I was doing contract work for a small website development and hosting company. They had a breach they couldn't track down, so they just used a cron job to restore the compromised file every 5 minutes. They also stored plaintext passwords in a mysql database on their front-end web server and said they'd 'eventually' get around to making it more secure. Finally, they asked me to start faking pci compliance checks so they could start taking credit cards. I walked away from that shit.
This works because many perfumes/colognes use the secretions from a Civet cat's ass glands as a fragrance or stabilizer. Any many that don't, use a very similar synthetic compound.
It sounds like someone is working their way through their Science Fiction reading list: Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer contains this event. Not a bad book. It got nominated for a Hugo.
Don't be arrogant; show some modesty or humility in regards to your skills no matter how 1337 they are. The other side of this is be open to new ideas, even from non-technical people.
Try to have some empathy for people, especially non-technical people you may have to work with. No matter what you know now, we all started out knowing the same thing: nothing. People will have a lot more respect for you if they know you are trying to engage with them on their level.
You could just get a ham receiver/scanner without a license. Set a 'listening station' up for yourself. I was down at a mall Radio Shack the other day and tucked in the back were a couple hand held ham/marine/aviation FM VHF 2m scanners. They were fairly cheap. This would give you some idea of what Hams do.
Though, I do believe it's legal to own a ham transmitter without a license, I think it's just illegal to transmit until your have a license.
I use an AMREL Rocky notebook in my field work. Hop out of the helicopter and toss it on the rocks while you unload other gear. Rain? No problem. Dust? No problem, it's completely sealed. The bottom is actually a finned heat sink bonded to the CPU. Since it has no fans/vents, it is a bit under-clocked. But it's awesome.
http://www.amrel.com/rugged-computers/default.asp
"...but I'd rather go with 'classical' window managers, like Openbox/Gnome/KDE..."
Seriously? You think KDE and Gnome are 'classical' window managers? Neither of them is a window manager. They don't call themselves window managers. They might include a window manager, but that's not what they are. Classical window managers are things like TWM, FVWM, Window Maker, Fluxbox, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Afterstep.
The Protoss were very familiar with the warp field instability problem. And they obviously overcame them so it's just a matter of time until we do too.
Why else would an Arbiter say, "Warp Field Stabilized" every time you click on him?
I've installed almost a dozen solar powered network backhaul repeater sites in Alaska for research projects. Since we go in by helicopter we have a limited time and weight available to us. So we use armored cat5 instead of pulling conduit. You can get outdoor cat5e and armored fiber from blackbox.
My grandfather worked as a launch operations engineer for an air force contractor in the 60s and 70s. They did have a "Pad Cat" living on the launch pad to control mice. He said it was the only effective thing. And yes, someone had the specific task of finding the cat and taking him into the bunk house when they cleared the pad for launches.
I work at the University of Montana and we talked a bit about direct venting our server rooms. Right now the big push is for ground water cooling. All new buildings on campus must use ground water cooling. Unfortunately, this is starting to hit the wall.
A fellow sysadmin across campus was having a new server room designed, the tons of cooling for his system just got down rated because the groundwater has been warming up with all the new ground source cooling wells.
I agree as well. I regularly need embedded servers/controllers and ethernet switches that work down to -40 degrees (C/F are the same here). I install them on mountain tops in Alaska. What really annoys me is when the specs list -40 as the minimum operating temperatures, but they used crappy ethernet PHY chips that need to be kept warm, so they use a heater circuit. They never tell you this in the documentation, you just wonder why the power usage goes through the room when it gets cold.
I live and work in Montana & Alaska, and wonder would there be any efficiency loss at low temperatures? How would these air engines work at -40[c|f]? Also, since they are decompressing air, creating a chilling effect, would this cause additional problems at low ambient temperatures?
My favorite part about this "profile" stuff is that the PS3 is the ONLY hardware capable of meeting the profile 2.0 requirements (with a software update). Sony must love that, "Awe gee whiz, looks like our PS3 is the only REAL Blue-Ray player." I wonder if we'll ever see Blue-Ray profile 2.0 players get as cheap as DVD players? Not if Sony can help it.
I'm a huge advocate of studying and reducing carbon emissions, I even work for one of the IPCC lead authors. But biofuels have never sat well with me. Something about burning our food for fuel makes me nervous and for some reason I start thinging about Easter Island. And now it looks like subsidised corn ethanol is one of the factors jacking up beer prices. Thanks jerks.
I'm still looking for the huge versions of these pictures. The best I've found are two 1920x1080 images on the agency website. While these are HD, I need something I can fit nicely on to my desktop (3840x1200). Some of the stills coming from the ISS are great for this.
Anyone who is intested in this subject or thinks this is something new should read Paul Lawrence Farber's The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics . It's basically a history of science trying to derive moral structure from the biological world for the last century and a half. It's an interesting book. Unfortunatly, it is a slow dry read as well.
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I was doing contract work for a small website development and hosting company. They had a breach they couldn't track down, so they just used a cron job to restore the compromised file every 5 minutes. They also stored plaintext passwords in a mysql database on their front-end web server and said they'd 'eventually' get around to making it more secure. Finally, they asked me to start faking pci compliance checks so they could start taking credit cards. I walked away from that shit.
This works because many perfumes/colognes use the secretions from a Civet cat's ass glands as a fragrance or stabilizer. Any many that don't, use a very similar synthetic compound.
It sounds like someone is working their way through their Science Fiction reading list: Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer contains this event. Not a bad book. It got nominated for a Hugo.
Don't be arrogant; show some modesty or humility in regards to your skills no matter how 1337 they are. The other side of this is be open to new ideas, even from non-technical people.
Try to have some empathy for people, especially non-technical people you may have to work with. No matter what you know now, we all started out knowing the same thing: nothing. People will have a lot more respect for you if they know you are trying to engage with them on their level.
You could just get a ham receiver/scanner without a license. Set a 'listening station' up for yourself. I was down at a mall Radio Shack the other day and tucked in the back were a couple hand held ham/marine/aviation FM VHF 2m scanners. They were fairly cheap. This would give you some idea of what Hams do.
Though, I do believe it's legal to own a ham transmitter without a license, I think it's just illegal to transmit until your have a license.
I use an AMREL Rocky notebook in my field work. Hop out of the helicopter and toss it on the rocks while you unload other gear. Rain? No problem. Dust? No problem, it's completely sealed. The bottom is actually a finned heat sink bonded to the CPU. Since it has no fans/vents, it is a bit under-clocked. But it's awesome. http://www.amrel.com/rugged-computers/default.asp
Seriously? You think KDE and Gnome are 'classical' window managers? Neither of them is a window manager. They don't call themselves window managers. They might include a window manager, but that's not what they are. Classical window managers are things like TWM, FVWM, Window Maker, Fluxbox, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Afterstep.
Gumpy old Linux guy.
The Protoss were very familiar with the warp field instability problem. And they obviously overcame them so it's just a matter of time until we do too.
Why else would an Arbiter say, "Warp Field Stabilized" every time you click on him?
I've installed almost a dozen solar powered network backhaul repeater sites in Alaska for research projects. Since we go in by helicopter we have a limited time and weight available to us. So we use armored cat5 instead of pulling conduit. You can get outdoor cat5e and armored fiber from blackbox.
My grandfather worked as a launch operations engineer for an air force contractor in the 60s and 70s. They did have a "Pad Cat" living on the launch pad to control mice. He said it was the only effective thing. And yes, someone had the specific task of finding the cat and taking him into the bunk house when they cleared the pad for launches.
Our usenet upstream provider used to call their main server Pants. Their admin said, "If pants is down, we're fucked."
Awesome! I still have a brand new unused CueCat in my desk drawer next to me right now! My ship has come in! ...I think. Wait, what's going on here?
They're going to use the LHC to make energon cubes.
There, fixed that for you. Also, turn in your geen badge.
I work at the University of Montana and we talked a bit about direct venting our server rooms. Right now the big push is for ground water cooling. All new buildings on campus must use ground water cooling. Unfortunately, this is starting to hit the wall.
A fellow sysadmin across campus was having a new server room designed, the tons of cooling for his system just got down rated because the groundwater has been warming up with all the new ground source cooling wells.
I agree as well. I regularly need embedded servers/controllers and ethernet switches that work down to -40 degrees (C/F are the same here). I install them on mountain tops in Alaska. What really annoys me is when the specs list -40 as the minimum operating temperatures, but they used crappy ethernet PHY chips that need to be kept warm, so they use a heater circuit. They never tell you this in the documentation, you just wonder why the power usage goes through the room when it gets cold.
I live and work in Montana & Alaska, and wonder would there be any efficiency loss at low temperatures? How would these air engines work at -40[c|f]? Also, since they are decompressing air, creating a chilling effect, would this cause additional problems at low ambient temperatures?
My favorite part about this "profile" stuff is that the PS3 is the ONLY hardware capable of meeting the profile 2.0 requirements (with a software update). Sony must love that, "Awe gee whiz, looks like our PS3 is the only REAL Blue-Ray player." I wonder if we'll ever see Blue-Ray profile 2.0 players get as cheap as DVD players? Not if Sony can help it.
I'm a huge advocate of studying and reducing carbon emissions, I even work for one of the IPCC lead authors. But biofuels have never sat well with me. Something about burning our food for fuel makes me nervous and for some reason I start thinging about Easter Island. And now it looks like subsidised corn ethanol is one of the factors jacking up beer prices. Thanks jerks.
I'm still looking for the huge versions of these pictures. The best I've found are two 1920x1080 images on the agency website. While these are HD, I need something I can fit nicely on to my desktop (3840x1200). Some of the stills coming from the ISS are great for this.
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Go slashdot Editors! Way to earn that paycheck! Keep up the hard work.
I want to know when jumping the shark jumped the shark. Certainly it's already happened.
I'd be very surprised if Christopher Tolkien finished 'The Children of Hurin' to "movie spec". He despised the Peter Jackson movies.
Anyone who is intested in this subject or thinks this is something new should read Paul Lawrence Farber's The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics . It's basically a history of science trying to derive moral structure from the biological world for the last century and a half. It's an interesting book. Unfortunatly, it is a slow dry read as well.
Haha, the title totally sounds like it was stolen from The Onion.
Is there any relation to Morgan Manjaw?