Okay good cops, bad cops, whatever. I can tell you this though, there are places in this country where the cops are mandated to be this way. Where I used to live in South Florida is nothing less than a police state. Unless you are a rich upper-class yuppy driving a mercedes you will get hassled more than once a year for doing nothing wrong at all. I don't really freaking care if that area is the entry port for most drugs in the US, that doesn't make every citizen a god damn dealer. Boy but try and tell the pigs down there that. I have been stopped just walking home, strip searched on the side of the road with no probably cause (I am not lying, all the way down to my boxers) because the dick head pig thought he might have seen me flick a joint (I was biting my finger nails!!).
Anyways this and scenes like this happened many times. Every single one of my friends has had many similar experiences. Eventually I had to learn to play the cops at their own game. When I saw one stalking me/my friends I would normally walk right up to his window and go say "Can I help you? You seem rather interested in what we are doing.......". 9 times out of 10 this would scare them off. They would say somehting "Go on about your business" and drive away.
The moral of my story here is not all cops around the country are dicks. But there are places where they have taken their power far beyond where it should be. Oh and gawd forbid you ever make a complaint about one of them. They drove one of my friends clean out of a city once. They pigs told him "If any of us sees you, we will stop you... and we will find something to arrest you with."
Fuck the police! When those childish little petty-powermongers grow up I might have some respect for them.
I live in Georgia and I tell you what, One of these days I'm going to shoot someone who tailgates me when I'm already going 15 MPH over the speed limit. If you have a 2 lane highway the rule of thumb is that the right lane is for slower traffic and the left lane is for high speed travel. But under no circumstances am I going to move if I'm going 85 MPH in a 70 and some self important fucking asshole gets behind me in his huge redneck-mobile-F150 and wants me to move.
It's this simple: Tailgating is extremely dangerous. You should see the looks on the redneck's faces when I slam on my brakes and they are 5 feet behind me going 90 MPH. I really honestly don't fucking care if they wipe out, the law CLEARLY states that you should maintain 1 car length for every 10 miles an hour of speed. So if some asshat runs in to me not only do I get the satisfaction of watching them get a ticket but their insurance gets to fix my car as most southern states are at-fault states.
heh, I know some of the gateway support reps. Reason being I lived right by the company they outsourced the support to. A little (ha!) organization called "The Answer Group" located on southgate blvd in margate fl, zip-c 33063. This company is the equivalent of the devil incarnate. They have around 5,000 people there at any given time, It is a gigantic IT sweatshop. They provide support for compaq, IBM, HP, some dell, comcast, gateway, bellsouth and a few others. They hire the absolute dumbest people I have ever seen. They claim they actually do not want someone with computer knowledge, they want someone to drink the koolaid and read what is scripted for them to say. They honestly have no skill what so ever and should not even be allowed to go near a computer.
Most of the employees are pot smoking high school dropouts who were competent enough to pass a 10 question test and have atleast 2 years of experience working at *a* company. Those are their hiring requirements. Even the up-and-up's there are still total dumbasses when comparing to say mid-size to enterprise computing professionals.
Most of the people that work there have no interest in IT, no future in IT and no IT skills. It is a computer related phone answering service. Probably this company more than any other has created the hell that is computer support today. If they had any level of quality control at all it would not be the way it is now. I trully hate this company and encourage anything negative toward them./flame off
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grrrr..... I hate it when people say this nonsense. Coca-Cola *NEVER* *EVER* had refined cocaine in it. This is analogous to claiming some foods are made with gasoline because they have some petrolium based product in them. It is just flat out wrong!
Coca-Cola got it's name from the Coca plant/leaf. Thats what it was initially flavoured with. It had the sap extract from the Coca leaf which in it self does not contain the checmical cocaine. It still needs to go through about 9 steps of refinement before it can be considered a drug. You are not going to get tweek'd making coca-tea, you'd have a better chance with current coca-cola.
My Father-in-law owns a couple of farms is the hills of Colombia, producing mostly rice. His workers chew coca leaves for extra energy. They all claim it's like drinking coffee, not getting blasted out of your mind from snorting a huge rail.
"Now throw really complex needs like PDF generation, Dynamic Excel Spreadsheets, XML/SOAP/XML-RPC/EDI communication, mainframe interfaces, off-brand databases, performance caches, and other large scale features, and suddenly Java doesn't look so hard anymore."
Then the great gods of IT come forth and said "...AND LET THERE BE CPAN!...."
well it's obvious you've never actually been hit with one other wise you would know what you were talking about. *EXPLOITS* get you root. rootkits allow you to KEEP root. The average rootkit disables forensics programs like lsof, ps, find, locate, w, who, (sometimes) syslogd. They also modify shit like rc.sysinit or inittab.
Don't let the name fool you because thats all it is is a name. Exploits and rootkits are 2 entirely different things. You can get all the exploits you want from packetstormsecurity but I dare you to find a single rootkit there.
You don't have to take my word for it but jfyi, I worked as a security admin at a rather large dedicated hosting company and have seen just about every damn rootkit that actually works.
NOT TROLL but I have to say this first -- you freakin pinko's keep spinning this story soo much your eventually going to drill a damn hole to china. As much as you would hate to believe it THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!!! All of the things the bush administration has done, ANY administration would have done based on the information at the time. You just hate Bush so much that it gets your rocks off to believe this bullshit as truth. Did we forget about the the fact most of the UN agreed to oust Hussein!? Since the US might as well be the UN we acted and ousted his ass. We did not invade for oil. We might have invaded over spite since Hussein did try and kill Bush Sr. Even still when you attempt to asassinate a world leader you usually get some type of retribution from the victim's country.
I swear I just want to live in a world where people who argue about these things actually KNOW wtf they are talking about instead of getting their information from liberal news presses and message boards like slashdot or fark. I don't know what fucking universe people live in that they would believe one of the leaders of the free world would sacrifice thousands of American lives just for profit. Perhaps big evil corporations might but not our government. We've done some dumb shit in the past but after vietnam this would never EVER be tollerated. Our intentions in Iraq are noble. If they weren't we wouldn't still be there. We could hold off the Oil fields very easily with a squadron or 3 or 4 of Apache's with some light infantry on the ground. If thats all we wanted we would have taken the damn oil fields. No one ever bothers to look at this from a military prospective. They are to busy pointing their fingers at the other side to ever stop and think.
All I'm saying is look at the facts. Take away all the spin, all the arguments and all the b/s we've heard and think. If Bush actually did do this for oil or for controlling power he could be brought up on charges for war crimes. I don't think anyone in the western world would knowingly jepordize them self in such a way. Especially since next term we're almost garunteed a liberal president there should be a huge inquiry into this whole mess and the truth will come out. If I'm mistaken then I suppose I'll eat my words but I have a funny feeling it will be the left that eats it on this one.
I did not rtfa but I have 10+ years experience in IT. If you are expecting a technically competent boss than you are naive. Most employers seek management material by how well they can balance a budget and how much they impress and interact with the top brass. Certainly not by how technically competent they are. If they *claim* they know oracle, or solaris or whatever it is that the organization uses than they are considered as adequate or competent.
I am pleaseantly surprised at my position that my boss participates in daily operations at the same level that us admin's do. Not only that he possesses one of the highest levels of knowledge about the system and network one can possess. I am honestly shocked at his technical competence. This is a very rare occasion in the IT field. I have had 8 other jobs in this field where the brass made all the decisions without any proper technical knowledge or education. I have been fortunate that the blame fell on the executive when shit broke vs falling on poor little me.
Anyways it is amazingly naive for an IT professional to assume his boss knows what he/she knows. I would refer you to the BOFH for advice on this. Although his methods are questionable at best his reasons are valid. check him out at bofh.ntk.net you might learn something:)
Yes this seems correct but what about companies who have no policy on such things? My point, I developed a C library that would process CGI code http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcgilite almost transparently to the user. I instructed my employers that they may have exclusive license to it, but not deny'ing my right to it in any way.
They agreed. So I gave them license to use it but I retained authorship to the project by posting it to sourceforge.net. This was agreed on by the highest level even while I was employed as a programmer at the company. Can you debate my issue? Do you feel violated pulling a M/S on your code. Or do you feel ppl should die for your secrets? Let me know
yep totally true. I'm running an athlon xp 3200, it's fast don't get me wrong. but untill I dropped the 15K RPM U160 scsi drive in it I didn't know what speed was. Your right about the instant install of apps, it takes longer to type the command to start the installation than it does to install
pfft! "unless you want to look cool or got it for free"
Well hhmm, my 15,000 RPM U160 drive I bought brand new for a whopping $100 bucks off of pricewatch defrag's in 5 minutes, loads games in 1/10th the time the basicly same box next to me does with SATA, has a 5 year warranty and an MTBF 10x greater than your IDE/SATA drive. Also it copies a gigabyte from one place to another (even in windows) in around 5-6 seconds. No, no advantage to U160 at all, nah.
Oh and on a non competitive note, I would use SATA if they came in 15K RPM flavors. RPM == speed.
frankly I don't think that is IT. Thats far more a creative position than a technical position. IT is best defined as the technical maintenance of a network/system. I will admit programming is technical, but beying on both ends of it my current E-Commerce development job doesn't even begin to compare to my last position as a network engineer.
beyond my rant about programming isn't IT, dealing with stress? a good drum n bass mix and alot of very good pot. oh and cappuccino's, lots of those:) frankly the real world of IT is not really experiencing a down fall any more. there are plenty of technical jobs out there. I lived in south florida, land of all that are unemployed (or so it seems). well anyways in 1 year there were greater than 100,000 jobs layed off, mostly tech support and call center positions. but even still, 1 year later the market is still livable. I personally wasn't out of work for much more than 2 months at a stretch since sept 11th. but I am a technician/engineer and I know alot of platforms.
focusing your skills on only one small part of the IT industry is kind of a waste, with the ever changing technology one day you could be a guru at what you do and 3 months later you could be soo outdated it's useless to even attempt to keep up.
frankly my personal beliefs are that software developers should not bitch about lack of IT jobs, because the shear truth of the matter is "THERE ARE IT JOBS OUT THERE!!!". programming jobs, slim very slim. but since programming is erroneously included with IT the stats fall, people complain, but if the individual whom is unemployed with all this theoretical knowledge would just apply the skills tought in CompSci/Engineering they could easily do more than *just* write code or *just* design printed circuits.
I guess the wisdom here is you need to adapt to the changing industry as your skills increase and the market changes. I never thought 7 years ago when I was building pc's that today I'd be developing CRM/ERP database apps, E-Commerce sites and managing a multihomed BGP/OSPF network. I always tried to see the booms before they happened and I got lucky a couple of times. But I had developed my skills enough that jobs that seemed over my head weren't soo far over my head. I'd just buy a book on whatever I needed to learn and I made it through. I guess we all in this field just need to make our selves adaptable to the demands and trends in the industry. atleast if we want a steady pay cheque.
ngrep. it's ethereal/tcpdump/snort built all into one. you can finger print exploits manually and run regex's on normal traffic with the payload converted to ascii/hex chars.
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ok gotta rat em out, I used to work for this place
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no love for them, gotta do it. THIS COMPANY IS CALLED *THE ANSWER GROUP*. they are based out of north lauderdale FL (right out side ft lauderdale). website is http://www.tag2.com. although I have no idea why it goes to a hughes network site, check out the whois info on the domain, my claims will be backed up.
just to give my fellow slashdotters an idea of what working for this company is like:
they employ over 5,000 of the worst possbile computer illiterates I've ever seen. most have never even seen the inside of a computer. they specificly say during interview "We do not prefer experience or certifications. we will give any one with computer knowledge a job but prefer that *we* train you"
they pay $11/hr WHILE logged into the phone, minimum wage when not logged in (which btw will be most of the time).
security is soo tight there all employees are run through a metal detector coming AND going from the complex (would say building but there are 6 of them). I asked once why they did this they responded "to protect the employees from the employees" referring to a couple times people started shooting guns in the call center.
This company is evil incarnate. the place is a total sweat shop. 3-400,000 sq ft per building of cubicles. it's soo disorienting navigating the cubicle farm you have to go by the signs posted.
Oh and everything the article said about the place is true. yes they are one of the largest support providers, they do compaq, HP and IBM, plus bellsouth/comcast, directv, and a bunch of others. All they care about is getting you off the phone in 12 minutes (thats what the dead giveaway was, totall company policy, if you spend 15 minutes you have 3 supervisors breathing down your neck). they will even go so far as you find a reason to manually disconnect @ 13 minutes telling you to call back again.
ATTN Florida Slashdotters: Can someone back me up on this place, I know someone else has to have worked there. I can't possibly describe how bad this place really is since I only worked there 4 days, but man it did ring some bells.
Oh btw, here's the whois info:
Registrant:
TAG (TAG6-DOM)
7562 Southgate Blvd
NORTH LAUDERDALE, FL 33068
US
Domain Name: TAG2.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Nunez, Juan (JN8854) jnunez@TAG2.COM
TAG
7562 SOUTHGATE BLVD
N LAUDERDALE, FL 33068-1362
US
(954) 724-6745 fax: (954) 726-0015
Record expires on 08-May-2008.
Record created on 07-May-1996.
Database last updated on 23-Feb-2004 12:07:40 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
that article says it's 40GB worth of source. now we all know windows is the worlds largest kludge but COME ON! 40 FREAKING GIGA BYTES!!! at a modest estimation of 3k per file, your looking at 13 MILLION SOURCE FILES!!! even if you factor that number it's still insane!
linux 2.6 only has on the order of 28,000 source files, how do you go from 28,000 to 13,000,000!? the numbers just don't add up. 40GB of text, at 1 byte per character per file, there's just no fucking way. I'd like to believe that and say "wow now I know why it's soo damn slow" but I just can't buy that. can someone possibly substantiate this claim? any hardcore programmers out there work on projects in the 20+ gigabyte range in codebase(s)? please let me know because otherwise I'm doubting the entire statement from the *security profesisonal* due to this.
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hath we forgotten about good 'ol gallium arsenide?
Okay good cops, bad cops, whatever. I can tell you this though, there are places in this country where the cops are mandated to be this way. Where I used to live in South Florida is nothing less than a police state. Unless you are a rich upper-class yuppy driving a mercedes you will get hassled more than once a year for doing nothing wrong at all. I don't really freaking care if that area is the entry port for most drugs in the US, that doesn't make every citizen a god damn dealer. Boy but try and tell the pigs down there that. I have been stopped just walking home, strip searched on the side of the road with no probably cause (I am not lying, all the way down to my boxers) because the dick head pig thought he might have seen me flick a joint (I was biting my finger nails!!).
Anyways this and scenes like this happened many times. Every single one of my friends has had many similar experiences. Eventually I had to learn to play the cops at their own game. When I saw one stalking me/my friends I would normally walk right up to his window and go say "Can I help you? You seem rather interested in what we are doing.......". 9 times out of 10 this would scare them off. They would say somehting "Go on about your business" and drive away.
The moral of my story here is not all cops around the country are dicks. But there are places where they have taken their power far beyond where it should be. Oh and gawd forbid you ever make a complaint about one of them. They drove one of my friends clean out of a city once. They pigs told him "If any of us sees you, we will stop you... and we will find something to arrest you with."
Fuck the police! When those childish little petty-powermongers grow up I might have some respect for them.
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I live in Georgia and I tell you what, One of these days I'm going to shoot someone who tailgates me when I'm already going 15 MPH over the speed limit. If you have a 2 lane highway the rule of thumb is that the right lane is for slower traffic and the left lane is for high speed travel. But under no circumstances am I going to move if I'm going 85 MPH in a 70 and some self important fucking asshole gets behind me in his huge redneck-mobile-F150 and wants me to move.
/rant off
It's this simple: Tailgating is extremely dangerous. You should see the looks on the redneck's faces when I slam on my brakes and they are 5 feet behind me going 90 MPH. I really honestly don't fucking care if they wipe out, the law CLEARLY states that you should maintain 1 car length for every 10 miles an hour of speed. So if some asshat runs in to me not only do I get the satisfaction of watching them get a ticket but their insurance gets to fix my car as most southern states are at-fault states.
again FUCK ALL TAILGATERS!
heh, I know some of the gateway support reps. Reason being I lived right by the company they outsourced the support to. A little (ha!) organization called "The Answer Group" located on southgate blvd in margate fl, zip-c 33063. This company is the equivalent of the devil incarnate. They have around 5,000 people there at any given time, It is a gigantic IT sweatshop. They provide support for compaq, IBM, HP, some dell, comcast, gateway, bellsouth and a few others. They hire the absolute dumbest people I have ever seen. They claim they actually do not want someone with computer knowledge, they want someone to drink the koolaid and read what is scripted for them to say. They honestly have no skill what so ever and should not even be allowed to go near a computer.
/flame off
Most of the employees are pot smoking high school dropouts who were competent enough to pass a 10 question test and have atleast 2 years of experience working at *a* company. Those are their hiring requirements. Even the up-and-up's there are still total dumbasses when comparing to say mid-size to enterprise computing professionals.
Most of the people that work there have no interest in IT, no future in IT and no IT skills. It is a computer related phone answering service. Probably this company more than any other has created the hell that is computer support today. If they had any level of quality control at all it would not be the way it is now. I trully hate this company and encourage anything negative toward them.
grrrr..... I hate it when people say this nonsense. Coca-Cola *NEVER* *EVER* had refined cocaine in it. This is analogous to claiming some foods are made with gasoline because they have some petrolium based product in them. It is just flat out wrong! Coca-Cola got it's name from the Coca plant/leaf. Thats what it was initially flavoured with. It had the sap extract from the Coca leaf which in it self does not contain the checmical cocaine. It still needs to go through about 9 steps of refinement before it can be considered a drug. You are not going to get tweek'd making coca-tea, you'd have a better chance with current coca-cola. My Father-in-law owns a couple of farms is the hills of Colombia, producing mostly rice. His workers chew coca leaves for extra energy. They all claim it's like drinking coffee, not getting blasted out of your mind from snorting a huge rail.
... no it's better :)
I use pico you insensitive clod!
It is, example:
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hmmm.... looks like your mistaken.
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not trolling but just an observation.....
:)
"Now throw really complex needs like PDF generation, Dynamic Excel Spreadsheets, XML/SOAP/XML-RPC/EDI communication, mainframe interfaces, off-brand databases, performance caches, and other large scale features, and suddenly Java doesn't look so hard anymore."
Then the great gods of IT come forth and said "...AND LET THERE BE CPAN!...."
Sorry just had to stick that in there
well it's obvious you've never actually been hit with one other wise you would know what you were talking about. *EXPLOITS* get you root. rootkits allow you to KEEP root. The average rootkit disables forensics programs like lsof, ps, find, locate, w, who, (sometimes) syslogd. They also modify shit like rc.sysinit or inittab.
Don't let the name fool you because thats all it is is a name. Exploits and rootkits are 2 entirely different things. You can get all the exploits you want from packetstormsecurity but I dare you to find a single rootkit there.
You don't have to take my word for it but jfyi, I worked as a security admin at a rather large dedicated hosting company and have seen just about every damn rootkit that actually works.
NOT TROLL but I have to say this first -- you freakin pinko's keep spinning this story soo much your eventually going to drill a damn hole to china. As much as you would hate to believe it THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!!! All of the things the bush administration has done, ANY administration would have done based on the information at the time. You just hate Bush so much that it gets your rocks off to believe this bullshit as truth. Did we forget about the the fact most of the UN agreed to oust Hussein!? Since the US might as well be the UN we acted and ousted his ass. We did not invade for oil. We might have invaded over spite since Hussein did try and kill Bush Sr. Even still when you attempt to asassinate a world leader you usually get some type of retribution from the victim's country.
I swear I just want to live in a world where people who argue about these things actually KNOW wtf they are talking about instead of getting their information from liberal news presses and message boards like slashdot or fark. I don't know what fucking universe people live in that they would believe one of the leaders of the free world would sacrifice thousands of American lives just for profit. Perhaps big evil corporations might but not our government. We've done some dumb shit in the past but after vietnam this would never EVER be tollerated. Our intentions in Iraq are noble. If they weren't we wouldn't still be there. We could hold off the Oil fields very easily with a squadron or 3 or 4 of Apache's with some light infantry on the ground. If thats all we wanted we would have taken the damn oil fields. No one ever bothers to look at this from a military prospective. They are to busy pointing their fingers at the other side to ever stop and think.
All I'm saying is look at the facts. Take away all the spin, all the arguments and all the b/s we've heard and think. If Bush actually did do this for oil or for controlling power he could be brought up on charges for war crimes. I don't think anyone in the western world would knowingly jepordize them self in such a way. Especially since next term we're almost garunteed a liberal president there should be a huge inquiry into this whole mess and the truth will come out. If I'm mistaken then I suppose I'll eat my words but I have a funny feeling it will be the left that eats it on this one.
I did not rtfa but I have 10+ years experience in IT. If you are expecting a technically competent boss than you are naive. Most employers seek management material by how well they can balance a budget and how much they impress and interact with the top brass. Certainly not by how technically competent they are. If they *claim* they know oracle, or solaris or whatever it is that the organization uses than they are considered as adequate or competent.
:)
I am pleaseantly surprised at my position that my boss participates in daily operations at the same level that us admin's do. Not only that he possesses one of the highest levels of knowledge about the system and network one can possess. I am honestly shocked at his technical competence. This is a very rare occasion in the IT field. I have had 8 other jobs in this field where the brass made all the decisions without any proper technical knowledge or education. I have been fortunate that the blame fell on the executive when shit broke vs falling on poor little me.
Anyways it is amazingly naive for an IT professional to assume his boss knows what he/she knows. I would refer you to the BOFH for advice on this. Although his methods are questionable at best his reasons are valid. check him out at bofh.ntk.net you might learn something
Yes this seems correct but what about companies who have no policy on such things? My point, I developed a C library that would process CGI code http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcgilite almost transparently to the user. I instructed my employers that they may have exclusive license to it, but not deny'ing my right to it in any way. They agreed. So I gave them license to use it but I retained authorship to the project by posting it to sourceforge.net. This was agreed on by the highest level even while I was employed as a programmer at the company. Can you debate my issue? Do you feel violated pulling a M/S on your code. Or do you feel ppl should die for your secrets? Let me know
do not click, site is a browser killer. opens thousands of popups.
yep totally true. I'm running an athlon xp 3200, it's fast don't get me wrong. but untill I dropped the 15K RPM U160 scsi drive in it I didn't know what speed was. Your right about the instant install of apps, it takes longer to type the command to start the installation than it does to install
pfft! "unless you want to look cool or got it for free"
Well hhmm, my 15,000 RPM U160 drive I bought brand new for a whopping $100 bucks off of pricewatch defrag's in 5 minutes, loads games in 1/10th the time the basicly same box next to me does with SATA, has a 5 year warranty and an MTBF 10x greater than your IDE/SATA drive. Also it copies a gigabyte from one place to another (even in windows) in around 5-6 seconds. No, no advantage to U160 at all, nah.
Oh and on a non competitive note, I would use SATA if they came in 15K RPM flavors. RPM == speed.
frankly I don't think that is IT. Thats far more a creative position than a technical position. IT is best defined as the technical maintenance of a network/system. I will admit programming is technical, but beying on both ends of it my current E-Commerce development job doesn't even begin to compare to my last position as a network engineer.
:) frankly the real world of IT is not really experiencing a down fall any more. there are plenty of technical jobs out there. I lived in south florida, land of all that are unemployed (or so it seems). well anyways in 1 year there were greater than 100,000 jobs layed off, mostly tech support and call center positions. but even still, 1 year later the market is still livable. I personally wasn't out of work for much more than 2 months at a stretch since sept 11th. but I am a technician/engineer and I know alot of platforms.
beyond my rant about programming isn't IT, dealing with stress? a good drum n bass mix and alot of very good pot. oh and cappuccino's, lots of those
focusing your skills on only one small part of the IT industry is kind of a waste, with the ever changing technology one day you could be a guru at what you do and 3 months later you could be soo outdated it's useless to even attempt to keep up.
frankly my personal beliefs are that software developers should not bitch about lack of IT jobs, because the shear truth of the matter is "THERE ARE IT JOBS OUT THERE!!!". programming jobs, slim very slim. but since programming is erroneously included with IT the stats fall, people complain, but if the individual whom is unemployed with all this theoretical knowledge would just apply the skills tought in CompSci/Engineering they could easily do more than *just* write code or *just* design printed circuits.
I guess the wisdom here is you need to adapt to the changing industry as your skills increase and the market changes. I never thought 7 years ago when I was building pc's that today I'd be developing CRM/ERP database apps, E-Commerce sites and managing a multihomed BGP/OSPF network. I always tried to see the booms before they happened and I got lucky a couple of times. But I had developed my skills enough that jobs that seemed over my head weren't soo far over my head. I'd just buy a book on whatever I needed to learn and I made it through. I guess we all in this field just need to make our selves adaptable to the demands and trends in the industry. atleast if we want a steady pay cheque.
ngrep. it's ethereal/tcpdump/snort built all into one. you can finger print exploits manually and run regex's on normal traffic with the payload converted to ascii/hex chars.
e /ngrep.sourceforge.net
check it out http://freshmeat.net/redir/ngrep/7168/url_homepag
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ha! now that was funny, where's 'ma damn mod points!?
sure this wasn't ripped from bbspot.com?
just to give my fellow slashdotters an idea of what working for this company is like:
they employ over 5,000 of the worst possbile computer illiterates I've ever seen. most have never even seen the inside of a computer. they specificly say during interview "We do not prefer experience or certifications. we will give any one with computer knowledge a job but prefer that *we* train you"
they pay $11/hr WHILE logged into the phone, minimum wage when not logged in (which btw will be most of the time).
security is soo tight there all employees are run through a metal detector coming AND going from the complex (would say building but there are 6 of them). I asked once why they did this they responded "to protect the employees from the employees" referring to a couple times people started shooting guns in the call center.
This company is evil incarnate. the place is a total sweat shop. 3-400,000 sq ft per building of cubicles. it's soo disorienting navigating the cubicle farm you have to go by the signs posted.
Oh and everything the article said about the place is true. yes they are one of the largest support providers, they do compaq, HP and IBM, plus bellsouth/comcast, directv, and a bunch of others. All they care about is getting you off the phone in 12 minutes (thats what the dead giveaway was, totall company policy, if you spend 15 minutes you have 3 supervisors breathing down your neck). they will even go so far as you find a reason to manually disconnect @ 13 minutes telling you to call back again.
ATTN Florida Slashdotters: Can someone back me up on this place, I know someone else has to have worked there. I can't possibly describe how bad this place really is since I only worked there 4 days, but man it did ring some bells.
Oh btw, here's the whois info:
Registrant:
TAG (TAG6-DOM)
7562 Southgate Blvd
NORTH LAUDERDALE, FL 33068
US
Domain Name: TAG2.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Nunez, Juan (JN8854) jnunez@TAG2.COM
TAG
7562 SOUTHGATE BLVD
N LAUDERDALE, FL 33068-1362
US
(954) 724-6745 fax: (954) 726-0015
Record expires on 08-May-2008.
Record created on 07-May-1996.
Database last updated on 23-Feb-2004 12:07:40 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
CMTU.MT.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET 12.127.16.69
CBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET 199.191.128.105
that article says it's 40GB worth of source. now we all know windows is the worlds largest kludge but COME ON! 40 FREAKING GIGA BYTES!!! at a modest estimation of 3k per file, your looking at 13 MILLION SOURCE FILES!!! even if you factor that number it's still insane!
linux 2.6 only has on the order of 28,000 source files, how do you go from 28,000 to 13,000,000!? the numbers just don't add up. 40GB of text, at 1 byte per character per file, there's just no fucking way. I'd like to believe that and say "wow now I know why it's soo damn slow" but I just can't buy that. can someone possibly substantiate this claim? any hardcore programmers out there work on projects in the 20+ gigabyte range in codebase(s)? please let me know because otherwise I'm doubting the entire statement from the *security profesisonal* due to this.