I agree - total BS. Come on Slashdot, your site advertising is becoming intrusive and flaky, and your article selection is getting lame. Failing to 'get' your audience will diminish your future, which I would mourn.
Back when I started in IT in 1982, the most senior IT person in most organizations had risen through the ranks as a developer, then analyst, then team leader, etc. These days, you need little more than a project management designation to get in the door, and with a little hard work, you can soon be leading teams of developers and making important IT decisions. So in essence, the senior ranks of IT have become "polluted" with non-IT folks who lack the experience (and resulting vision) to make high quality long-term decisions.
Some argue that life on earth came from external sources, such as an asteroid. It also possible such things are not rare - that lots of bits of interstellar crap flying about the universe have little gobs of life clinging to them. If that's the case, then human biology was seeded by such "universal" biology, and we're bound to have some things in common with whatever they scraped off that ISS windshield.
Btw, how long does that sequencer take to do its stuff?
Nice try, but I want a plug-in that warns me a website is GOING to be breached, rather than 'it already has been breached'. Can someone code that up please?
If your anti-spyware software contains spyware, do you really think uninstalling ("ripping out Kaspersky") will remove the spyware? Any machine suspected of compromise must be reformatted from scratch. And even that doesn't provide 100% coverage since some spyware can hide in motherboard-resident flash memory and other pockets of non-volatile memory strewn about modern systems.
I worked with Oracle 7 in the mid-1990's, and since then PostgreSQL, MySql, and SQL Server. In the 90's, SQL Server was making inroads into my company (Alcan Aluminum), but us 'old dogs' were fighting back, saying it wasn't ready for prime time. But since then, it has grown up and now I view them as pretty much interchangeable for straight-forward apps.
Back then, SQL Server's advantage was price. Oracle was $8k/cpu(on a small/mid Alpha-OpenVMS box), and SQL Server was much cheaper, but Windows-only. These days, OpenVMS has pretty much relegated itself to a niche, and SQL Server is about as expensive as Oracle for equivalent performance. So my vote, these days, goes to PostgreSQL, the only open-source database that is pretty much feature complete (for the day), and has been around for decades.
I've even gone so far as to search for plug-ins that DON'T rely on skeuomorphic designs, and came up mostly empty. Plug-in designers put waaaay too much effort into making their front panels look like brushed aluminum and their needle velocity just so, and not nearly enough effort into making their interfaces intuitive and effective.
I worked at the AP as a software engineer for seven years at HQ in Manhattan. One system I worked on for a few years was the "Desk" system, which is a set of 3 OpenVMS Alpha clusters (NY, London, Tokyo). This was the primary news collection and dissemination system known to outsiders as "The AP Wire". It accepted thousands of stories per hour from contributors, and transmitted thousands to paying clients. Clients were typically newspapers that received various "feeds" from the AP such as Business, Sports, World, etc.
New stories are tagged (sports, business, world, etc.) upon ingestion, both by editors and an automated system that can infer what a story is about. Additionally, company names are detected and linked to their stock ticker.
Distribution to clients is based on the tags accumulated by the story after these steps. It's pretty much automated, and has to be, given the volume of news moving through the system. The editorial user interface permitted searching and filtering, which is how folks managed the news of the day.
Outsourcing may not have caused the issue, but I'd like to ask: How much more difficult is it to return your systems to normal, using that outsourced staff?
I'll suggest using AWS Workspaces for the desktops - no infrastructure to maintain, and if it goes down, a thousand Amazon engineers will jump on the case. You can also arrange for a VPN tunnel into your datacenter if access to central resources is needed. Suits like VPN tunnels.
Regarding source code, with AWS at least you control the desktops and can wipe them if needed, but the devs will still see the source. Perhaps a strategic division of labour would prevent any one developer from seeing the entire body of source code?
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Russia, if you're listening, please hack Trump's phone (if you haven't already) and publish audio from every Trump / Hannity nighttime pillow chat.
Kudos to VMS for sure. Way ahead of its time, and still teaching the young'ins :-)
It's about time a Smart American commented!
I agree - total BS. Come on Slashdot, your site advertising is becoming intrusive and flaky, and your article selection is getting lame. Failing to 'get' your audience will diminish your future, which I would mourn.
Back when I started in IT in 1982, the most senior IT person in most organizations had risen through the ranks as a developer, then analyst, then team leader, etc. These days, you need little more than a project management designation to get in the door, and with a little hard work, you can soon be leading teams of developers and making important IT decisions. So in essence, the senior ranks of IT have become "polluted" with non-IT folks who lack the experience (and resulting vision) to make high quality long-term decisions.
"... to determine which ones to prioritize based on what they see as systems in the field"
How about taking responsibility for all of them, right now?
Some argue that life on earth came from external sources, such as an asteroid. It also possible such things are not rare - that lots of bits of interstellar crap flying about the universe have little gobs of life clinging to them. If that's the case, then human biology was seeded by such "universal" biology, and we're bound to have some things in common with whatever they scraped off that ISS windshield.
Btw, how long does that sequencer take to do its stuff?
Nice try, but I want a plug-in that warns me a website is GOING to be breached, rather than 'it already has been breached'. Can someone code that up please?
http://cobolcowboys.com/
If your anti-spyware software contains spyware, do you really think uninstalling ("ripping out Kaspersky") will remove the spyware? Any machine suspected of compromise must be reformatted from scratch. And even that doesn't provide 100% coverage since some spyware can hide in motherboard-resident flash memory and other pockets of non-volatile memory strewn about modern systems.
I would have thought that getting rid of the 220-lbs nut behind the wheel would be enough weight savings to make up for the extra energy draw.
FAR more illicit activity is conducted in US dollars than Bitcoin.
Why mimic HUMAN consciousness? Isn't that setting the bar a little low? Why mimic the greed and hate that powers wars and poverty?
I worked with Oracle 7 in the mid-1990's, and since then PostgreSQL, MySql, and SQL Server. In the 90's, SQL Server was making inroads into my company (Alcan Aluminum), but us 'old dogs' were fighting back, saying it wasn't ready for prime time. But since then, it has grown up and now I view them as pretty much interchangeable for straight-forward apps.
Back then, SQL Server's advantage was price. Oracle was $8k/cpu(on a small/mid Alpha-OpenVMS box), and SQL Server was much cheaper, but Windows-only. These days, OpenVMS has pretty much relegated itself to a niche, and SQL Server is about as expensive as Oracle for equivalent performance. So my vote, these days, goes to PostgreSQL, the only open-source database that is pretty much feature complete (for the day), and has been around for decades.
I've even gone so far as to search for plug-ins that DON'T rely on skeuomorphic designs, and came up mostly empty. Plug-in designers put waaaay too much effort into making their front panels look like brushed aluminum and their needle velocity just so, and not nearly enough effort into making their interfaces intuitive and effective.
I don't want this person on MY team. Potty mouth.
I'm going to stick with my original theory that the conspiracy is larger than what we've seen so far: http://geekcrumbs.com/2015/10/...
First up, nothing is impenetrable. Especially something with computers and people.
But if they could be impenetrable, that would be nice. But shouldn't their job be to make other units impenetrable?
Trump "Promises" ? 'nuf said
I worked at the AP as a software engineer for seven years at HQ in Manhattan. One system I worked on for a few years was the "Desk" system, which is a set of 3 OpenVMS Alpha clusters (NY, London, Tokyo). This was the primary news collection and dissemination system known to outsiders as "The AP Wire". It accepted thousands of stories per hour from contributors, and transmitted thousands to paying clients. Clients were typically newspapers that received various "feeds" from the AP such as Business, Sports, World, etc.
New stories are tagged (sports, business, world, etc.) upon ingestion, both by editors and an automated system that can infer what a story is about. Additionally, company names are detected and linked to their stock ticker.
Distribution to clients is based on the tags accumulated by the story after these steps. It's pretty much automated, and has to be, given the volume of news moving through the system. The editorial user interface permitted searching and filtering, which is how folks managed the news of the day.
Outsourcing may not have caused the issue, but I'd like to ask: How much more difficult is it to return your systems to normal, using that outsourced staff?
Sooo tired of articles telling me to think twice - hardly useful. Why not offer some real advice before hitting 'Post'? Are you afraid to think once?
Wonderful, thank you!!
"node.js doesn't block so it's faster than c"
A curious statement.
I'll suggest using AWS Workspaces for the desktops - no infrastructure to maintain, and if it goes down, a thousand Amazon engineers will jump on the case. You can also arrange for a VPN tunnel into your datacenter if access to central resources is needed. Suits like VPN tunnels.
Regarding source code, with AWS at least you control the desktops and can wipe them if needed, but the devs will still see the source. Perhaps a strategic division of labour would prevent any one developer from seeing the entire body of source code?