Look, options are a potential dillution of the stock, not an actual dillution. Tax them when excercized. If you all insist on taxing them up front then don't you dare tax them when I excercize them because that'll be double taxation and I will do my damndest to not pay those taxes including a court battle. It's all a moot point though, now that my employer will be taxed on these I won't get them any more. This is going to directly result in a less educated population because that money was going into my kids 529b plan. I'm rather pissed about that. -nB
I realize this as I have a hard enough time putting together a backup solution for home that I am satisfied with. My only gripe about NetBackup it that many portions of the application seem counterintuitive and I don't consider myself a n00b.
I completely agree with what you said, I just think that the docs suck, the UI needs work, and it hates my DAT robot. (I would never use DAT for enterprise stuff but I can't afford DLT for home use:-) As it sits right now our NOC uses Veritas, we have one Guru and a couple can figure it out folks. That's fine and I'm using the micky mouse windows app that came with my robot, mounting everything through Samba and being extra careful about symlinks. -nB
your first post implied (to me) that you were using it's bare functionality. If that's all you need then fine (but I think you spent too much money in that case). The little bit I did work with it I realized it was capable of tons of stuff. I did not have the time to devote to learning how to use it, and it was not my job to do so. To me, muddling by is getting something functional, but not using it's full potential to maximum benifit. -nB
I mean you need a friggen PHD to run that software. Only one person in our NOC can really (I mean really) make it sing. A few others can muddle by with it. I think that it is overly complicated *I am not the backup guy*, as are pretty much all backup solutions. -nB
My point was not whether or not it was right, but why it is the way it is. The UniBomber combined with people wanting to not wait in lines was the Cause. This was the effect. -nB
"Stop being so dramatic, there has been 1 terrorist attack on the US"
Wrong. There were three attacks on the WTC. The last two each took down a building and used airplanes. You are forgetting: Bombing in basement of WTC by islamic extreemists. Bombing of the USS Cole by islamic extreemists. Bombing of multiple US embassies in Africa. Bombing of Federal building in OK City (Domestic terror) Bombing of Barracks in Lybia Bombing of the Khobar Tower Hijacking of the Achillie Laural (sp?) Kidnapping of US non-military persons on multiple occasions well before the 9/11 attacks.
While I know the fallicy of saying "Nuke 'em all" I often feel that way. Europe has had more total attacks as a whole, yes. Many of those were domestic. Please give me one example of an attack anywhere near the scale of 9/11 happening in Europe?
"Boo-fucking-Hoo, now it's suddenly the biggest problem in the world ?" You sir are an asshat. I would love to say more, Personally I think the US should do exactally what the world has asked. Withdrawl from the world: No military presence other than with our close allies (close base in Germany, etc.) No Forign Aid to any countries we do not have a military presence in. High trade tarrifs. Cease funding for all those precious NGO's Kick the UN out with as big a boot as we can find.
Ever hear of the UniBomber? This is specifically because of him. You used to be able to drop off a sufficently stamped parcel in any mail drop. After the UniBomber scares you were required to take packages over a certain size and/or weight into the office in person. This is simply a way to allow the conveinance of a mail drop with the security of personal delivery. A camera is already in my house (4 in fact) I controll them, no-one else. -nB
Better than my T40/XP combo. It is accepted that when using the platform in a "high security" *cough XP* configuration that when exiting from hibernation there is a non-zero chance that the password for the IDE drive will be scrambled and you will have lost all non-backed up data on that drive. -nB
I've often wanted that as well. I came up with two possible solutions:
An active matrix LCD winshield where the "pixels" were half inch square. Just activate the pixels that track through from the sun to my head position. I actually looked into it and without wearing some funny headgear it would be rather tough to actually do.
The other option that I thought of would be to simply darken a 2 inch diameter circle centered around where you last touched the windshield, thus as you drove down the road, point at the sun and it goes away. Not as good as the first option, but actually feasable. -nB
Speaking of which. .. I'm trying to run your perl script on my WinXP box and get this: (mind you I haven't started digging yet)
C:\>slashdotgrab.pl "http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1 942233&tid=201&tid=130&tid=4&tid=1 06" Name "main::backColourUnread" used only once: possible typo at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 29. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159.
Failed; could not find title for current page! - at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159.
C:\>pause Press any key to continue . ..
So, while I am confident this will work when I get home and can run it on my Linux box, I am at work and using XP. Arrgh. any thoughts? -nB
Actually I work in the high tech business and am not thinking about building only one or two, but several hundred. The thought is: provide all the stuff that would be difficult (for the reasons you already outlined) for a person to do on their own, and allow people to be creative in how they deploy the hardware. I'm thinking along the lines of building your own PVR with a VIA miniITX board, but lots smaller and cheaper. You only need a 4 gig drive but want it very very small do it. You want a 120 gig drive for a hi-fi component fine! do it. -nB
By the time I got here the site was./'ed My main question, which you seem to have answered, is how open is the platform. Since they published the schematics (did they pub gerbers?) I wonder if someone (say me) could start building the boards and shipping out just the PCBs for "roll your own" players? -nB
I think that may be middle to high end for many of the users outside of the major cities. The inclusion of freeDOS over Linux makes me think that HP expects pirated windows to be running on most of these boxes, with red flag linux in second place.
I have 4 passwords commited to memory at any given time. 1) Super generic insecure(i.e.: slashdot) non-word password 2) Super generic semisecure (i.e. server stores pwd in one way hash and I don't have any critical info) password 3) Secure work password 4) personal life key. This one is a pwd to a pgp volume and is 2048 bits worth of non-dictionary entropy (it is significantly longer though). The PGP volume is only 10 megs and is a lookup table for all other secure passwords. It is backed up monthly to a security box at my bank.
I think I can reconcile this: There will be a few groups who work in strategic alliances. The very scary part about this will be the "power" behind some of the malware campaigns. I think CoreWars, running on every windowz box that isn't hardened really is going to happen. This should prove to be interesting, especially when governments step in with the non-judiciary non-legislative branches because a real security leak is caused by one of these programs. Think a pissed off NSA (not a politicking one) of the "good 'ol days". -nB
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Look, options are a potential dillution of the stock, not an actual dillution. Tax them when excercized.
If you all insist on taxing them up front then don't you dare tax them when I excercize them because that'll be double taxation and I will do my damndest to not pay those taxes including a court battle.
It's all a moot point though, now that my employer will be taxed on these I won't get them any more. This is going to directly result in a less educated population because that money was going into my kids 529b plan.
I'm rather pissed about that.
-nB
Normal NQOptions are not transferable (at least none of mine are).
Furthermore, now that this rule is taking effect I will no longer receive stock options. That really sucks.
-nB
I realize this as I have a hard enough time putting together a backup solution for home that I am satisfied with. My only gripe about NetBackup it that many portions of the application seem counterintuitive and I don't consider myself a n00b.
:-)
I completely agree with what you said, I just think that the docs suck, the UI needs work, and it hates my DAT robot. (I would never use DAT for enterprise stuff but I can't afford DLT for home use
As it sits right now our NOC uses Veritas, we have one Guru and a couple can figure it out folks. That's fine and I'm using the micky mouse windows app that came with my robot, mounting everything through Samba and being extra careful about symlinks.
-nB
your first post implied (to me) that you were using it's bare functionality. If that's all you need then fine (but I think you spent too much money in that case). The little bit I did work with it I realized it was capable of tons of stuff. I did not have the time to devote to learning how to use it, and it was not my job to do so. To me, muddling by is getting something functional, but not using it's full potential to maximum benifit.
-nB
That would be muddling by with it.
-nB
Why not. I don't think they can make it worse.
I mean you need a friggen PHD to run that software. Only one person in our NOC can really (I mean really) make it sing. A few others can muddle by with it. I think that it is overly complicated *I am not the backup guy*, as are pretty much all backup solutions.
-nB
Thank you :-)
That's funny :-)
My point was not whether or not it was right, but why it is the way it is.
The UniBomber combined with people wanting to not wait in lines was the Cause. This was the effect.
-nB
"Stop being so dramatic, there has been 1 terrorist attack on the US"
Wrong. There were three attacks on the WTC. The last two each took down a building and used airplanes.
You are forgetting:
Bombing in basement of WTC by islamic extreemists.
Bombing of the USS Cole by islamic extreemists.
Bombing of multiple US embassies in Africa.
Bombing of Federal building in OK City (Domestic terror)
Bombing of Barracks in Lybia
Bombing of the Khobar Tower
Hijacking of the Achillie Laural (sp?)
Kidnapping of US non-military persons on multiple occasions well before the 9/11 attacks.
While I know the fallicy of saying "Nuke 'em all" I often feel that way. Europe has had more total attacks as a whole, yes. Many of those were domestic. Please give me one example of an attack anywhere near the scale of 9/11 happening in Europe?
"Boo-fucking-Hoo, now it's suddenly the biggest problem in the world ?"
You sir are an asshat. I would love to say more, Personally I think the US should do exactally what the world has asked. Withdrawl from the world:
No military presence other than with our close allies (close base in Germany, etc.)
No Forign Aid to any countries we do not have a military presence in.
High trade tarrifs.
Cease funding for all those precious NGO's
Kick the UN out with as big a boot as we can find.
-nB
:BEER:
-nB
Ever hear of the UniBomber?
This is specifically because of him.
You used to be able to drop off a sufficently stamped parcel in any mail drop. After the UniBomber scares you were required to take packages over a certain size and/or weight into the office in person. This is simply a way to allow the conveinance of a mail drop with the security of personal delivery. A camera is already in my house (4 in fact) I controll them, no-one else.
-nB
no change :(
I'll bash on it when I get home. (I would really like this to work).
-nB
Can linux hibernate?
Better than my T40/XP combo. It is accepted that when using the platform in a "high security" *cough XP* configuration that when exiting from hibernation there is a non-zero chance that the password for the IDE drive will be scrambled and you will have lost all non-backed up data on that drive.
-nB
I've often wanted that as well. I came up with two possible solutions:
An active matrix LCD winshield where the "pixels" were half inch square. Just activate the pixels that track through from the sun to my head position. I actually looked into it and without wearing some funny headgear it would be rather tough to actually do.
The other option that I thought of would be to simply darken a 2 inch diameter circle centered around where you last touched the windshield, thus as you drove down the road, point at the sun and it goes away. Not as good as the first option, but actually feasable.
-nB
My XP machine gets roughle one reboot a week. Still a far cry from the months of uptime expected from *nix though.
-nB
Speaking of which. . .
1 942233&tid=201&tid=130&tid=4&tid=1 06"
.
I'm trying to run your perl script on my WinXP box and get this: (mind you I haven't started digging yet)
C:\>slashdotgrab.pl "http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/
Name "main::backColourUnread" used only once: possible typo at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 29.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159.
Failed; could not find title for current page! - at C:\slashdotgrab.pl line 159.
C:\>pause
Press any key to continue . .
So, while I am confident this will work when I get home and can run it on my Linux box, I am at work and using XP. Arrgh.
any thoughts?
-nB
Actually I work in the high tech business and am not thinking about building only one or two, but several hundred.
The thought is: provide all the stuff that would be difficult (for the reasons you already outlined) for a person to do on their own, and allow people to be creative in how they deploy the hardware.
I'm thinking along the lines of building your own PVR with a VIA miniITX board, but lots smaller and cheaper.
You only need a 4 gig drive but want it very very small do it. You want a 120 gig drive for a hi-fi component fine! do it.
-nB
"development systems are PowerMac G5s running a PowerPC port of WinXP."
For some reason that gives me the willies.
-nB
*priceless*
By the time I got here the site was ./'ed
My main question, which you seem to have answered, is how open is the platform. Since they published the schematics (did they pub gerbers?) I wonder if someone (say me) could start building the boards and shipping out just the PCBs for "roll your own" players?
-nB
I think that may be middle to high end for many of the users outside of the major cities. The inclusion of freeDOS over Linux makes me think that HP expects pirated windows to be running on most of these boxes, with red flag linux in second place.
-nB
I have 4 passwords commited to memory at any given time.
1) Super generic insecure(i.e.: slashdot) non-word password
2) Super generic semisecure (i.e. server stores pwd in one way hash and I don't have any critical info) password
3) Secure work password
4) personal life key. This one is a pwd to a pgp volume and is 2048 bits worth of non-dictionary entropy (it is significantly longer though). The PGP volume is only 10 megs and is a lookup table for all other secure passwords. It is backed up monthly to a security box at my bank.
-nB
Just be careful. Last time I poked fun at a troll I was DOS'd. No sense of humor those damn dirty trolls!
-nB
I have a problem with your post:
:-)
"I definitely see"
Ok you agree,
"no reason to"
Wait. . . no you dont agree,
"not believe that."
Oh yeah you do agree afterall.
My head hurts. . .
-nB
I think I can reconcile this:
There will be a few groups who work in strategic alliances. The very scary part about this will be the "power" behind some of the malware campaigns. I think CoreWars, running on every windowz box that isn't hardened really is going to happen.
This should prove to be interesting, especially when governments step in with the non-judiciary non-legislative branches because a real security leak is caused by one of these programs. Think a pissed off NSA (not a politicking one) of the "good 'ol days".
-nB