By all means, apply technology as you see fit. But for some things, many of us have found that old fashioned pen and paper is still superior. Everything else is a temporary solution which will eventually fail on you or go away completely.
I good middle ground is when the page is full take a picture and put it on evernote which will do OCR (so long as you don't write too bad) and then you have an index of all your notes somewhere.
So by using a generated id that changes on device reset and giving users the option to opt out this is just as bad as before? Sure you're opted in by default but you can disable it. Before it used an id that was tied to phone and you had no control over when it got used. Also they tried to hide it but that's nothing new.
We purely use subversion at work (after years of trying to convince them, prior to this all work was done on live server, by multiple devs at once). I've switched to git for most personal projects. Of all the benefits and downsides of git vs svn, I just feel more comfortable in a distributed VCS workflow. My home directory is still subversion though. Seems to address the problem better for wanting to keep my different home directories in sync. Don't want to login to a server and go "oh crap, I forgot to push my changes from other computer".
I've tried converting work to git but it just isn't going to happen. I just snicker when something happens in subversion that I know git can do easier.
(rant)To revert changes in subversion you do a non-intuitive reverse merge? With git it's... git revert. Anytime someone needs to revert a commit in subversion they ask me and I always have to look up the syntax because it doesn't make sense(/rant)
It was customary for the sysadmin to block users that he saw a lot of traffic on various ports the bots use (back when bots always used a specific port). The part that I didn't aggree with was he would just cut them off. Then when they call in to tech support pissed off that their internets are down we realize they were shutoff because they had spyware. It was mainly cut the user off so they didn't waste company resources than it was looking out for the users.
Exactly. How many of those people just walking off with their red swingline stapler and how many are walking away with customer's credit card information? It doesn't say the purpose of those "electronic files". What if it's an owner's manual for something I own? or some random funny pictures? Sure it's electronic files, sure it's considered company property if you save it on your work computer, but it's not files that are privileged corporate information that could be used against them.
It's like just saying "Have you ever stolen anything in your life?" Stealing a pen from work is one thing, stealing the database that stores all clients personal data is another.
With such comments as "Most days you suck. Today you suck less." and "Great job at keeping things working most of the time" *sniffle, tries to hold back tears*
(only reason they remember is I have it added to my shared work calendar)
I have a gps receiver at home (the infamous Garmin GPS 18 LVC) and my current offset is 0.000 msec with a jitter of 0.001 msec (so 1 microsecond). Actually I've hit the limit in linux at that point since last I checked linux can only resolve down to millisecond. BSD can go down to nanosecond. That GPS receiver cost a whopping US$90
(yes, I read the entire investigation part of the affidavit)
According to Brian Hogan's room mate (pg 14) an "intoxicated male" gave him a phone believing it was his. Hogan remained at the bar "a little while longer" and no one claimed the phone.
According to Powel (the employee who lost the phone) (pg 16) he states his last memory of the phone was placing it in his bag and then placing the bag by his feet.he was there till closing at 11:00 PM local time. He left when the restaurant started to close and he thinks the phone could not have remained in the restaurant more than 15 minutes.
Brian's room mate called the police because the phone was synced to her computer and Hogan's and was afraid law enforcement could get the ip address and trace it back to her (pg 12). So she was calling to absolve herself from legal issues. Also when she was shown the phone it appeared apple may have already done a remote wipe of the phone.
George Riley says (pg 12) that the phone was invaluable and that the $8500 (yes, supposedly he got $8500 total, no source on the other $2500 though) that Hogan got the phone was worth the price of the phone if not more.
Brian Hogan and someone else (sorry, I'm getting tired of finding this in the pdf) knew the police were investigating and was in the process of destroying/hiding evidence. The police went to hogan's father's house and found Hogan with his girlfriend. He said that the other person had some of the evidence. Eventually they got a hold of him and he placed the other items in front of a church.
Only other gem I found in there is a quote as stated by brian's room mate when she urged him not to sell the phone as it would ruin Robert Powel's image he told her "Sucks for him. He lost his phone. Shouldn't have lost his phone"
we need to come up with an appropriate tag for these types of articles. I don't even want to give them the satisfaction of a hit count so they can go "ohh look, we got a million hits to this article, people must love these multi-page advert-laden articles, lets do more!"
Link? Apple has a pretty extensive developer site at http://developer.apple.com/ so if there was a way for non-apple devices to work in itunes then it should be documented there. I'm not even going to bother looking because if such a document existed there would be a lot more devices that support itunes. If this interoperable standard exists then palm would much prefer to use that instead of this constant can and mouse game of changing vendor id's.
This is why I don't understand why Sony doesn't do this. Supposedly the ps1 games are selling good, why not add ps2 games to that list? And it's not like they don't know how to code the software compatibility because it was in the launch 60gb ps3 (I think). Just seems like a no brainer to me as it's something that would make money. Although sony never really seems to "get it" when it comes to... anything
Open up dictionary app on os x, or even just use the spotlight search (dictionary gives you more suggestions though) and you can search for any of the common 4 letter swear words. The word that fuck has a TON of suggestions as to what you mean all include said word. Also all the other words you mention can be found in the dictionary app on os x.
Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.
Remember the story not too long ago about a XSS vulnerability that essentially let you display your own content on an EV certified SSL page? Even a $500+ certificate can't protect against buggy sites.
One of the bigger annoyances with firefox 3 is what happens when you go to a site with a certificate that is not valid (self-signed, untrusted CA, expired, etc). You see a page styled similar to the server not found messages. You then have to click on like 4 things with one of them saying that its really bad to do this, etc before you can continue.
The time where "valid" certificates I'd encourage are for sites that do payments in some way. Imagine if your bank was suddenly using a self signed cert for login?
I've used http://cacert.org/ for years now for the various admin sections of sites. Browsers still don't recognize it as a real ca but adding them is trivial and they are listed in the latest editions of most Linux distros. Its nice not having to add exceptions for all these certs, but can't make self signed ones that last 10 years either
Since they didn't mention how to do this in the security advisory, or give you a warning message when you apply the update that you should regen your keys here's how to regenerate the host keys. Either log in as root or put sudo before each of these (this should work remotely, I didn't have problems but YMMV)
You'll then be asked about the key changing next time you log in.
I just spent all day updating servers. Doesn't sound so bad till you realize all these servers also had client keys used for remote backups that had to be recreated and verified, etc.
The reason we couldn't use parallels even if wanted to is because of the resources. Both of these comptuers are for remote downloads of POS terminals. So they both have a couple modems in them. Rest of the hardware is pretty modest. To move those to parallels would require a really beefy computer as you would need the power to run a couple VM's as well as the host OS as well as needing a larger modem bank.
My "introduction" to macs--aside from school--was at my current job. I am a web developer/it manager. I first thought it was odd everyone used macs but after I got used to it I'm glad. The amount of questions asking about their computer locking up or not being able to print or something is practically nil. When something doesn't work it's usually something more significant than just the windows "shut down and reboot" mantra.
EVERY employee uses a mac. From graphics designers (of course) to the IT department to accounts receivable and billing. From an IT standpoint being able to have a native terminal to ssh to remote servers is very handy. Yes I know of cygwin but terminal on mac is just there. We literally only have two windows machines only because of some software that only works on windows.
I came across that site only recently. I've done that for years (leaving space in front of you and just tapping the break every so often). I always did it so it's less wear on the brakes, turns out I was helping "absorb" the smaller traffic jams from everyone else tailgating.
I've started to run into this problem myself from using del.icio.us as my primary bookmark source. One of my current issues is not what tags other people are using, but what tags I am using. Currently I have a lot of overlapping tags. I did some cleanup lately so that 'photos' and 'photo' are in a single tag, etc.
I started to look around and found there have been a lot of standardizations of topic maps. Although intended more for very large systems (think government sized systems categorizing millions of documents). The UK government has a topic system called the e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS). The schema is browsable online. Another good article is The TAO of Topic Maps (also in pdf)
I think there should be a basic standard to avoid situations like the photo/photos tags above. But I think that should be as far as it goes. The good thing about tagging on most sites is you are not limited. The bad thing about tagging on most sites is you are not limited.
Honestly, writing your password down isn't as bad as it first seems. I've heard this argument several times by security professionals. The trick is telling them "Protect that password like you protect your social security number." You always hear of the people that put their password on a post it note and then throw it under their keyboard or stick it to their monitor. I'll admit when I change the password for financial sites I access, the password is usually so complicated I don't immediately memorize. But I'll write down just the password, no login information or any indication of what it is, and I'll keep in a secure location. After a week or two I'll have it memorized and I can safely destroy the paper containing the password.
1) Japan, no brainer. I went there on vacation earlier in the year and to say I was impressed is an understatement. The politness there was just astonishing. People didn't just point you in the right direction, there were a few times where someone would actually walk with us a couple blocks to where we can actually see where we had to go. The public transit system for the areas we were in (from Tokyo down to Hiroshima) was amazaing. Even in what seemed like rural towns you could get anywhere by just knowing where the nearest train station or bus station is. And akihabara
2) Language barrier, although if I really studied it for a few years I could have good enough conversational skills that I could get a job there. Although I do see IT jobs over there, they all require conversational japanese proficiency, both written and verbal. Also Japanese are not very accepting of foreigners. Yes, I mentioned above they're extremely polite, so polite they won't insult you to your face, but may mention it later. Getting a decent place to live can be difficult as well as there isn't any "equal opportunity" rights there. If you're not Asian, don't know Japanese enough, or the rentor is having a bad day, they don't have to rent a place to you, deal with it. About the only ways that you could live in Japan are a) sponsorship from a business in Japan (possible, but good luck), b) marry someone with japanese citizenship (any hot ladies out there with japanese citizenship feel free to contact me), or c) enroll in one the teaching programs, but that isn't a permanent thing (unless you achieve method b while teaching over there).
So yeah, while it would be great if I could live there, I'm not too hopeful about it. Although who knows what could happen.
Taken from experience, after hunting around trying to find where to contact support to report a bug, I get a canned response that doesn't help at all. Reply to the message, with the canned response in the reply, saying that is of no help, and get a reply back with the exact same canned message! Maybe they really do have monkey's working there. At least that would be one cool thing about myspace.
I just find it funny myspace initially came about because friendster's site was slow and crappy (they've sinced moved over to php and the site is extremely stable, probably because no one uses it). Now that myspace is slow and crappy all the emo wannabe's just mope and be all emo like and put up with it.
I use iCal as I use a mac at work. I then publish it to a site and then link to that in gCal. So if I need to see something and I'm at a computer I can check gCal. If I'm on the road iCal syncs to my iPod so I have everything there. And I have been known to just print out a page or two and stuff it in my wallet
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By all means, apply technology as you see fit. But for some things, many of us have found that old fashioned pen and paper is still superior. Everything else is a temporary solution which will eventually fail on you or go away completely.
I good middle ground is when the page is full take a picture and put it on evernote which will do OCR (so long as you don't write too bad) and then you have an index of all your notes somewhere.
So by using a generated id that changes on device reset and giving users the option to opt out this is just as bad as before? Sure you're opted in by default but you can disable it. Before it used an id that was tied to phone and you had no control over when it got used. Also they tried to hide it but that's nothing new.
We purely use subversion at work (after years of trying to convince them, prior to this all work was done on live server, by multiple devs at once). I've switched to git for most personal projects. Of all the benefits and downsides of git vs svn, I just feel more comfortable in a distributed VCS workflow. My home directory is still subversion though. Seems to address the problem better for wanting to keep my different home directories in sync. Don't want to login to a server and go "oh crap, I forgot to push my changes from other computer".
I've tried converting work to git but it just isn't going to happen. I just snicker when something happens in subversion that I know git can do easier.
(rant)To revert changes in subversion you do a non-intuitive reverse merge? With git it's... git revert. Anytime someone needs to revert a commit in subversion they ask me and I always have to look up the syntax because it doesn't make sense(/rant)
It was customary for the sysadmin to block users that he saw a lot of traffic on various ports the bots use (back when bots always used a specific port). The part that I didn't aggree with was he would just cut them off. Then when they call in to tech support pissed off that their internets are down we realize they were shutoff because they had spyware. It was mainly cut the user off so they didn't waste company resources than it was looking out for the users.
Depends on what their definitions are.
Exactly. How many of those people just walking off with their red swingline stapler and how many are walking away with customer's credit card information? It doesn't say the purpose of those "electronic files". What if it's an owner's manual for something I own? or some random funny pictures? Sure it's electronic files, sure it's considered company property if you save it on your work computer, but it's not files that are privileged corporate information that could be used against them.
It's like just saying "Have you ever stolen anything in your life?" Stealing a pen from work is one thing, stealing the database that stores all clients personal data is another.
With such comments as "Most days you suck. Today you suck less." and "Great job at keeping things working most of the time" *sniffle, tries to hold back tears*
(only reason they remember is I have it added to my shared work calendar)
I have a gps receiver at home (the infamous Garmin GPS 18 LVC) and my current offset is 0.000 msec with a jitter of 0.001 msec (so 1 microsecond). Actually I've hit the limit in linux at that point since last I checked linux can only resolve down to millisecond. BSD can go down to nanosecond. That GPS receiver cost a whopping US$90
Just read that A new paid tweet service was launched in japan.
(yes, I read the entire investigation part of the affidavit)
According to Brian Hogan's room mate (pg 14) an "intoxicated male" gave him a phone believing it was his. Hogan remained at the bar "a little while longer" and no one claimed the phone.
According to Powel (the employee who lost the phone) (pg 16) he states his last memory of the phone was placing it in his bag and then placing the bag by his feet.he was there till closing at 11:00 PM local time. He left when the restaurant started to close and he thinks the phone could not have remained in the restaurant more than 15 minutes.
Brian's room mate called the police because the phone was synced to her computer and Hogan's and was afraid law enforcement could get the ip address and trace it back to her (pg 12). So she was calling to absolve herself from legal issues. Also when she was shown the phone it appeared apple may have already done a remote wipe of the phone.
George Riley says (pg 12) that the phone was invaluable and that the $8500 (yes, supposedly he got $8500 total, no source on the other $2500 though) that Hogan got the phone was worth the price of the phone if not more.
Brian Hogan and someone else (sorry, I'm getting tired of finding this in the pdf) knew the police were investigating and was in the process of destroying/hiding evidence. The police went to hogan's father's house and found Hogan with his girlfriend. He said that the other person had some of the evidence. Eventually they got a hold of him and he placed the other items in front of a church.
Only other gem I found in there is a quote as stated by brian's room mate when she urged him not to sell the phone as it would ruin Robert Powel's image he told her "Sucks for him. He lost his phone. Shouldn't have lost his phone"
we need to come up with an appropriate tag for these types of articles. I don't even want to give them the satisfaction of a hit count so they can go "ohh look, we got a million hits to this article, people must love these multi-page advert-laden articles, lets do more!"
Link? Apple has a pretty extensive developer site at http://developer.apple.com/ so if there was a way for non-apple devices to work in itunes then it should be documented there. I'm not even going to bother looking because if such a document existed there would be a lot more devices that support itunes. If this interoperable standard exists then palm would much prefer to use that instead of this constant can and mouse game of changing vendor id's.
This is why I don't understand why Sony doesn't do this. Supposedly the ps1 games are selling good, why not add ps2 games to that list? And it's not like they don't know how to code the software compatibility because it was in the launch 60gb ps3 (I think). Just seems like a no brainer to me as it's something that would make money. Although sony never really seems to "get it" when it comes to... anything
Open up dictionary app on os x, or even just use the spotlight search (dictionary gives you more suggestions though) and you can search for any of the common 4 letter swear words. The word that fuck has a TON of suggestions as to what you mean all include said word. Also all the other words you mention can be found in the dictionary app on os x.
OMGPONIES I've posted in here, added my WoW character, posted a journal entry, and they don't show up!!
Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.
Rounding errors, gets them every time...
Remember the story not too long ago about a XSS vulnerability that essentially let you display your own content on an EV certified SSL page? Even a $500+ certificate can't protect against buggy sites. One of the bigger annoyances with firefox 3 is what happens when you go to a site with a certificate that is not valid (self-signed, untrusted CA, expired, etc). You see a page styled similar to the server not found messages. You then have to click on like 4 things with one of them saying that its really bad to do this, etc before you can continue. The time where "valid" certificates I'd encourage are for sites that do payments in some way. Imagine if your bank was suddenly using a self signed cert for login? I've used http://cacert.org/ for years now for the various admin sections of sites. Browsers still don't recognize it as a real ca but adding them is trivial and they are listed in the latest editions of most Linux distros. Its nice not having to add exceptions for all these certs, but can't make self signed ones that last 10 years either
Since they didn't mention how to do this in the security advisory, or give you a warning message when you apply the update that you should regen your keys here's how to regenerate the host keys. Either log in as root or put sudo before each of these (this should work remotely, I didn't have problems but YMMV)
rm -frm -f
ssh-keygen -b 1024 -N '' -f
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -N '' -f
You'll then be asked about the key changing next time you log in.
I just spent all day updating servers. Doesn't sound so bad till you realize all these servers also had client keys used for remote backups that had to be recreated and verified, etc.
The reason we couldn't use parallels even if wanted to is because of the resources. Both of these comptuers are for remote downloads of POS terminals. So they both have a couple modems in them. Rest of the hardware is pretty modest. To move those to parallels would require a really beefy computer as you would need the power to run a couple VM's as well as the host OS as well as needing a larger modem bank.
My "introduction" to macs--aside from school--was at my current job. I am a web developer/it manager. I first thought it was odd everyone used macs but after I got used to it I'm glad. The amount of questions asking about their computer locking up or not being able to print or something is practically nil. When something doesn't work it's usually something more significant than just the windows "shut down and reboot" mantra.
EVERY employee uses a mac. From graphics designers (of course) to the IT department to accounts receivable and billing. From an IT standpoint being able to have a native terminal to ssh to remote servers is very handy. Yes I know of cygwin but terminal on mac is just there. We literally only have two windows machines only because of some software that only works on windows.
I came across that site only recently. I've done that for years (leaving space in front of you and just tapping the break every so often). I always did it so it's less wear on the brakes, turns out I was helping "absorb" the smaller traffic jams from everyone else tailgating.
I've started to run into this problem myself from using del.icio.us as my primary bookmark source. One of my current issues is not what tags other people are using, but what tags I am using. Currently I have a lot of overlapping tags. I did some cleanup lately so that 'photos' and 'photo' are in a single tag, etc.
I started to look around and found there have been a lot of standardizations of topic maps. Although intended more for very large systems (think government sized systems categorizing millions of documents). The UK government has a topic system called the e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS). The schema is browsable online. Another good article is The TAO of Topic Maps (also in pdf)
I think there should be a basic standard to avoid situations like the photo/photos tags above. But I think that should be as far as it goes. The good thing about tagging on most sites is you are not limited. The bad thing about tagging on most sites is you are not limited.
Honestly, writing your password down isn't as bad as it first seems. I've heard this argument several times by security professionals. The trick is telling them "Protect that password like you protect your social security number." You always hear of the people that put their password on a post it note and then throw it under their keyboard or stick it to their monitor. I'll admit when I change the password for financial sites I access, the password is usually so complicated I don't immediately memorize. But I'll write down just the password, no login information or any indication of what it is, and I'll keep in a secure location. After a week or two I'll have it memorized and I can safely destroy the paper containing the password.
1) Japan, no brainer. I went there on vacation earlier in the year and to say I was impressed is an understatement. The politness there was just astonishing. People didn't just point you in the right direction, there were a few times where someone would actually walk with us a couple blocks to where we can actually see where we had to go. The public transit system for the areas we were in (from Tokyo down to Hiroshima) was amazaing. Even in what seemed like rural towns you could get anywhere by just knowing where the nearest train station or bus station is. And akihabara
2) Language barrier, although if I really studied it for a few years I could have good enough conversational skills that I could get a job there. Although I do see IT jobs over there, they all require conversational japanese proficiency, both written and verbal. Also Japanese are not very accepting of foreigners. Yes, I mentioned above they're extremely polite, so polite they won't insult you to your face, but may mention it later. Getting a decent place to live can be difficult as well as there isn't any "equal opportunity" rights there. If you're not Asian, don't know Japanese enough, or the rentor is having a bad day, they don't have to rent a place to you, deal with it. About the only ways that you could live in Japan are a) sponsorship from a business in Japan (possible, but good luck), b) marry someone with japanese citizenship (any hot ladies out there with japanese citizenship feel free to contact me), or c) enroll in one the teaching programs, but that isn't a permanent thing (unless you achieve method b while teaching over there).
So yeah, while it would be great if I could live there, I'm not too hopeful about it. Although who knows what could happen.
Taken from experience, after hunting around trying to find where to contact support to report a bug, I get a canned response that doesn't help at all. Reply to the message, with the canned response in the reply, saying that is of no help, and get a reply back with the exact same canned message! Maybe they really do have monkey's working there. At least that would be one cool thing about myspace.
I just find it funny myspace initially came about because friendster's site was slow and crappy (they've sinced moved over to php and the site is extremely stable, probably because no one uses it). Now that myspace is slow and crappy all the emo wannabe's just mope and be all emo like and put up with it.
I use iCal as I use a mac at work. I then publish it to a site and then link to that in gCal. So if I need to see something and I'm at a computer I can check gCal. If I'm on the road iCal syncs to my iPod so I have everything there. And I have been known to just print out a page or two and stuff it in my wallet