Rational Agnosticism is very solid position. The best summary of it I came across recently, "you can know that someone loves you, but can't prove it.". RA contends that everything, can and does exist and as this is something beyond the thinking of our human minds, who are we to say what is or is not god, since really it's all the same stuff, the little bit and pieces of our universe and other universes making up the infinity. A rational Agnostic doesn't believe in an intervening god, or a god who may even be aware of its creations, it's simply saying, there is a whole lot of stuff out there we don't understand and may never understand so sit back and enjoy the ride.
One per 70? Perhaps if you are running a ton of clone servers or heaven forbid working at an ISP handling boxes for customers.
In the *real* world one normal admin per 35 or so is considered more normal for unix staff (with a senior admin for every 3-4 normal admins). While I have seen the numbers quoted by the parent they were very for generic servers in function and basically tons of copy (virtual) boxes. In addition if you are running a good deal of unix servers you more than likely have a lot of different functions spread out among clusters, one person responsible for all these apps as well as keeping the boxes well maintained, troubleshooting upgrades, etc... can be quite tiring. Unix boxes these days tend to do significantly more than they used to. On the flip side, managing unix boxes these days is quite easy thanks to ssh/cfengine/puppet other automation.
When I first started doing unix for pay, mid 90s, we had one admin per two servers which was a mirror of the typical university environment where there were single admins for important machines and tons of lackeys for all the sun/hp/dec desktops. By the year 2000 this had grown to around 20 servers for each admin, with senior staff expected to be able to handle functions across any cluster. These days if it is a smaller company, there's one senior admin, who may or may not be the Network/IT manager and they typically handle 30-40 servers if there are a number of functions spread out. Of course having tons of similar boxes makes this number much higher. The most I've ever handled was 165 servers spread across two admins, three sites, four major applications, tons of clusters, including DB/Application/LB/Development/etc...
Also, if you have 70 unix servers and only one admin, the point of failure for your organization is beyond catastrophic. That poor lil' admin guy is going to get many of the "what happens when a bus hits you" questions from 3rd parties/partners/other departments.
Slashdot used to be quite fast with the aggregation, it is quite terrible now. When CNN or the BBC are reporting tech news faster than a site that is supposed to be for tech nerds that's a good indication of the quality and speed. What's worse is this write up actually has misinformation in it that was disproven ALREADY... but this is so slow coming here, well...
Europeans have this grand view of America based primarily on Television and the East Coast which looks rather terrible. Europe's countries are like some of our bigger states. The differences between the basic values of people in California, Texas and the upper East Coast are quite pronounced. Hell, those of us in north California, don't even want to be part of the US anymore. We'd be just fine going on our on way with our friend in Oregon and Washington. Having one of the world top 10 economies and being nearly completely self sufficient. As it is now the rich states like California subsidize the many failed states of our great union.
But back on point; the USA is quite a diverse country with many different mindsets across the entire spectrum depending on where you are. Don't assume just because someone is American they believe X. That's akin to saying all French and Germans think the same.
The moderation system here at slashdot is terrible.
But then again most online moderation systems are. Quite simply, it is somewhat depressing that at this point we still don't have a good trusted "commenter identity" system that rewards good posters in a better manner. There are a number of proposed solutions out there but no one seems interested in implementing anything but the most basic systems. We have far too much idle computing power to be implementing this simple systems that don't scale in terms of reward or users.
Apple is a weird company. On the one hand you have many parts of it which work on open concepts, even encourage them and contribute. On the other you have what appears to be an old contingent of assholes who in any attempt to maintain relevant within the growing beast that is Apple (not Apple Computer) do anything they can to wrestle the slightest bit of profit or just be dicks in general.
I am a huge fan of OSX as a client OS and have been a fan ever since NeXT "bought" Apple. The laptops are great gear and some of their ideas for media consumption are still unmatched. However Apple the company is becoming harder to stomach for me personally as they become the big kids on the block, unafraid of quickly fading into irreverence like they were only half a decade ago, throwing their weight around, "just cuz". This is a perfect example as disabling support for the Atom is an *active* change that affords the company absolutely nothing.
everyone has their favourite tool. vi is incredibly powerful and comes standard on dozens of unix variants, the place it has, it has earned.
your challenge is a bit off though, i can think of many things you can do in vi that you can also do in ultraedit or boxer or XXX, the difference being with vi, my hands never left the keyboard.
The SL upgrade is much more like going from Win 98 to Win 98 SE if it must be put in those terms.
Almost all of the upgrades are things under the hood that most users will notice little of, except the general speed up (which is quite significant in many parts), dock improvements, better Exchange support and improved dock functionality. This is a good update for tons of reasons most people shouldn't even really care about, so the pricing is quite justified.
You don't think the 180 you are paying them a year should cover the expansions? What if you had played the original game for years? Considering Blizz sells the expansions to stores for much lower than the $40 you end up paying... it just seems quite petty to me. Where's the loyalty to your customers?
But they did make it too easy. WoW was never a really hard game for 95% of the content after the first level of "nerfs". Some of the original content was quite hard in 5 man groups (This is before MC). I tried WoW recently with the free 10 days to see how it was... every class has strong components of the others, so generic. It's so mind numbing easy that I was surprised after nearly a year off that the learning curve to get back in was basically 15 minutes on any of my 70s. Don't get me wrong I am all for casual content but not at the expense of all of the content.
The OP was right about one thing, there exists *nothing* like the original 45 minute baron run, especially for those who weren't in high tier raid gear. Towards the end of my BC time, even without raiding anything other than the one 10 man, my characters, even my tank were running *very* fast paced heroics of all the 5 man content. We're talking running around from group to group, 3 manning lots of the content. Was it hard? No, gear inflation made it just too easy. There was no real sense of accomplishment anymore.
Fable III will be something bold and different, Molyneux promises, stating that story and drama will play a major part in it.
Oh he promises, does he? Well he has an excellent track record for making good on his promises in the previous Fables games. I'm sure people will be rushing out to purchase the next one based on this alone.
"What utility gives you information in an inode?".
They were being tricky and looking for "ls". This is not correct.
Esoteric was a poor choice of words by me, they were trying to be "too smart" for their own good and got caught up in making a mistake themselves. I've been doing unix work for quite a while (17+) across many environments and this sort of "screening" says huge amounts about the company involved and the work they do.
I was completely pleasant with the woman, we joked about the questions in fact. The simple fact was they had a stupid call screen process straight out the egotistical dot.com days, which showed much about the types of "engineers" they like to bring in.
Recently I decided to move from contracting to full time work as the job market is balls here in the Bay currently for Contracts. Twitter was one of the companies which I applied and I had the pleasure of having a "phone screen" with them for a senior unix position. Here's what this screen was, a basic unix question, that any lunix user could get. A more intermediate type question that could trick some people. And finally their *BIG SCREEN* a tricky question that was based on esoteric knowledge that had absolutely nothing to do with one's ability to perform the job.
The person calling me was just reading these off a list, she didn't know why they were picked and was only able to write down the answers. Here's the hilarious part, I informed her that the question was silly and there's no reason anyone should really care about this sort of information except in extreme situations. That this was the question that lead me to believe they had a culture of primadonnas. She diligently wrote all this down, in case they still wanted to talk to me.
But here's the REAL kicker, their stupid asinine esoteric question? Was wrong. They had the phrasing wrong... what they were asking and looking for in an answer were not the same things. Being a pedantic asshole, in my followup to tell them what I thought of their process I pointed this out. Never heard anything back;) Wonder if they have fixed their question yet?
There's nothing that says the data was stored on any publicly accessible server. What is said is that there was a code insertion that could have been used to transfer data out. The attackers probably patched into whatever lame backend system they were using for these transactions and added a little bit of code to simply copy the details out to a URL/irc bot somewhere. Cases like these typically involve some inside help or an ex-employee.
This is the second time in this thread you have misrepresented what is happening. Why don't you learn about it some before spouting off again; damn late ass comers to slashdot.
The music files in question are all stored, unencrypted on the file system referenced in the XML file. If you are already parsing the file and already have a means for copying files back and forth to the device (which the Pre does) why would you use iTunes in the first place? In addition the XML file is again, just a flat file which is unencrypted on the FS. There's absolutely no need to go through iTunes for this unless you were feeling either Lazy, Too Smart for your own good, or looking to pick a fight with Apple.
Well yes, TCL (expect) is probably some of the worst legacy 3rd party code ever to maintain. The crap makes perl code written by drunk and/or high sysadmins at 3 in the morning look absolutely beautiful by comparison.
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Rational Agnosticism is very solid position. The best summary of it I came across recently, "you can know that someone loves you, but can't prove it.". RA contends that everything, can and does exist and as this is something beyond the thinking of our human minds, who are we to say what is or is not god, since really it's all the same stuff, the little bit and pieces of our universe and other universes making up the infinity. A rational Agnostic doesn't believe in an intervening god, or a god who may even be aware of its creations, it's simply saying, there is a whole lot of stuff out there we don't understand and may never understand so sit back and enjoy the ride.
One per 70? Perhaps if you are running a ton of clone servers or heaven forbid working at an ISP handling boxes for customers.
In the *real* world one normal admin per 35 or so is considered more normal for unix staff (with a senior admin for every 3-4 normal admins). While I have seen the numbers quoted by the parent they were very for generic servers in function and basically tons of copy (virtual) boxes. In addition if you are running a good deal of unix servers you more than likely have a lot of different functions spread out among clusters, one person responsible for all these apps as well as keeping the boxes well maintained, troubleshooting upgrades, etc... can be quite tiring. Unix boxes these days tend to do significantly more than they used to. On the flip side, managing unix boxes these days is quite easy thanks to ssh/cfengine/puppet other automation.
When I first started doing unix for pay, mid 90s, we had one admin per two servers which was a mirror of the typical university environment where there were single admins for important machines and tons of lackeys for all the sun/hp/dec desktops. By the year 2000 this had grown to around 20 servers for each admin, with senior staff expected to be able to handle functions across any cluster. These days if it is a smaller company, there's one senior admin, who may or may not be the Network/IT manager and they typically handle 30-40 servers if there are a number of functions spread out. Of course having tons of similar boxes makes this number much higher. The most I've ever handled was 165 servers spread across two admins, three sites, four major applications, tons of clusters, including DB/Application/LB/Development/etc...
Also, if you have 70 unix servers and only one admin, the point of failure for your organization is beyond catastrophic. That poor lil' admin guy is going to get many of the "what happens when a bus hits you" questions from 3rd parties/partners/other departments.
Says the person with the ID over one million.
Slashdot used to be quite fast with the aggregation, it is quite terrible now. When CNN or the BBC are reporting tech news faster than a site that is supposed to be for tech nerds that's a good indication of the quality and speed. What's worse is this write up actually has misinformation in it that was disproven ALREADY... but this is so slow coming here, well...
Europeans have this grand view of America based primarily on Television and the East Coast which looks rather terrible. Europe's countries are like some of our bigger states. The differences between the basic values of people in California, Texas and the upper East Coast are quite pronounced. Hell, those of us in north California, don't even want to be part of the US anymore. We'd be just fine going on our on way with our friend in Oregon and Washington. Having one of the world top 10 economies and being nearly completely self sufficient. As it is now the rich states like California subsidize the many failed states of our great union.
But back on point; the USA is quite a diverse country with many different mindsets across the entire spectrum depending on where you are. Don't assume just because someone is American they believe X. That's akin to saying all French and Germans think the same.
Think it was pretty obvious, he was speaking to the forced "mainstream" links and articles which were foisted upon Slashdot a few years back.
For some examples see the entire "Idle" section.
I have a five digit UID and am nihilistic enough to awaken eldritch horrors purely out of curiosity to see what would happen.
Is there a man page for it?
Nah ain't no man page, he's talking about svr4 stuff, yur gonna need to get a bsd 4.3 compatibility layer before you can awaken any ancient horrors.
... before or after the uid wipe?
The moderation system here at slashdot is terrible.
But then again most online moderation systems are. Quite simply, it is somewhat depressing that at this point we still don't have a good trusted "commenter identity" system that rewards good posters in a better manner. There are a number of proposed solutions out there but no one seems interested in implementing anything but the most basic systems. We have far too much idle computing power to be implementing this simple systems that don't scale in terms of reward or users.
So what if they gamed the system, it is a damn good tutorial. Did you even bother to go and look, or id you just decide to bitch?
kudos.
Apple is a weird company. On the one hand you have many parts of it which work on open concepts, even encourage them and contribute. On the other you have what appears to be an old contingent of assholes who in any attempt to maintain relevant within the growing beast that is Apple (not Apple Computer) do anything they can to wrestle the slightest bit of profit or just be dicks in general.
I am a huge fan of OSX as a client OS and have been a fan ever since NeXT "bought" Apple. The laptops are great gear and some of their ideas for media consumption are still unmatched. However Apple the company is becoming harder to stomach for me personally as they become the big kids on the block, unafraid of quickly fading into irreverence like they were only half a decade ago, throwing their weight around, "just cuz". This is a perfect example as disabling support for the Atom is an *active* change that affords the company absolutely nothing.
The "real" unix systems at work? What you start using unix in the early 90s or something?
SysV is the devil... unfortunately the wrong kind.
everyone has their favourite tool. vi is incredibly powerful and comes standard on dozens of unix variants, the place it has, it has earned.
your challenge is a bit off though, i can think of many things you can do in vi that you can also do in ultraedit or boxer or XXX, the difference being with vi, my hands never left the keyboard.
Listed dock improvements... twice, they are that good ;)
The SL upgrade is much more like going from Win 98 to Win 98 SE if it must be put in those terms.
Almost all of the upgrades are things under the hood that most users will notice little of, except the general speed up (which is quite significant in many parts), dock improvements, better Exchange support and improved dock functionality. This is a good update for tons of reasons most people shouldn't even really care about, so the pricing is quite justified.
You don't think the 180 you are paying them a year should cover the expansions? What if you had played the original game for years? Considering Blizz sells the expansions to stores for much lower than the $40 you end up paying... it just seems quite petty to me. Where's the loyalty to your customers?
But they did make it too easy. WoW was never a really hard game for 95% of the content after the first level of "nerfs". Some of the original content was quite hard in 5 man groups (This is before MC). I tried WoW recently with the free 10 days to see how it was... every class has strong components of the others, so generic. It's so mind numbing easy that I was surprised after nearly a year off that the learning curve to get back in was basically 15 minutes on any of my 70s. Don't get me wrong I am all for casual content but not at the expense of all of the content.
The OP was right about one thing, there exists *nothing* like the original 45 minute baron run, especially for those who weren't in high tier raid gear. Towards the end of my BC time, even without raiding anything other than the one 10 man, my characters, even my tank were running *very* fast paced heroics of all the 5 man content. We're talking running around from group to group, 3 manning lots of the content. Was it hard? No, gear inflation made it just too easy. There was no real sense of accomplishment anymore.
Fable III will be something bold and different, Molyneux promises, stating that story and drama will play a major part in it.
Oh he promises, does he? Well he has an excellent track record for making good on his promises in the previous Fables games. I'm sure people will be rushing out to purchase the next one based on this alone.
Here's the question:
"What utility gives you information in an inode?".
They were being tricky and looking for "ls". This is not correct.
Esoteric was a poor choice of words by me, they were trying to be "too smart" for their own good and got caught up in making a mistake themselves. I've been doing unix work for quite a while (17+) across many environments and this sort of "screening" says huge amounts about the company involved and the work they do.
I was completely pleasant with the woman, we joked about the questions in fact. The simple fact was they had a stupid call screen process straight out the egotistical dot.com days, which showed much about the types of "engineers" they like to bring in.
Thanks for assuming that I was an ass thought. :)
Recently I decided to move from contracting to full time work as the job market is balls here in the Bay currently for Contracts. Twitter was one of the companies which I applied and I had the pleasure of having a "phone screen" with them for a senior unix position. Here's what this screen was, a basic unix question, that any lunix user could get. A more intermediate type question that could trick some people. And finally their *BIG SCREEN* a tricky question that was based on esoteric knowledge that had absolutely nothing to do with one's ability to perform the job.
The person calling me was just reading these off a list, she didn't know why they were picked and was only able to write down the answers. Here's the hilarious part, I informed her that the question was silly and there's no reason anyone should really care about this sort of information except in extreme situations. That this was the question that lead me to believe they had a culture of primadonnas. She diligently wrote all this down, in case they still wanted to talk to me.
But here's the REAL kicker, their stupid asinine esoteric question? Was wrong. They had the phrasing wrong... what they were asking and looking for in an answer were not the same things. Being a pedantic asshole, in my followup to tell them what I thought of their process I pointed this out. Never heard anything back ;) Wonder if they have fixed their question yet?
There's nothing that says the data was stored on any publicly accessible server. What is said is that there was a code insertion that could have been used to transfer data out. The attackers probably patched into whatever lame backend system they were using for these transactions and added a little bit of code to simply copy the details out to a URL/irc bot somewhere. Cases like these typically involve some inside help or an ex-employee.
This isn't about file storage.
This is the second time in this thread you have misrepresented what is happening. Why don't you learn about it some before spouting off again; damn late ass comers to slashdot.
"instead of reading directly out of iTunes"
The music files in question are all stored, unencrypted on the file system referenced in the XML file. If you are already parsing the file and already have a means for copying files back and forth to the device (which the Pre does) why would you use iTunes in the first place? In addition the XML file is again, just a flat file which is unencrypted on the FS. There's absolutely no need to go through iTunes for this unless you were feeling either Lazy, Too Smart for your own good, or looking to pick a fight with Apple.
Well yes, TCL (expect) is probably some of the worst legacy 3rd party code ever to maintain. The crap makes perl code written by drunk and/or high sysadmins at 3 in the morning look absolutely beautiful by comparison.