Until someone starts writing programs that result in the CNC g-codes.
I'm reminded of a time when I was expressly forbidden from inserting my name or email address into the source code of a program I was writing for a communications company. Mind you, this was a private - corporate application that would never see public use....I didn't understand it, developer contact info in source code is a pretty standard practice. So I didn't put my name or email address into the application. I created an SQL query that ultimately resulted in my name and email address. It was an ominous looking query that really didn't do anything other than pick pieces of the table structure apart and perform weird calculations to achieve ascii codes and other nonsense to assemble the output.
Eventually, another developer looked at it and went to management saying that it was a backdoor into the system and that I was hacking their network. When I was contacted by their legal council I suggested that they hire a developer that knew what he was talking about. About a week later I received another call informing me that they would not be filing charges.
I never heard anything else from or about them after that....
Certainly, a dish served cold. Preparations can begin while the plate is still hot though.
Start by using your access to create new superuser accounts for yourself which have no reference to your name.
Use your new superuser accounts to delete your old superuser accounts and clean up the logs left behind.
Write some clever scripts that will do your dirty work at a frenzied pace, then self destruct after altering log files to point at someone you don't like.
Set up a scheduled task so the mayhem occurs while you're participating in an iron-clad alibi
Feel slightly gypped that someone else is named in the article that hits Slashdot
I'd like to second the suggestion to do software elsewhere.
Of course, keep some network drops in the room. They'll be handy when you bring in your laptop to make a minor change. Nobody wants to write code in a room that smells like burned plastic and solder flux.
You're in a cramped space, don't waste it on a desk and computer that will never be used in the way they were intended.
Use one workbench for fabrication/assembly and the other for electronics.
It's far more likely that you ruin your own marriage or friendship than it is for a private investigator to ruin it for you.
What's more likely: A PI catches you're screwing your best friends wife, or a PI manufactures compelling evidence that you're screwing your best friends wife?
I do agree with you about the CEO hiring a PI. Isn't that money better spent on performance incentives? Seriously, if there were great incentives to be a top performer, wouldn't employees work their butts off to get those incentives?
While your email resides on the mail server of your email provider, the message itself belongs to them. Even if you download your messages and delete them from the server every second, for the brief time they reside on the mail server, they belong to the provider. A brief time is all that is necessary to copy them to another location where they are now permanent property of the provider.
When it absolutely, positively must be secured, host your own mail server.
The average person will pick up a USB pen drive from the parking lot and plug it into there PC or Laptop.
I did that last month.
I run Linux though, so I'm not really worried about the things most people worry about. All that was on it was an exceptionally boring PowerPoint file which I deleted before giving the stick to my wife (who uses a Macbook)
I'm no longer in IT. I never wanted to be in IT. I just ended up there because the job needed to be done right. After seven years running an IT department (and never having a subordinate last more than 2 months) I'm happy to be back in development.
My current organization uses an email infrastructure that doesn't support Outlook. So, it's completely true that if a user is hell bent on using Outlook, they won't be able to send or receive email within the organization, which will probably cost them their job. While I don't like the mail system they have in place, two soup cans and a piece of twine is better than Outlook, so I don't complain.
Now, I'll fully support any claim that I don't belong in a service position. While working my way through school I learned to hate end users the BOFH way.
I have no doubt that there is a special place in hell for people like me. No doubt, there will be non-stop calls requiring me to support IncrediMail and MagicJack.
Speak for yourself. The FIRST thing the IT department needs is a bunch of admins that aren't idiot certification mill MCSE's.
...you just need to click a box...
And that's about all MCSE's are good for.
Any Linux admin worth his salt can automate configuration changes like this. Using PXE it becomes even easier. Added bonus, no worrying about how many seats are in use.
On top of that, IT can very finely control the applications deployed on the network. If a user doesn't want to use the application IT supports and for which they received training, they can find another job.
I read/. at work, where I'm not allowed to have a Linux workstation. The servers I work on are Linux though, so it's not like the organisation is anti-Linux, they're just frightened they might be asked to support Linux workstations (not mine of course, but others). Just because someone uses Windows to browse/., doesn't mean they have a choice.
Or what if a terrorist boarded a plane and started stabbing passengers and crew with a pencil. Would we ban pencils? Pens? What if he was a martial artist, would we ban martial artists from getting on planes?
This isn't the correct video for this article. The article discusses a young girl, this video is of a boy. The article talks about her screaming and that isn't happening in this video.
Wow, what a concept. Demonstrate how much your soul doesn't need your body by donating your heart.....right now. When you're done, you won't be needing your body any more, so it won't really matter that much anyway. While you're at it, maybe you can arrange for a necrophiliac to take what's left of your carcass home with him.....after all, it doesn't really matter that much.....next-of-kin be damned.
The problem is that you didn't read the documentation for the distribution./etc/portage/package.mask - for the packages you want to protect.
It really is fine and dandy.
Then one day you spend a few hours with a testing server running and testing updates on the IMPORTANT packages before temporarily removing the package mask and running them on the production machines.
If it's worth doing more than once, it's worth automating (as much as safe/possible) so I can work on personal stuff on someone elses dime.
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If you saw the size of this limb, you'd understand.
I like being banded.
There's nothing like a good banding.
As long as I'm not banned from being banded, I'm happy.
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The same as your luggage.
Until someone starts writing programs that result in the CNC g-codes.
I'm reminded of a time when I was expressly forbidden from inserting my name or email address into the source code of a program I was writing for a communications company. Mind you, this was a private - corporate application that would never see public use....I didn't understand it, developer contact info in source code is a pretty standard practice. So I didn't put my name or email address into the application. I created an SQL query that ultimately resulted in my name and email address. It was an ominous looking query that really didn't do anything other than pick pieces of the table structure apart and perform weird calculations to achieve ascii codes and other nonsense to assemble the output.
Eventually, another developer looked at it and went to management saying that it was a backdoor into the system and that I was hacking their network. When I was contacted by their legal council I suggested that they hire a developer that knew what he was talking about. About a week later I received another call informing me that they would not be filing charges.
I never heard anything else from or about them after that....
If only you had sudo permissions to grant me mod points....
It's not that hard to be good at being bad.
Certainly, a dish served cold. Preparations can begin while the plate is still hot though.
I'd like to second the suggestion to do software elsewhere.
Of course, keep some network drops in the room. They'll be handy when you bring in your laptop to make a minor change. Nobody wants to write code in a room that smells like burned plastic and solder flux.
You're in a cramped space, don't waste it on a desk and computer that will never be used in the way they were intended.
Use one workbench for fabrication/assembly and the other for electronics.
It's far more likely that you ruin your own marriage or friendship than it is for a private investigator to ruin it for you.
What's more likely:
A PI catches you're screwing your best friends wife, or
a PI manufactures compelling evidence that you're screwing your best friends wife?
I do agree with you about the CEO hiring a PI. Isn't that money better spent on performance incentives? Seriously, if there were great incentives to be a top performer, wouldn't employees work their butts off to get those incentives?
It goes deeper than that.
While your email resides on the mail server of your email provider, the message itself belongs to them. Even if you download your messages and delete them from the server every second, for the brief time they reside on the mail server, they belong to the provider. A brief time is all that is necessary to copy them to another location where they are now permanent property of the provider.
When it absolutely, positively must be secured, host your own mail server.
It may never happen. Once he gets to prison, he'll be someone's wife.
Plain text passwords
I'm pretty sure that's not the only way to use ProFTPD.
http://www.proftpd.org/localsite/Userguide/linked/config_ftpoverssh.html
I didn't understand your response until I expanded it and read the quote. Well done.
My wife has already forbidden sexy time pics though...sorry.
Just pointing out that not every system can be easily affected with a memory stick. Mine is a windows free house
Did you really have to call me a smug retard, or are you just an anonymous coward...
Oh...so you are.
The average person will pick up a USB pen drive from the parking lot and plug it into there PC or Laptop.
I did that last month.
I run Linux though, so I'm not really worried about the things most people worry about. All that was on it was an exceptionally boring PowerPoint file which I deleted before giving the stick to my wife (who uses a Macbook)
they pulled all private corporate leaks
Says the man despite the announced leak of banking documents
I'm no longer in IT. I never wanted to be in IT. I just ended up there because the job needed to be done right. After seven years running an IT department (and never having a subordinate last more than 2 months) I'm happy to be back in development.
My current organization uses an email infrastructure that doesn't support Outlook. So, it's completely true that if a user is hell bent on using Outlook, they won't be able to send or receive email within the organization, which will probably cost them their job. While I don't like the mail system they have in place, two soup cans and a piece of twine is better than Outlook, so I don't complain.
Now, I'll fully support any claim that I don't belong in a service position. While working my way through school I learned to hate end users the BOFH way.
I have no doubt that there is a special place in hell for people like me. No doubt, there will be non-stop calls requiring me to support IncrediMail and MagicJack.
Nothing that slick exists for Linux
Speak for yourself. The FIRST thing the IT department needs is a bunch of admins that aren't idiot certification mill MCSE's.
...you just need to click a box...
And that's about all MCSE's are good for.
Any Linux admin worth his salt can automate configuration changes like this. Using PXE it becomes even easier. Added bonus, no worrying about how many seats are in use.
On top of that, IT can very finely control the applications deployed on the network. If a user doesn't want to use the application IT supports and for which they received training, they can find another job.
Not speculating, I did it for an ISP.
I read /. at work, where I'm not allowed to have a Linux workstation. The servers I work on are Linux though, so it's not like the organisation is anti-Linux, they're just frightened they might be asked to support Linux workstations (not mine of course, but others). Just because someone uses Windows to browse /., doesn't mean they have a choice.
Just stop helping people infringe on copyrights
Because we all know that torrents are only used for distributing copyrighted material.
Oh, wait, I forgot about those legitimate uses like software and media distribution. Just look at the media being distributed on bittorrent.com
And what do raw materials need with that small percentage?
They've been getting uppity lately, and need to be put into their place.
BTW, your ultimate computer language is missing a closing paren.
Or what if a terrorist boarded a plane and started stabbing passengers and crew with a pencil. Would we ban pencils? Pens? What if he was a martial artist, would we ban martial artists from getting on planes?
This isn't the correct video for this article. The article discusses a young girl, this video is of a boy. The article talks about her screaming and that isn't happening in this video.
Someone mod parent down!
Wow, what a concept. Demonstrate how much your soul doesn't need your body by donating your heart.....right now. When you're done, you won't be needing your body any more, so it won't really matter that much anyway. While you're at it, maybe you can arrange for a necrophiliac to take what's left of your carcass home with him.....after all, it doesn't really matter that much.....next-of-kin be damned.
The problem is that you didn't read the documentation for the distribution. /etc/portage/package.mask - for the packages you want to protect.
It really is fine and dandy.
Then one day you spend a few hours with a testing server running and testing updates on the IMPORTANT packages before temporarily removing the package mask and running them on the production machines.
If it's worth doing more than once, it's worth automating (as much as safe/possible) so I can work on personal stuff on someone elses dime.
You should've automated the updates and set up distcc. Have your power and time too.