On at least 50% of the AS/400s I've ever seen, the password for QSECOFR is... QSECOFR.
I mean, hospital insurance submissios systems, filled with patient records and billing information... QSECOFR. wtf.
Well, I'm out to screw him over, and so is everyone I just asked. Actually, we're all pretty amazed, we all thought we came up with the idea on our own. Small world, huh?
Say... do you have any magazine subscription cards? We ran out.
People like to have their own stuff. Even if it costs more, is less convenient, and doesn't work as well, people like to have their own stuff and that's the way it's going to go. Maybe it could happen in a Communist country or something, but not anywhere people can choose.
Oooh, that's hot. Imagine it... a screen-aware terminal emulator. It could have seperate tabs for each screen, and even hold seperate scrollback buffers for each one so it didn't have to re-transfer the information each time. If this isn't written in a year or two, when I have time, I'll get to work on it.
I'm going to respond to your points completely out of order. I hope it tweaks the anal-retentive list-maker in you:)
My last line was a joke, dumbass.
Trying to make a point with semantics as in, "I didn't make you angry, you chose to be angry" is great when you're trying to talk to someone who's never actually examined their own motivations and feelings, but a first-class psychologist such as yourself should be able to tell it's just pointless to say to me at this point. Not only that, but it's... well, I like your word, it's blather. Worse than that, I'd say it's harmful. Trying to control your feelings is foolish, and only makes you bottle things up. Try actually dealing with what you feel and why sometime.
Pretty much every child is some extreme in some category, there's usually no need to exaggerate, they just focus on what their kid's good at. Parents like to feel good about their kids, let 'em. Do you think they should ignore their children's strong suits?
I don't feel a need to edit my posts here. The great thing about Slashdot is that it's fairly anonymous. I probably won't ever meet any of the people I converse with on Slashdot, and if I ever met you I doubt we'd get along anyway, so does it really matter?
Cat's cradle is a stupid song. It's written from a whiney point of view by somebody who would rather lament the results of his choices than doing what can be done to make it better.
I think you need to take a look at yourself there, friend. You say I've revealed much about myself with my post; that was the point. I was using myself as a counter-example to your point. You on the other hand seem to think that revealing your inner personality is a problem, and yet you've revealed quite a lot about yourself. Number one, the fact that you interpret a little cussing and a strong moral objection to your viewpoint as incontrollable anger shows that you are quite insecure, and maybe a little scared of people in general. Attacking my personality to try to prove your point is another common tactic of scared little men. You remind me of my boss. He works out all the time, I mean the dude is huge, and he purposefully deepens his voice when he talks so he sounds more confident, but if you ever disagree with him in the smallest way, even if you say, "no, coffee without sugar is better," he gets all red in the face and is compelled to get you to agree with him. The Hitler reference? Classic.
Oh, and please forgive me if this is a little rambling, I've got a pretty bad cold and am a little loopy from the cold medicine, plus I really don't feel the need to make this a thesis. You can go ahead and respond if you feel like it, I'll read it, but I promise I won't say anything back in interest of not turning this into a flamewar, no matter how vicious you become when you're challenged. Sweet dreams, cupcake.
I saw many students who ended up in mental health institutions who had strong characters, but lacked role models who were constantly there to show them how to make positive choices instead of negative ones.
I'm going to have to call BS on that one. A strong personality will make their own decisions, and seek their own role models. I grew up with a father who was such an alcoholic that it cost him his job and eventually put him in a mental institution, and a mother who was little more than a weeping baby factory. These were not my role models, although they were the people I was exposed to the most. My role models were people who achieved what I wanted to achieve, and I studied them and ignored my parents as irrelevant. I could have wallowed in their example and never seen success if I wanted to.
The people that ended up in mental health institutions were not strong characters, they were messed up in the head. It may have been physiological, and if so they have my sympathy. If it was psychological, I have a hard time believing that it was because of negative examples or situations that they were in, I think they're just assholes, unmotivated, or bad people in general. Believe me, I've been in situations that would turn most people's stomachs and I came out of it with little more than the knowledge that nothing can ever be that bad again. I'm not a workaholic, prone to rages, cut off from my emotions, over-emotional, gay, bipolar, incapable of love, co-dependant, a cutter, suicidal, suffering from high blood pressure, or any of the other traditional problems associated with mental or physical abuse from both parents. I did, however, have a great many people try to tell me that I would have these problems, there was no way around it, and I'd just have to go to therapy for the rest of my life. When I exhibited no symptoms of any of this, beyond some surliness toward these people trying to invade my privacy, I was accused of hiding symptoms from them! After a year of sessions, they didn't so much declare me cured of the problems I didn't have in the first place, they just gave up on ever getting me to confess to it. There were times that I considered acting out because I figured, hey, if I'm going to have to deal with this shit, I might as well at least have a little fun with it, but once again, that wasn't something that the people I wanted to be like did.
Most of these problems we're seeing these days are nothing more than self-fulfilling prophecy. You expect children to act up or be messed up, so you don't properly punish them for acting wrong, you reward them for being screwed up in the head by breaking up the drudgery of a school day with a very carefully safe and fuzzy environment, or even more directly by actually telling them they were GOOD for describing the symptoms you're looking for. I guess psychologists like to be right as much as most other people, and like most other people, they don't care what the reality is, as long as they get to say they're right.
I kind of went off on a tangent there, but you pissed me off and I had to rant. Basically, the point is, it takes 5 minutes to instill some values in your kid. Work before play. Clean your room. Mow the lawn. Don't hit girls. Don't break the rules unless you really need to. Then take your kid out to the park every once in a while, teach him how to play baseball, how to ride a bike, whatever. If you have a daughter... I dunno. From what I remember of my sisters at that age, they mostly like to tell on their older brothers. Talk to the kid once in a while, find out what they really think, give 'em some feedback. Boom, happy kid. You sure as shit don't have to be hanging over their shoulder 16 hours a day.
And Cat's Cradle is fucking retarded. Maybe his son is too busy spending time with his real family so he doesn't end up like the dick that wouldn't teach him how to play baseball.
Oh, and before anyone tells me they hope I never have kids, well no shit. Why would I want kids? Just look at what the little fuckers did to my parents.
No, mod parent down, he has no idea what he's talking about.
First off, TCP/IP is not listed in Add/Remove Programs on ANY version of Windows.
In Win95-ME, TCP/IP can be found in the Network control panel applet.
In WinNT >=4 TCP/IP can also be found in the Network control panel applet, most easily installed/uninstalled from the Protocols tab, although that's rarely necessary in NT.
In Win2K, TCP/IP is found under the individual connections in Network and Dial-Up connections. Uninstalling TCP/IP for one connection uninstalls it from the entire system, rarely necessary as in NT.
In WinXP, TCP/IP can be found in the same place, although it can no longer be uninstalled. The command "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" will reset the TCP/IP stack, this is necessary more frequently than in NT or 2K but less than 95-ME.
In all cases, although it is generally an issue of the protocol being unbound from the network adapter, rebinding usually does nothing, a complete reinstall of TCP/IP is needed. On Win95-ME, this means removing every instance of TCP/IP from the Network control panel applet. Removing only the one on the adapter will only unbind it.
Me, I don't like Windows, but at least I know it. I do ISP tech support, this is in the top 5 most common issues I have to deal with every day.
Nope. As a matter of fact, aside from XP and 2K boxes, I'd be happy if NO Windows boxes had a firewall. Clueless users will inevitably tell the firewall to block access to some service that completely disables net connectivity, then I have to argue with them for a half hour to even get them to consider the fact that the problem is on their system.
Not to mention the liability issue... If we recommend a firewall, we'll end up having to fix it. With dial-up service costing anywhere from $10-25 per month, and helpdesk techs making from $10-25 per hour, if we end up having to fix your firewall every time it messes up, you're going to end up costing US money just in payroll, nevermind the rest of the overhead.
Meh, I don't care about that. Hey, if you're good enough to lie to me and I don't know it, you don't need my help anyway, just lie and manipulate me into fixing your problem:P Trust me, I couldn't possibly care less as long as you don't call back.
What I'm talking about is when people call up, I get to the point where I already know the problem is with their firewall, I ask them if they have one installed, and they go "What's a firewall?"
I do ISP tech support, and end up asking about a firewall on about 25% of my calls. Of the people I ask, around 10% actually have any idea whatsoever what a firewall is.
Just off the cuff statistics, but they're probably pretty close to reality.
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On at least 50% of the AS/400s I've ever seen, the password for QSECOFR is... QSECOFR. I mean, hospital insurance submissios systems, filled with patient records and billing information... QSECOFR. wtf.
The sun you say? Hey! That's my favorite planet!
Somebody with mod points please mod this up, anybody who's wondering about Ruby needs to see this.
Well, I'm out to screw him over, and so is everyone I just asked. Actually, we're all pretty amazed, we all thought we came up with the idea on our own. Small world, huh?
Say... do you have any magazine subscription cards? We ran out.
People like to have their own stuff. Even if it costs more, is less convenient, and doesn't work as well, people like to have their own stuff and that's the way it's going to go. Maybe it could happen in a Communist country or something, but not anywhere people can choose.
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I don't know of a MTA that doesn't make it incredibly easy to use a smarthost.
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Both middle fingers.
Oooh, that's hot. Imagine it... a screen-aware terminal emulator. It could have seperate tabs for each screen, and even hold seperate scrollback buffers for each one so it didn't have to re-transfer the information each time. If this isn't written in a year or two, when I have time, I'll get to work on it.
You mean... a box? Ooh, you must work for the CIA. :P
Not when they're made from my room-temperature superconducting material, they're not!
I'm going to respond to your points completely out of order. I hope it tweaks the anal-retentive list-maker in you :)
My last line was a joke, dumbass.
Trying to make a point with semantics as in, "I didn't make you angry, you chose to be angry" is great when you're trying to talk to someone who's never actually examined their own motivations and feelings, but a first-class psychologist such as yourself should be able to tell it's just pointless to say to me at this point. Not only that, but it's ... well, I like your word, it's blather. Worse than that, I'd say it's harmful. Trying to control your feelings is foolish, and only makes you bottle things up. Try actually dealing with what you feel and why sometime.
Pretty much every child is some extreme in some category, there's usually no need to exaggerate, they just focus on what their kid's good at. Parents like to feel good about their kids, let 'em. Do you think they should ignore their children's strong suits?
I don't feel a need to edit my posts here. The great thing about Slashdot is that it's fairly anonymous. I probably won't ever meet any of the people I converse with on Slashdot, and if I ever met you I doubt we'd get along anyway, so does it really matter?
Cat's cradle is a stupid song. It's written from a whiney point of view by somebody who would rather lament the results of his choices than doing what can be done to make it better.
I think you need to take a look at yourself there, friend. You say I've revealed much about myself with my post; that was the point. I was using myself as a counter-example to your point. You on the other hand seem to think that revealing your inner personality is a problem, and yet you've revealed quite a lot about yourself. Number one, the fact that you interpret a little cussing and a strong moral objection to your viewpoint as incontrollable anger shows that you are quite insecure, and maybe a little scared of people in general. Attacking my personality to try to prove your point is another common tactic of scared little men. You remind me of my boss. He works out all the time, I mean the dude is huge, and he purposefully deepens his voice when he talks so he sounds more confident, but if you ever disagree with him in the smallest way, even if you say, "no, coffee without sugar is better," he gets all red in the face and is compelled to get you to agree with him. The Hitler reference? Classic.
Oh, and please forgive me if this is a little rambling, I've got a pretty bad cold and am a little loopy from the cold medicine, plus I really don't feel the need to make this a thesis. You can go ahead and respond if you feel like it, I'll read it, but I promise I won't say anything back in interest of not turning this into a flamewar, no matter how vicious you become when you're challenged. Sweet dreams, cupcake.
I'm going to have to call BS on that one. A strong personality will make their own decisions, and seek their own role models. I grew up with a father who was such an alcoholic that it cost him his job and eventually put him in a mental institution, and a mother who was little more than a weeping baby factory. These were not my role models, although they were the people I was exposed to the most. My role models were people who achieved what I wanted to achieve, and I studied them and ignored my parents as irrelevant. I could have wallowed in their example and never seen success if I wanted to.
The people that ended up in mental health institutions were not strong characters, they were messed up in the head. It may have been physiological, and if so they have my sympathy. If it was psychological, I have a hard time believing that it was because of negative examples or situations that they were in, I think they're just assholes, unmotivated, or bad people in general. Believe me, I've been in situations that would turn most people's stomachs and I came out of it with little more than the knowledge that nothing can ever be that bad again. I'm not a workaholic, prone to rages, cut off from my emotions, over-emotional, gay, bipolar, incapable of love, co-dependant, a cutter, suicidal, suffering from high blood pressure, or any of the other traditional problems associated with mental or physical abuse from both parents. I did, however, have a great many people try to tell me that I would have these problems, there was no way around it, and I'd just have to go to therapy for the rest of my life. When I exhibited no symptoms of any of this, beyond some surliness toward these people trying to invade my privacy, I was accused of hiding symptoms from them! After a year of sessions, they didn't so much declare me cured of the problems I didn't have in the first place, they just gave up on ever getting me to confess to it. There were times that I considered acting out because I figured, hey, if I'm going to have to deal with this shit, I might as well at least have a little fun with it, but once again, that wasn't something that the people I wanted to be like did.
Most of these problems we're seeing these days are nothing more than self-fulfilling prophecy. You expect children to act up or be messed up, so you don't properly punish them for acting wrong, you reward them for being screwed up in the head by breaking up the drudgery of a school day with a very carefully safe and fuzzy environment, or even more directly by actually telling them they were GOOD for describing the symptoms you're looking for. I guess psychologists like to be right as much as most other people, and like most other people, they don't care what the reality is, as long as they get to say they're right.
I kind of went off on a tangent there, but you pissed me off and I had to rant. Basically, the point is, it takes 5 minutes to instill some values in your kid. Work before play. Clean your room. Mow the lawn. Don't hit girls. Don't break the rules unless you really need to. Then take your kid out to the park every once in a while, teach him how to play baseball, how to ride a bike, whatever. If you have a daughter... I dunno. From what I remember of my sisters at that age, they mostly like to tell on their older brothers. Talk to the kid once in a while, find out what they really think, give 'em some feedback. Boom, happy kid. You sure as shit don't have to be hanging over their shoulder 16 hours a day.
And Cat's Cradle is fucking retarded. Maybe his son is too busy spending time with his real family so he doesn't end up like the dick that wouldn't teach him how to play baseball.
Oh, and before anyone tells me they hope I never have kids, well no shit. Why would I want kids? Just look at what the little fuckers did to my parents.
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Funny how you can't find one of the two keys that are the same between QWERTY and Dvorak...
You should have demanded they ship you the computers immedately. Hey, 5 free computers :)
No, mod parent down, he has no idea what he's talking about.
First off, TCP/IP is not listed in Add/Remove Programs on ANY version of Windows.
In all cases, although it is generally an issue of the protocol being unbound from the network adapter, rebinding usually does nothing, a complete reinstall of TCP/IP is needed. On Win95-ME, this means removing every instance of TCP/IP from the Network control panel applet. Removing only the one on the adapter will only unbind it.
Me, I don't like Windows, but at least I know it. I do ISP tech support, this is in the top 5 most common issues I have to deal with every day.
Nope. As a matter of fact, aside from XP and 2K boxes, I'd be happy if NO Windows boxes had a firewall. Clueless users will inevitably tell the firewall to block access to some service that completely disables net connectivity, then I have to argue with them for a half hour to even get them to consider the fact that the problem is on their system.
Not to mention the liability issue... If we recommend a firewall, we'll end up having to fix it. With dial-up service costing anywhere from $10-25 per month, and helpdesk techs making from $10-25 per hour, if we end up having to fix your firewall every time it messes up, you're going to end up costing US money just in payroll, nevermind the rest of the overhead.
Meh, I don't care about that. Hey, if you're good enough to lie to me and I don't know it, you don't need my help anyway, just lie and manipulate me into fixing your problem :P Trust me, I couldn't possibly care less as long as you don't call back.
What I'm talking about is when people call up, I get to the point where I already know the problem is with their firewall, I ask them if they have one installed, and they go "What's a firewall?"
I do ISP tech support, and end up asking about a firewall on about 25% of my calls. Of the people I ask, around 10% actually have any idea whatsoever what a firewall is.
Just off the cuff statistics, but they're probably pretty close to reality.
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