Yea! Tell that damn 95 year old slacker to either get a job or die. Stinking old people are ruining this country with their idle demands to be supported.
The government is not supporting the obsolete equipment. The broadcast companies are. So they teamed up with the government to pass a law requiring digital TV. This way, the broadcast companies can get rid of their obsolete equipment (likely a nice tax write off) and say "Not our fault. The government made us do it!"
I disagree. This is the concept of graft. Or how the government got money from corporations in order to force many to scrap usable TVs for brand new ones.
You likely would not believe how long my mother continued to watch an old black and white TV. Long after every program was color. And it worked just as well as it ever had. So, color did not make b&w sets useless for watching broadcast television.
Absolutely correct! Why management here is drooling over how much they money could save if they just didn't need the damn IT department. And all those damn desktop computers! Why, life was much better back in the days of paper ledgers and pencils! Sigh - if only we could have the perfect company. One which only has high level managers and none of the "riff raff" that infects them. Oh! Wait! That's Congress. And they have a monopoly.
She's planning to be on one of the World's Stupidest... episodes that are now airing on TruTV (was CourtTV). There are more stupid people in the world than even I ever thought possible.
My clock has a DST button. I set it to "standard" time. When DST comes around, I push the button and it changes to DST. When DST ends, I push it again and it changes back. My DVR automatically changes. My computer automatically changes.
What doesn't automatically change is my damn wake-sleep cycle!
I am also a Linux user. I got a Mac MINI last year just to see. I rarely power it up any more. Being an old fart, I don't much care for laptops. Bad eyes and arthritic hands just don't seem to go with laptops.
Too bad Windows is so entrenched. With a Linux desktop, you could set up an LTSP server and a PXE boot. The desktop itself would not have an hard disk or CD-ROM, maybe not even have any USB ports accessible. The PC boots from the network. The user's home directory is on the network.
And it is mounted with the NOEXEC option so that nothing which is resident on it will be executed, regardless. IOW, the desktop would only have a CPU, RAM, video card, and monitor. If it did have a small hard drive, that would only be used for temporary files (/tmp subdirectory) and a swap area.
A plus of this is when the desktop dies, the user gets a new one, but all the user's files and setup are still intact. Also, being LAN resident, they are backed up periodically.
The reason give around here why that is not permitted is that the IT department cannot verify that your personal machine is virus free. Their stated fear is that a personal machine will come in with some virus and it will spread uncontrolled behind our firewall, infecting hundreds of machines before it is noticed. We've had this happen and it was a real mess!
Of course, we also allow people to VPN into the network from their personal machines. A bit of an inconsistency there!
Exactly what a coworker is always saying. Management wants to delegate their responsibilities to an automated process. That way, they don't have to manage their people. That gives them more time to mess around on the p0rn sites (because they are generally not restricted by the firewall / proxy / whatever).
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Pah! You want unmaintainable code? Use APL! Now that is a real programmer's language! A real sick programmer who likes Greek letters along with other make up symbols not in any other language on this planet.
ARG!!! Looks like COBOL
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Variable names like MAX_STUDENTS_PER_CLASS???
That looks like COBOL! My head! oh, my head! What ever happened to that Microsoft notation?
I always found the phrase "survival of the fittest" to be amusing. How do we determine the fittest? By those which survive, of course. So, rephrasing, we can simply say: "The theory of survival by those who survived to reproduce." And it becomes a useless tautology. It's like saying A=A forall A in math. Yes, it's true. And it does not tell us anything new at all.
Microsoft is in my "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" category. I don't believe much of what MS says. No more that I believe most politicians. Doing so in either case just leads to frustration and disappointment.
I would guess by IP address. 10.a.b.c and 192.d.e.f are defined to be "local" and not to be routed over the Internet. Or maybe it's by the site's classification that you can give somewhere in IE. I don't remember where, I don't run Windows at home.
100% agree. I bring up areas that I am concerned with in this type of area. The usual response is that it would cost too much to secure that or that there is not enough time to implement it because the CUSTOMERS want access RIGHT NOW!!! The first on the scene for a customer is likely to get that customer's business. If you tell them that it will take a bit longer so that we can be sure that their privacy is assured, they won't much care. At least, that's my take on it.
In 25 years, computers will likely be mind controlled. Or maybe they'll be controlling our minds. Or maybe the idiots in charge will have killed off the species in some stupid war.
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Yea! Tell that damn 95 year old slacker to either get a job or die. Stinking old people are ruining this country with their idle demands to be supported.
The government is not supporting the obsolete equipment. The broadcast companies are. So they teamed up with the government to pass a law requiring digital TV. This way, the broadcast companies can get rid of their obsolete equipment (likely a nice tax write off) and say "Not our fault. The government made us do it!"
How do they run their TV without electricity? Did they get a gas powered one somewhere?
I disagree. This is the concept of graft. Or how the government got money from corporations in order to force many to scrap usable TVs for brand new ones.
You likely would not believe how long my mother continued to watch an old black and white TV. Long after every program was color. And it worked just as well as it ever had. So, color did not make b&w sets useless for watching broadcast television.
Absolutely correct! Why management here is drooling over how much they money could save if they just didn't need the damn IT department. And all those damn desktop computers! Why, life was much better back in the days of paper ledgers and pencils! Sigh - if only we could have the perfect company. One which only has high level managers and none of the "riff raff" that infects them. Oh! Wait! That's Congress. And they have a monopoly.
If true, then you can look at some here: http://us.fixstars.com/store/purchase.php and click on PowerStation. Used to be Terrasoft.
Yea - most in Congress and the Executive Branch of the US government.
She's planning to be on one of the World's Stupidest ... episodes that are now airing on TruTV (was CourtTV). There are more stupid people in the world than even I ever thought possible.
My clock has a DST button. I set it to "standard" time. When DST comes around, I push the button and it changes to DST. When DST ends, I push it again and it changes back. My DVR automatically changes. My computer automatically changes. What doesn't automatically change is my damn wake-sleep cycle!
Totally agree! And, if we go ultimate "green", we can all live in caves and not be dependent on the silly sun light, anyway.
I am also a Linux user. I got a Mac MINI last year just to see. I rarely power it up any more. Being an old fart, I don't much care for laptops. Bad eyes and arthritic hands just don't seem to go with laptops.
A plus of this is when the desktop dies, the user gets a new one, but all the user's files and setup are still intact. Also, being LAN resident, they are backed up periodically.
Just a thought.
The reason give around here why that is not permitted is that the IT department cannot verify that your personal machine is virus free. Their stated fear is that a personal machine will come in with some virus and it will spread uncontrolled behind our firewall, infecting hundreds of machines before it is noticed. We've had this happen and it was a real mess! Of course, we also allow people to VPN into the network from their personal machines. A bit of an inconsistency there!
Exactly what a coworker is always saying. Management wants to delegate their responsibilities to an automated process. That way, they don't have to manage their people. That gives them more time to mess around on the p0rn sites (because they are generally not restricted by the firewall / proxy / whatever).
You've got it! To stop them, you simply tell that that they MUST connect the device!
You want to SPAM my fridge????
Pah! You want unmaintainable code? Use APL! Now that is a real programmer's language! A real sick programmer who likes Greek letters along with other make up symbols not in any other language on this planet.
Variable names like MAX_STUDENTS_PER_CLASS??? That looks like COBOL! My head! oh, my head! What ever happened to that Microsoft notation?
I always found the phrase "survival of the fittest" to be amusing. How do we determine the fittest? By those which survive, of course. So, rephrasing, we can simply say: "The theory of survival by those who survived to reproduce." And it becomes a useless tautology. It's like saying A=A forall A in math. Yes, it's true. And it does not tell us anything new at all.
Microsoft is in my "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" category. I don't believe much of what MS says. No more that I believe most politicians. Doing so in either case just leads to frustration and disappointment.
I would guess by IP address. 10.a.b.c and 192.d.e.f are defined to be "local" and not to be routed over the Internet. Or maybe it's by the site's classification that you can give somewhere in IE. I don't remember where, I don't run Windows at home.
100% agree. I bring up areas that I am concerned with in this type of area. The usual response is that it would cost too much to secure that or that there is not enough time to implement it because the CUSTOMERS want access RIGHT NOW!!! The first on the scene for a customer is likely to get that customer's business. If you tell them that it will take a bit longer so that we can be sure that their privacy is assured, they won't much care. At least, that's my take on it.
In 25 years, computers will likely be mind controlled. Or maybe they'll be controlling our minds. Or maybe the idiots in charge will have killed off the species in some stupid war.
Mac OSX is not based on Linux. It is based on Darwin, which is a *BSD derivative. I don't know which particular *BSD.