Well, any techie worth their salt shouldn't consider FTP except in very special cases. Plaintext passwords is a huge security hole in the security models at most businesses.
I always encourage use of SFTP instead. However, most developers seem scared of SFTP for some reason. It's pretty much the same darn thing.
We were running Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. We've had 3 outages of more then 5 minutes in the last 18 months.
We just went through a huge merger and are now a Fortune 50 company. 4 months after the merger, the dual CTOs (Yes, there are two) published a very expensive looking 10 page glossy newsletter out to all 10000 people in the company saying that the companys server technolgy has been completely homogenized. 4 months? Yeah right...
They told us we were the odd one out, and they wanted to make our servers homogenous with the rest of the network. Fair enough.
So we get migrated to the new domain servers which are Windows 2003. After a couple weeks of crashes and outages, we yell at the techs in charge and they confess that this is the first Windows 2003 server at the company, and were were the guinea pigs for this experiement. They didn't bother to tell us beforehand.
Next, they move us to Exchange 2000, and we find out that only 1/3 of the company is on the new system, and half the company is still using Lotus Notes... they aren't homogenous at all!
I'm very careful these days to phrase my requests to be clear that the other person needs to take responsibility, if they can't take responsibility let me know, and that I expect a response from them in a timely manner.
Works ok in email, where there is a written record.
At my office, I was paged when the T-1 went down this AM. We don't yet know if it's a problem with the link, or a configuration problem on the router, or what.
2/3 of our 'business unit' has quit since the Parent company bought us. The parent company took away router management responsibilities from us a couple of months ago, and we've had a ton of outages since.
The techs at the parent company like to mess with our router without asking or warning anybody, there's never an audit trail of who did what, and nobody knows the names or phone numbers of the telecom people.
We need to call the corporate support desk ("Hello, the coffee holder is broken" low tier support) who then escalate the problem for us-- but we're lucky if the problem is escalated to the telecom people within 4 hours. Usually when I open a ticket, it bounces around a half dozen people and is eventually assigned to me. I can't fix the problem, I OPENED THE STUPID TICKET!
Last week, our connection to the corporate office was down for 50 hours. We called them 20 times, and received 2 phone calls in response.
Oh, and WTF does corporate loyalty have to do with anything?
Everything, when it comes to cigarettes.
You say the same things that every smoker says: I smoke because I like it, it makes me feel good, etc. Did you read those statements off the back of the cigarette box or what? Withdrawl sucks, I understand. Going without your cigarette sucks, tou feel better when you get the fix-- it's not exactly a new revelation now, is it?
What's your source? Are you perhaps confusing Tipper Gore with Hilary Clinton?
Those "Explicit Lyrics" labels are the result of lobbying actions of the Parents Music Resource Center, which was founded by Tipper Gore, Susan Baker & Nancy Thurmond-- wifes of 3 highly placed politicians, 1 Democrat & 2 Republicans.
The games are developed to attract their core audience: Teenage men and young adult men-- many of whom are whiny and filled with angst-- a bit like MTV.
There are plenty of stupid consumers. Anyone who spent $5,000 on a Plasma TV (Expected life of 5 years) for example, people who eat McDonalds hamburgers (WHICH TASTE NOTHING LIKE REAL BEEF!), people who smoke cigarettes. People who spend $1200 a year on cable are pretty close to stupid...
IM: Turn off logging and it's great for unrecorded, quick or asynnc. private conversations with coworkers. (I know it's unsecure-- not too concerned about that, being the admin & all).
If anyone starts using l33t speak during IM conversations, I'll run over to their desk and beat them with a wet noodle.
That's assuming that most people will buy and use MS-Linux exclusively.
As soon as Step Three happened, people would start migrating to a different version of Linux-- or forking the existing MS Linux project into something else.
When RedHat stopped releasing free versions of RedHat Linux after RH9 (Not talking about Fedora here), several organizations (such as CentOS) immediately started to maintain identical, free versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Sure, the field will reverse some day. But what does that have to do with alternative energy sources?
I can prepare for Magnetic Field Reversal like I can prepare for a really big comet-earth collision. I'd rather focus on the more likely tangable problems.
In my experience, Magnetic Field Reversal is a story mostly used by crackpots to sell survival equipment.
I went to College with people who fled to the hills to prepare for the eventual Magnetic Field Reversal-- that was supposed to happen around year 2000 (I told them that magnets don't follow the Christian calendar) Now it hasn't happened, so they moved the date to 2012, which is a signifigant date on the Mayan calendar.
In High School, I knew people who stocked up on supplies to prepare for Revelations, which they thought would start in 1996.
Not to bash this solar lighting system or anything, but the author of the article is a bit of a nutcase-- she wrote a whole article about how we're all doomed because of the impending Magnetic Field Revesal, and another article about a scientist was killed in a conspiratorial fashion because of his "new energy" discoveries, which apparently came from space aliens.
So take this article with a big grain of alien-free salt.
I remember seeing pictures of these on Japanese office buildings in the early 80s. They were called "Sunflowers", and they were mostly prototypes I think, and had a honeycomb set of collectors which piped the sunlight into the building.
I'm pretty sure that page is out of date. Maybe they do still use FC2 in the render farm, but they converted most or all of their desktops to MacOSX 1-2 years ago.
I don't actually know details about the render farm there... I was just assuming they customized the heck out of everything, like Google.
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What is the advantage of those over SFTP?
There seems to be a real lack of FTPS clients but plenty of SFTP clients.
And by installing OpenSSH, I gain access to other handy file transfer tools like SCP & Rsync over SSH which is incredibly powerful.
lack of FTP access
:)
Well, any techie worth their salt shouldn't consider FTP except in very special cases. Plaintext passwords is a huge security hole in the security models at most businesses.
I always encourage use of SFTP instead. However, most developers seem scared of SFTP for some reason. It's pretty much the same darn thing.
And I always allow NTP
We were running Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. We've had 3 outages of more then 5 minutes in the last 18 months.
... they aren't homogenous at all!
We just went through a huge merger and are now a Fortune 50 company. 4 months after the merger, the dual CTOs (Yes, there are two) published a very expensive looking 10 page glossy newsletter out to all 10000 people in the company saying that the companys server technolgy has been completely homogenized. 4 months? Yeah right...
They told us we were the odd one out, and they wanted to make our servers homogenous with the rest of the network. Fair enough.
So we get migrated to the new domain servers which are Windows 2003. After a couple weeks of crashes and outages, we yell at the techs in charge and they confess that this is the first Windows 2003 server at the company, and were were the guinea pigs for this experiement. They didn't bother to tell us beforehand.
Next, they move us to Exchange 2000, and we find out that only 1/3 of the company is on the new system, and half the company is still using Lotus Notes
Thanks for the advice. We're trying that :)
I'm very careful these days to phrase my requests to be clear that the other person needs to take responsibility, if they can't take responsibility let me know, and that I expect a response from them in a timely manner.
Works ok in email, where there is a written record.
At my office, I was paged when the T-1 went down this AM. We don't yet know if it's a problem with the link, or a configuration problem on the router, or what.
2/3 of our 'business unit' has quit since the Parent company bought us. The parent company took away router management responsibilities from us a couple of months ago, and we've had a ton of outages since.
The techs at the parent company like to mess with our router without asking or warning anybody, there's never an audit trail of who did what, and nobody knows the names or phone numbers of the telecom people.
We need to call the corporate support desk ("Hello, the coffee holder is broken" low tier support) who then escalate the problem for us-- but we're lucky if the problem is escalated to the telecom people within 4 hours. Usually when I open a ticket, it bounces around a half dozen people and is eventually assigned to me. I can't fix the problem, I OPENED THE STUPID TICKET!
Last week, our connection to the corporate office was down for 50 hours. We called them 20 times, and received 2 phone calls in response.
Oh, and WTF does corporate loyalty have to do with anything?
Everything, when it comes to cigarettes.
You say the same things that every smoker says: I smoke because I like it, it makes me feel good, etc. Did you read those statements off the back of the cigarette box or what? Withdrawl sucks, I understand. Going without your cigarette sucks, tou feel better when you get the fix-- it's not exactly a new revelation now, is it?
I'll smoke because I feel like it
I like it when smokers pretend they are being independant.
You smoke because they told you to, and you listened-- probably because they said you would look cool. Smoking is the ultimate in corporate loyalty.
Consumers have their reasons for what they do and buy,
Right... and sometimes those reasons are stupid. Smoking = stupid. Wasting hard earned money on crap = stupid.
successfully lobbied to get labels
What's your source? Are you perhaps confusing Tipper Gore with Hilary Clinton?
Those "Explicit Lyrics" labels are the result of lobbying actions of the Parents Music Resource Center, which was founded by Tipper Gore, Susan Baker & Nancy Thurmond-- wifes of 3 highly placed politicians, 1 Democrat & 2 Republicans.
It's simpler then that.
The games are developed to attract their core audience: Teenage men and young adult men-- many of whom are whiny and filled with angst-- a bit like MTV.
Consumers are not stupid.
...
There are plenty of stupid consumers. Anyone who spent $5,000 on a Plasma TV (Expected life of 5 years) for example, people who eat McDonalds hamburgers (WHICH TASTE NOTHING LIKE REAL BEEF!), people who smoke cigarettes. People who spend $1200 a year on cable are pretty close to stupid
Most consumers are sheep.
We usually discuss it beforehand.
Replace "POP" with "IMAP".
You can use any POP client to download the email from AOL. That's simple.
But uploading is the problem. Neither Gmail nor Yahoo Mail let you upload messages to their server.
IM: Turn off logging and it's great for unrecorded, quick or asynnc. private conversations with coworkers. (I know it's unsecure-- not too concerned about that, being the admin & all).
If anyone starts using l33t speak during IM conversations, I'll run over to their desk and beat them with a wet noodle.
That's assuming that most people will buy and use MS-Linux exclusively.
As soon as Step Three happened, people would start migrating to a different version of Linux-- or forking the existing MS Linux project into something else.
When RedHat stopped releasing free versions of RedHat Linux after RH9 (Not talking about Fedora here), several organizations (such as CentOS) immediately started to maintain identical, free versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
That the entire lifecycle of many plants were dependant on the honey bee
I learned that as well.
But it ain't true, because what you and I call Honeybees are usally "European Honeybees". The first colonists brought them over from Europe.
Honeybees were introduced to California sometime around 1850.
Before the introduction of the Honeybee, plants still had plenty of pollinators-- other kinds of bees, flys, butterflies, etc.
Nothing.
Did you read the article or look at the webpage?
It's an article discussing MFR and it's implications for alternative energy sources, on the "Open Source Energy Network" webpage.
If you're the right age, you may remember the show "Omni: The New Frontier" hosted by Peter Ustinov. It was on in the early 80s.
...
Took a few kicks to knock those memories loose
Sure, the field will reverse some day. But what does that have to do with alternative energy sources?
I can prepare for Magnetic Field Reversal like I can prepare for a really big comet-earth collision. I'd rather focus on the more likely tangable problems.
In my experience, Magnetic Field Reversal is a story mostly used by crackpots to sell survival equipment.
I went to College with people who fled to the hills to prepare for the eventual Magnetic Field Reversal-- that was supposed to happen around year 2000 (I told them that magnets don't follow the Christian calendar) Now it hasn't happened, so they moved the date to 2012, which is a signifigant date on the Mayan calendar.
In High School, I knew people who stocked up on supplies to prepare for Revelations, which they thought would start in 1996.
I'm not kidding.
Not to bash this solar lighting system or anything, but the author of the article is a bit of a nutcase-- she wrote a whole article about how we're all doomed because of the impending Magnetic Field Revesal, and another article about a scientist was killed in a conspiratorial fashion because of his "new energy" discoveries, which apparently came from space aliens.
So take this article with a big grain of alien-free salt.
It's a free ad. With that in mind, read the submission again-- and it is REALLY obvious that it's a free ad.
I mean, it's cool technology and all, but Slashdot doesn't need to duplicate the functions of the PR Newswire...
I remember seeing pictures of these on Japanese office buildings in the early 80s. They were called "Sunflowers", and they were mostly prototypes I think, and had a honeycomb set of collectors which piped the sunlight into the building.
And to correct my own post, Pixar does require some Linux experience for some jobs.
I'm pretty sure that page is out of date. Maybe they do still use FC2 in the render farm, but they converted most or all of their desktops to MacOSX 1-2 years ago.
I don't actually know details about the render farm there... I was just assuming they customized the heck out of everything, like Google.