A certain unnamed media organization (large outfit, huge company, top 10 market) I used to work for had little-to-no idea. When I started working there, they often found pictures for web stories as well as on-air graphics from simple GIS searches. Many of them didn't know what they were doing wrong, and when informed, the general reaction was, "Really? I thought Internet stuff wasn't copyrighted."
The sad thing is, the art department had a better, high resolution, accessible, indexed repository the company was permitted to use, but much of the company wasn't aware, or didn't care, or thought GIS was easier/faster.
At work, no less. I think I can hear the cry of office printers world-wide screaming in future pain... the pain of their pitifully small internal memory suddenly overloaded by user CUSTSERVICE\JohnDoe.
$40 billion divided by 0 shoulder-fired missile losses equals infinity dollars. I hope the banking system doesn't have any overflow issues for whoever convinced the government this was a Good Idea(tm).
I'd love to see statistics showing the number of Vista purchases vs. Vista usage. I started my job about a year ago and we had around 10 machines purchased before I took over purchasing and they had Vista. Once I had time, I replaced them all with Windows XP -- I didn't bother trying to get replacements from our vendor, it was easier/quicker just to buy XP Pro outright from an OEM supplier. I know I'm not the only one that's replaced Vistas with XP.
What percentage of Vista sales aren't permanent users?
Don't forget the key to those extra boxes of wires: throw out stuff that you know doesn't go anywhere! I went through our inventory (consisting of boxes of tangled cables, old hardware, etc). I brought an intern with -- untagled them, tied them, and slapped a sticky address label with the current date on them. Any cord I didn't know what it went to, or a funky piece of hardware I'd never seen used, got thrown in a box. Anything that sat beyond 6 months was moved to more permanent storage; anything that wasn't used within 18 months got recycled.
Hardware and extra cables, etc that never get used cost more than you think in both time, storage, etc costs.
Make sure any "dream office" has plenty of smaller, lockable storage. I prefer the smaller filing cabinets that have the top-opening doors. If you can get real cabinets, go for it. Make sure they have adjustable shelves or you'll be cursing that you can't fit the old server box in because the shelf was installed 1/3" too low.
When you move, make sure you organize EVERYTHING. Do not put ANYTHING away until it's properly labeled, cataloged, tied up, dusted, and sorted. If you move with a pile of shit, you'll never catch up (unless you have an endless supply of interns).
Unfortunately, users are still largely stupid in terms of agreeing to ActiveX installs. Even Microsoft Update requires it. You'd think that by now Microsoft would somehow add Windows Update to an internal/default exemptions list, right? Or build it outside of the IE engine.
Dark Avatar was pretty good. The game overall is spectacular considering it's from a small gaming company. Very few bugs compared to traditional main-stream games, and fixed pretty quick on top of it.
Also remember that Microsoft has several HTML rendering engines (Trident, the one used in Office 2007 (sucks)). There's nothing stopping them from developing two separate rendering engines, one that is standards compliant and the other not. Let the developer pick which method to use, tagsoup/crap or 100% standards-compliant, and simply switching between the two.
URLs are permanent. Great URLs don't change. Good URLs at least get a redirect to the new location. Good URLs that are no longer available (content completely removed) direct to a page that says the content has been removed.
IIS and ASP.NET make it obscenely difficult, though, to do this. When you set up a custom error (404) page under ASP.NET, the original QUERY_STRING is lost. At least in.NET 2.0 under IIS 6 (confirmed by MS devs), there is no way to get it. Period. So all those awful ASP.NET query strings that look like idiots using PHP back in 2000 cannot be reasonably corrected -- including a lot of URLs on Microsoft.com.
I used to run a ton of extensions as well, but gave up because so many of them have awful memory consumption. One of the worst ones is LiveHttpHeaders, which nearly all developers have used. It has an awful memory leak -- all HTTP headers are saved in memory and never freed. This extension should be dying with the rise of Firebug, but MANY developers still have it installed.
To solve the problem of "bloat" from extensions, I set up multiple profiles. One for general browsing, another for heavy web development, etc. Set the MOZ_NO_REMOTE environment variable to "1" and you can select a new profile each time (set your shortcuts to start firefox -P). A simple bash wrapper around Firefox syncs bookmark files back and forth -- even works great with 3.0b2pre. For general browsing, I don't need the web developer toolbar, Firebug, etc, likewise, if I'm doing web work, I don't care about RSS feeds, etc.
This is a strong argument for a national healthcare system that does not discriminate. Allow, and perhaps subsidize, people to take these detailed genetic tests to alert them to possible predisposition to things. Many genetic conditions can be combated with diet, exercise, or other preventative things (high cholesterol comes to mind as a good example). It can also give doctors a valuable clue to look in a unified medical chart and see that you have a specific gene that can lead to an exotic condition, or that there is really nothing they can do for a condition.
Many family histories are grossly incomplete. Remember that not even 100 years ago, many minor illnesses were considered types of "madness". Not exactly a lot for the doctor to go off of.
If you permit these tests with private health care, everyone loses. Everyone will have some weakness to SOMETHING. Don't forget that insurance is linked to work, and health data is private. Try explaining to your company why your premium is $600 higher than a co-worker's without explaining your family's private medical history and pre-disposition to certain pricey conditions.
A 700 page bill is akin to me doing a 700 file commit to SVN. There's no way in hell any manager should approve that large of a change. Either break it down into 5 page commits as individual pieces that can be debated and passed/rejected one-by-one, or get the fuck out of Congress. They are just giving ammo to non-Democrats. Remember how no one "read" the Patriot Act? This is the same deal.
Passing a bill without reading and understanding it should be treated as treason, plain and simple. Don't like it? Don't run for Congress or don't vote on the bill. Period.
I canceled when they started adding things to their detection kit. When I saw it reading registry keys (regmon) it had NO business reading, I canceled. Did it need to read the activation keys for Windows? Absolutely not.
This is why programs like TrueCrypt offer hidden volumes.
If you can explain how to prove a hidden volume exists within a Truecrypt container, you shouldn't be on Slashdot, you should be out raking in a million-dollar salary.
Overhead is why I just moved to the 4-day work schedule. Four 12 hour days (well, 11 plus lunch, but it takes me all of 4 minutes to eat and another to read XKCD) and the fifth rotates depending on staff needs. I still work from home on the fifth weekday, but am able to get an obscene amount of work done. Same thing before and after everyone elses' 8-9 hour shift. I can get in before everyone, make sure everything is set up for the day (patches, etc), work, and then fix any problems after they leave.
Reminds me of a few years back. I had just finished presenting a lengthy, well-thought out package on implementing a new software system for a new company to the owner. After the entire charade, he looked me in the eye as he pointed to the cover of the document, which featured the logos of all software systems involved. He was pointing to the MySQL dolphin. "What's this dolphin doing here? you're not some kind of [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] eco nut are you? I'm not a fan of them..."
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GIS, in this case, = Google Image Search. Sorry.
A certain unnamed media organization (large outfit, huge company, top 10 market) I used to work for had little-to-no idea. When I started working there, they often found pictures for web stories as well as on-air graphics from simple GIS searches. Many of them didn't know what they were doing wrong, and when informed, the general reaction was, "Really? I thought Internet stuff wasn't copyrighted."
The sad thing is, the art department had a better, high resolution, accessible, indexed repository the company was permitted to use, but much of the company wasn't aware, or didn't care, or thought GIS was easier/faster.
At work, no less. I think I can hear the cry of office printers world-wide screaming in future pain... the pain of their pitifully small internal memory suddenly overloaded by user CUSTSERVICE\JohnDoe.
The only problem is finding easily relocatable Django candidates. :-) (*cough* Tampa, Florida, anyone?)
We run almost everything in Django -- website, management, and patient records (secured, don't worry, and kept relatively anonymous... no SSN, etc).
Fear and appease the mighty systems administrator, lest he make your CD tray eject at random and hit thy knee, causing grave distress and injury.
He meant running a SQL server on the same server as the web server.
$40 billion divided by 0 shoulder-fired missile losses equals infinity dollars. I hope the banking system doesn't have any overflow issues for whoever convinced the government this was a Good Idea(tm).
I'd love to see statistics showing the number of Vista purchases vs. Vista usage. I started my job about a year ago and we had around 10 machines purchased before I took over purchasing and they had Vista. Once I had time, I replaced them all with Windows XP -- I didn't bother trying to get replacements from our vendor, it was easier/quicker just to buy XP Pro outright from an OEM supplier. I know I'm not the only one that's replaced Vistas with XP.
What percentage of Vista sales aren't permanent users?
It would be interesting to find out who unloaded their stock between the 21 and 26 of December.
Don't forget the key to those extra boxes of wires: throw out stuff that you know doesn't go anywhere! I went through our inventory (consisting of boxes of tangled cables, old hardware, etc). I brought an intern with -- untagled them, tied them, and slapped a sticky address label with the current date on them. Any cord I didn't know what it went to, or a funky piece of hardware I'd never seen used, got thrown in a box. Anything that sat beyond 6 months was moved to more permanent storage; anything that wasn't used within 18 months got recycled.
Hardware and extra cables, etc that never get used cost more than you think in both time, storage, etc costs.
Make sure any "dream office" has plenty of smaller, lockable storage. I prefer the smaller filing cabinets that have the top-opening doors. If you can get real cabinets, go for it. Make sure they have adjustable shelves or you'll be cursing that you can't fit the old server box in because the shelf was installed 1/3" too low.
When you move, make sure you organize EVERYTHING. Do not put ANYTHING away until it's properly labeled, cataloged, tied up, dusted, and sorted. If you move with a pile of shit, you'll never catch up (unless you have an endless supply of interns).
Unfortunately, users are still largely stupid in terms of agreeing to ActiveX installs. Even Microsoft Update requires it. You'd think that by now Microsoft would somehow add Windows Update to an internal/default exemptions list, right? Or build it outside of the IE engine.
Dark Avatar was pretty good. The game overall is spectacular considering it's from a small gaming company. Very few bugs compared to traditional main-stream games, and fixed pretty quick on top of it.
Also remember that Microsoft has several HTML rendering engines (Trident, the one used in Office 2007 (sucks)). There's nothing stopping them from developing two separate rendering engines, one that is standards compliant and the other not. Let the developer pick which method to use, tagsoup/crap or 100% standards-compliant, and simply switching between the two.
URLs are permanent. Great URLs don't change. Good URLs at least get a redirect to the new location. Good URLs that are no longer available (content completely removed) direct to a page that says the content has been removed.
.NET 2.0 under IIS 6 (confirmed by MS devs), there is no way to get it. Period. So all those awful ASP.NET query strings that look like idiots using PHP back in 2000 cannot be reasonably corrected -- including a lot of URLs on Microsoft.com.
IIS and ASP.NET make it obscenely difficult, though, to do this. When you set up a custom error (404) page under ASP.NET, the original QUERY_STRING is lost. At least in
I used to run a ton of extensions as well, but gave up because so many of them have awful memory consumption. One of the worst ones is LiveHttpHeaders, which nearly all developers have used. It has an awful memory leak -- all HTTP headers are saved in memory and never freed. This extension should be dying with the rise of Firebug, but MANY developers still have it installed.
To solve the problem of "bloat" from extensions, I set up multiple profiles. One for general browsing, another for heavy web development, etc. Set the MOZ_NO_REMOTE environment variable to "1" and you can select a new profile each time (set your shortcuts to start firefox -P). A simple bash wrapper around Firefox syncs bookmark files back and forth -- even works great with 3.0b2pre. For general browsing, I don't need the web developer toolbar, Firebug, etc, likewise, if I'm doing web work, I don't care about RSS feeds, etc.
This is a strong argument for a national healthcare system that does not discriminate. Allow, and perhaps subsidize, people to take these detailed genetic tests to alert them to possible predisposition to things. Many genetic conditions can be combated with diet, exercise, or other preventative things (high cholesterol comes to mind as a good example). It can also give doctors a valuable clue to look in a unified medical chart and see that you have a specific gene that can lead to an exotic condition, or that there is really nothing they can do for a condition.
Many family histories are grossly incomplete. Remember that not even 100 years ago, many minor illnesses were considered types of "madness". Not exactly a lot for the doctor to go off of.
If you permit these tests with private health care, everyone loses. Everyone will have some weakness to SOMETHING. Don't forget that insurance is linked to work, and health data is private. Try explaining to your company why your premium is $600 higher than a co-worker's without explaining your family's private medical history and pre-disposition to certain pricey conditions.
I don't know what you're talking about. Sarcasm is fun. :-)
Yes, because metal and high tech manufacturers mine the lead, chrome, etc out of your local soil and water supplies to build computers.
A 700 page bill is akin to me doing a 700 file commit to SVN. There's no way in hell any manager should approve that large of a change. Either break it down into 5 page commits as individual pieces that can be debated and passed/rejected one-by-one, or get the fuck out of Congress. They are just giving ammo to non-Democrats. Remember how no one "read" the Patriot Act? This is the same deal.
Passing a bill without reading and understanding it should be treated as treason, plain and simple. Don't like it? Don't run for Congress or don't vote on the bill. Period.
I canceled when they started adding things to their detection kit. When I saw it reading registry keys (regmon) it had NO business reading, I canceled. Did it need to read the activation keys for Windows? Absolutely not.
This is why programs like TrueCrypt offer hidden volumes.
If you can explain how to prove a hidden volume exists within a Truecrypt container, you shouldn't be on Slashdot, you should be out raking in a million-dollar salary.
Overhead is why I just moved to the 4-day work schedule. Four 12 hour days (well, 11 plus lunch, but it takes me all of 4 minutes to eat and another to read XKCD) and the fifth rotates depending on staff needs. I still work from home on the fifth weekday, but am able to get an obscene amount of work done. Same thing before and after everyone elses' 8-9 hour shift. I can get in before everyone, make sure everything is set up for the day (patches, etc), work, and then fix any problems after they leave.
It's great.
He didn't say it was a security bug. It could just be a mis-spelled name in an application menu for all we know.
Reminds me of a few years back. I had just finished presenting a lengthy, well-thought out package on implementing a new software system for a new company to the owner. After the entire charade, he looked me in the eye as he pointed to the cover of the document, which featured the logos of all software systems involved. He was pointing to the MySQL dolphin. "What's this dolphin doing here? you're not some kind of [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] eco nut are you? I'm not a fan of them..."
Our new systems do use PDF. They can still screw the margins up though, although it makes it less likely.