Assuming your IT staff do it properly is the first mistake.
Our whitelister locked down.BAT files and.VBS and the like, but left the much more dangerous Powershell untouched.
It also allowed you to load and run any.JAR file into Java - once you whitelisted Java (and any native libs it used), you were golden, you could have written anything in Java and run it.
It also stifles the ability of your organization to change it's software - our IT department demanded a £5,000 fee for every program to be whitelisted so it could go through a security audit!
Well, as a computer, that is. The great strength of a general purpose computer is just that - it can do anything.
Once you have a whitelisting "solution" on it, it can only do what the IT Dept. explicitly approves of, which now means that it's about as useful as an iPhone - only files that have been explicitly whitelisted are allowed to be executed.
A whitelisting client that actually locks things down properly won't even allow you to use the shell, well, it won't allow you to run.BAT files. Running the individual commands may still be allowed!
It might provide security, but at the cost of stifling the ability of "power users" (ie - programmers of limited ability - or indeed, any ability).
My last job installed one on the developer's computers... and gave us the permissions to override it. Pressing "OK" after every single build to be allowed to run it was... special.
So the MTBF of both components is the same now, whichever is lower.
Motherboard fails? Which apparently in your experience happens more often... you can't pull the SSD, stick it in another machine and get the data out.
Yes, you should backup. Yes, you should probably use some kind of cloud sync. It's no substitute for being able to yank the drive, shove it in another box, and keep on truckin'. I can do this on my Linux boxes with no problems. (Windows, of course, will throw a blue fit if you try this).
Rainforests are carbon-neutral. They're a festering sea of life and they emit as much carbon as they absorb.
Of course, that's no reason to ignore them or burn them all down. They play a very important role in climate regulation, and are a literal hothouse of interesting lifeforms with lots of interesting molecules in them. But carbon sinks, they are not.
The thing about plants... is they're cheap. They're the only self-replicating nanotech factories we've got at present, and hey, they just happen to use atmospheric carbon as one of their raw materials.
There are people who think seeding algal blooms in the ocean will help. As long as they don't decay and make methane, that is.
Whereas I find using a Macbook *infuriating*. The non-standard keyboard layout which breaks a lifetime of muscle memory is the primary reason. I bet that dedicated Mac-fans have a similar response to using a standard keyboard though.
I like the Ubuntu desktop environment. I know a lot of people complained about Unity at first, and to be fair, it was a bit hinky to start with. But I persevered, and so did Canonical, and now it's a lot better. On the occasions I have to use a colleague's Mac, the desktop environment drives me nuts as well.
I acknowledge these things can be gotten used to. I understand the package repository situation on Macs is a bit more complex than the almost universal Debian repository system I get to use on Ubuntu though.
They're thinking of standardising us on OSX at work. I'm not looking forward to it. To my mind, the whole "think different" thing is just another kind of lock-in - different keyboard, different desktop idioms, all that stuff designed to only be available on OSX, just like Visual Studio is only available on Windows. At least you can plug in a standard keyboard. Not sure I'm going to be able to remember to push COMMAND everything instead of just using ctrl like a normal person...
Of course, developers are a very influential set. If, for example, a developer writes an app using Electron because it works well on both Linux AND Windows... it works well on Linux. And software that works well on Linux makes it an attractive platform.
MS knows the best way to keep useful software exclusively on their platform is to get developers hooked on their toolchain.
My money would be on a.50 cal Anti Material Rifle. It was an Israeli satellite. A quarter-billion dollars would be a juicy target for the Palestinians.
The fire originated around the upper stage oxidizer tank, which would be the logical choice of target to shoot at. Leaking fuel isn't necessarily dangerous. Leaking oxidizer will make everything in the area kindling for the tiniest of sparks.
* Any data you'll need at your destination that's sensitive, you make encrypted backups * You store them online where you can get at them * You wipe your machine and install Windows on it (or OSX if it's a Mac), because those commie hacker OSs are suspicious * You transfer the data across the network from backup
No-one should travel through US Customs with anything potentially sensitive, because the laws say they can search, seize, copy, do what they like.
Have also been watching TOS for the first time. After mostly seeing her in the movies, it surprises me just what a sex kitten Uhura is. She's way more attractive than the token blonde.
It's actually the Annheuser-Busch brewery. Yes, the engine room of the new Enterprise was designed for the manufacture of expensive packaged urine-substitute.
based on how the transporters are supposed to work all you should need is a high enough bandwidth data connection
As I understand it, it's actually supposed to transport your original matter, rather than just taking you to bits at one end, junking your mass, and reassembling you from a pool of matter at the other end. Otherwise how would it work when one end of the transport is not on a pad?
"I'm sorry Commander Riker, we ran out of carbon while you were coming in, so we printed your dick a bit smaller."
"You can't beam up while the shields are up"
I always thought that one was down to the effect of shields, rather than a power limitation - or else, again, why is it usually impossible for other ships to send in boarding parties via transporter when your shields are up - they don't have their power being drained by *their* shields. Which makes sense - shields block beams of energy, the transporter beam is a beam of energy, therefore beaming through a shield means you get scattered into a burst of microwaves.
"Romulan and Klingon ships cannot fire when cloaked."
Again, probably not due to a power limitation - we're talking about a system that bends all radiation emissions around the ship, negating even active sensors (but... not enemy weapons fire.. maybe it's energy handling ability is limited) - firing a weapon from inside such a field could feasibly have some complex and unpredictable effects. Maybe the radiation gets bent right back at you. Maybe it blows out all the cloaking systems if you do it, causing console explosions across the ship that kill all your crew.
It's a special magic version of Windows, it's been cross compiled to the non-x86 CPU, you can't install any actual Windows software on it.
In short - its only use is as an embedded dev platform for organisations that have their head so firmly entrenched in the splenic flexure of Microsoft's colon that they cannot possibly consider using that nasty filthy commie Open Source stuff.
This is already a feature in Android as of Marshmallow, which allows you to have the traditional removable SD card format, or essentially set it up on LVM and roll it into your phone's internal volume group. Recommended with fast cards only.
I use laptops in meetings to look up detail about the points being made during the lulls in actual information provision. Most meeting presentations are so packed with guff for the people who can't keep up, or just meaningless detail, that they actively repel my attention. Looking things up helps keep my attention and cement the points in my mind.
Of course, some people interpret this as your boss does - they think I'm noodling around with social media.
Not to be funny, but there's a well-established phenomenon where men exhibit greater pain tolerance in the presence of a woman, but women don't exhibit similar bias in front of men. If any of the researchers were female (and from their names, some were), that would bias the results.
Not every program has well-designed output you can consume in a shell pipeline easily. Even then, to do so you're going to have to learn grep, sed, awk, head, tail, cut, a few others besides.
Powershell packages output up neatly into objects, so you don't have to learn and use all those text parsing tools to be productive with it. Essentially it moves the burden of thinking about how to use the output efficiently onto the writer of the commandlets, where it should be, and that means that the effort is only spent once, instead of over and over again by every subsequent user of that tool having to write code to parse it's output like you do in POSIX style shells.
It's an approach that has it's downside - if the information you want isn't neatly packaged up as a property by the author, you're going to have to work to get it, whereas with a normal tool that just spews a text-wall to STDOUT you might have a hope of finding it in there.
Network effects. A small taxi firm can only have so many vehicles. Uber can be the nearest auto-cab in town, most of the time, just like Subway is often the nearest sandwich shop (there are 5 in Leeds city centre, 11 in Manchester, and 14 in the heart of London, despite the vast proliferation of independent eateries already there).
For an interesting reason - they put that clause in the contract, in order to make it obvious whether care had been taken to read, digest, and comply with it.
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Assuming your IT staff do it properly is the first mistake.
Our whitelister locked down .BAT files and .VBS and the like, but left the much more dangerous Powershell untouched.
It also allowed you to load and run any .JAR file into Java - once you whitelisted Java (and any native libs it used), you were golden, you could have written anything in Java and run it.
It also stifles the ability of your organization to change it's software - our IT department demanded a £5,000 fee for every program to be whitelisted so it could go through a security audit!
Well, as a computer, that is. The great strength of a general purpose computer is just that - it can do anything.
Once you have a whitelisting "solution" on it, it can only do what the IT Dept. explicitly approves of, which now means that it's about as useful as an iPhone - only files that have been explicitly whitelisted are allowed to be executed.
A whitelisting client that actually locks things down properly won't even allow you to use the shell, well, it won't allow you to run .BAT files. Running the individual commands may still be allowed!
It might provide security, but at the cost of stifling the ability of "power users" (ie - programmers of limited ability - or indeed, any ability).
My last job installed one on the developer's computers... and gave us the permissions to override it. Pressing "OK" after every single build to be allowed to run it was... special.
Like Elliott does.
So the MTBF of both components is the same now, whichever is lower.
Motherboard fails? Which apparently in your experience happens more often... you can't pull the SSD, stick it in another machine and get the data out.
Yes, you should backup. Yes, you should probably use some kind of cloud sync. It's no substitute for being able to yank the drive, shove it in another box, and keep on truckin'. I can do this on my Linux boxes with no problems. (Windows, of course, will throw a blue fit if you try this).
When it's about the behaviour of an underlying library (as it was in this case) that's not properly understood by the programmers using it.
Natural gas... is a fossil fuel? It might be a little less... grubby.. than coal and oil, but it's still chock-full o' carbon.
One of the major points is to make it look as if we're doing something to allow the fossil fuel companies to continue to rake in the cash.
Sorry, but this opinion is misinformed.
Rainforests are carbon-neutral. They're a festering sea of life and they emit as much carbon as they absorb.
Of course, that's no reason to ignore them or burn them all down. They play a very important role in climate regulation, and are a literal hothouse of interesting lifeforms with lots of interesting molecules in them. But carbon sinks, they are not.
The thing about plants... is they're cheap. They're the only self-replicating nanotech factories we've got at present, and hey, they just happen to use atmospheric carbon as one of their raw materials.
There are people who think seeding algal blooms in the ocean will help. As long as they don't decay and make methane, that is.
Whereas I find using a Macbook *infuriating*. The non-standard keyboard layout which breaks a lifetime of muscle memory is the primary reason. I bet that dedicated Mac-fans have a similar response to using a standard keyboard though.
I like the Ubuntu desktop environment. I know a lot of people complained about Unity at first, and to be fair, it was a bit hinky to start with. But I persevered, and so did Canonical, and now it's a lot better. On the occasions I have to use a colleague's Mac, the desktop environment drives me nuts as well.
I acknowledge these things can be gotten used to. I understand the package repository situation on Macs is a bit more complex than the almost universal Debian repository system I get to use on Ubuntu though.
They're thinking of standardising us on OSX at work. I'm not looking forward to it. To my mind, the whole "think different" thing is just another kind of lock-in - different keyboard, different desktop idioms, all that stuff designed to only be available on OSX, just like Visual Studio is only available on Windows. At least you can plug in a standard keyboard. Not sure I'm going to be able to remember to push COMMAND everything instead of just using ctrl like a normal person...
On desktop - 1.5%
Amongst developers - 20%
Of course, developers are a very influential set. If, for example, a developer writes an app using Electron because it works well on both Linux AND Windows... it works well on Linux. And software that works well on Linux makes it an attractive platform.
MS knows the best way to keep useful software exclusively on their platform is to get developers hooked on their toolchain.
My money would be on a .50 cal Anti Material Rifle. It was an Israeli satellite. A quarter-billion dollars would be a juicy target for the Palestinians.
The fire originated around the upper stage oxidizer tank, which would be the logical choice of target to shoot at. Leaking fuel isn't necessarily dangerous. Leaking oxidizer will make everything in the area kindling for the tiniest of sparks.
So before you travel :
* Any data you'll need at your destination that's sensitive, you make encrypted backups
* You store them online where you can get at them
* You wipe your machine and install Windows on it (or OSX if it's a Mac), because those commie hacker OSs are suspicious
* You transfer the data across the network from backup
No-one should travel through US Customs with anything potentially sensitive, because the laws say they can search, seize, copy, do what they like.
Have also been watching TOS for the first time. After mostly seeing her in the movies, it surprises me just what a sex kitten Uhura is. She's way more attractive than the token blonde.
It's actually the Annheuser-Busch brewery. Yes, the engine room of the new Enterprise was designed for the manufacture of expensive packaged urine-substitute.
based on how the transporters are supposed to work all you should need is a high enough bandwidth data connection
As I understand it, it's actually supposed to transport your original matter, rather than just taking you to bits at one end, junking your mass, and reassembling you from a pool of matter at the other end. Otherwise how would it work when one end of the transport is not on a pad?
"I'm sorry Commander Riker, we ran out of carbon while you were coming in, so we printed your dick a bit smaller."
"You can't beam up while the shields are up"
I always thought that one was down to the effect of shields, rather than a power limitation - or else, again, why is it usually impossible for other ships to send in boarding parties via transporter when your shields are up - they don't have their power being drained by *their* shields. Which makes sense - shields block beams of energy, the transporter beam is a beam of energy, therefore beaming through a shield means you get scattered into a burst of microwaves.
"Romulan and Klingon ships cannot fire when cloaked."
Again, probably not due to a power limitation - we're talking about a system that bends all radiation emissions around the ship, negating even active sensors (but ... not enemy weapons fire.. maybe it's energy handling ability is limited) - firing a weapon from inside such a field could feasibly have some complex and unpredictable effects. Maybe the radiation gets bent right back at you. Maybe it blows out all the cloaking systems if you do it, causing console explosions across the ship that kill all your crew.
It's a special magic version of Windows, it's been cross compiled to the non-x86 CPU, you can't install any actual Windows software on it.
In short - its only use is as an embedded dev platform for organisations that have their head so firmly entrenched in the splenic flexure of Microsoft's colon that they cannot possibly consider using that nasty filthy commie Open Source stuff.
This is already a feature in Android as of Marshmallow, which allows you to have the traditional removable SD card format, or essentially set it up on LVM and roll it into your phone's internal volume group. Recommended with fast cards only.
I use laptops in meetings to look up detail about the points being made during the lulls in actual information provision. Most meeting presentations are so packed with guff for the people who can't keep up, or just meaningless detail, that they actively repel my attention. Looking things up helps keep my attention and cement the points in my mind.
Of course, some people interpret this as your boss does - they think I'm noodling around with social media.
Not to be funny, but there's a well-established phenomenon where men exhibit greater pain tolerance in the presence of a woman, but women don't exhibit similar bias in front of men. If any of the researchers were female (and from their names, some were), that would bias the results.
Cringely opined that MS should build it's next desktop environment and shell on top of Linux in 2003 :
http://web.archive.org/web/200...
But other than that.. yeah, not much call for it, except from the creative types who want their tools (Photoshop, mostly) on a decent OS.
Not every program has well-designed output you can consume in a shell pipeline easily. Even then, to do so you're going to have to learn grep, sed, awk, head, tail, cut, a few others besides.
Powershell packages output up neatly into objects, so you don't have to learn and use all those text parsing tools to be productive with it. Essentially it moves the burden of thinking about how to use the output efficiently onto the writer of the commandlets, where it should be, and that means that the effort is only spent once, instead of over and over again by every subsequent user of that tool having to write code to parse it's output like you do in POSIX style shells.
It's an approach that has it's downside - if the information you want isn't neatly packaged up as a property by the author, you're going to have to work to get it, whereas with a normal tool that just spews a text-wall to STDOUT you might have a hope of finding it in there.
Network effects. A small taxi firm can only have so many vehicles. Uber can be the nearest auto-cab in town, most of the time, just like Subway is often the nearest sandwich shop (there are 5 in Leeds city centre, 11 in Manchester, and 14 in the heart of London, despite the vast proliferation of independent eateries already there).
the brown M&M's
For an interesting reason - they put that clause in the contract, in order to make it obvious whether care had been taken to read, digest, and comply with it.
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