear!
At least you get to assign addresses that contain recovery inducing subtrings like "f0ad" or "dead beef" etc.etc.:) Heh - how about having a horde of bisons connecting on dialups and the worst of thems getting assigned nice tags like this?:) Quite as efficient as setting ID10T=1 in autoexec.bat.
We are listening you, we are tracing you! and we know damn well what you did last summer (TM).
Why - oh why won't you use our fine network?! Please?
Now - seriously - why would anyone think that someone in their right minds would want to bring down such a network while it can be so easily used "for fun and profit(tm)".:)
Now this is one piece of software I'd like to see 'orking:)
And come to think about it - it may well be used for blackmailing - it doesn't remove the original images but keeps them:) now a really BOFH could use it - ummm... for fun and profit. Not that one wouldn't do that without this software:)
But how about mpegs?:) can one do something about them?:)
and it's funny just explaining this to your gran'ma: Look granny - your pics you just sent me were banned as X rated - what on earth were you doing when you had them done?:)
One thing I can say is that fixed hours usually allow you getting payed for overtime. Especially in IT there are moments when one has to pull overtime a lot - during weeks in a row (can you spell "oh-my-god-we-need-to-roll-this-out-by-yesterday-o r-sky-is-going-to-fall -on-us"? I know you can). In many of these cases overtime can be considered as a saction to poor management or clueless managers.
Now, if you're doing flex time - depending on the amount of bogons in PHB's head - you may wind up doing same or more overtime but this time for free. Guess who's winning?
Then again - if they're aware that happy workers are more productive than disgruntled ones - they may well have some clues about efficient management.
On the other hand - flex time vs. fixed time may well be a problem of age and habit. I for one am at the age when I could use some extra-money and so I am willing to do extra-hours without much fuss. It will come the time when personal comfort and age and other problems (like kids and such) get to have higher priority than work and money you get from doing over-time - it is then when you get to appreciate flex time.
Bottom line to this is - if they are bastards and get to take bad decisions that require overtime work - make sure you charge them accordingly. If they continue in error - abandon ship - it doesn't worth your health/time/gray-matter to bother with such lusers anyways. If they are nice however - talk to your manager and see if you can work it out in a way both will be satisfied. Managers in posession of clues are known for their understanding of things and kindess.
Ino!~
As far as I know - M$ understanding of DHCP is somewhat b0rken. Although I know that the client can send it's hostname to the server - with a M$ based DHCP server you cannot do this. Whether you send the hostname or not to the DHCP server you won't get registered in the DNS. Go figure.
Bottom line is - if you go for DHCP - use some *STANDARD* implementation (which bloody well excludes M$). ISC's DHCP v.3 is a good start for you.
Well, who told you they're not? ha?! After all that's what file encryption is for, isn't it?
As about firing him/her - you'd have to be better than him/her to figure that out. And we all know (I guess you don't, though) that the great majority of PHBs are *CLUELESS*. They couldn't point-and-click their way out of a paper bag, less figure out that the files containing the salaries are beeing read by the sys-admin.
And speaking of "unethical" - how do you call a company that has enforced a policy that requires scanning all incoming and outgoing mail? ha?
Get real... they deserve ethics only if they're playing by the rules.
:) besides - your left hand will never let you down, and add the fact that "she" has a sister - your right hand, and "she" doesn't matter you're doing her too:)
Hell - you could even do a "menage a trois" all by yourself:)
Come on! get a life!:) After all hairy palms are rather hard to hide:)
AAAAAHHH Shuddup M$ wanker!:) I bet your code isn't better than you either!
Besides - how would you like a *really tired* nurse near your bed? eh? Come to think of it - they don't have to pull out of their ass at least 3 months of 18 hours of work/day just like that! I think you need to wake up.
On the other hoof - stress is not only IT specific - but then again - Slashdot mainly is about IT not something else, so *WE TALK ABOUT "IT"*!
Oh, and about beeing in Jamaica... forget it - unless you're some luser PHB - no programmer will be rich enough at 29 to retire! Man - you really have some erotic dreams!
Yebyen used to write: >"We see a lot of people doing this... so we're >gonna make some money off of it."
---- I don't know why, but this resembles damn well with actually putting a tax on having sex. Can you imagine actually paying that?! Having $IRS (or otherwise "your favourite taxation service") blowing up your door and arresting you for not paying to fsck your $SIGNIFICANT_OTHER. I guess that they could also improve the tax, depending on the $DURATION, $POSITION, $ORIFFICE, $GENDER, $SPECIES:):):) and most of all $TIME_OF_DAY:).... Really addicted persons might get a deduction in time:)
Nyah-nyah-nyah.... I'm giving them new ideas, I guess...:):):)
I'm using an Ultra5 now, and indeed the series it is part of, really suck when it comes about the frame-buffer - on a 21" that means only 256 colors and a bloody slow window refresh rate. However - I'll get a the Creator 3D upgrade this monday and I'll start kicking some behinds with this station...:).
Ultra 5s were first shipped with a crappy frame buffer device - but since January this year (I am not sure though) they're much better equiped when it comes to video (and they're at about the same price the old ones were).
Speaking of keyboards - I'm using Sun's for about 6 years - and there was a time when I was so used to the Cut/Copy/Paste/Open/Undo that I was literally trying to use them even when at home on my PC - go figure, my left hand falling off the keyboard in the attempt to press those keys!
On the other hand - the GUI that comes with Solaris isn't that nice (IMNSHO), but one can twist-and-whack (!)it to suit the needs. For me Window Maker is the best choice, and if you're smart enough you can make the DT apps work just fine under almost any other window manager rather than using CDE ad nauseam...
Ino!~
PS: when Sun switched from KBD Type4 to Type5 I was most annoyed by the new key positions... Ctrl replaced Caps and Escape moved down instead of Tilde and the Tilde key moved to hell - at the other end of the row... (I'm still looking for that one sometimes). Otherwise their keyboards really feel wonderful at typing - and don't seem to croak at all (I have the original ones on the Suns at the Univ. since 1993 - and they were *REALLY* abused in the mean time)
Well, indeed - serious servers don't have a kbd shoved up their a$$, rather a serial(a or b) connected to some kind of terminal-concetrator (or "sumfin'" like that)... which IMO is as bad as a keyboard that can be reached by the average (l)user - why?... well, you can telnet in that thingie on a purrticular port and at the login prompt - say the magic word "^]" to get the telnet> where you say again two magic words and the whole MF goes belly up!:)
Don't try this at home^H^H^H^Hwork unless you really know what you are doing (i.e. you really need to do it)...:) Ino!~
PS: Magic incantations removed to protect the inocents...:) (BTW, Read The Fantastic(!) Manual (tm) really works wonders )
Well - I don't think I'd ever want something like this in my PC. I also think that I had enough of DumbHardware(tm) after changing 3 soundcards before buying an AWE64 (I have to say that the guys that sold them to me were resonable enough to accept them back - mainly after telling them that if those cards don't work with linux I will come back and shove them up their... NO CARRIER:)) I also had enough beeing unable to make a Canon WinDumbass printer print color from linux.
IMNSHO it *ALWAYS* worths to have the good ol' hardware do whatever is to be done and let the CPU out of the cheesy things. A good thing (tm) may be the possibility of upgrading the firmware (for example: Courier modems). And even more - a hardware thing will (almost) always do whatever is supposed to do - and do it well.
On the other hand more powerfull processors don't necessarly mean hogging them with tasks a shitty I/O card can't do because we were cheap when we bought it though we spent X times more on the bloody CPU (or any other not-so-important piece of hardware). If you can buy a Bleeding-Edge-Processor (tm) for sure you can settle down to a 1m-from-the-Bleeding-Edge-Processor and a good piece of hardware (be it modem, soundcard, video-card, whatever), and that of course unless you suffer of some macho ambition (i.e. my [#!@^^*%&$...NO CARRIER] is [bigger|better|faster|loger] than yours all)
I remember an old saying that goes like this: "those who don't know Unix are condemned to reinvent it - poorly" though I'm afraid I can see a similar one that is: "those who don't know Windows are condemned to build it on Linux - with the well known consequences"
I don't know - but from what I've seen - there's not much difference between a full spec'ed-out E450 and a entry-level E3500. And then - it all comes down to the "out of production" thingie - when you get to pay Big Bucks (tm) for a bloody disk upgrade or I dunno what else...
For a start a dual processor E3500 would leave you with enough time until you will have to upgrade. Plus that what you really need is a disk bandwidth which I don't think a 450 can provide you. Anyways either you get a 450 or a 3500 it's pretty obvious that you will have to get an array too (or two for that matter - if you're using RAIDx). So the whole difference is made by the array you will get.
A pretty nifty thing is having this service in a cluster - the Sun's HA is nice once you got it working. Still, using HA you're way over bord with the prices so I guess that you would really want to abuse this only if you have no better use for the money but buying Micro$oft stocks.:)
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*LART-LART-LART* How may times do I have to tell you there is no conspiracy ?
:)
Next thing Microsoft will invent (look mom, Microsoft is inventing again!!) will be running executables personally signed by Bill Gates. I should see the next-generation viruses then!
BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!
--
IMO - those doing the plugins must have some fucking [1] clues about the target systems. Way too often boody M$ programmers are porting [2] idjiot code to say - Unix - with lots of repercussions [3].
Sadly good unix programmers are rare - and good windows programmers are close to non-existant.
Besides - I miss those days when you could do a whole lot of things just with a terminal and lynx. Why the hell do we need Flash, Java, even damn graphics?
[1] In the reproduction sense - able to multiply
[2] For some values of "porting"
[3] Need I remind you of *coughsputter*flashplugin*cough*?
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Ermm - naah - I hate to take something and don't give something in exchange. :) :) They're bonus! :)
So I'll change yours for our reformed-communists (soon to be elected), nationalists nazi-in-disguise (too close to be elected as well), liberals, christian-democrats (previously in power), liberals (all sort of them), social-democrats. Though I claim the good part of the minorities - you can have the gipsies too
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This is way cool. I wish that was done in .au as well - but then again, it is still better from what is here... Damn #@$!@ RomTelecom. :)
Hey - Canada, may I borrow your Govt.? Please?!
I need to kill Kenny! you bastards!
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As far as I remember MCI was there last year or in 1998 (not sure) when I recall reading about ppl in the NOCs wearing T-shirts with a banned picture of a digger ... I think they got their fibers cut 3 or 4 times in the same summer.
That was fun! (NOT!) So there - nothing is new under the sun.
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> The article said the 57 year old man kept three of the rotors? Sounds like a conspiracy :)
:)
*LART* How many times do I have to tell you there is *NO* conspiracy?
There was *NO* conspiracy, there is *NO* conspiracy and it will never be one!
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This is the chance for those lusers to get a working neuron and improve their condition. Hell - even sawdust would improve it.
On the other hand - I'm afraid the resources are rather limited - remember that one with "Population on Earth is increasing in number - however, the intelligence amount is constant"
--
Well well well... I guess one had to see it coming - after all the blooming delays they pulled ever since they "proudly" announced the close release (NOT!) of the P]||[. Like ... "lookie here - we just found a new design bug in our kick-ass processor - I guess we won't release it now.. Sorry suckers - how about waiting until $NEXT_ATTEMPT. You still have front seats - right in front of the fan - don't bring your own shit - we'll take care of that"
:)
BTW: is anyone willing to take a bet that in the first 3-4 months there will be at least one bug in their *not-so-SMP* P]||[ ?
INTEL! Ditch this shitty processor business and start growing mushrooms... they work better and faster - and they can grow in clusters already.
--
IPv6, and the Tooth Fairy... ... There are already too many lusers out there in the world - lurking more or less. One can only imagine how much "nicer" the some IT-related jobs will become! Oh dear!
:) :) Quite as efficient as setting ID10T=1 in autoexec.bat.
I think you meant FuckUp Fairy
At least you get to assign addresses that contain recovery inducing subtrings like "f0ad" or "dead beef" etc.etc.
Heh - how about having a horde of bisons connecting on dialups and the worst of thems getting assigned nice tags like this?
--
[...]
... I parsed that as Greenspam and worse - it made sense :)
Whatever, just keep Greenspan in the US.
Uh-oh
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We are listening you, we are tracing you! and we know damn well what you did last summer (TM).
:)
Why - oh why won't you use our fine network?! Please?
Now - seriously - why would anyone think that someone in their right minds would want to bring down such a network while it can be so easily used "for fun and profit(tm)".
--
Now this is one piece of software I'd like to see 'orking :)
:) now a really BOFH could use it - ummm ... for fun and profit. Not that one wouldn't do that without this software :)
:) can one do something about them? :)
:)
And come to think about it - it may well be used for blackmailing - it doesn't remove the original images but keeps them
But how about mpegs?
and it's funny just explaining this to your gran'ma: Look granny - your pics you just sent me were banned as X rated - what on earth were you doing when you had them done?
--
One thing I can say is that fixed hours usually allow you getting payed for overtime. Especially in IT there are moments when one has to pull overtime a lot - during weeks in a row (can you spell "oh-my-god-we-need-to-roll-this-out-by-yesterday-o r-sky-is-going-to-fall -on-us"? I know you can). In many of these cases overtime can be considered as a saction to poor management or clueless managers.
Now, if you're doing flex time - depending on the amount of bogons in PHB's head - you may wind up doing same or more overtime but this time for free. Guess who's winning?
Then again - if they're aware that happy workers are more productive than disgruntled ones - they may well have some clues about efficient management.
On the other hand - flex time vs. fixed time may well be a problem of age and habit. I for one am at the age when I could use some extra-money and so I am willing to do extra-hours without much fuss. It will come the time when personal comfort and age and other problems (like kids and such) get to have higher priority than work and money you get from doing over-time - it is then when you get to appreciate flex time.
Bottom line to this is - if they are bastards and get to take bad decisions that require overtime work - make sure you charge them accordingly. If they continue in error - abandon ship - it doesn't worth your health/time/gray-matter to bother with such lusers anyways. If they are nice however - talk to your manager and see if you can work it out in a way both will be satisfied. Managers in posession of clues are known for their understanding of things and kindess.
Ino!~
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As far as I know - M$ understanding of DHCP is somewhat b0rken. Although I know that the client can send it's hostname to the server - with a M$ based DHCP server you cannot do this. Whether you send the hostname or not to the DHCP server you won't get registered in the DNS. Go figure.
Bottom line is - if you go for DHCP - use some *STANDARD* implementation (which bloody well excludes M$). ISC's DHCP v.3 is a good start for you.
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Click here to win a free 66GB tape drive!
First "point-and-click" interface - Smith & Wesson :)
And this one's the next step: "point-and-shoot"
On the other hand - I guess that somehow wars will become more of a Starcraft thingie. Rather scary IMO.
Click here to win a free tape drive
>Its great that we can now take the code and add features that are sadly lacking in StarOffice, such as the MS Office Assistant...
:)
:)
You realize now that I will have to kill you right on the spot, don't you?
On the other hoof - how about making it as annoying as the MICROS~1 one is? and as impossible to get rid of, too...
Damn you - I'll have to kill myself too!!
I guess I havent :) Back to my cave :)
:)
Care to pass the entrace rock?
Well, who told you they're not? ha?! After all that's what file encryption is for, isn't it?
As about firing him/her - you'd have to be better than him/her to figure that out. And we all know (I guess you don't, though) that the great majority of PHBs are *CLUELESS*. They couldn't point-and-click their way out of a paper bag, less figure out that the files containing the salaries are beeing read by the sys-admin.
And speaking of "unethical" - how do you call a company that has enforced a policy that requires scanning all incoming and outgoing mail? ha?
Get real... they deserve ethics only if they're playing by the rules.
:) besides - your left hand will never let you down, and add the fact that "she" has a sister - your right hand, and "she" doesn't matter you're doing her too :)
:)
:) After all hairy palms are rather hard to hide :)
Hell - you could even do a "menage a trois" all by yourself
Come on! get a life!
AAAAAHHH Shuddup M$ wanker! :) I bet your code isn't better than you either!
Besides - how would you like a *really tired* nurse near your bed? eh? Come to think of it - they don't have to pull out of their ass at least 3 months of 18 hours of work/day just like that! I think you need to wake up.
On the other hoof - stress is not only IT specific - but then again - Slashdot mainly is about IT not something else, so *WE TALK ABOUT "IT"*!
Oh, and about beeing in Jamaica... forget it - unless you're some luser PHB - no programmer will be rich enough at 29 to retire! Man - you really have some erotic dreams!
HTH (as in Hope This Hurts - of course)
Yebyen used to write:
:) :) :) and most of all $TIME_OF_DAY :).... Really addicted persons might get a deduction in time :)
.... I'm giving them new ideas, I guess ... :) :) :)
>"We see a lot of people doing this... so we're
>gonna make some money off of it."
----
I don't know why, but this resembles damn well with actually putting a tax on having sex. Can you imagine actually paying that?! Having $IRS (or otherwise "your favourite taxation service") blowing up your door and arresting you for not paying to fsck your $SIGNIFICANT_OTHER. I guess that they could also improve the tax, depending on the $DURATION, $POSITION, $ORIFFICE, $GENDER, $SPECIES
Nyah-nyah-nyah
Ino!~
I'm using an Ultra5 now, and indeed the series it is part of, really suck when it comes about the frame-buffer - on a 21" that means only 256 colors and a bloody slow window refresh rate. However - I'll get a the Creator 3D upgrade this monday and I'll start kicking some behinds with this station ... :).
... Ctrl replaced Caps and Escape moved down instead of Tilde and the Tilde key moved to hell - at the other end of the row... (I'm still looking for that one sometimes). Otherwise their keyboards really feel wonderful at typing - and don't seem to croak at all (I have the original ones on the Suns at the Univ. since 1993 - and they were *REALLY* abused in the mean time)
Ultra 5s were first shipped with a crappy frame buffer device - but since January this year (I am not sure though) they're much better equiped when it comes to video (and they're at about the same price the old ones were).
Speaking of keyboards - I'm using Sun's for about 6 years - and there was a time when I was so used to the Cut/Copy/Paste/Open/Undo that I was literally trying to use them even when at home on my PC - go figure, my left hand falling off the keyboard in the attempt to press those keys!
On the other hand - the GUI that comes with Solaris isn't that nice (IMNSHO), but one can twist-and-whack (!)it to suit the needs. For me Window Maker is the best choice, and if you're smart enough you can make the DT apps work just fine under almost any other window manager rather than using CDE ad nauseam...
Ino!~
PS: when Sun switched from KBD Type4 to Type5 I was most annoyed by the new key positions
Well, indeed - serious servers don't have a kbd shoved up their a$$, rather a serial(a or b) connected to some kind of terminal-concetrator (or "sumfin'" like that)... which IMO is as bad as a keyboard that can be reached by the average (l)user - why? ... well, you can telnet in that thingie on a purrticular port and at the login prompt - say the magic word "^]" to get the telnet> where you say again two magic words and the whole MF goes belly up! :)
:)
... :) (BTW, Read The Fantastic(!) Manual (tm) really works wonders )
Don't try this at home^H^H^H^Hwork unless you really know what you are doing (i.e. you really need to do it)...
Ino!~
PS: Magic incantations removed to protect the inocents
Well - I don't think I'd ever want something like this in my PC. I also think that I had enough of DumbHardware(tm) after changing 3 soundcards before buying an AWE64 (I have to say that the guys that sold them to me were resonable enough to accept them back - mainly after telling them that if those cards don't work with linux I will come back and shove them up their ... NO CARRIER :)) I also had enough beeing unable to make a Canon WinDumbass printer print color from linux.
...NO CARRIER] is [bigger|better|faster|loger] than yours all)
IMNSHO it *ALWAYS* worths to have the good ol' hardware do whatever is to be done and let the CPU out of the cheesy things. A good thing (tm) may be the possibility of upgrading the firmware (for example: Courier modems). And even more - a hardware thing will (almost) always do whatever is supposed to do - and do it well.
On the other hand more powerfull processors don't necessarly mean hogging them with tasks a shitty I/O card can't do because we were cheap when we bought it though we spent X times more on the bloody CPU (or any other not-so-important piece of hardware). If you can buy a Bleeding-Edge-Processor (tm) for sure you can settle down to a 1m-from-the-Bleeding-Edge-Processor and a good piece of hardware (be it modem, soundcard, video-card, whatever), and that of course unless
you suffer of some macho ambition (i.e. my [#!@^^*%&$
I remember an old saying that goes like this: "those who don't know Unix are condemned to reinvent it - poorly" though I'm afraid I can see
a similar one that is: "those who don't know Windows are condemned to build it on Linux - with the well known consequences"
I don't know - but from what I've seen - there's not much difference between a full spec'ed-out E450 and a entry-level E3500. And then - it all comes down to the "out of production" thingie - when you get to pay Big Bucks (tm) for a bloody disk upgrade or I dunno what else...
:)
For a start a dual processor E3500 would leave you with enough time until you will have to upgrade. Plus that what you really need is a disk bandwidth which I don't think a 450 can provide you. Anyways either you get a 450 or a 3500 it's pretty obvious that you will have to get an array too (or two for that matter - if you're using RAIDx). So the whole difference is made by the array you will get.
A pretty nifty thing is having this service in a cluster - the Sun's HA is nice once you got it working. Still, using HA you're way over bord with the prices so I guess that you would really want to abuse this only if you have no better use for the money but buying Micro$oft stocks.
Cheers,
INO!~