In contract to this, I had one prof (logic for CS ) that had a great grading system. He only factored in your homework grade if you needed it. This is probably the best way to really test if some one knows their stuff.
In a math class back in Jr. High we had a quick five question quiz on the material of the day before. It took a few minutes to mark, and then if you got less than 4/5 you'd have to hand in the homework. If you weren't done the homework, you got a zero.
You could skip the homework, but only if you were sure you knew the material.
At least where I am (BC) Shaw allows SMTP/POP connections out properly. I've used Telus in both BC and Alberta and had my SMTP connections blocked except through them.
Some startups, for instance, say the talent drain has made their own hiring more difficult.
Yeah, this goes in the same bucket with folks who say they only hire the top five percent. NEWS FLASH: everyone can't hire the top five percent. I'd say a good 99.9% of startups wouldn't know a good tech guy if he rewrote the Linux kernel as a Perl one-liner. This is just a scapegoat for the fact that they have no clue how to hire talented people.
I was under the impression that startups happened when you got a bunch of talented people grouping around an idea.
I'll admit that I've got limited experience with startups, but do people really start a business, then try to figure out why they can get to produce the product?
I've never actually read Phrack, but 2600 is one that I try to pick up.
I do read it because in each issue there's one or two really good articles. But it saddens me that any magazine that claims to be semi-technical regularly has articles on how to remove spyware from freakin' Windows.
I was fairly tired when I wrote that comment, so it was perhaps a bit surly. Yes, I'm aware of what Americans mean when they talk about their first amendment rights.
It's more a case of me making a fuss about an American mentioning first amendment rights in relation to something that takes place in Vancouver. They carry no standing here. Had he just said what he actually meant, free speech, then I would have had no problem with the comment.
Just because I live right next to a very large ape doesn't mean I should have to grunt when I want to speak with it.
Clearly you know nothing about First Amendment law
Not to belittle your point, but being Canadian myself, as well as being surrounded by other Canadians, I feel fairly safe saying that we don't pay much attention to the first amendment.
Google tells me that part of the first amendment talks about freedom of speech. Presumably that's what you meant to refer to, instead of a document the rest of the world doesn't care about.
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I just read the first paragraph off of his 'try' page. Quote:
They arrested the code dudes in an operation sweeping the entire city. My Pocket Assistant beeped impetuously as Rodriguez dialled the tip-off pager number. Something heavy was going down. Nobody used those digits unless it was a dire emergency. I flipped the cover off the Phoenix handheld and studied the holographic touch screen. The message flashed across in chiselled 3D text:
Reading that doesn't fill me with any desire to read farther. I prefer my fiction to be about the people and the plot, not the gadgets and the buzzwords.
I am anxiously awaiting all of the above. Who cares about someone's "views on creation" if I can, for example, become immortal through one technological feat or another? I dare you to find those "most people" who would rather die themselves of old age and tell their children to do the same, instead of becoming, say, cyborgs, or wearers of cloned bodies, or simply disembodied souls in computer memory.
And it clicked for me. He was a missionary--one of those fringe-dwellers who act as emissary from the Bitchun Society to the benighted corners of the world where, for whatever reasons, they want to die, starve, and choke on petrochem waste. It's amazing that these communities survive more than a generation; in the Bitchun Society proper, we usually outlive our detractors. The missionaries don't have such a high success rate--you have to be awfully convincing to get through to a culture that's already successfully resisted nearly a century's worth of propaganda--but when you convert a whole village, you accrue all the Whuffie they have to give. More often, missionaries end up getting refreshed from a backup after they aren't heard from for a decade or so. I'd never met one in the flesh before.
First, let me state that any competent sys admin should have a live CD around somewhere. We all know this. Of course, on a properly managed system, somewhere in that ideal world where all of us (even the endusers) understand why separate partitions and drives are a beautiful thing, a reinstall is the solution. But then there's reality. You know you've worked on systems configured by some absolute moron, or at the very least systems that aren't set up as you'd like them.
Live CD's are lifesavers in that situation.
I can think of two places where a Knoppix CD has saved me time and effort. Sure, I could have done these things other ways, but, well, why not?
The first was back in high school, a couple years ago. Of course, our network was authenticating through a central server, and it that server went down, or the network went down, you couldn't log in. And, as always, someone always saves their important files (If they're important, why don't they have a backup? I don't know) to the hard disk. Just in time for our server to go down. And naturally the 'system admin' didn't know a damn thing about it. The actual admin couldn't come in for a while, so it looked like the file wasn't going to get looked at that day.
Funny how things like that are life-or-death when you're in school.
Short story long, I pulled out a Knoppix disk I had sitting around, and just pulled up the file. Emailed it to the guy so he could work on it from home, and promptly returned the computer to a useless state.
Story two is a better one. I've just moved about 700 miles, and I'm crashing on a friends couch until I can find a place with a ceiling of my own. Naturally, a Windows Update hosed her XP install, and though she had a properly partitioned drive, she wasn't storing anything on the storage partition. I downloaded Knoppix, burned it on my iBook, and booted her machine off it to format the storage section nicely, then bring all her documents over.
She's got a dual boot system now. Fedora and XP. The best part? She asked me to install it so that she could play with it.
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I'm a tech support guy for a small hosting company. I'm going to keep from mentioning who, because I don't want to violate my NDA, but in the past week I've dealt with two customers who call wondering why we've yanked their sites, and find that we caught phishing scams on them.
At the moment, it looks like a single guy is poking at our servers, as all of the phishing incidents we've had thus far include an Ebay scam and a Suntrust scam. Given how the attaker works (changes the contact email to a yahoo account, yes, we've sent Yahoo an abuse notice to get it shut down) I'd guess he's obtaining the users passwords, not getting any actual control over our server.
Anyhow, the big thing is that hosting companies do actually care about this stuff. I'm sure that ISP's do too, but the only ISP's I've ever worked for, I did so in a strictly cube-farm-slave capacity, so I can't say. If you find this happening, don't just send them bad data, report it to the hosting company or ISP. Not to sound idealistic on Slashdot or anything, but it can actually make a bit of a difference.
That would save space nicely, but imagine having a file that's a few gigs large, then making a couple copies of it. Now when you make a change in one and save it, the first save operation takes forever, as it must copy the file as well.
You'd also have fairly dramatic changes in free disk space. Can you imagine editing a couple of 'copies' and finding that your 30 gigs free is down to 10?
If this kind of thing came into usage, I'd expect to see applications starting to save files as smaller, seperated files (opposed to one large file) so that updates wouldn't affect those two factors as much.
Contrast this with Scaled Composites winning the X Prize and Branson investing to sell public commercial space flight in 3 years. Yes, this is suborbital and low capacity, but it does show that it is time to retire the old birds and develop something new.
I think you mean to say..."develop something new, and then retire the old birds."
Though it would be a great tribute, we're talking about space travel here. Things can go wrong. Do you want to loose all of those people at once?
Granted, there's a much better chance (if things are done right) that it won't go wrong, but when you strap that much fuel onto your vechicle, there's always risk.
I think it'd be a much more fitting tribute if they got all the actors together before the launch, set them on a stage, and let them know just how much they inspired us all to do the things that we never thought we could do.
I think I'm a geek. There was a tear in my eye writing that last paragraph.
I was speaking to our newswriter at work about this. We're trying to come up with a list of cool widgets we think are going to be big sellers this Christmas for each age group, and this got pointed out to us.
She thought that her pre-teen might like it, but her teen wouldn't. As a teen myself, I told her that I'd never buy it because I can get a decent iBook for less. And remember, Macs are overpriced.
Then we started looking at the marketing, and concluded that it's aimed at parents, most of whom have teenagers where they're at an age where they're 'distant' (aka, having lives outside of home) and would be more likely to trust marketing that gave teenagers opinions on something. It doesn't really matter if they're actual, real life opinions.
Check out the video. It's really sad.
"Oh, that looks cool" and "They'll love that" are not the same thing.
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In a math class back in Jr. High we had a quick five question quiz on the material of the day before. It took a few minutes to mark, and then if you got less than 4/5 you'd have to hand in the homework. If you weren't done the homework, you got a zero.
You could skip the homework, but only if you were sure you knew the material.
Dammit, read the parent wrong, sorry.
At least where I am (BC) Shaw allows SMTP/POP connections out properly. I've used Telus in both BC and Alberta and had my SMTP connections blocked except through them.
SCO lawsuits?
Everyone knows those have no weight to them.
Perhaps its time to sleep. I previewed that three times before I hit "Submit".
I was under the impression that startups happened when you got a bunch of talented people grouping around an idea.
I'll admit that I've got limited experience with startups, but do people really start a business, then try to figure out why they can get to produce the product?
Viewed in that light, I'll agree with you.
I do read it because in each issue there's one or two really good articles. But it saddens me that any magazine that claims to be semi-technical regularly has articles on how to remove spyware from freakin' Windows.
It's more a case of me making a fuss about an American mentioning first amendment rights in relation to something that takes place in Vancouver. They carry no standing here. Had he just said what he actually meant, free speech, then I would have had no problem with the comment.
Just because I live right next to a very large ape doesn't mean I should have to grunt when I want to speak with it.
Clearly you know nothing about First Amendment law Not to belittle your point, but being Canadian myself, as well as being surrounded by other Canadians, I feel fairly safe saying that we don't pay much attention to the first amendment. Google tells me that part of the first amendment talks about freedom of speech. Presumably that's what you meant to refer to, instead of a document the rest of the world doesn't care about.
They arrested the code dudes in an operation sweeping the entire city. My Pocket Assistant beeped impetuously as Rodriguez dialled the tip-off pager number. Something heavy was going down. Nobody used those digits unless it was a dire emergency. I flipped the cover off the Phoenix handheld and studied the holographic touch screen. The message flashed across in chiselled 3D text:
Reading that doesn't fill me with any desire to read farther. I prefer my fiction to be about the people and the plot, not the gadgets and the buzzwords.
Reading your post reminded me of a passage from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. Emphasis is added.
It kind of reminds me of high school, where the kids who had grades that went from 5% first term to 45% last term got awards for the best improvement.
I doubt it. From what I read on Slashdot, you'll have outsourced faking up evidence of WMD by that time too.
Thanks.
Live CD's are lifesavers in that situation.
I can think of two places where a Knoppix CD has saved me time and effort. Sure, I could have done these things other ways, but, well, why not?
The first was back in high school, a couple years ago. Of course, our network was authenticating through a central server, and it that server went down, or the network went down, you couldn't log in. And, as always, someone always saves their important files (If they're important, why don't they have a backup? I don't know) to the hard disk. Just in time for our server to go down. And naturally the 'system admin' didn't know a damn thing about it. The actual admin couldn't come in for a while, so it looked like the file wasn't going to get looked at that day.
Funny how things like that are life-or-death when you're in school.
Short story long, I pulled out a Knoppix disk I had sitting around, and just pulled up the file. Emailed it to the guy so he could work on it from home, and promptly returned the computer to a useless state.
Story two is a better one. I've just moved about 700 miles, and I'm crashing on a friends couch until I can find a place with a ceiling of my own. Naturally, a Windows Update hosed her XP install, and though she had a properly partitioned drive, she wasn't storing anything on the storage partition. I downloaded Knoppix, burned it on my iBook, and booted her machine off it to format the storage section nicely, then bring all her documents over.
She's got a dual boot system now. Fedora and XP. The best part? She asked me to install it so that she could play with it.
At the moment, it looks like a single guy is poking at our servers, as all of the phishing incidents we've had thus far include an Ebay scam and a Suntrust scam. Given how the attaker works (changes the contact email to a yahoo account, yes, we've sent Yahoo an abuse notice to get it shut down) I'd guess he's obtaining the users passwords, not getting any actual control over our server.
Anyhow, the big thing is that hosting companies do actually care about this stuff. I'm sure that ISP's do too, but the only ISP's I've ever worked for, I did so in a strictly cube-farm-slave capacity, so I can't say. If you find this happening, don't just send them bad data, report it to the hosting company or ISP. Not to sound idealistic on Slashdot or anything, but it can actually make a bit of a difference.
-Rob
You'd also have fairly dramatic changes in free disk space. Can you imagine editing a couple of 'copies' and finding that your 30 gigs free is down to 10?
If this kind of thing came into usage, I'd expect to see applications starting to save files as smaller, seperated files (opposed to one large file) so that updates wouldn't affect those two factors as much.
I think you're missing the point of what makes them script kiddies instead of crackers.
I think you mean to say ..."develop something new, and then retire the old birds."
-Rob
Ok, I don't drink but from what I know, the equation should be this:
H = F^2 x (F+B)
Happiness = Food x Friends x Fun
From Woz.
It's the most important and beautiful equation I've ever seen.
Though it would be a great tribute, we're talking about space travel here. Things can go wrong. Do you want to loose all of those people at once?
Granted, there's a much better chance (if things are done right) that it won't go wrong, but when you strap that much fuel onto your vechicle, there's always risk.
I think it'd be a much more fitting tribute if they got all the actors together before the launch, set them on a stage, and let them know just how much they inspired us all to do the things that we never thought we could do.
I think I'm a geek. There was a tear in my eye writing that last paragraph.
Honestly officer, I thought my hand was on the gearshift! Yes, of course it was a map.
I was speaking to our newswriter at work about this. We're trying to come up with a list of cool widgets we think are going to be big sellers this Christmas for each age group, and this got pointed out to us.
She thought that her pre-teen might like it, but her teen wouldn't. As a teen myself, I told her that I'd never buy it because I can get a decent iBook for less. And remember, Macs are overpriced.
Then we started looking at the marketing, and concluded that it's aimed at parents, most of whom have teenagers where they're at an age where they're 'distant' (aka, having lives outside of home) and would be more likely to trust marketing that gave teenagers opinions on something. It doesn't really matter if they're actual, real life opinions.
Check out the video. It's really sad.
"Oh, that looks cool" and "They'll love that" are not the same thing.
-Rob