I wasn't aware that I had a problem until my Joomla and Wordpress websites became unstable several months ago. The webhosting company claimed that the problem wasn't on their end. So I had to investigate what was going on. Low and behold, I found log files with all the failed login attempts. The various security hardening guides recommended changing the name of the default admin accounts and using strong passwords. That alone reduced the number of attacks by half since the hackers will have to guess both the admin account name and the password.
I had a recent job interview where I bumped into an old coworker from nine years ago. We compared notes. He still has the same job and makes the same amount of money from nine years ago. Since Fortune 500 companies have this unfortunate habit of laying me off every so often, I've worked multiple jobs and make 80% more money. All those new people and company cultures had broaden my horizons -- and fatten my wallet.
I second this motion! My websites had 200,000+ attacks in the past year. Most were brute force effort to guess the passwords for the admin accounts. I spent a week going through the log files, removing extra and/or suspicious files, renaming the default admin accounts, using stronger passwords, and setting up special.htaccess files. PITA!
Everybody got an individual office and the usual perks and yet when you asked people about what they were working on, they could rarely produce an answer that was related to a meaningful product or a service.
I had a job interview four months ago with the TV group that was bought out by a different company and planned to move out of the Silicon Valley campus. It was ghost town. No people outside. The people inside were all hunkered down, waiting for the inevitable.
We desperately need more H1B's to manage the staff reduction!
I was working as a lead tester for a video game company that decided every video game must appear on ALL platforms. We were hiring more testers to implement this strategy that ultimately failed, as each game looked like an obvious Sony Playstation 2 port on Microsoft xBox and Nintendo GameCube. Lead testers were filling out paperwork to justify hiring more testers to fill out more paperwork. to justify hiring more testers. I bailed out a year before the company went bankrupt.
That was about half my cost of a single semester in grad school. Not that I had to pay it, since I taught undergrad classes for a 100% tuition waiver + a $1400 a month stipend.
I see what your problem is now. You went to grad school, graduated with a very small dick, and must beat up on someone else to compensate for your lack of rigor.
An AA in "programming" does not make you a programmer. That is a small step above reading a programming for dummies book. A very small step.
Good thing Uncle Sam paid for my AS (associate of science) degree with a $3,000 USD tax credit. I would never paid $3,000 for Dummies books. Oh, BTW, this is my second associate degree. I got my first associate degee in General Education after I graduated from the eighth grade and skipped high school.
Could be worst. I'm working in an office filled with ex-military types. They weren't happy with me until I shaved everyday, ironed my dress pants everyday, and got a crew cut every month. Now I'm a well-scrubbed jarhead just like them.
I worked for a video game company where the new manager ran the QA department like a personal dictatorship. You were either with him or against him. He came down hard on me because I documented EVERYTHING as a lead tester. The previous manager nearly got fired because I documented his decisions that caused two of my projects to implode, and got "promoted" to associate producer to the corporate office in NYC. The new manager didn't want me to document any of his actions (most of which would cause heartburn for HR) and thought I was out to get him like the last manager. The truth of the matter is that I didn't care about these paranoid basketcases.
Wasn't long before I got a written warning for "insubordination" by not following his directions that would have a negative impact on my project. He followed it up with his infamous "my way or the highway" speech. So I took the highway and left the company after six years in 2004. I was the third out of a dozen senior testers who left the department that year. A decade later, the QA department is no more as the company stopped selling PC and console games, started making FaceBook games with limited appeal, and rehashing past products for online distributions. I became an IT support technician who no longer had to deal with fear driven management.
You obviously didn't learn enough to realize that C and C++ are completely different languages and should be approached as such.
You obviously don't recognize a shorthand expression for C AND C++. Different languages, sure. Separate languages, not entirely. Doesn't matter since I'm not a programmer by trade. I took programming to understand how software works on the hardware.
All Uber needs is one good lawsuit, say, a driver running over a boy scout with a little old lady in the crosswalk, to make all the profits disappear. The business model haven't been tested in court yet. So liability may not be limited to the drivers.
Looks like Uber is becoming the next Amazon by pursuing every possible angle to maintain growth while in search of nonexistent profits. Looking forward to the Uber Phone rollout.
Protecting the data center from EMP is one thing. If the pipes to Internet aren't protected against EMP, data entering and leaving the data center will get corrupted. Garbage in, garbage out.
The dean fought back against the college administration. As a student, I was frustrated that EVERYTHING was taught in Java because it didn't require a site license. The job market then had too many Java programmers. (If Python becomes the new teaching language, we will soon have too many Python programmers.) I jumped at the chance of learning shell scripting and C/C++ during his Unix administration. I was bitterly disappointed that the assembly language class I wanted to take got cancelled in my final semester.
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I wasn't aware that I had a problem until my Joomla and Wordpress websites became unstable several months ago. The webhosting company claimed that the problem wasn't on their end. So I had to investigate what was going on. Low and behold, I found log files with all the failed login attempts. The various security hardening guides recommended changing the name of the default admin accounts and using strong passwords. That alone reduced the number of attacks by half since the hackers will have to guess both the admin account name and the password.
Just because you can see Russia over the North Pole from your backdoor step doesn't mean that Russia blows. The polar bears are a different story.
Or use an axe and take a whack.
I had a recent job interview where I bumped into an old coworker from nine years ago. We compared notes. He still has the same job and makes the same amount of money from nine years ago. Since Fortune 500 companies have this unfortunate habit of laying me off every so often, I've worked multiple jobs and make 80% more money. All those new people and company cultures had broaden my horizons -- and fatten my wallet.
Probably to send out advertisement that Latino channels in Spanish are available. I get those all the time in Silicon Valley.
I second this motion! My websites had 200,000+ attacks in the past year. Most were brute force effort to guess the passwords for the admin accounts. I spent a week going through the log files, removing extra and/or suspicious files, renaming the default admin accounts, using stronger passwords, and setting up special .htaccess files. PITA!
Everybody got an individual office and the usual perks and yet when you asked people about what they were working on, they could rarely produce an answer that was related to a meaningful product or a service.
Acadmics, what did you expect?
I had a job interview four months ago with the TV group that was bought out by a different company and planned to move out of the Silicon Valley campus. It was ghost town. No people outside. The people inside were all hunkered down, waiting for the inevitable.
We desperately need more H1B's to manage the staff reduction!
I was working as a lead tester for a video game company that decided every video game must appear on ALL platforms. We were hiring more testers to implement this strategy that ultimately failed, as each game looked like an obvious Sony Playstation 2 port on Microsoft xBox and Nintendo GameCube. Lead testers were filling out paperwork to justify hiring more testers to fill out more paperwork. to justify hiring more testers. I bailed out a year before the company went bankrupt.
HB = Harry's Buffet
Another language filled with adverbs.
It's the Internet of Everything. Get with the program.
That was about half my cost of a single semester in grad school. Not that I had to pay it, since I taught undergrad classes for a 100% tuition waiver + a $1400 a month stipend.
I see what your problem is now. You went to grad school, graduated with a very small dick, and must beat up on someone else to compensate for your lack of rigor.
An AA in "programming" does not make you a programmer. That is a small step above reading a programming for dummies book. A very small step.
Good thing Uncle Sam paid for my AS (associate of science) degree with a $3,000 USD tax credit. I would never paid $3,000 for Dummies books. Oh, BTW, this is my second associate degree. I got my first associate degee in General Education after I graduated from the eighth grade and skipped high school.
Don't forget that HR folks will expect five years of experience in the newest technology that came out six months ago.
If you are not a programmer you have no business commenting and you obviously fail to understand how software and hardware interact.
I guess an associate degree in computer programming, six years as a software tester and ten years as an IT technician doesn't count for anything.
Could be worst. I'm working in an office filled with ex-military types. They weren't happy with me until I shaved everyday, ironed my dress pants everyday, and got a crew cut every month. Now I'm a well-scrubbed jarhead just like them.
I worked for a video game company where the new manager ran the QA department like a personal dictatorship. You were either with him or against him. He came down hard on me because I documented EVERYTHING as a lead tester. The previous manager nearly got fired because I documented his decisions that caused two of my projects to implode, and got "promoted" to associate producer to the corporate office in NYC. The new manager didn't want me to document any of his actions (most of which would cause heartburn for HR) and thought I was out to get him like the last manager. The truth of the matter is that I didn't care about these paranoid basketcases.
Wasn't long before I got a written warning for "insubordination" by not following his directions that would have a negative impact on my project. He followed it up with his infamous "my way or the highway" speech. So I took the highway and left the company after six years in 2004. I was the third out of a dozen senior testers who left the department that year. A decade later, the QA department is no more as the company stopped selling PC and console games, started making FaceBook games with limited appeal, and rehashing past products for online distributions. I became an IT support technician who no longer had to deal with fear driven management.
You obviously didn't learn enough to realize that C and C++ are completely different languages and should be approached as such.
You obviously don't recognize a shorthand expression for C AND C++. Different languages, sure. Separate languages, not entirely. Doesn't matter since I'm not a programmer by trade. I took programming to understand how software works on the hardware.
I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that Google isn't another generic Silicon Valley company.
All Uber needs is one good lawsuit, say, a driver running over a boy scout with a little old lady in the crosswalk, to make all the profits disappear. The business model haven't been tested in court yet. So liability may not be limited to the drivers.
Looks like Uber is becoming the next Amazon by pursuing every possible angle to maintain growth while in search of nonexistent profits. Looking forward to the Uber Phone rollout.
Can I convert my basement into a data center and get it on slashdot too?
Putting your kids out on the streets wouldn't be good for society.
Protecting the data center from EMP is one thing. If the pipes to Internet aren't protected against EMP, data entering and leaving the data center will get corrupted. Garbage in, garbage out.
The dean fought back against the college administration. As a student, I was frustrated that EVERYTHING was taught in Java because it didn't require a site license. The job market then had too many Java programmers. (If Python becomes the new teaching language, we will soon have too many Python programmers.) I jumped at the chance of learning shell scripting and C/C++ during his Unix administration. I was bitterly disappointed that the assembly language class I wanted to take got cancelled in my final semester.