Damn right... all the CxO's at the company I used to work for had Powerbook G4's since they came out and now have the new 17" powerbooks. Why? well, they look pretty cool in meetings, attraact attention from other people, run Office just fine, are cool for presentations, they can easily connect their digital cameras and iPods, and they don't have to hassle with system crashes, lockups, etc.
It's the ideal laptop for a PHB.
This just happend (and is happening) in the place where I used to work, but the bosses still don't get it. They just announced that a whole development facility is going to be shut down. So everyone working there is jumping ship, what did they expect? but they keep saying that it's unprofessional to leave in the middle of a project, never mind that the guy who leaves is one of the two programmers assigned to a project that used to have 5 people, 3 of whom got fired because they couldn't finish on time because of technical limitations (of software, not people) that they couldn't work around. Another guy left for a better job in another city almost as soon as he found out that the office was shutting down. Another programmer just left for a much better job in different city. Me, I was transferred when the news was given but they wanted me to do some other stuff that I didn't like so I found a better job.
I just quit a 9-year job last month because I was supposed to stop doing what I love most (programming) and start doing something I don't really want to do (write lots of documentation and specs and send those to India). My new job pays a little less, so I'm doing a couple of freelance jobs on the side (my so-called "spare time"), but it's worth it. Peace of mind is very valuable. Also, the stress was starting to get the best of me and was affecting my marriage, so it was for the best. Now I'm coding again, designing and writing class libraries for other programmers to use (in the same office).
If you hack into the network, then you certainly are showing that the new company's security is not as good. But if the boss thinks clippy's a great idea, then maybe your actions can be interpreted differently. Imagine what the new company will say: you had backdoors installed, that proves you were a risk, they were right all along. Plus, they could even take legal action against you... what you need is to do some research on this security company, check if some other company has had problems with them in the past (not an easy thing to find out, though).
well if you're using crypt() to encrypt your password, then only the first 8 characters are used, the reset is ignored. But from what I've read here, some Linux distros use MD5 now.
when you hear about 128-bit encryption that is "almost impossible to break", they're talking about symmetric encryption keys.
the article talks about a 576-bit RSA key. RSA is an asymmetric algorithm, it needs much bigger keys to make it hard to crack. a 128-bit RSA key can be cracked a lot easier than a 128-bit AES key (AES is a symmetric algorithm).
OK that's it. They've crossed the line. Now all these subpoenaed people/companies need to get together and plan a really careful counterattack, not just a defense.
I hope IBM and the other companies will help Linus and Stallman get some big-time lawyers and pay for them too, because I think from here on, things will get real ugly real fast...
About a month ago, I managed to build the GIMP on a Powerbook G4 with Jaguar. Then I installed it on a G3 iMac, with a lot of effort, mostly running the app over and over, adding missing libs until finally it ran, with some warnings but it runs ok, with X11 beta.
BR
Oh, and all this without Fink... well, the day I install Panther I will give this MacGIMP a try, or install Fink and stop wasting time.
I'm at a Microsoft event for Software Architects right now, and a lot of people that I've been talking to in here (working at companies that are Microsoft partners), have told me that they have many customers that want development in Java. That came as a surprise to me, being my first Microsoft event, I never thought I would hear so much talk about Java from the people here (I've also heard the "L" word, and have even uttered it several times to see people's reaction - yes it's childish, I know, but I'm a little bored).
Microsoft themselves have said in some conferences that they expect their customers to have a lot of different technologies in their infrastructure and that it's rather rare to find an all-Microsoft infrastructure at a company. And when they say non-Microsoft they usually mean Java (they've said a couple of times).
O sea que tienes dos usuarios en este sitio? para que? ya me confundiste.
Y que onda con eso de la patente oculta y no se que tanto choro de darle en la torre a linux... Aunque lo que menos entiendo son los diarios en spanglish tan malo. O ya se te olvido el espanol?
Por ultimo, tu conociste a la_morsa? cuando yo estaba en la uni alguna vez me hablo de ti.
This guy's journal entries give him away (clippy a good idea? come on...) and besides, the entries in Spanish were obviously done using some lousy translation software since they barely make any sense, and Miguel's native language is Spanish.
I've refused to work at all hours and on my own time, and it has prevented me from advancing to a position that requires it. That is a feature, not a bug. I know in these days it is hard to be picky, and if I was faced with the prospect of carrying a pager or being unemployed, I'd suck it up, but I would start looking elsewhere.
Actually, it's a bug. Not on your part, though. It's stupid to turn good programmers into bad managers, but it's a very common trend. It's happening to me right now.
Hopefully this will open the door for porting and developing many open source applications on CE. It would be interesting to see an open IDE, maybe an eclipse plug-in or something.
I wish my company would only listen to this. Today I was told we're closing down the development facility I work in, I have to move to a city I hate, stop coding, and start managing projects that will be coded in India.
They have already sent some projects to India, but they haven't seen results yet (it's two early, they started like two weeks ago). So if it turns out that outsourcing to India doesn't work, there will be no development facility here to return to, no developers to turn back to, no one to get the job done... I don't know what to do, since they're very eager to send more work there even though they haven't seen how it turns out and won't listen to anyone who says that India is not the way to go.
Lorca wasn't officially part of the surrealist group, he just hung out with them... and supposedly he was in love with Dali. He wanted to make love him but Dali didn't want to... instead he offered Lorca a girl to have sex with (not a prostitute; I don't know how he convinced her). Supposedly the girl's sacrifice with matched by Lorca's own sacrifice (it was the first time he had sex with a woman).
Well, it kind of ran in the family... his mother had given birth to a boy before him, named him Salvador, but then the boy died (I don't remember at what age), so she had another son, named him Salvador again, he became a painter...
It must be somewhat disturbing to see a graveyard with your own name on it in the family cemetery.
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Damn right... all the CxO's at the company I used to work for had Powerbook G4's since they came out and now have the new 17" powerbooks. Why? well, they look pretty cool in meetings, attraact attention from other people, run Office just fine, are cool for presentations, they can easily connect their digital cameras and iPods, and they don't have to hassle with system crashes, lockups, etc. It's the ideal laptop for a PHB.
Dude, what if the machines read what you just posted? What if they get angry and punish you?
I agree.
This just happend (and is happening) in the place where I used to work, but the bosses still don't get it. They just announced that a whole development facility is going to be shut down. So everyone working there is jumping ship, what did they expect? but they keep saying that it's unprofessional to leave in the middle of a project, never mind that the guy who leaves is one of the two programmers assigned to a project that used to have 5 people, 3 of whom got fired because they couldn't finish on time because of technical limitations (of software, not people) that they couldn't work around.
Another guy left for a better job in another city almost as soon as he found out that the office was shutting down. Another programmer just left for a much better job in different city. Me, I was transferred when the news was given but they wanted me to do some other stuff that I didn't like so I found a better job.
I just quit a 9-year job last month because I was supposed to stop doing what I love most (programming) and start doing something I don't really want to do (write lots of documentation and specs and send those to India).
My new job pays a little less, so I'm doing a couple of freelance jobs on the side (my so-called "spare time"), but it's worth it. Peace of mind is very valuable. Also, the stress was starting to get the best of me and was affecting my marriage, so it was for the best. Now I'm coding again, designing and writing class libraries for other programmers to use (in the same office).
Cryptix has an implementation of ECC already.
If you hack into the network, then you certainly are showing that the new company's security is not as good. But if the boss thinks clippy's a great idea, then maybe your actions can be interpreted differently. Imagine what the new company will say: you had backdoors installed, that proves you were a risk, they were right all along. Plus, they could even take legal action against you... what you need is to do some research on this security company, check if some other company has had problems with them in the past (not an easy thing to find out, though).
5) a pizza place where you can make your own pie
6) flagging books that have been in a bathroom
7) sexual abstinence contests
8) the children's fund
well if you're using crypt() to encrypt your password, then only the first 8 characters are used, the reset is ignored. But from what I've read here, some Linux distros use MD5 now.
when you hear about 128-bit encryption that is "almost impossible to break", they're talking about symmetric encryption keys.
the article talks about a 576-bit RSA key. RSA is an asymmetric algorithm, it needs much bigger keys to make it hard to crack. a 128-bit RSA key can be cracked a lot easier than a 128-bit AES key (AES is a symmetric algorithm).
are you sure you're not using AAC? IIRC, the first iPods don't support AAC and never will...
OK that's it. They've crossed the line. Now all these subpoenaed people/companies need to get together and plan a really careful counterattack, not just a defense.
I hope IBM and the other companies will help Linus and Stallman get some big-time lawyers and pay for them too, because I think from here on, things will get real ugly real fast...
About a month ago, I managed to build the GIMP on a Powerbook G4 with Jaguar. Then I installed it on a G3 iMac, with a lot of effort, mostly running the app over and over, adding missing libs until finally it ran, with some warnings but it runs ok, with X11 beta.
BR Oh, and all this without Fink... well, the day I install Panther I will give this MacGIMP a try, or install Fink and stop wasting time.
you also need a land line to get out of the Matrix, but they never explained why...
I'm at a Microsoft event for Software Architects right now, and a lot of people that I've been talking to in here (working at companies that are Microsoft partners), have told me that they have many customers that want development in Java. That came as a surprise to me, being my first Microsoft event, I never thought I would hear so much talk about Java from the people here (I've also heard the "L" word, and have even uttered it several times to see people's reaction - yes it's childish, I know, but I'm a little bored).
Microsoft themselves have said in some conferences that they expect their customers to have a lot of different technologies in their infrastructure and that it's rather rare to find an all-Microsoft infrastructure at a company. And when they say non-Microsoft they usually mean Java (they've said a couple of times).
O sea que tienes dos usuarios en este sitio? para que? ya me confundiste.
Y que onda con eso de la patente oculta y no se que tanto choro de darle en la torre a linux... Aunque lo que menos entiendo son los diarios en spanglish tan malo. O ya se te olvido el espanol?
Por ultimo, tu conociste a la_morsa? cuando yo estaba en la uni alguna vez me hablo de ti.
Well, in this case it might not be too paranoid to think that MS could have someone posting in /. pretending to be Miguel, to spread some FUD.
That's not the real Miguel de Icaza.
This guy's journal entries give him away (clippy a good idea? come on...) and besides, the entries in Spanish were obviously done using some lousy translation software since they barely make any sense, and Miguel's native language is Spanish.
Well, after this book, we may start seeing plenty of .net worms that use remoting...
Hopefully this will open the door for porting and developing many open source applications on CE. It would be interesting to see an open IDE, maybe an eclipse plug-in or something.
They have already sent some projects to India, but they haven't seen results yet (it's two early, they started like two weeks ago). So if it turns out that outsourcing to India doesn't work, there will be no development facility here to return to, no developers to turn back to, no one to get the job done... I don't know what to do, since they're very eager to send more work there even though they haven't seen how it turns out and won't listen to anyone who says that India is not the way to go.
Lorca wasn't officially part of the surrealist group, he just hung out with them... and supposedly he was in love with Dali. He wanted to make love him but Dali didn't want to... instead he offered Lorca a girl to have sex with (not a prostitute; I don't know how he convinced her). Supposedly the girl's sacrifice with matched by Lorca's own sacrifice (it was the first time he had sex with a woman).
Aladdin chasing Snow White, dragging a piano with a rotten Eeyore on top...
Well, it kind of ran in the family... his mother had given birth to a boy before him, named him Salvador, but then the boy died (I don't remember at what age), so she had another son, named him Salvador again, he became a painter...
It must be somewhat disturbing to see a graveyard with your own name on it in the family cemetery.