Put the code on SourceForge, make the plane run Linux and let millions of coders around the world fix your bugs. It's fast, cheap and works wonderfully well... most of your secrets are already kept by some type of Linux derivative.
Does it run Linux? In Soviet America cars run YOU! Will somebody please think of the children? In North Korea only old people use cars! Finally something to fill those tubes with
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According to TFS (summary) higher management can have the problems too. This is direct proof that it is not work-load related at all. Higher management usually doesn't have too much to do than meet&greet and make stupid decisions. IT however is imho the highest stressed department in any business but I haven't seen a lot of burnout yet in the different companies I work for.
Quite honestly I have a large workload at any job and a lot of stress. I never burnt out although I had to put up with very bad management, shareholders without IT knowledge starting random projects involving the latest buzzwords, inter-office romantic relationships (makes some people very lazy), major layoffs (55) to afford some (2) CxO's and give the CIO and CEO a bonus each over three times my yearly wages when sales was down by 50%. I think it has a lot to do with perceiving problems and 'taking the office home'. If I am done at work (4-5pm) I usually put on my jacket and I am gone and so are the work problems until the next work day. Some people however take their work home and finish stuff up or do long extra hours.
If Apple follows through on a "good" patent and pisses off a lot of people, it might just be the spark to get the current patenting overturned and software patents outlawed.
Except that Jesus did believe in the biblical creation and Christians are supposed to read and investigate what the Bible really has to teach, the Bible as a whole, just like a Muslim must respect the Bible as a holy book and when in doubt (about the Quran) investigate what is in the Bible and view it as the Word from God.
Christians, Muslims and Jews believe in (some interpretations vary) creationism as do countless other religions. I don't want to say that a certain interpretation of the creationistic account is the incorrect or correct one but in my humble opinion a certain interpretation of it has as much validity as the FSM interpretation or the evolutionist interpretation.
Why does everybody insist on using paper for e-votes? Isn't that just the opposite of what they are trying to accomplish.
I do however agree that there should be a trail. I suggest the following: a full RDBMS which has been altered to record ANY change AND a READ-ONLY medium (CDR & WORM) for secondary storage of those records and an on- and off-site backup. With HIPAA, ISO9001 and Sarbanes-Oxley I think the knowledge should be here to record, retain and control such information. If you want, I have a general idea of how it could be done and with a little time and 2 other engineers I could devise you an acceptable open sourced (both hard- and software) solution to do something like this.
Well, just me, but since it's the government it doesn't surprise me that inefficiency, incapability and stupidity do rise high.
Software does not wear out but claiming that Microsoft's software is mature is also completely wrong. Would be like telling that nobody wants to buy Toyota's anymore because their cars aren't wearing out fast enough. No, they are not buying Toyota anymore because Toyota sucks and keeps breaking down every so often so they switch or wait until the car is old enough to buy another non-Toyota
The fact that nobody wants to upgrade to Vista is for the following reasons:
Nobody wants to pay more than $150 for a piece of software especially not in a business except when upgrading hardware. Apple has the price at $128 which is for most consumers just not too high but for most businesses still too much.
Hardware is powerful enough and thus doesn't need upgraded soon.
Learning people new stuff is expensive.
Vista sucks. There is no added value to Windows 2000, even XP wasn't any added value except for some eye candy when managed correctly
HTTP doesn't support client-side security. Not a single server supports client-side security. The only thing you can do is try to secure a client but you can't rely on the client not being compromised.
This doesn't sound a lot like satire at all considering their moves throughout the new media industry.
I mean they have been taxing empty media, everything that contains any type of media storage (hard disks, dvr,...), especially in Europe, it's only logical to assume that they will tax tv's which are meant to be shared by multiple viewers (>30" tv's are usually not for bachelors).
That's why you get a good European or American luxury car and not a cheap Japanese or Japanese-rip-off city-driving gas-saving minicar.
I have a Buick Park Avenue, 25-30mpg and a good 250.000 miles on the odometer. The only things I had to repair were the usual O2 sensors, lights and EGR valve and I am not an old-man's driver, I usually go 5-15mph over the speed limit for hours on end.
Then you have those 50-60mpg Japanese cars with 3 cylinders being sold here in this area, that is just laughable. Even 4-cylinder Japanese SUV's here are a joke. The USA is too spaced out and has too much hills and warm/cold areas to get a car built to drive in Tokyo. One of my friends has a 4-cylinder Japanese SUV with 7 seats and when it goes uphill on a 15% slope at 35mph it makes unhealthy noises (grinding in the engine) while traffic is building up behind them (the speed limits are 45mph).
Then you also have Chevy with the 4-cylinder cheap Japanese-modelled cars and my parents have those. They have all types of problems. A bicycle ran in the side on one of them - an 11 year old with a bicycle - and bent the hell out of the front fender, breaking a spring and the switch that controls the interior lighting when the door is open. I had my Blazer come to standstill hitting a pole while spinning out of control at 40mph (winter, ice) and I got a scratch. The front fender hit a tree while off-roading and only the rusted-out breakline pinched.
I think if you're worried about your privacy then you have the right to do so. The problem is that information wants to be free. A more open source approach might be better. I think since we can't stop the release of data throughout the internet and other mediums (credit cards, drivers license, gift cards) we should just open everything that has to do with everyone's privacy. If I can read all information about you and you can read all information about me, if you look me up, the log files of your internet connection to the database are open too so I can find out, automate the searches,... This will help me find out if you stole my identity and I can take either legal or revenge action.
I find it surprising that an average Sherrif's Deputy can actually go through as an average 13 year old girl, carrying on long conversations, and not be suspiciously or obviously mature.
Especially in low or no density areas. I just got home and sped on the highway at 90-100 mph through a 45mph single-lane empty work zone (it's winter darn it) until at the end of the highway there was a radar alert on the K-band and I could slow down and got home without any trouble. I got a few tickets (5) in the last year and found the following out:
-If you (are rich enough to) get a lawyer, no traffic ticket ever goes on your record. I pay $25 for each ticket instead of the $125+ for the 15mph over limit -Get a decent radar detector and you won't get caught again unless the cop is smart enough to use instant-on (and that only works when there is absolutely no-one on the road otherwise he'll give his location away from miles away) -It's absolutely safe to speed as long as you know what you're doing. I found out it's safer for me to go faster than 55mph because at 55mph I get more easily distracted while at 75 I know I have to keep focused. Look at Europe, especially Germany or some locations in the US where they raised the speed limit to 65 and there is hardly any difference. -If you get a ticket at ridiculous speed they throw it right out of court if you contest (I raced someone 120mph in a 55mph on an empty road) but since these cars are supposed to be limited around 110mph the judge couldn't allow the radar reading. Cops are usually alone and they don't have any print-out of what your speed was. Next to that the error rating of radar and laser guns is so big... PA radar guns clock rocks on the side of the road going 45mph.
I think the driver license test should be more rigourous though especially the practical test. It should include slip, spin, speed safety tests even minor mechanical tests like changing tires, safe jumpstarts and temporary fixes for when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere like when your head gasket or alternator fails.
This is just a shameless plug for OnTrack data recovery. It's of course funny to know what people do to their hard drives and how stupid some people are...
Is this the beginning of a drive-through planet? Maybe KFC is onto something. Imagine a Sovereign-class starship coming through with an order... (oblig. Star Trek reference)
Steve should be able to see a decent market here for Mac OS X. He can specify what types of hardware are totally tested and compatible (there are quite some videocards, networkcards (I even plugged in Realtek's in a Mac before) and soundcards available) and request Dell, Acer and HP to comply with the configuration for full support from Apple. Then give them a decent discount ($50-$90 per OEM license) and sell an optional AppleCare for the OS. Windows moved out in both functionality, price and security, OS X is the best fitting replacement for people that only do certain applications, Linux is for the least of technical people that like to mess around once in a while.
Mac OS X supports "fast user switching" with any type of authentication because the authentication daemon is separate from the process.
Furthermore, RFID (RSA) tags, keycard, iris scanning - see what you can AFFORD. You're probably not the NSA so you can't just spend any type of money. Good iris or fingerprint scanners (which are not easily fooled) are quite expensive if you need them for each terminal.
I put on... Systems Administrator because that was my job and the description of my responsibilities on my resume does reflect that. I was hired and salaried as a PC technician but doing absolutely nothing on Windows and implementing an administration on Unix/Linux/Mac I wasn't really a glorified PC technician, I was project manager, asset manager, LDAP directory administrator, systems & network administrator etc.
I'm currently managing 2000 workplaces, 3 mainframes, 50-some servers with about 15 people.
We didn't have any trouble or asset management except for what came with Active Directory and right now I'm implementing a central command, asset collector etc.
I can't elaborate on it due to NDA but if you're looking for someone to take care of your IT support management problems, contact me, I might be able to give you some tips.
A lot of (talented) sysadmin's like me aren't looking for full time employment anymore. I am currently looking for downphasing to a part time job now and if you have something to offer, I can always look into it. Full time sysadmining (as I am doing now) leaves talented people exhausted and squeezed out before they hit 40. I know a lot of people that quit their IT-profession (programmers, administrators) and either work for themselves or work somewhere part time because bigger companies are constantly looking to get the most out of them since they are so dispensable and we have (or had) a lot of them.
NT4: SP7 killed in Beta 2000: SP5 killed pre-Beta XP: SP3 killed before Alpha
so if we continue
Vista: Some people might expect SP1 but it's never going to come Blackcomb/Vienna or any other Vista-follow-up might just never come... watch the signs and heed my prophecy.
I find it so weird that Wintendo-fanboys always have the following attitude:
Of course your Linux boots up and everything works dandy but then you have to install the proprietary drivers from the hardware vendors because they don't want to release some information about what fits where in the register and how to call certain functions so you can play your favorite games with faster 3D acceleration. Since that is not painless, it's an inherent problem with Linux, not the proprietary hardware you bought.
Of course Windows doesn't come with all those drivers pre-loaded, you have to install them yourself. That your keyboard or mouse or network card (and there's a bunch out there that don't work vanilla) isn't working on startup isn't relevant, you don't need to use those to... oh wait, you DO need those to download your patches and drivers... Since that is not painless either, well, it's your hardware, not a problem with Windows.
My idea: buy an open source supportive or supported video card, they're out there. Run any vanilla linux and it will work right-out-of-the-box. Or buy a Mac, all your proprietary stuff that works right out of the box. Or buy a combination of proprietary hardware and linux and get the hassle of typing 2 lines on command line to get NVidia drivers working or buy a proprietary operating system with a half-ass Dell and spend the next 3 days setting up your system or buy an utterly old system from the year 2001 where XP should have all drivers for and spend only 1 day installing patches, upgrades, virusses and reboots.
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Put the code on SourceForge, make the plane run Linux and let millions of coders around the world fix your bugs. It's fast, cheap and works wonderfully well... most of your secrets are already kept by some type of Linux derivative.
Does it run Linux?
In Soviet America cars run YOU!
Will somebody please think of the children?
In North Korea only old people use cars!
Finally something to fill those tubes with
According to TFS (summary) higher management can have the problems too. This is direct proof that it is not work-load related at all. Higher management usually doesn't have too much to do than meet&greet and make stupid decisions. IT however is imho the highest stressed department in any business but I haven't seen a lot of burnout yet in the different companies I work for.
Quite honestly I have a large workload at any job and a lot of stress. I never burnt out although I had to put up with very bad management, shareholders without IT knowledge starting random projects involving the latest buzzwords, inter-office romantic relationships (makes some people very lazy), major layoffs (55) to afford some (2) CxO's and give the CIO and CEO a bonus each over three times my yearly wages when sales was down by 50%. I think it has a lot to do with perceiving problems and 'taking the office home'. If I am done at work (4-5pm) I usually put on my jacket and I am gone and so are the work problems until the next work day. Some people however take their work home and finish stuff up or do long extra hours.
If Apple follows through on a "good" patent and pisses off a lot of people, it might just be the spark to get the current patenting overturned and software patents outlawed.
Except that Jesus did believe in the biblical creation and Christians are supposed to read and investigate what the Bible really has to teach, the Bible as a whole, just like a Muslim must respect the Bible as a holy book and when in doubt (about the Quran) investigate what is in the Bible and view it as the Word from God.
Christians, Muslims and Jews believe in (some interpretations vary) creationism as do countless other religions. I don't want to say that a certain interpretation of the creationistic account is the incorrect or correct one but in my humble opinion a certain interpretation of it has as much validity as the FSM interpretation or the evolutionist interpretation.
Why does everybody insist on using paper for e-votes? Isn't that just the opposite of what they are trying to accomplish.
I do however agree that there should be a trail. I suggest the following: a full RDBMS which has been altered to record ANY change AND a READ-ONLY medium (CDR & WORM) for secondary storage of those records and an on- and off-site backup. With HIPAA, ISO9001 and Sarbanes-Oxley I think the knowledge should be here to record, retain and control such information. If you want, I have a general idea of how it could be done and with a little time and 2 other engineers I could devise you an acceptable open sourced (both hard- and software) solution to do something like this.
Well, just me, but since it's the government it doesn't surprise me that inefficiency, incapability and stupidity do rise high.
Software does not wear out but claiming that Microsoft's software is mature is also completely wrong. Would be like telling that nobody wants to buy Toyota's anymore because their cars aren't wearing out fast enough. No, they are not buying Toyota anymore because Toyota sucks and keeps breaking down every so often so they switch or wait until the car is old enough to buy another non-Toyota
The fact that nobody wants to upgrade to Vista is for the following reasons:
Nobody wants to pay more than $150 for a piece of software especially not in a business except when upgrading hardware. Apple has the price at $128 which is for most consumers just not too high but for most businesses still too much.
Hardware is powerful enough and thus doesn't need upgraded soon.
Learning people new stuff is expensive.
Vista sucks. There is no added value to Windows 2000, even XP wasn't any added value except for some eye candy when managed correctly
HTTP doesn't support client-side security. Not a single server supports client-side security. The only thing you can do is try to secure a client but you can't rely on the client not being compromised.
Looks like Microsoft screwed us over again. Is it just me or do they have no concern at all for their customers?
This doesn't sound a lot like satire at all considering their moves throughout the new media industry.
...), especially in Europe, it's only logical to assume that they will tax tv's which are meant to be shared by multiple viewers (>30" tv's are usually not for bachelors).
I mean they have been taxing empty media, everything that contains any type of media storage (hard disks, dvr,
That's why you get a good European or American luxury car and not a cheap Japanese or Japanese-rip-off city-driving gas-saving minicar.
I have a Buick Park Avenue, 25-30mpg and a good 250.000 miles on the odometer. The only things I had to repair were the usual O2 sensors, lights and EGR valve and I am not an old-man's driver, I usually go 5-15mph over the speed limit for hours on end.
Then you have those 50-60mpg Japanese cars with 3 cylinders being sold here in this area, that is just laughable. Even 4-cylinder Japanese SUV's here are a joke. The USA is too spaced out and has too much hills and warm/cold areas to get a car built to drive in Tokyo. One of my friends has a 4-cylinder Japanese SUV with 7 seats and when it goes uphill on a 15% slope at 35mph it makes unhealthy noises (grinding in the engine) while traffic is building up behind them (the speed limits are 45mph).
Then you also have Chevy with the 4-cylinder cheap Japanese-modelled cars and my parents have those. They have all types of problems. A bicycle ran in the side on one of them - an 11 year old with a bicycle - and bent the hell out of the front fender, breaking a spring and the switch that controls the interior lighting when the door is open. I had my Blazer come to standstill hitting a pole while spinning out of control at 40mph (winter, ice) and I got a scratch. The front fender hit a tree while off-roading and only the rusted-out breakline pinched.
I think if you're worried about your privacy then you have the right to do so. The problem is that information wants to be free. A more open source approach might be better. I think since we can't stop the release of data throughout the internet and other mediums (credit cards, drivers license, gift cards) we should just open everything that has to do with everyone's privacy. If I can read all information about you and you can read all information about me, if you look me up, the log files of your internet connection to the database are open too so I can find out, automate the searches, ... This will help me find out if you stole my identity and I can take either legal or revenge action.
I find it surprising that an average Sherrif's Deputy can actually go through as an average 13 year old girl, carrying on long conversations, and not be suspiciously or obviously mature.
Especially in low or no density areas. I just got home and sped on the highway at 90-100 mph through a 45mph single-lane empty work zone (it's winter darn it) until at the end of the highway there was a radar alert on the K-band and I could slow down and got home without any trouble. I got a few tickets (5) in the last year and found the following out:
-If you (are rich enough to) get a lawyer, no traffic ticket ever goes on your record. I pay $25 for each ticket instead of the $125+ for the 15mph over limit
-Get a decent radar detector and you won't get caught again unless the cop is smart enough to use instant-on (and that only works when there is absolutely no-one on the road otherwise he'll give his location away from miles away)
-It's absolutely safe to speed as long as you know what you're doing. I found out it's safer for me to go faster than 55mph because at 55mph I get more easily distracted while at 75 I know I have to keep focused. Look at Europe, especially Germany or some locations in the US where they raised the speed limit to 65 and there is hardly any difference.
-If you get a ticket at ridiculous speed they throw it right out of court if you contest (I raced someone 120mph in a 55mph on an empty road) but since these cars are supposed to be limited around 110mph the judge couldn't allow the radar reading. Cops are usually alone and they don't have any print-out of what your speed was. Next to that the error rating of radar and laser guns is so big... PA radar guns clock rocks on the side of the road going 45mph.
I think the driver license test should be more rigourous though especially the practical test. It should include slip, spin, speed safety tests even minor mechanical tests like changing tires, safe jumpstarts and temporary fixes for when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere like when your head gasket or alternator fails.
Converting XML to Decimal is 1060. Long time ago ;-)
This is just a shameless plug for OnTrack data recovery. It's of course funny to know what people do to their hard drives and how stupid some people are...
Is this the beginning of a drive-through planet? Maybe KFC is onto something. Imagine a Sovereign-class starship coming through with an order... (oblig. Star Trek reference)
I'll just sit around lurking on Slashdot with 56k. Why can they invent 100GBps but can't even give me a 512k or 1Mbps line?
Steve should be able to see a decent market here for Mac OS X. He can specify what types of hardware are totally tested and compatible (there are quite some videocards, networkcards (I even plugged in Realtek's in a Mac before) and soundcards available) and request Dell, Acer and HP to comply with the configuration for full support from Apple. Then give them a decent discount ($50-$90 per OEM license) and sell an optional AppleCare for the OS. Windows moved out in both functionality, price and security, OS X is the best fitting replacement for people that only do certain applications, Linux is for the least of technical people that like to mess around once in a while.
Mac OS X supports "fast user switching" with any type of authentication because the authentication daemon is separate from the process.
Furthermore, RFID (RSA) tags, keycard, iris scanning - see what you can AFFORD. You're probably not the NSA so you can't just spend any type of money. Good iris or fingerprint scanners (which are not easily fooled) are quite expensive if you need them for each terminal.
I put on ... Systems Administrator because that was my job and the description of my responsibilities on my resume does reflect that. I was hired and salaried as a PC technician but doing absolutely nothing on Windows and implementing an administration on Unix/Linux/Mac I wasn't really a glorified PC technician, I was project manager, asset manager, LDAP directory administrator, systems & network administrator etc.
I'm currently managing 2000 workplaces, 3 mainframes, 50-some servers with about 15 people.
We didn't have any trouble or asset management except for what came with Active Directory and right now I'm implementing a central command, asset collector etc.
I can't elaborate on it due to NDA but if you're looking for someone to take care of your IT support management problems, contact me, I might be able to give you some tips.
A lot of (talented) sysadmin's like me aren't looking for full time employment anymore. I am currently looking for downphasing to a part time job now and if you have something to offer, I can always look into it. Full time sysadmining (as I am doing now) leaves talented people exhausted and squeezed out before they hit 40. I know a lot of people that quit their IT-profession (programmers, administrators) and either work for themselves or work somewhere part time because bigger companies are constantly looking to get the most out of them since they are so dispensable and we have (or had) a lot of them.
Whoa: Look at the progress they're making though:
NT4: SP7 killed in Beta
2000: SP5 killed pre-Beta
XP: SP3 killed before Alpha
so if we continue
Vista: Some people might expect SP1 but it's never going to come
Blackcomb/Vienna or any other Vista-follow-up might just never come... watch the signs and heed my prophecy.
I find it so weird that Wintendo-fanboys always have the following attitude:
... oh wait, you DO need those to download your patches and drivers... Since that is not painless either, well, it's your hardware, not a problem with Windows.
Of course your Linux boots up and everything works dandy but then you have to install the proprietary drivers from the hardware vendors because they don't want to release some information about what fits where in the register and how to call certain functions so you can play your favorite games with faster 3D acceleration. Since that is not painless, it's an inherent problem with Linux, not the proprietary hardware you bought.
Of course Windows doesn't come with all those drivers pre-loaded, you have to install them yourself. That your keyboard or mouse or network card (and there's a bunch out there that don't work vanilla) isn't working on startup isn't relevant, you don't need to use those to
My idea: buy an open source supportive or supported video card, they're out there. Run any vanilla linux and it will work right-out-of-the-box. Or buy a Mac, all your proprietary stuff that works right out of the box. Or buy a combination of proprietary hardware and linux and get the hassle of typing 2 lines on command line to get NVidia drivers working or buy a proprietary operating system with a half-ass Dell and spend the next 3 days setting up your system or buy an utterly old system from the year 2001 where XP should have all drivers for and spend only 1 day installing patches, upgrades, virusses and reboots.