I do work for a credit card company, we do put in systems to detect fraud / money laundering (amongst other things), in some countries there also regulatory requirements for these systems.
Just don't, what ever else you do, when he says, that will take a couple of days, go to my, I mean his bosses boss to get your job bumped up the list. That ways lies purgatory.....
I worked for a large pharmaceutical company and we got some (non critical) patches ahead of release schedule. This was as a result of cooperation between Cisco and MS and obviously so that the patches could be tested on a large scale.
I would welcome MS handing patches to large corporate customers and breaking their computers before they break mine.
ACtually, as someone who lives in Sweden, this is something of a misconception, Sweden is actually rather heavily governed with an immense and overarching bureacracy for which we pay huge amounts of tax. This is a country which seeks to regulate everything. Example:- There was a proposal floated earlier this year to use age limits to control access to music concerts with high volume levels. Quite how it would known in advance how loud a concert was going to be remains open to question......
The only reason it hasnt got around to digital media yet is that the bureaucracy just hasn't understood it until know.....
Well I recommend the West Indies, specifically Martinique, good climate, not too hot, nice food, and generally rather civilised. Although Bequia is nice too, but net-connectivity could be an issue.
As a consultant who has worked for a wide range of company types..... from isp's to government organisations, I have observed that the closer a businesses managerial competences are aligned with engineering competence, the less likely they are to have hangups over the tool you use to get the job done. As you get further out on the edges, the more inclined managers seem to want you use "whatever our main system runs" to fix problems....
So when one of your nasty American corporations attack my mp3 server in Sweden, an activity which we here in the civilised world would look askance upon, I wonder if I will be able to extradite the culprits and sue them in Sweden under Swedish law?
I have also found in the past some interesting ip addresses attempting to connect on 1214 that seem belong to.mil domains....can't wait to see what response the mpaa get when they try a ddos an some redneck with access to an f16
I live in Sweden, and it is actually a bit redundant as you can just stick a notice on your door saying "Ingen Reklam tack" and the vast majority of doorflap stuffers will comply.
Quit whining, it took my isp 7 months to send out an email to it's customers advising them to manually set their network cards to full-duplex or if this was impossible, ask for the switch port to be set to half duplex, as their switches were incapable of negotiating this properly. I know it was seven months because I spent nearly 5 hours explaining this to about 5 different people. Bless em....
I used to work for a large manufacturer. I handled at various times 1st and 2nd level support. Two majors factors influenced the level of support I was able to give.
1. The quality of the information I had from our developers
2. The quality of information from the customer.
item 2 has been done to death here.
Item one however is interesting. The pace of developement of technology and the perceived need to be first to the marketplace has led to a situation where products are shipped that don't work, the people who are then supposed to support them do not have the documentation necessary and in several instances where I worked, haven't even seen the goddamned kit before.
We also had quite clearly delineated quality of service criteria. Different machines aimed at different markets had different production lines / burn in procedures, so at times, when you got a call about machine X you knew it wasn't really worth your while to try and "fix" the problem...because those machines were a pile of utter crap.
You have to ask however why the situation exists and the only answer I have been able to come up is that people vote with their wallet. Where we made products that were specifically designed and marketed towards quality / reliability, the costs usually escalated such that there was no apparently economically viable price/performance/reliabilty equation. At least, not one anyone other than government / military types were prepared to pay for (with our money of course!)
Its always sunny in Californieyea..so I've been told, so why don't you all just put some bigole solar arrays up on the roof? oh and stop downloading all that porn and mp3's and warez and you wouldn't need so many hard disks....
I hear you bro! Well as someone coming from a very similar angle, pretty much every task I have needed to do in NT....dns / mail / firewalling / network monitoring has simply been that much easier and more transparent than NT / 2K. With 'nix type machines, imho and limited experience and especially with open source 'nixes, you have a better chance of: a) making it work, b) understanding why/how it works and c) fixing it when it don't. There is also another plus, it has opened my eyes to a much wider range of techniques for solving problems in the windows world. A lot of 'nix utilities are now ported to win32 and can be used in both environments. If nothing else, learning something new never killed anyone (more or less)
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I do work for a credit card company, we do put in systems to detect fraud / money laundering (amongst other things), in some countries there also regulatory requirements for these systems.
Just don't, what ever else you do, when he says, that will take a couple of days, go to my, I mean his bosses boss to get your job bumped up the list. That ways lies purgatory.....
Gmail from G&R has existed for many years (and is
actually a real mail client) I wonder if there are talking to Google!
> There's a lot of negativity floating around about FreeBSD 5.x lately.
perhaps because it runs like a dog compared with 4.x on the same smp hardware and anyone who points this out just gets flamed on -current
hhhm given the generally sucky performance of 5.3 I'd stick with 4.11
because "insert your favourite game here" runs 9% slower now
I worked for a large pharmaceutical company and we got some (non critical) patches ahead of release schedule. This was as a result of cooperation between Cisco and MS and obviously so that
the patches could be tested on a large scale.
I would welcome MS handing patches to large corporate customers and breaking their computers before they break mine.
Well I dunno bout that but his last flight was mysteriously rerouted to Guantanamo Bay and we aint heard from him since.....
ACtually, as someone who lives in Sweden, this is something of a misconception, Sweden is actually rather heavily governed with an immense and overarching bureacracy for which we pay huge amounts of tax. This is a country which seeks to regulate everything. Example:- There was a proposal floated earlier this year to use age limits to control access to music concerts with high volume levels. Quite how it would known in advance how loud a concert was going to be remains open to question......
The only reason it hasnt got around to digital media yet is that the bureaucracy just hasn't understood it until know.....
Well I recommend the West Indies, specifically Martinique, good climate, not too hot, nice food,
and generally rather civilised. Although Bequia is nice too, but net-connectivity could be an issue.
As a consultant who has worked for a wide range of company types..... from isp's to government organisations, I have observed that the closer a businesses managerial competences are aligned with engineering competence, the less likely they are to have hangups over the tool you use to get the job done. As you get further out on the edges, the more inclined managers seem to want you use "whatever our main system runs" to fix problems....
So when one of your nasty American corporations attack my mp3 server in Sweden, an activity which we here in the civilised world would look askance upon, I wonder if I will be able to extradite the culprits and sue them in Sweden under Swedish law?
.mil domains....can't wait to see what response the mpaa get when they try a ddos an some redneck with access to an f16
I have also found in the past some interesting ip addresses attempting to connect on 1214 that seem belong to
and nobody talks about the attacks that are undetected at all........
I live in Sweden, and it is actually a bit redundant as you can just stick a notice on your door saying "Ingen Reklam tack" and the vast majority of doorflap stuffers will comply.
and a package is the binary version....so you can
do:
make package
which will compile and install the port (from source) and also create a binary package you can then add to your other machines.....Hoo Har!
I had the old edition and bought the new edition and being incredily lazy am still looking for a way to join the two indexes.....ah well... htdig
Now we know where Packard Bell gets its parts from
whhhooooaaaahh Hope you've checked out the "new" ;-)
license for ipfilter
why not go all the way and run dos and the citrix dos client ;-)
Quit whining, it took my isp 7 months to send out an email to it's customers advising them to manually set their network cards to full-duplex or if this was impossible, ask for the switch port to be set to half duplex, as their switches were incapable of negotiating this properly. I know it was seven months because I spent nearly 5 hours explaining this to about 5 different people. Bless em....
I used to work for a large manufacturer. I handled at various times 1st and 2nd level support. Two majors factors influenced the level of support I was able to give.
1. The quality of the information I had from our developers
2. The quality of information from the customer.
item 2 has been done to death here.
Item one however is interesting. The pace of developement of technology and the perceived need to be first to the marketplace has led to a situation where products are shipped that don't work, the people who are then supposed to support them do not have the documentation necessary and in several instances where I worked, haven't even seen the goddamned kit before.
We also had quite clearly delineated quality of service criteria. Different machines aimed at different markets had different production lines / burn in procedures, so at times, when you got a call about machine X you knew it wasn't really worth your while to try and "fix" the problem...because those machines were a pile of utter crap.
You have to ask however why the situation exists and the only answer I have been able to come up is that people vote with their wallet. Where we made products that were specifically designed and marketed towards quality / reliability, the costs usually escalated such that there was no apparently economically viable price/performance/reliabilty equation. At least, not one anyone other than government / military types were prepared to pay for (with our money of course!)
I just hope they give http://curl.haxx.se/ the name back
Its always sunny in Californieyea..so I've been told, so why don't you all just put some bigole solar arrays up on the roof? oh and stop downloading all that porn and mp3's and warez and you wouldn't need so many hard disks....
Loyalty : something management use to keep you under control while they screw up a perfectly decent company / product / project
I hear you bro! Well as someone coming from a very similar angle, pretty much every task I have needed to do in NT....dns / mail / firewalling / network monitoring has simply been that much easier and more transparent than NT / 2K. With 'nix type machines, imho and limited experience and especially with open source 'nixes, you have a better chance of: a) making it work, b) understanding why/how it works and c) fixing it when it don't. There is also another plus, it has opened my eyes to a much wider range of techniques for solving problems in the windows world. A lot of 'nix utilities are now ported to win32 and can be used in both environments. If nothing else, learning something new never killed anyone (more or less)