In America I'd argue that class is not primarily hereditary, but that class still present nonetheless.
It's more the sum of past experiences for a person and availability of new experiences as well as attainability of different material goods.
Thus Ronald Reagan would be considered solidly upper class post-acting-career despite being born low class.
Class mobility is much easier here (in America) in that sense, the studies indicating class mobility is difficult and/or getting more difficult are mainly reflecting the fact it is very difficult and getting more difficult to amass (or lose) enough assets to cross a class boundary.
pssh tcpmp - plays movies ptunes - mp3s and such audible.com's player for ebooks plucker for free ebooks eatwatch so I don't swell up chatter - best email client tomtom navigator - don't leave home without the gps fob... verichat for chatting fileprog - a better file browser an unzip utility so I can download from the web my subway/train schedule card export - turns the phone into a usb mass-storage device LJP - a nintendo emulator (also gameboy and sega and tgfx etc) niggle - a free scrabble emulator
Paid leave is just another form of compensation as well, I mean, if he has half the salary, what's half a year off? As a previous poster said, never jump to conclusions, or assume you know how or why someone is compensated
Definitely try to whip the vendor into shape, but have you considered running the application in a quarantine area, like a VMware VM?
It's trivial nowadays at least to set up separate little compartmentalized computers and networks, though I recognize that the carry-cost (virtual services are still supported services and need monitoring and troubleshooting and backups, etc etc) it would at least get around the privilege issue.
If this is totally non-helpful, sorry, it was the only thing I could think of:-)
I completely disagree about using PC-specific tools. I agree that tools should be simple, but if you use fat-client-based, opaque documents to store your information, you will not be able to easily grow your department (even temporarily), you will not be able to take vacations and hand off tasks to other people, you will not be able to deal with things remotely, and you'll have all the versioning problems that you normally get when you have unstructured data in big blobs.
There are great free/open tools out there that are trivial to install on whatever platform you want, and you are really doing yourself a disservice if you don't use them.
I mean, just a barebones setup of bugzilla, mediawiki, mailman and cvs/viewcvs and you're distributed right there. You should be able to get those going in a day or two. Throw nagios in (along with a few days to get everything monitored...) and now everything's on the network. Hand the passwords to someone else, and take a vacation, and things don't crumble
It's really a people problem though - someone needed to throttle that dude.
Something every wiki should do is be able to send out nightly change reports (a la Confluence - it does this, not sure if others do). That way everyone can see nightly changes if they want. Many now are also allowing you to subscribe via RSS to updates etc - this also helps mightily.
Combine that feature with search, and you can update documentation easily, but you also solve the "where did it go?" and "what changed?" problems that updating documentation quickly causes.
Unless someone is changing things 80 hours a week, of course
We're a small consulting shop, and the guys that do the in-house IT are expected to be full-time billable.
Issue tracking
JIRA (from Atlassian.com). Bugzilla could work though
Documentation
Confluence (also from Atlassian). Any Wiki could work.
Communication
Mailman - we have one operator mailing list, root mail all goes there and we have discussions there
Config Control
CVS - If you alter it from the stock install, it should be in CVS. Subversion would work. Use "activitymail" to send CVS commit messages with diffs to your operator mailing list. Now if a machine dies, you don't care
Monitoring
Nagios and MRTG - If I expect a computer to be providing a service, everything that I can obvserve about that service will be monitored so we can detect failures quickly and fix them, and see patterns over time. Nagios sends alerts to the operator mailing list. MRTG is used to see how bandwidth is trending.
Updates
Yum - we have our own yum repository, with our own packages in there. If I am using something on more than two servers, I package it up for easier maintenance
VPN links
PPP over SSH - nothing fancy, but it works.
Backups
rsync - we have a cascading backup where cron dumps data on a machine, then rsync carries it to a central machine, then that machine rsyncs over a VPN link to an off-site machine
Secret storage
GPG - we keep passwords in GPG-encrypted files. If you need them, I encrypt it with your public key, and you can see them.
Authn/Authz
LDAP - we use pam-ldap for access control everywhere, and mod_auth_ldap on the web stuff. It's not SSO, but it is single-password. That's key
The combination of these things keeps everything in line. In particular, I'll point out that each part works together in such a way that there is only one place to check documentation (the wiki), one place to check for a work queue (the issue tracker) and one place to check for state information and discussion (the mailing list). That makes it easy to deal with, easy to delegate etc.
Also, you'll note that on a day-to-day basis, unless something breaks, there is no work required. That's huge. If the status quo requires any work at all, you'll eventually hit a scaling limit. The only thing that should require work is either a migration, an upgrade, or an expansion. And of those, upgrades should be easy to (nagios, yum and version control help there)
You know, I always see these claims from people that I will slanderously label as Supplement or Organic Nutjobs (tm)
I have some questions before I'm prepared to believe such claims:
1) which pollutants? 2) where are they hanging out? 3) how are they cleared? 4) how do you know you haven't triggered unintended consequences?
The green tea and birth control pills things seems unsubstantiated based on a moderate-effort internet scan.
Please provide citations for your assertions. Peer-reviewed research with reproducible methodology descriptions (that have been reproduced...) win bonus points.
Was reading recently that you can get pulled over on a traffic stop for making no mistakes, as that fits the pattern of a drug mule (they drive *perfectly* apparently?) and as long as it fits a criminal pattern it is up to the officer's discretion.
Combined with the ability to take you in and lock you up temporarily* once you have been stopped, also completely at the officer's discretion things just don't look so free anymore.
I, for one, was shocked when I read that. I really wish I had a link to the story as it seemed pretty reputable, but without backup you'll just have to hunt for yourself or be careful. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?
* for very large values of temporary, if you are an "enemy combatant"
My stock answer in these situations is that nature provides hemlock too, and it's All Natural(tm)!
Seriously, I believe nature provides and curry might just be the tonic that cures all (or alzheimers at least), I just want to see some repeatable peer-reviewed studies, that's all.
Anything else must be regarded as profit-motive-based until then. Herbalists usually aren't non-profit, after all
Hey - you could certainly be right, though I would be sad if you were.
I see it a bit different though, miniaturization being what it is, and the Treo 650 already being so close to a general purpose computer, we'll just see those bizarre MIT Media Lab / Snowcrash gargoyle visions come to pass. And you just can't keep Linux off general-purpose computers - price pressures dictate standardization which dictates open interfaces, and the next thing you know, there's Linux and the BSDs running happily on them.
All with a 1 year lag for adequate hardware support, of course, but still.
That was the least coherent post I've seen in a while.
Have you seen the treo 650? I watch movies on it on it's screen.
What was your point again? Because I have no idea, but you seem so intent on something, I really am curious:-)
For the record, I don't think the 700w is a bad thing - there are people that will always use MacOS and people who will always use Windows, would it be bad for Dell to sell them both the hardware? Because that's how the PalmSource / Palm relationship is now. Palm can sell everyone the hardware now, regardless of what OS they want.
And I'll continue to pick the PalmOS ones, because the UI is nicer (a la MacOS for desktops...)
As an American, I have to say, my compatriots frequently and quite unintentionally provide some of the best people-watching by completely missing irony. Always good for a quick chuckle.
As my high school chemstry teacher said, it takes alkynes.
People take dangerous jobs for money, and people will die for fame too. Plastic surgery of all types has possibly hideous side effects (including death) and yet people go in for non-body-mass related cosmetic procedures all the time.
It seems to me that people don't value chances of death very well actually, so I wouldn't take people's reactions to mortality rates very seriously.
To wit - everyone gets in a snit about bird flu, but Hepatitis, TB and multi-drug resistant staph are each going to kill you a few times first, not to mention driving to work. They just don't have a good PR company I guess.
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You've posted a couple times in here, each time with good insight and good points. Though the slightly arrogant people you're posting antagonistically in reply to deserve it, they have some good points too.
It really does boil down to personal responsibility in nearly all situations. Yes, there are reasons it may not, but the percentage is not large.
Eat right and exercise still works, even if you are infected with something that makes chickens pre-disposed to a high body mass index.
Check out The Hacker's Diet (googlable) if you haven't seen it before. Worth it and highly effective. It has all the typical biological blah blah blah, but in the abstract, it shows you how to discover your basal metabolism using an easy feedback mechanism (I use the palm application, but there are spreadsheets too).
If you combine that with a meal plan (aka food diary), and don't cheat (most people's downfall) it just plain works.
The "I'm better than them" comment resonates though. Perhaps in a time when we're all awash in high fructose corn syrup we all need to be a bit better for ourselves, against our nature. No one else is going to do it for us, that's for sure - it's too profitable to make us fat, and profitable again to treat the symptoms of metabolic disease.
The discipline to be better is, sadly, just a bit too tedious for most people. Who enjoys counting calories? Its not real good for dinner party conversation, that's for sure.
I just built and tested RAID1 arrays on the Ultra320 SCSI bus of a couple Dell 1750s.
More than hotswap even, I was able to hot-kill one drive, pull it, replace it with a bigger drive, hot-enable it and have it sync. *Then* I was able to do the same with the original drive, giving me two bigger drives in the machine.
For the final trick, I was able to online resize the software raid partition and ext3 filesystems on the device, the whole time leaving the machine up and running.
The lesson here is: never trust anecdotal advice, especially from goofballs on slashdot that think they know everything.
If you have a requirement ("we need hotswap"), test the requirement and set your operational plans based on the test results. Not that hard...
Also, and back on topic, the software raid driver has a couple new modes, raid10 (similar to raid1+0, but with some extra features) and raid6 (essentially raid5 with an extra synced up spare). Those bear looking into.
Additionally, in the raid1 and raid5 modes, the newest versions of the software driver have the ability to auto-fix the bad sectors that are so common on the newest consumer drives.
The last advice I can give is to never, ever, ever, ever forget that RAID keeps you running when things go bad, but it IS NOT a substitute for backups.
Back your data up. Test restoring it semi-frequently. If you already know that from experience, you'll at least appreciate why I'm yelling about it:-)
All the Californians I know (and I live here) recycle bunches.
"They" make it pretty easy, and "they" take pretty much everything for recycling so you can recycle just about everything that comes in the house.
To the point where if I don't take my recycling out every week, it backs up in the house, whereas I only need to take the trash out every three weeks or so. For reference, that's two people (not so much trash), and I get a newspaper (more paper).
You should tell your Californian contacts to get with the program - seriously - recycling is easy and what kind of slob are you if you can't even do that for the planet? Shameful, imho.
The 'creds' only accumulate enough to be worth anything to people that don't deserve them.
Among any circle of friends a/.'er is going to have, simply having something be verifiably posted (which they all are) is cool enough.
Having it feed back into sort of thing that creates economic value (like PageRank when nofollow isn't used) is just looking to be gained.
nofollow eliminates the problem by taking the economic value out of it, and that's the only way to eliminate the appearance of impropriety and get the discussion back.
Well hey, you definitely have my best wishes in this endeavor, Schneier or no.
I'm a CA voter myself (even had a polling place in my garage one year) and care a lot, but it never seems like there's a lot that can be done to keep the process itself clean.
Subject says it all. I was under the impression Perens was an open source advocate and may have some security cred, but wouldn't Schneier be the natural choice?
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In America I'd argue that class is not primarily hereditary, but that class still present nonetheless.
It's more the sum of past experiences for a person and availability of new experiences as well as attainability of different material goods.
Thus Ronald Reagan would be considered solidly upper class post-acting-career despite being born low class.
Class mobility is much easier here (in America) in that sense, the studies indicating class mobility is difficult and/or getting more difficult are mainly reflecting the fact it is very difficult and getting more difficult to amass (or lose) enough assets to cross a class boundary.
Nice - guess I should have known one of those would exist, I've got a friend that was sort of torn as to whether to switch, this might be for him.
Some of the apps I cited will work on both at least, but I do think it's a bit funny that handhelds have enough power to emulate other handhelds now.
I wonder if the PPC phone the guy got has enough oomph to emulate a palm running LJP emulating a nintendo...
pssh
tcpmp - plays movies
ptunes - mp3s and such
audible.com's player for ebooks
plucker for free ebooks
eatwatch so I don't swell up
chatter - best email client
tomtom navigator - don't leave home without the gps fob...
verichat for chatting
fileprog - a better file browser
an unzip utility so I can download from the web
my subway/train schedule
card export - turns the phone into a usb mass-storage device
LJP - a nintendo emulator (also gameboy and sega and tgfx etc)
niggle - a free scrabble emulator
I guess that's it.
Paid leave is just another form of compensation as well, I mean, if he has half the salary, what's half a year off? As a previous poster said, never jump to conclusions, or assume you know how or why someone is compensated
Definitely try to whip the vendor into shape, but have you considered running the application in a quarantine area, like a VMware VM?
:-)
It's trivial nowadays at least to set up separate little compartmentalized computers and networks, though I recognize that the carry-cost (virtual services are still supported services and need monitoring and troubleshooting and backups, etc etc) it would at least get around the privilege issue.
If this is totally non-helpful, sorry, it was the only thing I could think of
I completely disagree about using PC-specific tools. I agree that tools should be simple, but if you use fat-client-based, opaque documents to store your information, you will not be able to easily grow your department (even temporarily), you will not be able to take vacations and hand off tasks to other people, you will not be able to deal with things remotely, and you'll have all the versioning problems that you normally get when you have unstructured data in big blobs.
There are great free/open tools out there that are trivial to install on whatever platform you want, and you are really doing yourself a disservice if you don't use them.
I mean, just a barebones setup of bugzilla, mediawiki, mailman and cvs/viewcvs and you're distributed right there. You should be able to get those going in a day or two. Throw nagios in (along with a few days to get everything monitored...) and now everything's on the network. Hand the passwords to someone else, and take a vacation, and things don't crumble
Wow, that is horrible.
It's really a people problem though - someone needed to throttle that dude.
Something every wiki should do is be able to send out nightly change reports (a la Confluence - it does this, not sure if others do). That way everyone can see nightly changes if they want. Many now are also allowing you to subscribe via RSS to updates etc - this also helps mightily.
Combine that feature with search, and you can update documentation easily, but you also solve the "where did it go?" and "what changed?" problems that updating documentation quickly causes.
Unless someone is changing things 80 hours a week, of course
The combination of these things keeps everything in line. In particular, I'll point out that each part works together in such a way that there is only one place to check documentation (the wiki), one place to check for a work queue (the issue tracker) and one place to check for state information and discussion (the mailing list). That makes it easy to deal with, easy to delegate etc.
Also, you'll note that on a day-to-day basis, unless something breaks, there is no work required. That's huge. If the status quo requires any work at all, you'll eventually hit a scaling limit. The only thing that should require work is either a migration, an upgrade, or an expansion. And of those, upgrades should be easy to (nagios, yum and version control help there)
You know, I always see these claims from people that I will slanderously label as Supplement or Organic Nutjobs (tm)
I have some questions before I'm prepared to believe such claims:
1) which pollutants?
2) where are they hanging out?
3) how are they cleared?
4) how do you know you haven't triggered unintended consequences?
The green tea and birth control pills things seems unsubstantiated based on a moderate-effort internet scan.
Please provide citations for your assertions. Peer-reviewed research with reproducible methodology descriptions (that have been reproduced...) win bonus points.
Was reading recently that you can get pulled over on a traffic stop for making no mistakes, as that fits the pattern of a drug mule (they drive *perfectly* apparently?) and as long as it fits a criminal pattern it is up to the officer's discretion.
Combined with the ability to take you in and lock you up temporarily* once you have been stopped, also completely at the officer's discretion things just don't look so free anymore.
I, for one, was shocked when I read that. I really wish I had a link to the story as it seemed pretty reputable, but without backup you'll just have to hunt for yourself or be careful. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?
* for very large values of temporary, if you are an "enemy combatant"
That actually looks well-done - I should have looked before I posted since your link was in fact quite good
Hopefully it bears out with repetition and/or higher-level mammals
My stock answer in these situations is that nature provides hemlock too, and it's All Natural(tm)!
Seriously, I believe nature provides and curry might just be the tonic that cures all (or alzheimers at least), I just want to see some repeatable peer-reviewed studies, that's all.
Anything else must be regarded as profit-motive-based until then. Herbalists usually aren't non-profit, after all
Hey - you could certainly be right, though I would be sad if you were.
I see it a bit different though, miniaturization being what it is, and the Treo 650 already being so close to a general purpose computer, we'll just see those bizarre MIT Media Lab / Snowcrash gargoyle visions come to pass. And you just can't keep Linux off general-purpose computers - price pressures dictate standardization which dictates open interfaces, and the next thing you know, there's Linux and the BSDs running happily on them.
All with a 1 year lag for adequate hardware support, of course, but still.
I hope, anyway
That was the least coherent post I've seen in a while.
:-)
Have you seen the treo 650? I watch movies on it on it's screen.
What was your point again? Because I have no idea, but you seem so intent on something, I really am curious
For the record, I don't think the 700w is a bad thing - there are people that will always use MacOS and people who will always use Windows, would it be bad for Dell to sell them both the hardware? Because that's how the PalmSource / Palm relationship is now. Palm can sell everyone the hardware now, regardless of what OS they want.
And I'll continue to pick the PalmOS ones, because the UI is nicer (a la MacOS for desktops...)
As an American, I have to say, my compatriots frequently and quite unintentionally provide some of the best people-watching by completely missing irony. Always good for a quick chuckle.
As my high school chemstry teacher said, it takes alkynes.
People take dangerous jobs for money, and people will die for fame too. Plastic surgery of all types has possibly hideous side effects (including death) and yet people go in for non-body-mass related cosmetic procedures all the time.
It seems to me that people don't value chances of death very well actually, so I wouldn't take people's reactions to mortality rates very seriously.
To wit - everyone gets in a snit about bird flu, but Hepatitis, TB and multi-drug resistant staph are each going to kill you a few times first, not to mention driving to work. They just don't have a good PR company I guess.
You've posted a couple times in here, each time with good insight and good points. Though the slightly arrogant people you're posting antagonistically in reply to deserve it, they have some good points too.
It really does boil down to personal responsibility in nearly all situations. Yes, there are reasons it may not, but the percentage is not large.
Eat right and exercise still works, even if you are infected with something that makes chickens pre-disposed to a high body mass index.
Check out The Hacker's Diet (googlable) if you haven't seen it before. Worth it and highly effective. It has all the typical biological blah blah blah, but in the abstract, it shows you how to discover your basal metabolism using an easy feedback mechanism (I use the palm application, but there are spreadsheets too).
If you combine that with a meal plan (aka food diary), and don't cheat (most people's downfall) it just plain works.
The "I'm better than them" comment resonates though. Perhaps in a time when we're all awash in high fructose corn syrup we all need to be a bit better for ourselves, against our nature. No one else is going to do it for us, that's for sure - it's too profitable to make us fat, and profitable again to treat the symptoms of metabolic disease.
The discipline to be better is, sadly, just a bit too tedious for most people. Who enjoys counting calories? Its not real good for dinner party conversation, that's for sure.
I just built and tested RAID1 arrays on the Ultra320 SCSI bus of a couple Dell 1750s.
More than hotswap even, I was able to hot-kill one drive, pull it, replace it with a bigger drive, hot-enable it and have it sync. *Then* I was able to do the same with the original drive, giving me two bigger drives in the machine.
For the final trick, I was able to online resize the software raid partition and ext3 filesystems on the device, the whole time leaving the machine up and running.
The lesson here is: never trust anecdotal advice, especially from goofballs on slashdot that think they know everything.
If you have a requirement ("we need hotswap"), test the requirement and set your operational plans based on the test results. Not that hard...
Also, and back on topic, the software raid driver has a couple new modes, raid10 (similar to raid1+0, but with some extra features) and raid6 (essentially raid5 with an extra synced up spare). Those bear looking into.
Additionally, in the raid1 and raid5 modes, the newest versions of the software driver have the ability to auto-fix the bad sectors that are so common on the newest consumer drives.
The last advice I can give is to never, ever, ever, ever forget that RAID keeps you running when things go bad, but it IS NOT a substitute for backups.
Back your data up. Test restoring it semi-frequently. If you already know that from experience, you'll at least appreciate why I'm yelling about it
All the Californians I know (and I live here) recycle bunches.
"They" make it pretty easy, and "they" take pretty much everything for recycling so you can recycle just about everything that comes in the house.
To the point where if I don't take my recycling out every week, it backs up in the house, whereas I only need to take the trash out every three weeks or so. For reference, that's two people (not so much trash), and I get a newspaper (more paper).
You should tell your Californian contacts to get with the program - seriously - recycling is easy and what kind of slob are you if you can't even do that for the planet? Shameful, imho.
Gotta agree here. Nofollow.
/.'er is going to have, simply having something be verifiably posted (which they all are) is cool enough.
The 'creds' only accumulate enough to be worth anything to people that don't deserve them.
Among any circle of friends a
Having it feed back into sort of thing that creates economic value (like PageRank when nofollow isn't used) is just looking to be gained.
nofollow eliminates the problem by taking the economic value out of it, and that's the only way to eliminate the appearance of impropriety and get the discussion back.
Flamebait? Sheesh.
He provided a link to the back story, it had a smiley...who are you people?
Its not like he farted in church or anything.
This is slashdot, the home of stupid in-jokes, and I expect a better reception.
I love TDIs, but I've got to nitpick. The batteries are NiMH. Not Lead-Acid - so no worries about a big slosh of hydrochloric in a wreck or anything.
Anything you need but don't bring will make you more of a burden on the area
And I can't imagine those folks need anything more than destroyed things torn down and new things put up
Its possible to get army-strength DEET (I think its DEET? That's phonetic) bug repellant at surplus stores. That might come in handy.
Well hey, you definitely have my best wishes in this endeavor, Schneier or no.
I'm a CA voter myself (even had a polling place in my garage one year) and care a lot, but it never seems like there's a lot that can be done to keep the process itself clean.
I'll follow this, as I'd love to see that change.
Subject says it all. I was under the impression Perens was an open source advocate and may have some security cred, but wouldn't Schneier be the natural choice?