Firstly, they are going to be very very busy. Secondly, I think this program is less about securing the networks and more about getting some positive face-to-face interaction with the community. It is in opportunity for the sherifs to get to know the people they are sworn to protect and vise versa.
Make sure you communicate to the students the importance of backing up their school work. Laptop hard drives are more prone to failure than desktop hard drives. It is devastating to loose all your school work. Hard out pamphlets explaining how to burn their work to CD-ROM.
I needed to rant about the company I work for. Our IT security people have this cool ability get in the way of absolutely everything I need to do for my job -- all in the name of security.
1. I had to cancel my MacBook Pro order because user-directory encryption (FileVault) is not good enough they want full HD encryption. So no mac laptops. Sorry, it's security policy.
2. We can send
3. They block all file types in email with a known extension. So you have to make up an extension and rename the file.
4. Our screen savers come on after 1min and we must type our passwords to get back to the desktop.
5. The virus scanner runs during peek office hours and brings our PC's performance back to the stone age.
6. There is a web filter which is always blocking legit websites. It has an animation and it makes you feel like a criminal.
7. User passwords expire in 90 days and must be the standard Alpha-numeric+non-alpha-numeric+long+never used before... which is actually fine except the AD admin password is something any dictionary attack could break in 1 second and it never changes.
I thought that the IT department was supposed to provide the IT services that the company employees need. Lately, the IT department is deciding what we need without asking for our input. If you go around their back to get your work done (use an anonymizer to access the web, P2P to send files to customer...) you can get fired for being a 'hacker'.
Don't you get it?? I want the right to freedom and liberty.. not 'free' health care. It is our right to own guns which protects our other rights. It is no coincidence that fascism always starts by banning guns. Once the population is at the governments mercy, then the rules of the game change.
I'm a huge fan of the Unified Process. Note that UP focuses on the software development process, and not the project management process.
Also:
Set up a Subversion server, use Trac, and put daily announcements on the start page wiki (or similar). Unit Test your code, and make sure to use Javadoc/Headerdoc.
There is nothing to worry about, this article is inflammatory. Do you have any idea how many weapon systems rely GPS? I work in the defense industry, GPS is everywhere. When the current satellites start falling down, we will send up more. In fact, those plans to 'weaponize' space are mostly a reaction to the realization of how important the GPS system is. It is a single point of failure and must be protected. Do you really think the armed forces are going to let the system fail due to neglect?
From an engineering perspective, there is probably a good reason why car companies don't build AC plugs into their hybrid cards. Won't the deep-cycle of and AC charge + battery-only commute kill your battery pack sooner than the shallow-cycles it normally doles out? If I'm wrong, then yeah, it's a great idea. But if I'm right, then you will be in for a $,$$$.$$ expense far sooner than you like.
I'll switch when the IT department at work plunks a new PC on my desk with vista pre-installed.
Actually, I'm getting excited about it even though it's 2 years out at this point.
I use Mac OS X most of the time, but when I do use Windows I would much rather have Vista than XP. XP isn't 'fun' anymore. Vista will add some needed energy into the OS wars.
My setup:
- Kinessis Ergo Keyboard (the bowl one)
- PowerMac G5 2x2.5
- Apple 23" Cinema HD Display
- Private office, with 'mood' lighting
- Sennheiser headphones with a large iTunes library
On my new Cingular phone, I tried out the web surfing just to see what it was like. They built in a gopher-like menu system to help you navigate the internet. Each menu has about 5 items to choose from, each item is ASCII text with no graphics. Each menu is apx 18kb.
I'll say that again just in case you blanked out... Simple ASCII Menu of 5 items -> 18,000 bytes transfered.
They charge by the kb, so they pack shit into the stream.
We've had huge hurricanes before. And we several hurricanes each year, any one of which could have done this damage with a direct hit. So, what is the effect of global warming on this storm? Did global warming aim the storm at New Orleans? That's a neat trick.
We are all familiar with the no-compete contract. Most of us have signed one.
For most companies, this is not a problem. You know the business space the company operates in and can therefore make sure your next job operates in a different space.
But Microsoft is different... They (at least in their minds) compete with EVERYONE. Therefore, once you work for MS, you can't leave because no matter what area of business you decide to go into, they have their sights on it.
Of course, if all other companies buy into this logic then the problem will go away. I.E. you should be no more able to join Microsoft than you are able to leave it.
We do a lot of in-house scientific code. We use OpenGL because that's what EVERYONE in the scientific simulation business uses. I think I've bought by last Windows license.
That not all engineers are created equal. You may think they are because they all have the same letters by their name, and similar resumes... but you would be wrong.
A good engineer will be more productive than 10 run-of-the-mill engineers. This applies to software, hardware, EE, ME, etc...
Often an entire product or company is held up by a core team of awesome engineers with a fleet of helper engineers to do the grunt work.
Here I am, thinking "Honestly, how many man-months does it take to put a text field on a web page? I mean, what in the HELL have they been doing all these years."
Thanks for clearing up my browser problem.
Hitachi is the new owner of the IBM hard drive unit. Remember, these are the guys who sold those desk star hard drives which failed so often they had to admit they were only designed to be power on for a few hours a day.
I have personally had several IBM/Hitachi drives fail, loosing GB's of data. Even all these years after the desk star fiasco, their drives still suck. My PowerBook HD died in May. Yup, it was a Hitachi.
Here is a project I've been wanting to start for some time.
There are two components:
1. A program that changes your wall paper every 1min, 10min, 1hr, etc...
2. A database of time-lapse outdoor scenes from around the world. Each scene is 24hrs in length with images captured at intervals of 10-30min.
So that sitting in your office (with no windows) you can see what it is like to spend a day out side the taj mahal, or out in the american south west. This is done in pseudo real-time. I.E. if it's 10AM where you are, you see 10AM in the time-lapse. If you stay up all night, you can see what night time in the desert is like.
There should be a community site with software and instructions so that users all around the world can take their regular digital cameras and a tripod + software and create their own time-scape scenes of the areas in which they live. These user scenes can be put on the web site for all to enjoy.
Anyway, the real genius of this idea is that if it's done by a commercial company rather than open-source, some guy gets paid to travel around the world and spend 24hrs an all the places which are nice to look at. If anyone wants to start a company to do this, I'll volunteer for this job:)
Disk target mode turns your computer into an external firewire hard drive. Though this sounds silly ($2000 comp -> $100 HD) it is super useful when performing backups, first-aid, disaster recovery etc...
As for the quick sleep/wake. In my experience, the PC world has only had 'reliable' sleep mode since WinXP SP2. Your results may have been different.
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Firstly, they are going to be very very busy. Secondly, I think this program is less about securing the networks and more about getting some positive face-to-face interaction with the community. It is in opportunity for the sherifs to get to know the people they are sworn to protect and vise versa.
A radio signal!!! I think the idea is to let the police can jam my gun using a radio dish before the send in SWAT.
Make sure you communicate to the students the importance of backing up their school work. Laptop hard drives are more prone to failure than desktop hard drives. It is devastating to loose all your school work. Hard out pamphlets explaining how to burn their work to CD-ROM.
I needed to rant about the company I work for. Our IT security people have this cool ability get in the way of absolutely everything I need to do for my job -- all in the name of security.
1. I had to cancel my MacBook Pro order because user-directory encryption (FileVault) is not good enough they want full HD encryption. So no mac laptops. Sorry, it's security policy.
2. We can send 3. They block all file types in email with a known extension. So you have to make up an extension and rename the file.
4. Our screen savers come on after 1min and we must type our passwords to get back to the desktop.
5. The virus scanner runs during peek office hours and brings our PC's performance back to the stone age.
6. There is a web filter which is always blocking legit websites. It has an animation and it makes you feel like a criminal.
7. User passwords expire in 90 days and must be the standard Alpha-numeric+non-alpha-numeric+long+never used before... which is actually fine except the AD admin password is something any dictionary attack could break in 1 second and it never changes.
I thought that the IT department was supposed to provide the IT services that the company employees need. Lately, the IT department is deciding what we need without asking for our input. If you go around their back to get your work done (use an anonymizer to access the web, P2P to send files to customer...) you can get fired for being a 'hacker'.
Don't you get it?? I want the right to freedom and liberty.. not 'free' health care. It is our right to own guns which protects our other rights. It is no coincidence that fascism always starts by banning guns. Once the population is at the governments mercy, then the rules of the game change.
I'm a huge fan of the Unified Process. Note that UP focuses on the software development process, and not the project management process. Also: Set up a Subversion server, use Trac, and put daily announcements on the start page wiki (or similar). Unit Test your code, and make sure to use Javadoc/Headerdoc.
I use to drive a taurus.
There is nothing to worry about, this article is inflammatory. Do you have any idea how many weapon systems rely GPS? I work in the defense industry, GPS is everywhere. When the current satellites start falling down, we will send up more. In fact, those plans to 'weaponize' space are mostly a reaction to the realization of how important the GPS system is. It is a single point of failure and must be protected. Do you really think the armed forces are going to let the system fail due to neglect?
From an engineering perspective, there is probably a good reason why car companies don't build AC plugs into their hybrid cards. Won't the deep-cycle of and AC charge + battery-only commute kill your battery pack sooner than the shallow-cycles it normally doles out? If I'm wrong, then yeah, it's a great idea. But if I'm right, then you will be in for a $,$$$.$$ expense far sooner than you like.
I'll switch when the IT department at work plunks a new PC on my desk with vista pre-installed.
Actually, I'm getting excited about it even though it's 2 years out at this point.
I use Mac OS X most of the time, but when I do use Windows I would much rather have Vista than XP. XP isn't 'fun' anymore. Vista will add some needed energy into the OS wars.
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
My setup: - Kinessis Ergo Keyboard (the bowl one) - PowerMac G5 2x2.5 - Apple 23" Cinema HD Display - Private office, with 'mood' lighting - Sennheiser headphones with a large iTunes library
It's nice to see someone trying something different. It will probably be an improvement in usability.
The only issue I see is the background -- behind the WYSIWYG page. It is totally messing with my eyes. It causes optical interference like a zebra.
On my new Cingular phone, I tried out the web surfing just to see what it was like.
They built in a gopher-like menu system to help you navigate the internet.
Each menu has about 5 items to choose from, each item is ASCII text with no graphics. Each menu is apx 18kb.
I'll say that again just in case you blanked out...
Simple ASCII Menu of 5 items -> 18,000 bytes transfered.
They charge by the kb, so they pack shit into the stream.
Those who didn't go into management are now shooting at rescuers in New Orleans.
We've had huge hurricanes before. And we several hurricanes each year, any one of which could have done this damage with a direct hit. So, what is the effect of global warming on this storm? Did global warming aim the storm at New Orleans? That's a neat trick.
We are all familiar with the no-compete contract. Most of us have signed one.
For most companies, this is not a problem. You know the business space the company operates in and can therefore make sure your next job operates in a different space.
But Microsoft is different... They (at least in their minds) compete with EVERYONE. Therefore, once you work for MS, you can't leave because no matter what area of business you decide to go into, they have their sights on it.
Of course, if all other companies buy into this logic then the problem will go away. I.E. you should be no more able to join Microsoft than you are able to leave it.
We do a lot of in-house scientific code. We use OpenGL because that's what EVERYONE in the scientific simulation business uses. I think I've bought by last Windows license.
That not all engineers are created equal. You may think they are because they all have the same letters by their name, and similar resumes... but you would be wrong.
A good engineer will be more productive than 10 run-of-the-mill engineers. This applies to software, hardware, EE, ME, etc...
Often an entire product or company is held up by a core team of awesome engineers with a fleet of helper engineers to do the grunt work.
Here I am, thinking "Honestly, how many man-months does it take to put a text field on a web page? I mean, what in the HELL have they been doing all these years." Thanks for clearing up my browser problem.
I have personally had several IBM/Hitachi drives fail, loosing GB's of data. Even all these years after the desk star fiasco, their drives still suck. My PowerBook HD died in May. Yup, it was a Hitachi.
That's no good if you're trying to repair a dead PC. Disk Target Mode and Boot-From-FireWire are used mostly for disaster recovery.
Here is a project I've been wanting to start for some time. There are two components: 1. A program that changes your wall paper every 1min, 10min, 1hr, etc... 2. A database of time-lapse outdoor scenes from around the world. Each scene is 24hrs in length with images captured at intervals of 10-30min. So that sitting in your office (with no windows) you can see what it is like to spend a day out side the taj mahal, or out in the american south west. This is done in pseudo real-time. I.E. if it's 10AM where you are, you see 10AM in the time-lapse. If you stay up all night, you can see what night time in the desert is like. There should be a community site with software and instructions so that users all around the world can take their regular digital cameras and a tripod + software and create their own time-scape scenes of the areas in which they live. These user scenes can be put on the web site for all to enjoy. Anyway, the real genius of this idea is that if it's done by a commercial company rather than open-source, some guy gets paid to travel around the world and spend 24hrs an all the places which are nice to look at. If anyone wants to start a company to do this, I'll volunteer for this job :)
Disk target mode turns your computer into an external firewire hard drive. Though this sounds silly ($2000 comp -> $100 HD) it is super useful when performing backups, first-aid, disaster recovery etc...
As for the quick sleep/wake. In my experience, the PC world has only had 'reliable' sleep mode since WinXP SP2. Your results may have been different.
that if we surrender to the enemy, the violence will stop. Surrender = Peace.
Honestly, these animals kill innocent people and you want to surrender?!?!?
Peace is NOT as important as freedom.