"The company website is *down*", laments a snivelling luser on my way in through the door.
"Ah, is it, then? Excellent! I'll take care of it in my office." The luser unfortunately shadows me through the hallway, running through my RFID-secured doorway after I open it. My office is dimly lit, with one focus bulb shining on a poster behind my monitor. I sit at my terminal, browsing my e-mail while drinking my coffee.
"But the website..."
I sigh. Why do they seem most hopeful when I try to ignore them so thoroughly? I gesture to the illuminated poster hanging on my wall. It's a massive framed artwork from Nmap's team of the favicons of the web's most visited websites. Customized slightly, of course. Where our site sits at the farthest edge of the bottom left of the page, I have mounted a microscopic flag with the tiny words "You Are Here" written on it in gold.
There is silence as the luser peers at the poster. Then, I hear a small, soul-crushed whimper as he finds his grand company's place on the web, and hear him shuffle from the room, and my door softly close behind him. I grin. Sometimes, it's all too easy to crush souls on Monday mornings...
Agreed. To top it off, now the government have created a paradox for themselves: -threatening students with lawsuits if they break copyright infringement laws -seizing computers used for questionable activity, and yet -rewarding students in contests where the challenge is an opportunity "...for them to hone their skills on being able to hack into other systems, particularly those of folks we may not be fond of,..."
In a world where the corporation wins against individual rights, where suspicion can land you on a no-fly list, is it really so hard to understand why they can't fill these positions? We're raising the young to frown on the dark side of the internet. We have the Eloi, they have the Morlocks.
The raids will look a bit different in coming years: Police storming the halls of the worst-rated high school bands in the nation, clarinets confiscated, tuning slides checked to make sure the second chair's isn't pulled too far out compared to first chair's.
Welcome to the age of new bad ass drug pushers: poorly tuned clarinetists. The first high-school concert is always free.
This isn't something to ride, even though it is apparently street legal. This is to park next to your limited edition Batman car, guarded over by your life-size Alien replica, as the focal points of the tasting room of your climate controlled wine cellar... Also, there are strippers nearby.
At least, that's what I'm doing with mine, just as soon as I gather up my loose change...
They discovered a large herd of animals which died in a a large flood event.
What did this remind you of?
It reminds me of that one time when Zi-ud-sura had a premonition that the gods decided to destroy mankind in a flood, and so he built an arc and saved humans and lots of animals. Then, when the flood was happening, he chanced on seeing the sun-god, Utu, so he decided to kill a bunch of the critters he brought with him, to show Utu how happy he was to have seen him. And THEN, after the flood was all done, he got a reward of eternal life from An and Enlil for all the cool crap he did (including killing the animals he had saved, but hey, nobody's perfect...)
Sound familiar? Same BS, different era, and far less interesting of a read than Tolkien's mythology. Enjoy the find for what it is: a lot of bones of big things that aren't around anymore. For once, call the garden beautiful without bringing your pretend faeries into it.
Tech cult No. 1: The Way of the Palm
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Damn, they just threw every male computer geek into a cult. I personally don't see a prob - oh wait. Palm, as in the company from the 90's.
*Ahem*
Re:Preparing to jump, who is with me?
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I'm there as well:) Downloading the ISO and I've got a VM ready for it. Ubuntu has served me well on my new sexy laptop, but I really would like to get back to Fedora.
I wish they could have been quieter about this. My state senators (Utah) are probably already phoning them to ask how they can get a piece of that sanitized Internet pie.
I can't really believe the entities behind the root DNS servers would haphazardly throw the switch without some sort of contingency for the DNS requests that aren't DNSSEC-based.
I wonder how intentional this was? Seriously donning a tinfoil wizard robe and hat here, but with such an obvious fatal blow, it seems it wouldn't have survived their QA process for more than ten minutes. The effect is quasi immediate, and it's a pain in the ass for one of the most common versions of one of the most common OSes available.
Yeah, my money is on this being an inside job designed to splash mud on McAfee. Look at the alternative: McAfee have suddenly proved themselves incompetent to check for basic contingencies, and should have all their computers replaced with Etch-a-Sketches.
I saw a reentry once back in 1999, but it was a night landing. I would describe it as a slow moving BRIGHT light, trailed by a glowing white tail. You really can't miss it once you find it.
Do all of you really think this is an official communique from Oracle regarding their policy with Open Source? This looks more like speculative hashing-outs that usually can be found on mailing lists, especially in a 'discuss' list, like this one. I sincerely doubt this mailing is more than one person's opinion.
Same here. Slight astigmatism, and I find myself focusing far too hard in the movie theater. I paid attention last time to my eye strain while watching a 3-D movie, and it felt identical to when I'm studying a small coin or stamp intently. So, now I have a good excuse to stay home and organize my pennies instead of wallowing through the latest 3-D tripe with family...
So, yeah. Astigmatic, and under a full moon I turn into a fat balding guy who collects coins and stamps. Wanna make something of it?
Finally, IT is on its way to being considered a commodity, as it should. There's no reason for every organization to maintain their own IT infrastructure any more than there's reason for every organization to maintain their own electricity generation and distribution. Of course, the hordes of IT people won't be happy...
You need to go watch Metropolis. Just because the workers aren't visible, doesn't mean the workers aren't there. The jobs will still be there, just relocated a bit. Oh, and we'll have a hot female robot overlord to incite riots in all the workers.
Slashdot Mirror
"The company website is *down*", laments a snivelling luser on my way in through the door.
"Ah, is it, then? Excellent! I'll take care of it in my office." The luser unfortunately shadows me through the hallway, running through my RFID-secured doorway after I open it. My office is dimly lit, with one focus bulb shining on a poster behind my monitor. I sit at my terminal, browsing my e-mail while drinking my coffee.
"But the website..."
I sigh. Why do they seem most hopeful when I try to ignore them so thoroughly? I gesture to the illuminated poster hanging on my wall. It's a massive framed artwork from Nmap's team of the favicons of the web's most visited websites. Customized slightly, of course. Where our site sits at the farthest edge of the bottom left of the page, I have mounted a microscopic flag with the tiny words "You Are Here" written on it in gold.
There is silence as the luser peers at the poster. Then, I hear a small, soul-crushed whimper as he finds his grand company's place on the web, and hear him shuffle from the room, and my door softly close behind him. I grin. Sometimes, it's all too easy to crush souls on Monday mornings...
It's not, but the Linux kernel is... and that's where the vulnerability is...
And I raise a mug of coffee to all my fellow sysadmins this evening. There goes my damned server uptime, and here comes my damned conscious uptime.
Sleep... she is for the weak!
I think this guy has a goal to sound like an utter tool at least once a week...
"There's no reason I should have to start over at the beginning of the game every third death. Especially in games like Battle Toads and Contra."
Ahem... Up up down down left right left right B A select start
thank you very much :)
"Have you wondered why our own civilization worries so much about "terrorism" these days?"
In my day, we called it 'communism'.
"...a few people will not be satisfied until they visit every star system in the galaxy."
If it's after my life time, here's hoping they develop the head/brain regeneration bit from Futurama. I'd love to be there...
Agreed. To top it off, now the government have created a paradox for themselves:
-threatening students with lawsuits if they break copyright infringement laws
-seizing computers used for questionable activity, and yet
-rewarding students in contests where the challenge is an opportunity "...for them to hone their skills on being able to hack into other systems, particularly those of folks we may not be fond of,..."
In a world where the corporation wins against individual rights, where suspicion can land you on a no-fly list, is it really so hard to understand why they can't fill these positions? We're raising the young to frown on the dark side of the internet. We have the Eloi, they have the Morlocks.
The raids will look a bit different in coming years: Police storming the halls of the worst-rated high school bands in the nation, clarinets confiscated, tuning slides checked to make sure the second chair's isn't pulled too far out compared to first chair's.
Welcome to the age of new bad ass drug pushers: poorly tuned clarinetists. The first high-school concert is always free.
This isn't something to ride, even though it is apparently street legal. This is to park next to your limited edition Batman car, guarded over by your life-size Alien replica, as the focal points of the tasting room of your climate controlled wine cellar... Also, there are strippers nearby.
At least, that's what I'm doing with mine, just as soon as I gather up my loose change...
Same thing happens every time I walk to the printer...
checks girth
Oh...
They discovered a large herd of animals which died in a a large flood event.
What did this remind you of?
It reminds me of that one time when Zi-ud-sura had a premonition that the gods decided to destroy mankind in a flood, and so he built an arc and saved humans and lots of animals. Then, when the flood was happening, he chanced on seeing the sun-god, Utu, so he decided to kill a bunch of the critters he brought with him, to show Utu how happy he was to have seen him. And THEN, after the flood was all done, he got a reward of eternal life from An and Enlil for all the cool crap he did (including killing the animals he had saved, but hey, nobody's perfect...)
Sound familiar? Same BS, different era, and far less interesting of a read than Tolkien's mythology. Enjoy the find for what it is: a lot of bones of big things that aren't around anymore. For once, call the garden beautiful without bringing your pretend faeries into it.
What happened to all the Gentoo users?
They're at home, compiling their kernels!
(insert Danny Elfman's Batman theme here...)
Damn, they just threw every male computer geek into a cult. I personally don't see a prob - oh wait. Palm, as in the company from the 90's.
*Ahem*
I'm there as well :) Downloading the ISO and I've got a VM ready for it. Ubuntu has served me well on my new sexy laptop, but I really would like to get back to Fedora.
I wish they could have been quieter about this. My state senators (Utah) are probably already phoning them to ask how they can get a piece of that sanitized Internet pie.
I can't really believe the entities behind the root DNS servers would haphazardly throw the switch without some sort of contingency for the DNS requests that aren't DNSSEC-based.
*adds playboy.com to /etc/hosts, just in case...*
/me marks babycakes on the list of people not to encounter in a dark alley...
Heh. I just presented your dilemma to my girlfriend. She said "Well, I'd leave you for a chance to meet Leonard Nimoy."
Your mileage may vary, of course...
I wonder how intentional this was? Seriously donning a tinfoil wizard robe and hat here, but with such an obvious fatal blow, it seems it wouldn't have survived their QA process for more than ten minutes. The effect is quasi immediate, and it's a pain in the ass for one of the most common versions of one of the most common OSes available.
Yeah, my money is on this being an inside job designed to splash mud on McAfee. Look at the alternative: McAfee have suddenly proved themselves incompetent to check for basic contingencies, and should have all their computers replaced with Etch-a-Sketches.
I saw a reentry once back in 1999, but it was a night landing. I would describe it as a slow moving BRIGHT light, trailed by a glowing white tail. You really can't miss it once you find it.
Here's a video on youtube of the same reentry I was describing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_pS0BM95o
HTH
Do all of you really think this is an official communique from Oracle regarding their policy with Open Source? This looks more like speculative hashing-outs that usually can be found on mailing lists, especially in a 'discuss' list, like this one. I sincerely doubt this mailing is more than one person's opinion.
Psychologists at the University of Minnesota's Carleton *School of Management*
Does anyone else see the correlation? Their sample group was entirely MBA-types.
Same here. Slight astigmatism, and I find myself focusing far too hard in the movie theater. I paid attention last time to my eye strain while watching a 3-D movie, and it felt identical to when I'm studying a small coin or stamp intently. So, now I have a good excuse to stay home and organize my pennies instead of wallowing through the latest 3-D tripe with family...
So, yeah. Astigmatic, and under a full moon I turn into a fat balding guy who collects coins and stamps. Wanna make something of it?
Finally, IT is on its way to being considered a commodity, as it should. There's no reason for every organization to maintain their own IT infrastructure any more than there's reason for every organization to maintain their own electricity generation and distribution. Of course, the hordes of IT people won't be happy...
You need to go watch Metropolis. Just because the workers aren't visible, doesn't mean the workers aren't there. The jobs will still be there, just relocated a bit. Oh, and we'll have a hot female robot overlord to incite riots in all the workers.
You're a ninja.
(Or the Dread Pirate Roberts...)