Yah know 10k years ago (last week in biblical time) there was a cave man peeing in the forest. That pee is the glass of watter in your hand now. Second thought. That water you are drinking, it's a whales toilet water.
Why? Well because it's about 80% a test of the underlying system (Ram, CPU, Video card etc) I ran it myself by doing a pretty simple check (removing 75% of the ram going from 2G to.5G) and the performance diff was huge. In short. They spend too much time testing the performance of the Hardware and too little testing the browser against itself.
And my "but" is. they assume (wrongly) that one is always operating on an MS system with all windows maximized at 1600X1280. How many people are there on the ever more popular netbook (1024x600 or 800x480) or don't do the MS max to all dance and actually use multiple cascading windows as god and Xerox Park intended.;) I HATE be forced to maximize an app just use it. (cough pdf readers cough) and like so many not all my screens are monster LCD desktop systems (in fact notebooks outsell desktops and netbooks lead the portable pack of late.)
Please if any would listen remember these 3 things. 1. Not all or your users are Windows encumbered. 2. Not all of your users are on Desktops with massive screens. 3 Not all of your users like wasting real estate. It won't be long until smartphones are able to do document.... er... wait I already am doing docs on my Android, never mind.
the 30CT a 486DX version was originally only an Asian release. The Libretto50CT was a P1 version running at 150mhz (if memory is correct) This version had sound where the 30ct did not. Size was identical to the size of a vhs cassette case. If anyone out there thinks typing on an early EeePC is hard you had nothing on the Libretto's. Great system, Rock solid, Loved mine.
At a company I left recently I installed Openfire and our supported IM client was their spark client (however despite my ex-bosses rants a lot of clients ended up being used by employee's) Spark works really well. Openfire is rock solid. It runs on Linux or Windows (better on Linux less server load). Without a hitch. Live upgrades work, and if you use mysql as the DB backend you can have auto failover. SSL 3 and TLS are supported as well.
During the 70's we learned that the way things operated in the USSR military was that a brigade commander would be given a map of the local roads, without topographical details and the names of the beginning and ending point of the mission marked on the map. The battalion commander would get a map of the immediate area around the path they were to follow, with the beginning and end points. The company commander would get a line map of the mission with dots not names. The Lieutenant would end up with something like the directions you get from a gas station "Go down this here road to the 3rd left. One of the things they would send back to the Soviet Uninon would be gas station maps of US highways.
So my question to the Republican party of California (and this includes you Arnold) Are you Americans or Soviet Socialists afraid of their own shadow and scared to death of knowledge. Frankly I think they are little more than Putin puppets. But that just might be me and me alone.
Whatever you do, prior to the moment you encrypt the first partition, have in place a policy for cryptographic rotation and key retention. The last thing you need is to have one of your key persons leave for greener pastures leaving behind all their data and none of their keys.
In order to be effective the policy for key storage must be one that there is no exception to, period, nada. Changes yes. Exception no. Then figure out a secure way to retain the keys the prohibits rouge usage.
Finally figure out how you will go about a full key change. What happens if Joe leaves in a less than polite manor (he got his butt canned for cause) and this individual may have copies of the keys. How do you rotate, what gets rotated first etc. Cover your butt when it comes to data destruction as well. The more effort you put into planning, the more likely you are to keep all of your data usable.
1. Using Unix (Special Edition 1999) By Steve Moritsugu, Julia Kelly, Steve Moritsugu, without this book I never would have gotten out of the quagmire I first immersed myself in.
2. Linux Shells by Example By Ellie Quigley. Not much missing in this tome. Sed Grep Awk(gawk) bash csh and more.
3. nearly any pocket book by O'Reilly. This is AFAIK all I'll need to keep me going. All the rest are for fun.
Don't be afraid to give them tasks you don't understand how it can be done.
Don't be afraid to let them do things you can't do.
Don't let other managers have access to them directly, they are your people, if someone has a problem with one of them, or a task for one of them, they need to talk to you.
Don't play favorites. Spread the work load evenly (let them help you do this.)
When you assign them tasks, give them pre-determined checkpoints for checking progress. This really helps you avoid micro management.
Give them time to do research and, side projects. Too much focus on a single thing can cause the mind to muddle.
If you give an attaboy make it a real one.
Avoid market speak.
Give them an in on the why behind their tasks, they possibly have seen this kind of problem/attempted solution before and know a better/faster/working way.
Is why everyone sees the plethora of distributions as a minus? This is not Windows, where you have multiple versions by practicing feature stripping (Ok Gnome feature strips but thats only so that they can get it to work:O) each distro adds something based on the creators vision. Best of all, you don't have to use it, and not using it won't hurt you or anyone else.
Out of the cloud has appeared such stars as the current glory hog Ubuntu. In the past dozens of others have had their moment in the sun. Most have actually contributed to the good of the whole. Heck if someone hadn't thought Slack was doing it wrong we never would have gotten RH or Debian, then were would we be.
If you want plodding stability. Go with RHEL or Debian Stable. You are guaranteed to be so far back from the edge it isn't even in sight. At the same time you are guarenteed that your code is sufficiently vetted as to have limited problems. Additionally it's advisable to stay away from laptops, wireless, and cloud computing as these are still areas of heavy change.
Seriously I'm tired of people(sheeple) who stand on the periphery, of Linux, capable only of pointing to every imagined flaw, while they type out their punditry in M$Word on Vista.
Oh and a note, my last Winbox was a Windows 95OSR2 system. Don't need M$, I tolerate my wifes MAC, and miss my Amiga.
I'm sorry but the "Bittorrent (or video, or pr0n) is going to kill the internet" BS is touted in the US about as often as Wall Street Hit's up Washington for their allowance. I don't mean to troll here but honestly I'm growing weary of the FUD. To the ISP's of the world. If your tubes fill up, Build/Buy/Design bigger ones. (Oh and I don't want to hear about how large the US is, Canada is larger has more space between cities and does a better job of getting true broadband to people than we do.)
Perhaps we would be better served by trying to find ways to accommodate the uses of the net, instead of spreading fear, and sticking our heads in the sand, while the rest of the world passes us by.
So let me get this straight. You run windows (hence the C drive) and you think that your e-mail client is a word processor. Is this correct?
Further I gather from your note that you feel that others need to run the same thing you do because you say so. Perhaps you might consider that many other people (self included) have found ways to be connected to things like Gmail 24/7 almost anywhere we go, (In the middle of Yosemite I did have problems early this summer. Dang bears.) Without lugging a full blown "C Drive" around with all of it's umbilical cords.
How many of you when you read the title had "Dueling Banjo's" the theme from Deliverance in your head? How many more of the did what I did and immediately had an image of GW pop into your head?
Cable Internet, as configured by Comcast (bombast) has a fixed ceiling for how much traffic can flow through it's network without interfering with TV/phone. More people can watch a pseudo HD TV show, on the cable than can fairly share the bandwidth. So in the case of Comcast they are pulling an airline trick. In order to ensure max revenue they also "over book" the line. Problem is as time goes on more an more people are using their internet connection for more than e-mail.
Now on a airplane you can "bump" passengers. However in the case of bandwidth there is no bump available. The only options they have are to either put in more lines/equipment (quite often impossible due to community regulations and available space in underground cable easements) or drop customers. Both a and b won't sit well with the board. The only remaining options are to not renew customers who leave. (difficult since it also cuts into TV/phone revenues) or they can do what they are doing and refuse to service properly existing customers.
Problem for many is that it comes down to a choice between Darth and Adolf. Chose your darkside. But at least on ADSL you know that the bandwidth you use has little affect on anyone but people in your household.
But the whining about the new setup in Firefox is really nothing more than the same level of whining you get when Homer Simpson says "10 Seconds.... oooooh but I want it now." Decision time folks. Do you want a reasonable expectation of security or to be lazy? It must be understood that whatever automation does for you it also does to you. The end result is a layer on top of a layer that slows down the web (from the user viewpoint) even more. Despite what you have been told.
1. You are smarter than your computer. (all you need to be able to do is add 2 + 2, a computer can only do 1 + 1 + 1 + 1)
2. You are eventually, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, going to have to take responsibility for your own decisions. What you click on and the actions it results in are 1 of them. This includes deciding if you want to accept an SSL cert or not.
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Na Nu, Na Nu would be out of the question.
No, you aren't alone. I was desperately trying to visualize a "Linux Server the size of a Wall Mart" myself.
Yah know 10k years ago (last week in biblical time) there was a cave man peeing in the forest. That pee is the glass of watter in your hand now. Second thought. That water you are drinking, it's a whales toilet water.
Why? Well because it's about 80% a test of the underlying system (Ram, CPU, Video card etc) I ran it myself by doing a pretty simple check (removing 75% of the ram going from 2G to .5G) and the performance diff was huge. In short. They spend too much time testing the performance of the Hardware and too little testing the browser against itself.
And my "but" is. they assume (wrongly) that one is always operating on an MS system with all windows maximized at 1600X1280. How many people are there on the ever more popular netbook (1024x600 or 800x480) or don't do the MS max to all dance and actually use multiple cascading windows as god and Xerox Park intended. ;) I HATE be forced to maximize an app just use it. (cough pdf readers cough) and like so many not all my screens are monster LCD desktop systems (in fact notebooks outsell desktops and netbooks lead the portable pack of late.)
Please if any would listen remember these 3 things. 1. Not all or your users are Windows encumbered. 2. Not all of your users are on Desktops with massive screens. 3 Not all of your users like wasting real estate. It won't be long until smartphones are able to do document.... er... wait I already am doing docs on my Android, never mind.
the 30CT a 486DX version was originally only an Asian release. The Libretto50CT was a P1 version running at 150mhz (if memory is correct) This version had sound where the 30ct did not. Size was identical to the size of a vhs cassette case. If anyone out there thinks typing on an early EeePC is hard you had nothing on the Libretto's. Great system, Rock solid, Loved mine.
At a company I left recently I installed Openfire and our supported IM client was their spark client (however despite my ex-bosses rants a lot of clients ended up being used by employee's) Spark works really well. Openfire is rock solid. It runs on Linux or Windows (better on Linux less server load). Without a hitch. Live upgrades work, and if you use mysql as the DB backend you can have auto failover. SSL 3 and TLS are supported as well.
During the 70's we learned that the way things operated in the USSR military was that a brigade commander would be given a map of the local roads, without topographical details and the names of the beginning and ending point of the mission marked on the map. The battalion commander would get a map of the immediate area around the path they were to follow, with the beginning and end points. The company commander would get a line map of the mission with dots not names. The Lieutenant would end up with something like the directions you get from a gas station "Go down this here road to the 3rd left. One of the things they would send back to the Soviet Uninon would be gas station maps of US highways. So my question to the Republican party of California (and this includes you Arnold) Are you Americans or Soviet Socialists afraid of their own shadow and scared to death of knowledge. Frankly I think they are little more than Putin puppets. But that just might be me and me alone.
Whatever you do, prior to the moment you encrypt the first partition, have in place a policy for cryptographic rotation and key retention. The last thing you need is to have one of your key persons leave for greener pastures leaving behind all their data and none of their keys.
In order to be effective the policy for key storage must be one that there is no exception to, period, nada. Changes yes. Exception no. Then figure out a secure way to retain the keys the prohibits rouge usage.
Finally figure out how you will go about a full key change. What happens if Joe leaves in a less than polite manor (he got his butt canned for cause) and this individual may have copies of the keys. How do you rotate, what gets rotated first etc. Cover your butt when it comes to data destruction as well. The more effort you put into planning, the more likely you are to keep all of your data usable.
I want .... really I do....
1. Using Unix (Special Edition 1999) By Steve Moritsugu, Julia Kelly, Steve Moritsugu, without this book I never would have gotten out of the quagmire I first immersed myself in.
2. Linux Shells by Example By Ellie Quigley. Not much missing in this tome. Sed Grep Awk(gawk) bash csh and more.
3. nearly any pocket book by O'Reilly. This is AFAIK all I'll need to keep me going. All the rest are for fun.
Don't be afraid to give them tasks you don't understand how it can be done.
Don't be afraid to let them do things you can't do.
Don't let other managers have access to them directly, they are your people, if someone has a problem with one of them, or a task for one of them, they need to talk to you.
Don't play favorites. Spread the work load evenly (let them help you do this.)
When you assign them tasks, give them pre-determined checkpoints for checking progress. This really helps you avoid micro management.
Give them time to do research and, side projects. Too much focus on a single thing can cause the mind to muddle.
If you give an attaboy make it a real one.
Avoid market speak.
Give them an in on the why behind their tasks, they possibly have seen this kind of problem/attempted solution before and know a better/faster/working way.
Yeah but the latency is a real drag ;)
Is why everyone sees the plethora of distributions as a minus? This is not Windows, where you have multiple versions by practicing feature stripping (Ok Gnome feature strips but thats only so that they can get it to work :O) each distro adds something based on the creators vision. Best of all, you don't have to use it, and not using it won't hurt you or anyone else.
Out of the cloud has appeared such stars as the current glory hog Ubuntu. In the past dozens of others have had their moment in the sun. Most have actually contributed to the good of the whole. Heck if someone hadn't thought Slack was doing it wrong we never would have gotten RH or Debian, then were would we be.
If you want plodding stability. Go with RHEL or Debian Stable. You are guaranteed to be so far back from the edge it isn't even in sight. At the same time you are guarenteed that your code is sufficiently vetted as to have limited problems. Additionally it's advisable to stay away from laptops, wireless, and cloud computing as these are still areas of heavy change.
Seriously I'm tired of people(sheeple) who stand on the periphery, of Linux, capable only of pointing to every imagined flaw, while they type out their punditry in M$Word on Vista.
Oh and a note, my last Winbox was a Windows 95OSR2 system. Don't need M$, I tolerate my wifes MAC, and miss my Amiga.
I'm sorry but the "Bittorrent (or video, or pr0n) is going to kill the internet" BS is touted in the US about as often as Wall Street Hit's up Washington for their allowance. I don't mean to troll here but honestly I'm growing weary of the FUD.
To the ISP's of the world. If your tubes fill up, Build/Buy/Design bigger ones. (Oh and I don't want to hear about how large the US is, Canada is larger has more space between cities and does a better job of getting true broadband to people than we do.)
Perhaps we would be better served by trying to find ways to accommodate the uses of the net, instead of spreading fear, and sticking our heads in the sand, while the rest of the world passes us by.
1.restore :u
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3. ctrl + z
Small note windows is 90's not 80's
So let me get this straight. You run windows (hence the C drive) and you think that your e-mail client is a word processor. Is this correct?
Further I gather from your note that you feel that others need to run the same thing you do because you say so. Perhaps you might consider that many other people (self included) have found ways to be connected to things like Gmail 24/7 almost anywhere we go, (In the middle of Yosemite I did have problems early this summer. Dang bears.) Without lugging a full blown "C Drive" around with all of it's umbilical cords.
How many of you when you read the title had "Dueling Banjo's" the theme from Deliverance in your head? How many more of the did what I did and immediately had an image of GW pop into your head?
And not a one of them is owned by the state of Kentucky..... Don't tell the govna.
Oh. ... you said you wanted to cluck... ouch... Ma bad.
Cable Internet, as configured by Comcast (bombast) has a fixed ceiling for how much traffic can flow through it's network without interfering with TV/phone. More people can watch a pseudo HD TV show, on the cable than can fairly share the bandwidth. So in the case of Comcast they are pulling an airline trick. In order to ensure max revenue they also "over book" the line. Problem is as time goes on more an more people are using their internet connection for more than e-mail.
Now on a airplane you can "bump" passengers. However in the case of bandwidth there is no bump available. The only options they have are to either put in more lines/equipment (quite often impossible due to community regulations and available space in underground cable easements) or drop customers. Both a and b won't sit well with the board. The only remaining options are to not renew customers who leave. (difficult since it also cuts into TV/phone revenues) or they can do what they are doing and refuse to service properly existing customers.
Problem for many is that it comes down to a choice between Darth and Adolf. Chose your darkside. But at least on ADSL you know that the bandwidth you use has little affect on anyone but people in your household.
Is this "zapper" the same technology used to remove votes from voting machnes?
Hundreds of Cavemen world wide are saying "Up Yours" to Geico
But the whining about the new setup in Firefox is really nothing more than the same level of whining you get when Homer Simpson says "10 Seconds.... oooooh but I want it now." Decision time folks. Do you want a reasonable expectation of security or to be lazy? It must be understood that whatever automation does for you it also does to you. The end result is a layer on top of a layer that slows down the web (from the user viewpoint) even more. Despite what you have been told.
1. You are smarter than your computer. (all you need to be able to do is add 2 + 2, a computer can only do 1 + 1 + 1 + 1)
2. You are eventually, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, going to have to take responsibility for your own decisions. What you click on and the actions it results in are 1 of them. This includes deciding if you want to accept an SSL cert or not.