He died doing what he does best, and what he loves. If only we were so lucky.
If I'm that lucky, I have 3 ways I can go:
heart attack while coding
heart attack while making love
getting attacked by one of my bulls
I really hope it's one of the second two... (and my boss probably wouldn't like option A either...
For anyone who cares, my main hobby is training oxen... I have a nice team of 20 month old Jersey bulls that are fairly well trained.
Luggage gets tossed around very roughly
That's an understatement. Last time I flew somewhere, I was just behind the wing, so I could watch the loading process... One guy in the cart tossing the bags to the guy on the ground who would slam them onto a conveyor... At that point I was very worried about the cans of Maple Syrup in my luggage, and quite relieved that my laptop was in a soft case, under the next seat with my camera, and a good book.
If I can't carry the important, expensive, hard to replace stuff with me, then I'll find a different way to travel. Clothing and toiletry supplies, I really don't care. If my luggage gets lost/stolen/destroyed somehow, I can easily replace everything I really need for under $100 at walmart.I wear my suit, and pack casual clothes, so all I'd really have to replace are undergarments, shirts and a pair of jeans for casual wear if I have any free time on the trip. Then there's a razor, shaving cream, aftershave, toothbrush and toothpaste, and a backsack to carry the extras home... If someone wants to steal my dirty clothes on the return trip, the can enjoy them...
This really pisses me off. In Canada, we pay a levy on blank media regardless of what we are using it for.
Yep, I have to pay an extra tax on every CD my company uses to back up the financial data and project data... I have to pay an extra tax on every CD that my band makes (thus lowering our profit...)
the school board in my region has started a massive rollout of laptops (about 3 years ago), and now just as I predicted, the project has become a money pit due to lost/stolen/destroyed or otherwise damaged systems that need to be replaced. My big complaint when they stated was that the lower grades should be learning how to write and do simple math, so should not require a computer for every student. The higher grades who could have a legitimate use for a computer had good labs already in place and much easier to maintain than individual laptops! If the students needed more lab time than was available, set up another lab at a fraction of the cost of an IBook per child!
How many drive them on snowy roads? Everyone who owns one and lives where it snows, I bet.
Uh... I live in the frozen north, and have had no problems with the snow in my Civic Hybrid. Sure it's low, but with snow tires, and good driving technique, I can get just about anywhere I need to go, just as fast as the SUV can.
Sure there are some cases where a SUV is useful (ie pulling a camper/boat/trailer/whatever when you have passengers... some people need a vehicule that is good for off-roading.
I see people all the time saying how the SUVs are a huge waste. What about pickups? When I walk through the parking lot at my office, I can usually count 15-20 pickups that have never had anything in the box that couln't fit into a trunk, or the back seat, and have never been off the highway, and never pulled anything. Are these any better?
People with money always want what the status symbol is. How many of use/.ers have palm pilots, cell phones, mp3 players that are not essential? I know a lot of us work on call, and need the cell phone for work, and the palm comes in handy at times, but if we work a 9-5 job at the same desk everyday, couldn't the outlook calendar and office phone accomplish the same thing?
I tend to work with AVG all the time as well.
-Thursday night: A client's machine was taking about 10 minutes to boot (with McAfee) Removing McAfee and installing AVG, the system boots in about 2 minutes
-I support several offices using licenced versions of AVG, and have had very few problems. Other offices that I support, who use Trend products, Norton, McAffee, etc seem to call me at least once a month to re-image a machine because of virus problems.
yep, my mother gets free tech support (but only when I have the time. If I'm swamped with work, and she deems it urgent, it has to pass through my emergency line.
If possible, refer them to another professional who can help them.
Too True. Even when I go on vacation, I have another consultant that will step in and handle true emergencies. He an I have a special deal with each other, and will charge almost double our regular rates to the each others clients because neither of us really want more clients. When he takes a vacation, he sets up voicemail notifications to indicate that only his emergency number is available while he's away, then the emergency number is forwarded to my asterisk box, on a line I usually use for outgoing, where I set up a greeting to let the customer know exactally what is happening, before I take the call. When i'm away, I set up Asterisk to play a quick message on my emergency plan, then forward the call to his line.
This way, we both keep our clients happy when we are away. Once in a while, a client will switch to the other, but the insaine rates(TM) will hold (we both value each others help, and don't want to steal clients away). A portion of the exta fees usually go towards a few nights of heavy drinking...
No, in the end, until we have a programming language that reads the way people talk, this won't work. Even then there will be issues. Try learning COBOL and then let us know if there are simply issues there, or if it's a major headache from the time you turn on your terminal...
Yes, I used to work with COBOL on a dumb terminal connected to an AS400...
worst part, one of my clients who needed a major office overhaul decided to reject my plans and had an user, who claimed to have installed windows once, order and set up new equipment. End result, every machine had different hardware depending on what the local shops had in stock at bargin prices. The server would hiccup, fart, barf, or keel over daily, the network itself was slower than the old token ring I first had to work on...
Eventually I got called in enough times, that the management decided to implement my solution. Within 2 weeks, I had everything stable with reasonably priced industrial grade equipment. About the only thing I agree with in the parent post is Ghost! I like to have standard builts in the bigger offices I support. 10-20 system ordered at a time, identical, so that I only need to have one ghost image for the lot... Some places arn't big enough to justify upgrades like that, so each system has different hardware... in which case, I'll usually make a ghost disk per machine...
For backups... IT's JOB IS TO TAKE CARE OF DATA!!! if you only have a gig or 2 of files to backup, a DVD or 2 a night can work, but when you have 3 TB to backup... I doubt any company would be crazy enough to hire 3 people (one for each shift) to sit there, and burn DVDs... for more than a couple gigs, you need large backup media that doesn't come cheap... I've been playing around with IOMEGA REV drives and like them. If a robot library costs too much, an employe can be tasked with changeing the cartrige when he's on his way out for a break... Sometimes, a few cheap USB drives can do the trick as well, but it's a balancing act to be sure you have enough space, enough media, reliable backups, OFFSITE BACKUPS (had a serverroom fire once that I had to recover from, and the company had kept all backups on a shelf above the servers...) Expensive tapes are convieient, and a proven technology, but cheaper media can work, it's all in the planning.
I'm in the same situation. I have a small fortune invested in recording equipment, and I produce CDs for a few town bands, and my cousin's rock band. For bulk orders, I usually sell the final copy for $3-$5 depending on whether I was paid for my recording/editing time in advance and the quantity ordered (and expected orders).
I am not really happy that Unkle John 3-tooth who produced one CD 5 years ago that sold 3 copies is still getting paychecks because of tax on the blank CDs I purcahse, but I'd rather pay that that out than face a RIAA style lawsuite... Worst part is that these bands pay a fortune for sheet music to have the right to perform the music... On the other hand, I can also LEGALLY take on projects converting tapes to CDs and VHS to DVD...
Jee, I received a new server last week, but had not received the licence key for the AV. Plugged it in to install the service packs, and was a spam bot running on it before I'd even finished downloading the service pack! (note, this machine had 3 1GB connections to 3 differnet switches feeding from some insain Fiber lines)
That poor macine was infection free for approx 2 minutes online. That's the last time I trust someone elses firewall rules!
A few months ago, I started having major issues like what was mentioned in the register artical (along with a severe brute force attack on my ssh port) so I slapped together a quick database, some scripts to analyse my logfiles,and log intrusion attempts to the database, then every 5 minutes I update my firewall rules.
Basic idea
3 failed logins/ fubar web requests / whatever else I'm logging in 3 minutes = 5 minute block.
another attempt in 5 minute of release gives 10 minutes, and so on until a 24 hour block expires, after that, one more attempt and it's a permenant block. All automated, and on an IP by IP basis.
Truck driver need to be even more careful in these situations. I don't know how many times I've been with friends and seen an accident where a semi bumped the car in front. My friends always have the same reaction..."why didn't he just pull around the car?" Simple folks, a semi has large blind spots. The safer thing to do is hit the car in front. Then you know exactaly what you are hitting. If you try to swerve a big, long, heavily loaded semi to avoid something that happend suddenly, you risk the cargo shifting possibly causing a much worse accident, sideswiping more vehicules that you didn't see because you reacted quickly and couldn't check blindspots quick enough, and you are risking causing another because you are a lot bigger and blocking other people vision.
If you can SAFELY avoid hitting something then definatly avoid it, but sometime its safer to run over the cat (or whatever else is the problem). It still has a chance to move between the wheels. I've done that 2x with skunks and my poor vehicule has gotten the worst out of both encounters.
I chose a bad day to take the entire rack in our server room offline to updated to GB networking and put in new backup batteries! I wasn't getting much appreciation yesterday.
Hey, it's possible to triple-tongue with a sax as well. Plus us sax players don't pucker up as tight, but still have strong lips (at least those of us who play with a double embrochure...
I play trumpet, baritone, trombone and tuba as well, and my lady is usually happiest when I get back from a gig where I had the sax.
Let's admit it though, it's the piccolo play who will turn the ladies away. All he does is screech.
Of course, if the phasers and shields failed first (wow say that ten times fast) and they had plenty of power for life support, it would get boring watching the enterprise get blown to bits ever 3rd episode...
A company I worked for was blacklisted for emailing invoices... Good job AOHell... I have close to 100 clients that were happy receiving their invoices by email, and now am fighting to get off the blacklist so that I don't have to snail mail the invoices (at a cost of $0.50/letter!)
I use a 3 part solution for SSH.
1) I use fairly strong passwords (unfortionatly, my users don't always)
2) I moved the SSH port so that the dang bots don't keep hitting me all the time filling my logs with garbage.
3) I implemented a small script that checks through the logs and sets up firewall rules. 3 failed PW attempts within 5 minutes will block that IP for 15 min, 5 failed in 1 hour blocks for 24 hours, 8 failed within 48 hours blocks for a week, and emails me, so I can take action.
Works well providing people don't use the super obvious passwords like password or abc123... I had a dang bot installed on my server a month ago firing out shit as fast as it could. I caught it within a hour (thanks to another script that checks for background processes and CPU usage, but dang, it takes time to get yourself off black lists that take seconds to get on!
>C'mon guys. Spam is not a problem if you don't
>give your email addresses to spammers - and
>better, have a few email addresses to use when
>you don't trust someone.
If you know so much about how to keep your email address hidden, then please offer me some of your wise tips. I recently registed a new domain, set up several email accounts on it, and within a week I was receiving spam (before I'd given out a single one of those addresses to the end users. Now, the admin and webmaster accounts listed in the whois listing are understandable (along with the other pile of common addresses), but to get dictionary attacks on a domain that has only been registered for a week is just wrong!
With the 15 domains that I currently administer, I'm filtering about 65% of the messages as spam now, and haven't receveived a single report of a false positive. Better than I can say for one of my clients who is dropping my emails because my rDNS record is wrong (because my hosting company hasn't updated yet after an IP change over the weekend)
A few weeks ago, my father took my car into the garage for an oilchange and some minor maintenance that it needed. I had told him to just have it put on my account there (Figured I had one, since I bought the car there...) The wouldn't let me leave without paying. when he pointed out that I would be in the next morning to pay on CC, and they said if he knew my CC# they could pass the transaction. It was my understanding that anyone other than myself using my CC would be fraud.
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- heart attack while coding
- heart attack while making love
- getting attacked by one of my bulls
I really hope it's one of the second two... (and my boss probably wouldn't like option A either... For anyone who cares, my main hobby is training oxen... I have a nice team of 20 month old Jersey bulls that are fairly well trained.That's an understatement. Last time I flew somewhere, I was just behind the wing, so I could watch the loading process... One guy in the cart tossing the bags to the guy on the ground who would slam them onto a conveyor... At that point I was very worried about the cans of Maple Syrup in my luggage, and quite relieved that my laptop was in a soft case, under the next seat with my camera, and a good book.
If I can't carry the important, expensive, hard to replace stuff with me, then I'll find a different way to travel. Clothing and toiletry supplies, I really don't care. If my luggage gets lost/stolen/destroyed somehow, I can easily replace everything I really need for under $100 at walmart.I wear my suit, and pack casual clothes, so all I'd really have to replace are undergarments, shirts and a pair of jeans for casual wear if I have any free time on the trip. Then there's a razor, shaving cream, aftershave, toothbrush and toothpaste, and a backsack to carry the extras home... If someone wants to steal my dirty clothes on the return trip, the can enjoy them...
This really pisses me off. In Canada, we pay a levy on blank media regardless of what we are using it for. Yep, I have to pay an extra tax on every CD my company uses to back up the financial data and project data... I have to pay an extra tax on every CD that my band makes (thus lowering our profit...)
I have been using stacks of computers for years. Isn't that about the same thing?
the school board in my region has started a massive rollout of laptops (about 3 years ago), and now just as I predicted, the project has become a money pit due to lost/stolen/destroyed or otherwise damaged systems that need to be replaced. My big complaint when they stated was that the lower grades should be learning how to write and do simple math, so should not require a computer for every student. The higher grades who could have a legitimate use for a computer had good labs already in place and much easier to maintain than individual laptops! If the students needed more lab time than was available, set up another lab at a fraction of the cost of an IBook per child!
How many drive them on snowy roads? Everyone who owns one and lives where it snows, I bet. Uh... I live in the frozen north, and have had no problems with the snow in my Civic Hybrid. Sure it's low, but with snow tires, and good driving technique, I can get just about anywhere I need to go, just as fast as the SUV can. Sure there are some cases where a SUV is useful (ie pulling a camper/boat/trailer/whatever when you have passengers... some people need a vehicule that is good for off-roading. I see people all the time saying how the SUVs are a huge waste. What about pickups? When I walk through the parking lot at my office, I can usually count 15-20 pickups that have never had anything in the box that couln't fit into a trunk, or the back seat, and have never been off the highway, and never pulled anything. Are these any better? People with money always want what the status symbol is. How many of use /.ers have palm pilots, cell phones, mp3 players that are not essential? I know a lot of us work on call, and need the cell phone for work, and the palm comes in handy at times, but if we work a 9-5 job at the same desk everyday, couldn't the outlook calendar and office phone accomplish the same thing?
I tend to work with AVG all the time as well. -Thursday night: A client's machine was taking about 10 minutes to boot (with McAfee) Removing McAfee and installing AVG, the system boots in about 2 minutes -I support several offices using licenced versions of AVG, and have had very few problems. Other offices that I support, who use Trend products, Norton, McAffee, etc seem to call me at least once a month to re-image a machine because of virus problems.
yep, my mother gets free tech support (but only when I have the time. If I'm swamped with work, and she deems it urgent, it has to pass through my emergency line.
If possible, refer them to another professional who can help them. Too True. Even when I go on vacation, I have another consultant that will step in and handle true emergencies. He an I have a special deal with each other, and will charge almost double our regular rates to the each others clients because neither of us really want more clients. When he takes a vacation, he sets up voicemail notifications to indicate that only his emergency number is available while he's away, then the emergency number is forwarded to my asterisk box, on a line I usually use for outgoing, where I set up a greeting to let the customer know exactally what is happening, before I take the call. When i'm away, I set up Asterisk to play a quick message on my emergency plan, then forward the call to his line. This way, we both keep our clients happy when we are away. Once in a while, a client will switch to the other, but the insaine rates(TM) will hold (we both value each others help, and don't want to steal clients away). A portion of the exta fees usually go towards a few nights of heavy drinking...
No, in the end, until we have a programming language that reads the way people talk, this won't work. Even then there will be issues.
Try learning COBOL and then let us know if there are simply issues there, or if it's a major headache from the time you turn on your terminal...
Yes, I used to work with COBOL on a dumb terminal connected to an AS400...
Multiple mortar attacks would explain a lot TO my isp.
worst part, one of my clients who needed a major office overhaul decided to reject my plans and had an user, who claimed to have installed windows once, order and set up new equipment. End result, every machine had different hardware depending on what the local shops had in stock at bargin prices. The server would hiccup, fart, barf, or keel over daily, the network itself was slower than the old token ring I first had to work on... Eventually I got called in enough times, that the management decided to implement my solution. Within 2 weeks, I had everything stable with reasonably priced industrial grade equipment. About the only thing I agree with in the parent post is Ghost! I like to have standard builts in the bigger offices I support. 10-20 system ordered at a time, identical, so that I only need to have one ghost image for the lot... Some places arn't big enough to justify upgrades like that, so each system has different hardware... in which case, I'll usually make a ghost disk per machine... For backups... IT's JOB IS TO TAKE CARE OF DATA!!! if you only have a gig or 2 of files to backup, a DVD or 2 a night can work, but when you have 3 TB to backup... I doubt any company would be crazy enough to hire 3 people (one for each shift) to sit there, and burn DVDs... for more than a couple gigs, you need large backup media that doesn't come cheap... I've been playing around with IOMEGA REV drives and like them. If a robot library costs too much, an employe can be tasked with changeing the cartrige when he's on his way out for a break... Sometimes, a few cheap USB drives can do the trick as well, but it's a balancing act to be sure you have enough space, enough media, reliable backups, OFFSITE BACKUPS (had a serverroom fire once that I had to recover from, and the company had kept all backups on a shelf above the servers...) Expensive tapes are convieient, and a proven technology, but cheaper media can work, it's all in the planning.
I'm in the same situation. I have a small fortune invested in recording equipment, and I produce CDs for a few town bands, and my cousin's rock band. For bulk orders, I usually sell the final copy for $3-$5 depending on whether I was paid for my recording/editing time in advance and the quantity ordered (and expected orders).
I am not really happy that Unkle John 3-tooth who produced one CD 5 years ago that sold 3 copies is still getting paychecks because of tax on the blank CDs I purcahse, but I'd rather pay that that out than face a RIAA style lawsuite... Worst part is that these bands pay a fortune for sheet music to have the right to perform the music... On the other hand, I can also LEGALLY take on projects converting tapes to CDs and VHS to DVD...
she didn't do me :(
When was the slashdot crowd scheduled to enter her?
Jee, I received a new server last week, but had not received the licence key for the AV. Plugged it in to install the service packs, and was a spam bot running on it before I'd even finished downloading the service pack! (note, this machine had 3 1GB connections to 3 differnet switches feeding from some insain Fiber lines) That poor macine was infection free for approx 2 minutes online. That's the last time I trust someone elses firewall rules!
A few months ago, I started having major issues like what was mentioned in the register artical (along with a severe brute force attack on my ssh port) so I slapped together a quick database, some scripts to analyse my logfiles,and log intrusion attempts to the database, then every 5 minutes I update my firewall rules. Basic idea 3 failed logins/ fubar web requests / whatever else I'm logging in 3 minutes = 5 minute block. another attempt in 5 minute of release gives 10 minutes, and so on until a 24 hour block expires, after that, one more attempt and it's a permenant block. All automated, and on an IP by IP basis.
Truck driver need to be even more careful in these situations. I don't know how many times I've been with friends and seen an accident where a semi bumped the car in front. My friends always have the same reaction..."why didn't he just pull around the car?" Simple folks, a semi has large blind spots. The safer thing to do is hit the car in front. Then you know exactaly what you are hitting. If you try to swerve a big, long, heavily loaded semi to avoid something that happend suddenly, you risk the cargo shifting possibly causing a much worse accident, sideswiping more vehicules that you didn't see because you reacted quickly and couldn't check blindspots quick enough, and you are risking causing another because you are a lot bigger and blocking other people vision. If you can SAFELY avoid hitting something then definatly avoid it, but sometime its safer to run over the cat (or whatever else is the problem). It still has a chance to move between the wheels. I've done that 2x with skunks and my poor vehicule has gotten the worst out of both encounters.
I chose a bad day to take the entire rack in our server room offline to updated to GB networking and put in new backup batteries! I wasn't getting much appreciation yesterday.
Hey, it's possible to triple-tongue with a sax as well. Plus us sax players don't pucker up as tight, but still have strong lips (at least those of us who play with a double embrochure... I play trumpet, baritone, trombone and tuba as well, and my lady is usually happiest when I get back from a gig where I had the sax. Let's admit it though, it's the piccolo play who will turn the ladies away. All he does is screech.
Of course, if the phasers and shields failed first (wow say that ten times fast) and they had plenty of power for life support, it would get boring watching the enterprise get blown to bits ever 3rd episode...
A company I worked for was blacklisted for emailing invoices... Good job AOHell... I have close to 100 clients that were happy receiving their invoices by email, and now am fighting to get off the blacklist so that I don't have to snail mail the invoices (at a cost of $0.50/letter!)
I use a 3 part solution for SSH. 1) I use fairly strong passwords (unfortionatly, my users don't always) 2) I moved the SSH port so that the dang bots don't keep hitting me all the time filling my logs with garbage. 3) I implemented a small script that checks through the logs and sets up firewall rules. 3 failed PW attempts within 5 minutes will block that IP for 15 min, 5 failed in 1 hour blocks for 24 hours, 8 failed within 48 hours blocks for a week, and emails me, so I can take action. Works well providing people don't use the super obvious passwords like password or abc123... I had a dang bot installed on my server a month ago firing out shit as fast as it could. I caught it within a hour (thanks to another script that checks for background processes and CPU usage, but dang, it takes time to get yourself off black lists that take seconds to get on!
of course it would be quicker to get your own coffee than to say all that... Easiest solution is a private coffee machine on your desk...
>C'mon guys. Spam is not a problem if you don't >give your email addresses to spammers - and >better, have a few email addresses to use when >you don't trust someone. If you know so much about how to keep your email address hidden, then please offer me some of your wise tips. I recently registed a new domain, set up several email accounts on it, and within a week I was receiving spam (before I'd given out a single one of those addresses to the end users. Now, the admin and webmaster accounts listed in the whois listing are understandable (along with the other pile of common addresses), but to get dictionary attacks on a domain that has only been registered for a week is just wrong! With the 15 domains that I currently administer, I'm filtering about 65% of the messages as spam now, and haven't receveived a single report of a false positive. Better than I can say for one of my clients who is dropping my emails because my rDNS record is wrong (because my hosting company hasn't updated yet after an IP change over the weekend)
A few weeks ago, my father took my car into the garage for an oilchange and some minor maintenance that it needed. I had told him to just have it put on my account there (Figured I had one, since I bought the car there...) The wouldn't let me leave without paying. when he pointed out that I would be in the next morning to pay on CC, and they said if he knew my CC# they could pass the transaction. It was my understanding that anyone other than myself using my CC would be fraud.