YES! I know of at least one company that is against any intrusive advertising. I run it. The only advertising my company invested in was the printing of buisness cards, and after leaving the first lot lying around where people would see them, I've depended mostly on word of mouth to promote my company. I will be releasing a new website in the near futur, which will only be advertised in true opt-in lists, and banner ads in specific locations that would draw only the intended audiances. I will never advertise with pop-ups, SPAM or those annoying slid-in type ads. I belive if the product is good, it should sell itself. advertise a good product to sell more, and I'll need more staff. I want to keep my company small.
The datacenter that my server is in requires you to sign-in when you enter the building, swipe through to open the door, the have a key to unlock your cage. Not to mention that all the good stuff would require a LOT of work with wirecutters to get at. Also, you can't look around without seeing at least 2 CCTV cameras...
My small server is currently blocking about 40% as spam using spamcop's and spamhaus' rbls. The larger servers that I look after for other companys tend to range from about 50% during the week to about 90% on weekends.
With these lists, I don't think I've had any false positives, and I don't have much spam slip through.
same for me, If I'm doing something, I'll glance at the callerID, and if it's not shown, then I hit "ignore" so it stops ringing (vibrating), and they get voicemail. If it's a friend, and I'm buisy, I'll ignore and call back later (if they don't leave a message). I'll only take an important call (office, home, etc)
My cell is on vibrate about 95% of the time. I usually wear it on a belt clip, so I will usually feel it. The only exception is when I'm in the car, and it's on the charger, then it automatically switches to audio, and even then, it's not an annoying tone, but not the standard ring. Other than that, about the only time I set it to ring is if I'm working in an area where it's likely to get knocked off my clip, in which case I switch to ring, and put it in a pocket.
Across the pond, in Canada I'm seeing mostly Netsky with the occasional bugbear. This is in a small company with about 25 office workers, and I'm filtering close to 20 viruses a day
Actually I would need a new account (or an extra gig) every month or two. I'm constantly emailing source code, and compiled execs to myself when I need to retrieve it from a computer on another network, or at home. Some of my clients email me huge image files to add to their websites (after I scale them down to size). People are always sending me those annoyingly cute PPT files that eat up gobs of space with their "funny" pictures and "nice" music. One joker that is closer to my taste often sends MP3's that he's recorded off the radio, and sometimes he's either lazy or stupid and just sends the original WAV file. One he sent me was 15 megs, 3 times, because I'm on a few of his group lists...
As I said, I can eat through a gig fairly quickly
I'd have to say either the cable monkey work, or the development cycles that gets caught in an infinit loop!
I hate it when the boss changes his mind every few days about the critical logic to a system, requiring you to almost start from scratch, or patch the hell out of the system.
The sales droids where I work have AOL accounts on their laptops so that they can connect when on the road. at least once a week, I get a call from an annoyed user half way across the continent saying that MY server is messed up because they can't connect to the OWA site, or log via Terminal Service Client, or open a VPN connection.
My response is always the same... Let me know when you get back so I can LOOK at the machine! they never call back because everything works fine over the office LAN. so I'll keep telling them to drop AOHell and get an account with a REAL provider
I'm already making decent money doing this. Each new client that I do tech support for get a chance to sign up for routine maintenance performed for a small monthly fee. If they accept, I install a small script as a scheduled task that will connect their machine to the net, and send their IP address to me, and open up a desktop sharing program so that I can remote control their machine. For broadband users, I can download most updates, scan for viruses and malware, start a defrag in half an hour (not to mention I can have sessions to 4 machines at once before I start to lag) Most people schedule this to be done between 11pm and 1AM so they go to bed, hear the modem dial out, and wake up with a nice clean machine to mess up.
My company was also hit by this virus, and hit hard. The other sysadmin is still trying to argue that even though the servers are his domain, and I do mostly web development, the webserver should have been my responsability.
That levy has annoyed the hell out of me for years. I play in several small bands, and produce demo CD's, and burn small lots for us to sell. So, basically when we make a CD and sell it at $8 CDN I make a few dollars to cover my expenses (Burners, mixer, mics, editing software) and my time (recording, mixing, editing, burning) and the band makes a couple dollars, and some artist, who we'll likely never see, except from a few thousand feet away at a crowded auditorium or stadium will receive a few cents, and some desk jockey will receive several cents for his glancing at a report, or scratching an unreadable signature.
Simple solution, drop the levy, destroy the recording giants, and everyone become independant artists. Get paid if the people like you, and get a real job if you're not cut out for the industry.
Then why release the documentation? just have a gazillion patches for people to install. Then the malware writers would have to spend more time actually disecting the patches before they could do something.
think about it... 2 slashdot articals about the virus and SCO... This is slashdot, so they are getting a double dose today (and proabaly for the rest of the week, at which point the DDOS will take over.
I've only given that advice once when it came to service packs. Where I work, we run mostly M$ junk, so service packs are usually fairly safe to install. This paticular case though, it is an old machine that only has a 2gig HDD, with 120 megs free. Unfortionatly, someone else was working on that machine some time over the last couple weeks, and saw that it was still on 2k sp3, and tried to install sp4, drive filled up, and installation failed. I spent yesterday doing a restore on the system (wouldn't even boot into safe mode), and today I have to juggle around software to make room to install the service packs and updates, then put back anything that is missing.
What headaches? I have 10 systems on a segment of my home network that is firewalled off so that only the required ports are open for incoming and outgoing traffic. The only problem I have is the occasional need to reboot. Lets see, 10 minutes a week rebooting machines vs $200/machine to upgrade?That's a hard one...
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I quite every night before going to bed... (well, every night that I do go to bed)
YES! I know of at least one company that is against any intrusive advertising. I run it. The only advertising my company invested in was the printing of buisness cards, and after leaving the first lot lying around where people would see them, I've depended mostly on word of mouth to promote my company. I will be releasing a new website in the near futur, which will only be advertised in true opt-in lists, and banner ads in specific locations that would draw only the intended audiances. I will never advertise with pop-ups, SPAM or those annoying slid-in type ads. I belive if the product is good, it should sell itself. advertise a good product to sell more, and I'll need more staff. I want to keep my company small.
Where do I send my bill for the time I've spent looking at my log files, and reporting infected computers to their ISPs?
The datacenter that my server is in requires you to sign-in when you enter the building, swipe through to open the door, the have a key to unlock your cage. Not to mention that all the good stuff would require a LOT of work with wirecutters to get at. Also, you can't look around without seeing at least 2 CCTV cameras...
I simply park at a friends house in Longuail then take the metro in to Montreal. Save me a hell of a lot in parking, gas and time
Not to mention that the jokes are so old that Noah told them while building his boat.
about a third of my snail-mail is complete junk, another third is junk mail sent from companys that I've invested in, and the rest is bills.
My small server is currently blocking about 40% as spam using spamcop's and spamhaus' rbls. The larger servers that I look after for other companys tend to range from about 50% during the week to about 90% on weekends. With these lists, I don't think I've had any false positives, and I don't have much spam slip through.
same for me, If I'm doing something, I'll glance at the callerID, and if it's not shown, then I hit "ignore" so it stops ringing (vibrating), and they get voicemail. If it's a friend, and I'm buisy, I'll ignore and call back later (if they don't leave a message). I'll only take an important call (office, home, etc)
My cell is on vibrate about 95% of the time. I usually wear it on a belt clip, so I will usually feel it. The only exception is when I'm in the car, and it's on the charger, then it automatically switches to audio, and even then, it's not an annoying tone, but not the standard ring. Other than that, about the only time I set it to ring is if I'm working in an area where it's likely to get knocked off my clip, in which case I switch to ring, and put it in a pocket.
Across the pond, in Canada I'm seeing mostly Netsky with the occasional bugbear. This is in a small company with about 25 office workers, and I'm filtering close to 20 viruses a day
Whe the only tool you own is a 580-tonne tunnel boring machine, any maintenance needed is a BIG problem!
Actually I would need a new account (or an extra gig) every month or two. I'm constantly emailing source code, and compiled execs to myself when I need to retrieve it from a computer on another network, or at home. Some of my clients email me huge image files to add to their websites (after I scale them down to size). People are always sending me those annoyingly cute PPT files that eat up gobs of space with their "funny" pictures and "nice" music. One joker that is closer to my taste often sends MP3's that he's recorded off the radio, and sometimes he's either lazy or stupid and just sends the original WAV file. One he sent me was 15 megs, 3 times, because I'm on a few of his group lists... As I said, I can eat through a gig fairly quickly
I'd have to say either the cable monkey work, or the development cycles that gets caught in an infinit loop! I hate it when the boss changes his mind every few days about the critical logic to a system, requiring you to almost start from scratch, or patch the hell out of the system.
The sales droids where I work have AOL accounts on their laptops so that they can connect when on the road. at least once a week, I get a call from an annoyed user half way across the continent saying that MY server is messed up because they can't connect to the OWA site, or log via Terminal Service Client, or open a VPN connection. My response is always the same... Let me know when you get back so I can LOOK at the machine! they never call back because everything works fine over the office LAN. so I'll keep telling them to drop AOHell and get an account with a REAL provider
I'm already making decent money doing this. Each new client that I do tech support for get a chance to sign up for routine maintenance performed for a small monthly fee. If they accept, I install a small script as a scheduled task that will connect their machine to the net, and send their IP address to me, and open up a desktop sharing program so that I can remote control their machine. For broadband users, I can download most updates, scan for viruses and malware, start a defrag in half an hour (not to mention I can have sessions to 4 machines at once before I start to lag) Most people schedule this to be done between 11pm and 1AM so they go to bed, hear the modem dial out, and wake up with a nice clean machine to mess up.
My company was also hit by this virus, and hit hard. The other sysadmin is still trying to argue that even though the servers are his domain, and I do mostly web development, the webserver should have been my responsability.
That levy has annoyed the hell out of me for years. I play in several small bands, and produce demo CD's, and burn small lots for us to sell. So, basically when we make a CD and sell it at $8 CDN I make a few dollars to cover my expenses (Burners, mixer, mics, editing software) and my time (recording, mixing, editing, burning) and the band makes a couple dollars, and some artist, who we'll likely never see, except from a few thousand feet away at a crowded auditorium or stadium will receive a few cents, and some desk jockey will receive several cents for his glancing at a report, or scratching an unreadable signature. Simple solution, drop the levy, destroy the recording giants, and everyone become independant artists. Get paid if the people like you, and get a real job if you're not cut out for the industry.
Then why release the documentation? just have a gazillion patches for people to install. Then the malware writers would have to spend more time actually disecting the patches before they could do something.
Some versions of windows changed it to tonsofdlls.h
I could just be the constant posting of slashdot articals...
think about it... 2 slashdot articals about the virus and SCO... This is slashdot, so they are getting a double dose today (and proabaly for the rest of the week, at which point the DDOS will take over.
And my servers are blocking about 100 copies an hour... I think I should disable the mail scan!
I've only given that advice once when it came to service packs. Where I work, we run mostly M$ junk, so service packs are usually fairly safe to install. This paticular case though, it is an old machine that only has a 2gig HDD, with 120 megs free. Unfortionatly, someone else was working on that machine some time over the last couple weeks, and saw that it was still on 2k sp3, and tried to install sp4, drive filled up, and installation failed. I spent yesterday doing a restore on the system (wouldn't even boot into safe mode), and today I have to juggle around software to make room to install the service packs and updates, then put back anything that is missing.
What headaches? I have 10 systems on a segment of my home network that is firewalled off so that only the required ports are open for incoming and outgoing traffic. The only problem I have is the occasional need to reboot. Lets see, 10 minutes a week rebooting machines vs $200/machine to upgrade?That's a hard one...