Getting them to open up their wallets and... SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THEIR GRANDCHILDREN!
Slapping employees on the back.
Getting them to open up their wallets and... SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THEIR GRANDCHILDREN!
As long as you continue to think like a gearhead, you haven't made the necessary mental and spiritual transition which is necessary to become a true manager.
Did they torture a bunch of undergraduates with cattle prods, and then load the photographs of the undergraduates screaming in pain into their great big giant neural network of "true positives"?
Versus photographs of other undergraduates, deeply immersed in their favorite pornography websites, as their "true negatives"*?
And who were the human beings who were competing against the computers?
Random joe sixpacks plucked right off of the street, or folks like Military Medics and Civilian EMTs and Oncology Nurses and Trauma Surgeons, who have a lifetime of experience watching true pain in their patients and who know exactly what it looks like?
*And God only knows how they would categorize the undergraduates who like to hang out at sites like kink.com, watching naked people being tortured with cattle prods.
I have a hard time calling a book with torture, revenge murder, drug use, and a special forces raid on a Vietnam POW camp a "romance novel". It's a character origin novel, and a really good story.
I'll give almost ANYTHING the benefit of the doubt.
But there is a very finite upper bound to my patience, and as soon as that foreboding "Not Ready For Primetime" feeling starts to sink in, I'm outta there.
Again, though, my larger point would be that there is MASSIVE value-add in simply "getting it all to work together seamlessly", and unless and until the FOSS/Linux/BSD community [-er-, non-Apple BSD community] starts stepping up to the plate and actually putting in the elbow grease and peforming their due diligence on customer relations and making the whole process more or less "seamless" - until that time comes, M$FT is gonna keep eating their lunch in the Enterprise space.
Folks in the real world simply do not have the spare time to do the whole "poor fat bearded dude living in his mother's basement" routine for very long, before they actually STARVE to death [for lack of sufficient income stream].
There are drop-in replacements for Exchange Server, it's just a question of figuring out how to do it...
"DROP IN" means there's a readily available "Downloads" page at some website, where you go to download some 250MB executable file with a free 2-user licence, and once you download that file, you double click on it, and it brings up a choice panel between "Basic" and "Advanced" installation, and 99% of all n00b users can choose the "Basic" installation, and within 5 minutes or so, you're up and playing around with the system and getting a feel for how it works and how your users could benefit from switching to the system.
"Drop-In" does NOT mean that you have to spend a week at Amazon, reading through thousands of product reviews, deciding which stack of softcover programming books with pictures of bizarre esoteric mammals on their covers you will need to purchase, and then spending about three or four years of your life actually reading the stack of softcover programming books with pictures of bizarre esoteric mammals on their covers, until you have a PhD-level understanding of C-Compilers [and a worthwhile opinion as to whether you should compile with the GNU compiler or Clang/LLVM or the Intel compiler or the M$FT compiler or the WTFE compiler], and which libraries you will need to compile against, and the theory of BASH shells, and the theory of prime numbers & elliptic curves and LDAP authentication, and the theory of sector-level hard-drive replication living beneath WebDAV and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
And then five or ten years later, when you've finally earned your "PhD" from the "School of Hard Knocks", you've still got to spend six or eight weeks at various internet forums, from Palo Alto to Bangalore, trying to figure out WTF line of code you need to add to some configuration file to get it all to work together reasonably "seamlessly", when finally some poor fat bearded dude, working for free from his mother's basement in Bulgaria, finally points out to you that your corporation can't do this because your 1,000 client computers have a known "issue" involving their 3Com ethernet chipsets in combination with their ATi graphics chipsets, but that no one has been able to chase down where that particular bug might live in the total code package, and so you're SOL.
At which point you learn that no one ever got fired for purchasing M$FT.
Relentless war which the globalist elites are waging against any possible middle class opposition - CHECK.
Utter hypocrisy of moving employees off-book, into sub-contractor scams, where hours are guaranteed to be less than 30-per-week so as not to qualify for Obamacare - CHECK.
Big-$$$ campaign contributions and other goodies being laundered from Bezos through Gorelick and into the Chicago Machine - CHECK.
Hypocrisy of Martha's Vineyard vacationing politician, who otherwise would love him some indie bookstores, heading to the mother of all vertical bidnesses for a little facetime on the evening newz - CHECK.
What's next, an honest discussion of why Fuckerberg and Ballzmer and L-Word-ison really want all those H1B aliens?
Might be a good day to go long on some snowball contracts in Hell.
Sometimes I feel like I must be the only geezer remaining who actually had the opportunity to use NT 3.51, so let me tell you: It was a GLORIOUS operating system.
EVERYTHING was client/server, and all the client stuff ran in Ring 3/User Mode.
Heck, you could even kill Windows, and run it as a multi-user "DOS" box.
But, of course, that meant that the video/graphics subsystem also ran as a client service, in User Mode, which [I guess] the suits perceived as being "slow", and therefore as being an impediment to the gaming experience which would come with the impending merger of code bases that we now know as Windows XP [2001].
So in 1996, some genius at MSFT decided to throw out all of the beauty and elegance and stability and security that had been NT 3.51, and to serve up, instead, the great big steaming pile of sh!t which was NT 4.0 [with its video/graphics subsystem subsumed into the kernel].
More generally, Amazon is showing some seriously large gonads in all of this.
They are simultaneously treading on various different territories which were [separately] once the exclusive province of Google, Apple, Facebook, Blackberry, Akamai, and many, many others [anyone remember the Sears & Roebuck catalog?!?].
It will be very, very interesting to see how all of this plays out.
It certainly shows that, if nothing else, they aren't satisified with standing still.
Steve Ballmer, are you paying attention?!?
PS: In honor of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, it should be noted that Akamai lost at least one top executive on American Airlines Flight 11.
[I don't know whether he was flying alone, or whether he had any Akamai assistants with him.]
If the form factor is correct, then plenty of recent Xeon/Opteron servers, with a free PCI slot, suddenly become AWESOME desktop platforms.
Around here, you can get late model 4-core Xeons, with maybe 8GB of RAM, on Craigslist, from name-brand companies [HP, Dell, etc], for circa $500.
And they will be of VASTLY higher quality [with esp. vastly better motherboards] than the consumer-oriented junk that those same companies are peddling.
Since the investigation in these countries tends to leak like a sieve, we got info that that particular country was paying someone mid-level in customer support dept. to give them data on customers.
All the corporate privacy/security policies [and, for that matter, government privacy/security LAWS] in the world aren't worth diddly squat in the presence of a determined mole.
PS: Wow, has it been almost 30 YEARS since Dune was released?!?
Yikes!!!
I feel old.
Old. Old. Old. Old. Old.
PPS: Man, you know that Virginia Madsen was a world-class piece of tail if she was as hawt in Sideways (2004) as she had been in Dune [if not even hawter?].
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
Zuckerberg is a psychopath - the specter of him being one of the wealthiest [and most powerful] people on the planet ought to send a chill down your spine.
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
My 53 year old uncle is a senior professor... his IBM monstrosity that cost $100K... an input-compatible version of his Fortran 70 compiler... an array as a stack in a for loop to make program flow clear... the faculty mainframe in '87... FORTRAN was designed BEFORE the compiler was invented... a huge fuck-you to 40 years of software research...
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
I don't know how their computers decide what to keep where. Some popular things (like Microsoft updates) I think get auto cached, others I think it is based on demand.
Gee, I hope that MSFT put on their thinking caps and did their homework when they were designing their "signing" algorithms.
'Cause I shudder to think what might happen if the locally-cached Akamai version of a security update were not [for what ever reason] quite the same as the official MSFT version.
Dittoes for hardware drivers, which very often are NOT signed in any way: Break into the Akamai server, upload your version of whatever, then pwn the user systems immediately upon downloading.
And don't think for a second that the Chinese Red Army and the Russian Army aren't devoting beaucoup $$$s & man-hours to precisely these kinds of attack vectors.
Bottom line: It's one thing to be caching relatively harmless stuff, like JPGs and MPGs and WAVs and GIFs and TXTs, but caching EXEs is a whole 'nother can of worms...
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Management is all about psychology.
Slapping clients on the back.
Getting them to open up their wallets and... SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THEIR GRANDCHILDREN!
Slapping employees on the back.
Getting them to open up their wallets and... SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THEIR GRANDCHILDREN!
As long as you continue to think like a gearhead, you haven't made the necessary mental and spiritual transition which is necessary to become a true manager.
You need to start thinking like a shrink.
Or at least like a father.
Cite Knuth... This is, of course, good science.
Well at least Professor Knuth is still alive, and I don't [YET!] need to refer to the poor man as spinning in his grave.
Good grief.
And folks wonder why you fools believe in myths like ManBearPig.
What did they use to teach the computer?
Did they torture a bunch of undergraduates with cattle prods, and then load the photographs of the undergraduates screaming in pain into their great big giant neural network of "true positives"?
Versus photographs of other undergraduates, deeply immersed in their favorite pornography websites, as their "true negatives"*?
And who were the human beings who were competing against the computers?
Random joe sixpacks plucked right off of the street, or folks like Military Medics and Civilian EMTs and Oncology Nurses and Trauma Surgeons, who have a lifetime of experience watching true pain in their patients and who know exactly what it looks like?
*And God only knows how they would categorize the undergraduates who like to hang out at sites like kink.com, watching naked people being tortured with cattle prods.
I have a hard time calling a book with torture, revenge murder, drug use, and a special forces raid on a Vietnam POW camp a "romance novel". It's a character origin novel, and a really good story.
He was JOKING.
Good grief.
I'll give almost ANYTHING the benefit of the doubt.
But there is a very finite upper bound to my patience, and as soon as that foreboding "Not Ready For Primetime" feeling starts to sink in, I'm outta there.
Again, though, my larger point would be that there is MASSIVE value-add in simply "getting it all to work together seamlessly", and unless and until the FOSS/Linux/BSD community [-er-, non-Apple BSD community] starts stepping up to the plate and actually putting in the elbow grease and peforming their due diligence on customer relations and making the whole process more or less "seamless" - until that time comes, M$FT is gonna keep eating their lunch in the Enterprise space.
Folks in the real world simply do not have the spare time to do the whole "poor fat bearded dude living in his mother's basement" routine for very long, before they actually STARVE to death [for lack of sufficient income stream].
There are drop-in replacements for Exchange Server, it's just a question of figuring out how to do it...
"DROP IN" means there's a readily available "Downloads" page at some website, where you go to download some 250MB executable file with a free 2-user licence, and once you download that file, you double click on it, and it brings up a choice panel between "Basic" and "Advanced" installation, and 99% of all n00b users can choose the "Basic" installation, and within 5 minutes or so, you're up and playing around with the system and getting a feel for how it works and how your users could benefit from switching to the system.
"Drop-In" does NOT mean that you have to spend a week at Amazon, reading through thousands of product reviews, deciding which stack of softcover programming books with pictures of bizarre esoteric mammals on their covers you will need to purchase, and then spending about three or four years of your life actually reading the stack of softcover programming books with pictures of bizarre esoteric mammals on their covers, until you have a PhD-level understanding of C-Compilers [and a worthwhile opinion as to whether you should compile with the GNU compiler or Clang/LLVM or the Intel compiler or the M$FT compiler or the WTFE compiler], and which libraries you will need to compile against, and the theory of BASH shells, and the theory of prime numbers & elliptic curves and LDAP authentication, and the theory of sector-level hard-drive replication living beneath WebDAV and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
And then five or ten years later, when you've finally earned your "PhD" from the "School of Hard Knocks", you've still got to spend six or eight weeks at various internet forums, from Palo Alto to Bangalore, trying to figure out WTF line of code you need to add to some configuration file to get it all to work together reasonably "seamlessly", when finally some poor fat bearded dude, working for free from his mother's basement in Bulgaria, finally points out to you that your corporation can't do this because your 1,000 client computers have a known "issue" involving their 3Com ethernet chipsets in combination with their ATi graphics chipsets, but that no one has been able to chase down where that particular bug might live in the total code package, and so you're SOL.
At which point you learn that no one ever got fired for purchasing M$FT.
It must be a cold day in Hades.
Relentless war which the globalist elites are waging against any possible middle class opposition - CHECK.
Utter hypocrisy of moving employees off-book, into sub-contractor scams, where hours are guaranteed to be less than 30-per-week so as not to qualify for Obamacare - CHECK.
Big-$$$ campaign contributions and other goodies being laundered from Bezos through Gorelick and into the Chicago Machine - CHECK.
Hypocrisy of Martha's Vineyard vacationing politician, who otherwise would love him some indie bookstores, heading to the mother of all vertical bidnesses for a little facetime on the evening newz - CHECK.
What's next, an honest discussion of why Fuckerberg and Ballzmer and L-Word-ison really want all those H1B aliens?
Might be a good day to go long on some snowball contracts in Hell.
Thanks!
wtf? no WYSIWYG carriage returns at /.? 1995 just called - it wants its Web 1.0 formatting back...
Got any URLs for good tutorials on how to get the thing up and running? [Yeah, "Google is your friend", blah blah blah...] Thanks in advance!
Meet "Chimp 9". We gave him a gene therapy...
cameltoe
TTIWWP.
Just sayin'.
Sensors and the like are pretty awesome to have.
Indeed.
- BIG BROTHER
Anbody tried one of the eBay N900's from Hong Kong?
/TIN_FOIL_HAT
The price sure is nice, but I just can't help wondering whether they come with custom Red Army EEPROM.
GOOGLE: jar jar racist
Which means that Jar Jar could only possibly be, uhh, well, um, ah, gosh... oh, wait, I know - Herman Cain!!!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
in NT4 and later fonts are parsed in kernel mode
Sometimes I feel like I must be the only geezer remaining who actually had the opportunity to use NT 3.51, so let me tell you: It was a GLORIOUS operating system.
EVERYTHING was client/server, and all the client stuff ran in Ring 3/User Mode.
Heck, you could even kill Windows, and run it as a multi-user "DOS" box.
But, of course, that meant that the video/graphics subsystem also ran as a client service, in User Mode, which [I guess] the suits perceived as being "slow", and therefore as being an impediment to the gaming experience which would come with the impending merger of code bases that we now know as Windows XP [2001].
So in 1996, some genius at MSFT decided to throw out all of the beauty and elegance and stability and security that had been NT 3.51, and to serve up, instead, the great big steaming pile of sh!t which was NT 4.0 [with its video/graphics subsystem subsumed into the kernel].
And the world was never again the same...
Good-bye akamai....
Sorry I don't have mod points for you.
More generally, Amazon is showing some seriously large gonads in all of this.
They are simultaneously treading on various different territories which were [separately] once the exclusive province of Google, Apple, Facebook, Blackberry, Akamai, and many, many others [anyone remember the Sears & Roebuck catalog?!?].
It will be very, very interesting to see how all of this plays out.
It certainly shows that, if nothing else, they aren't satisified with standing still.
Steve Ballmer, are you paying attention?!?
PS: In honor of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, it should be noted that Akamai lost at least one top executive on American Airlines Flight 11.
[I don't know whether he was flying alone, or whether he had any Akamai assistants with him.]
If the form factor is correct, then plenty of recent Xeon/Opteron servers, with a free PCI slot, suddenly become AWESOME desktop platforms. Around here, you can get late model 4-core Xeons, with maybe 8GB of RAM, on Craigslist, from name-brand companies [HP, Dell, etc], for circa $500. And they will be of VASTLY higher quality [with esp. vastly better motherboards] than the consumer-oriented junk that those same companies are peddling.
Since the investigation in these countries tends to leak like a sieve, we got info that that particular country was paying someone mid-level in customer support dept. to give them data on customers.
All the corporate privacy/security policies [and, for that matter, government privacy/security LAWS] in the world aren't worth diddly squat in the presence of a determined mole.
I seem to recall that the key element of the plot of Dune involved a traitor at the heart of House Atreides...
PS: Wow, has it been almost 30 YEARS since Dune was released?!?
Yikes!!!
I feel old.
Old. Old. Old. Old. Old.
PPS: Man, you know that Virginia Madsen was a world-class piece of tail if she was as hawt in Sideways (2004) as she had been in Dune [if not even hawter?].
Whew.
by hiding data in content cached by certain ISPs transparent proxies
Okay, I'll say it: That's really evil.
Of course, if you miss even one of the 7 places the site hid the data, the other 6 are immediately restored from it next time you visit.
God, I'm starting to feel old.
7 places?!?
I think I might have just experienced a "get off my lawn" moment...
The Palin Hacker did far less than this, yet he's facing hard time in the federal pen; this case shouldn't be in the civil courts - it ought to be playing out in the CRIMINAL court system:
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
Zuckerberg is a psychopath - the specter of him being one of the wealthiest [and most powerful] people on the planet ought to send a chill down your spine.
The Sarah Palin hacker did less than this, and he was sentenced to hard time:
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
My 53 year old uncle is a senior professor... his IBM monstrosity that cost $100K... an input-compatible version of his Fortran 70 compiler... an array as a stack in a for loop to make program flow clear... the faculty mainframe in '87... FORTRAN was designed BEFORE the compiler was invented... a huge fuck-you to 40 years of software research...
LMFAO!!!
You go, Uncle Professor Dude - you go girl!!!
Abso-fscking-lutely hilarious!!!
Man, I haven't chuckled that hard in a while...
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3
In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...
I don't know how their computers decide what to keep where. Some popular things (like Microsoft updates) I think get auto cached, others I think it is based on demand.
Gee, I hope that MSFT put on their thinking caps and did their homework when they were designing their "signing" algorithms.
'Cause I shudder to think what might happen if the locally-cached Akamai version of a security update were not [for what ever reason] quite the same as the official MSFT version.
Dittoes for hardware drivers, which very often are NOT signed in any way: Break into the Akamai server, upload your version of whatever, then pwn the user systems immediately upon downloading.
And don't think for a second that the Chinese Red Army and the Russian Army aren't devoting beaucoup $$$s & man-hours to precisely these kinds of attack vectors.
Bottom line: It's one thing to be caching relatively harmless stuff, like JPGs and MPGs and WAVs and GIFs and TXTs, but caching EXEs is a whole 'nother can of worms...