follow the url from my personal info on slashdot...:)
(rob mallicoat)
went from pitching baseballs to pitching management software and have never looked back (well, i think about it from time to time):)
i managed to spend just over 10 years playing this sport called professional baseball... 3 arm surgeries, angle repaired (too many hangovers and omelette house bfasts at 3am during 14 hour bus rides to Midland got me i guess)
they are just killing themselves with this last stats idea... come on, i played for parts of 3 or 4 seasons in the 'bigs' and ended up with 50 some odd appearances (left-handed reliever no less) and now you are saying my 5+ ERA is worth something? will i ever see the.00000001 my meager numbers earned? i don't care... but i don't want them charging someone to 'download' it or 'view' it or 'print' it... gawd they have some balls (no pun intended)
i was against the strike in 1995 and while my arm was shot by then, i felt i could still came out of 'retirement' to stage a final 'comeback'... too bad my arm had a different story than what my head was telling me..:)
i love that game... learned a lot from it... good AND bad... i truly hope they figure things out so that i will be able to take my sons to a game someday and not be embarrassed...
I have to agree here... for the last 2+ years I moved my 12 domains to a hosting provider and the first 6 months things were okay... the last 18 have been horrible.. mail alias' disappearing in the cpanel admin application, getting spammed up the wazoo (when they upgrade the cpanel app it seemed to reset EVERYTHING, include spamassasian rules and such... last straw was when they restored some files after a drive died and they reset EVERYONES password to their username to username123 and did not tell anyone except by posting it to their support website... uh... hellooooooo..
anyway, i signed up for freedns.afraid.org, moved the 8 domains i still have and i can point to anywhere i want and have it running on exchange 2003 with sp2 (gasp)... the nice thing about E2k3 is that they finally GOT the idea of allowing RBL type checks and SenderID checks when connections are intiated... it works... i turn it off and i get 250 spams a day, i turn it on using just 1 RBL and it drops to around 25-30... I am sure that if i added some other RBL checks it might drop a little more...
just using common sense and some knowledge on configuring your given mailserver things will definately start to get better...
it is NOT hard to configure a Windows system to be both secure AND capable of easily running software people need... its stupid people who purchase e-machines at their corner wal-mart and give it to junior who starts downloading crap from who knows where...
The bugs focus on the weak points of the network... its NOT Microsoft itself, its the people running the software who are the dolts... hell, you can use ms antispyware, freeware av software and spend 17.99 for the airlinksucks 4 port router/firewall and take the huge target off your head... (that, and not be cruising for warez on some of hte more iffy websites out there)
i hate hearing how windows can't do this, windows can't do that... it can, it does... if it could not do it how the hell do fortune 1000 companies get anything done anymore?
rant now set to stun...
I just did what I thought is the unthinkable... I moved my personal home workstation to Ubuntu 5.1 and have been using it for about 2+ weeks now... I still have a Win2003 server in the house acting as a dhcp/wins/dns box (and for file/print sharing) and my daily work duties in software pre-sales puts me in front of win2003 and 'nix boxes daily...
Most of what I have been experiencing at home have to do with things burned into my auto-pilot by Microsoft I have a feeling... I just am having a hard time getting over the whole (but I usually do it this way problem) and have found myself rebooting back into XP a few times to do a certain thing that just needs to be done NOW... some things i have not totally tweaked/configged (samba for instance) and it just is a 'do it once, learn it and move on' procedure that must be done...
I for one like using Ubuntu/Vmware and Firefox to do my stuff now... I am just keeping my dual boot this way until I have spent a full month doing my daily work/home duties before ridding myself (or just moving) XP to a less than front and center place in my day...
there are golf games with women not 'vixen-ized' out there... Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is one of them... annika sorenstam (okay) , natalie gulbis (nice on the eyes), etc are not all 'pumped up' in any way...
went from sysadmin at small (300 users) sysadmin role, gave notice and worked last 2 weeks (probably helped that my counterpart was a total doof and instead of learning routers, switching, etc he would just call the local consultants and pay them to travel out to replace a remote WAN router or rebuild a server...
next job was at a fairly large netscape reseller in the south (remember netscape?) working internall on IT stuff and then also handling customer site installs of the netscape web and mail servers that our developers wrote custom apps on top of... gave notice and was ASKED to stay for 2 more weeks since there was a large project and they requested that i help interview my replacement...
after that i was at a large (1.5B) systems management firm where i did QA and pre-sales consulting on java/db/network performance monitoring solutions and was there 6+ years and on giving notice i was told that since i was going to the competition that i would be asked to leave that day but that i had 2 hours to go around the buildings and do the whole good-bye thing... i was supposed to have a HR person with me but my mgr was like 'yeah' you BUILT have the stuff we use in our department anyway... if you mucked with something nobody around was going to tear it down and slow our day in day out stuff with the rebuild...
last place... uh, well, i have not given notice yet... still there but sometimes the grass DOES look greener on the other side:)
I have to share this story with the masses.
I was a sysadmin or a small company (400users) and we had another admin like myself. We handled the wan setups, the 25 or so servers and things were fine...
I took the WAN setup/config and was out in the field quite a bit and the other guy (being a lazy sob) decided he wanted to hire an entry level person to handle the simple stuff...
We brought a girl in from AP and she was okay... She got this idea she would study for her MCSE and then leave in 12-18 months.. I just said go for it...
About 6 months into her working in our group she did indeed take the tests and passed the suite of MCSE tests and was happy as a lark... We had a CxO level person who was having problems iwth outlook and the patch involved rebooting to safe mode and copying a.exe from a floppy to the laptop and running the fix/patch from there and rebooting....
She left with teh floppy i gave her around 3pm... I made my rounds around 4:30 and she was still sitting at his desk and did not know how to use the DOS command line to copy a:\fix.exe c:\
i just gave her a little nudge in teh right direction and on the command syntax and all worked fine.. so a 10 minute task hd taken nearly 2 hours...
I do have my certs on NT 3.51 and have not updated them... I really see the certs as an okay way to document your training but to certify you as 'ready' they fall WAY short...
my.02
one at the office (sitting behind a pix and used only as a wap)
one at the house (sitting behind a smoothie and used as a wap)
one sitting right here in my laptop bag for those hotels that put the ethernet port at the damned opposite end of the room (far from the bed)...
17.99 each and i managed to get a beta firmware from one of their engineers a while ago.. (latest release is like.23 and i have.26 P)
anyway... nice little cheap router/wap...
most of the all in one linux based firewalls (that boot of floppies or cdroms don't have pcmcia support.. i just went through a little test of m0n0wall, smoothwall, astaro and ipcop...
smoothwall installed easiest on my aptiva p200/64mb/3.2gb ide... works great...
m0n0wall looks good though... i had to jump through a couple of hoops since there does not seem to be a boot to floppy, then install option (my old aptiva does not boot from cdrom)
astaro is getting to be bloatware... good product it appears... but they tear all the good stuff out for 'free' home use... (vpn/QoS)
ipcop is right on par with smoothwall IMHO (should be, since ipcop forked off the smoothwall 1.0 GPL and ipcop has a pretty loyal following nd tons of mods for it)
its ipcop or smoothwall for me (using smoothwall now, testing ipcop tonight):P
okay... neither do consoles... look at the XBox... the idea here is they have control over what hardware they run on. put the same control over the PC market and you would have far fewer random lockups, etc...
Those parts were not 100.00 when they first came out or shortly after I assume. I too have a few old junkers (had one of hte AST Manhattan servers for the longest time (dual p60) with 64mb ram and it was rock solid and ran OS/2 Warp for years and i just shut it down about 18 months ago and tossed it... it was built like a tank...
There seems to be a trend lately to get price down with a disregard for quality... Fry's up here in Seattle practically GIVES awa this PC Chumps motherboards with a new CPU as a 'kit'.
PC enthusiasts purchase mismatched ram, cpu's that are OEM or possibly overclocked and returned (selling of B grade parts basically) and they then wonder why their Windows machine is acting up...
okay, will give the 'cost' is not a good barometer... my post was off in that respect...
quality parts are what make things much easier to chase down (quality ram, mobo, no overclocked cpu's, etc)
I think its great... look a the PC market... you have people buying B and C grade memory to put in 4 layer motherboards that are practically given away... the mobo and ram, given they are high quality make a ton of difference.
I personally have a dual 3ghz xeon box with 4gb of ram running Vmware ESX server (linux kernel is at its underpinnings) and its been online going on 7 months without the need for a reboot.. put cheap hardware in the mix and you end up with blue screens, kernel panics, etc that are nearly impossible to trace..
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(rob mallicoat)
went from pitching baseballs to pitching management software and have never looked back (well, i think about it from time to time) :)
i managed to spend just over 10 years playing this sport called professional baseball... 3 arm surgeries, angle repaired (too many hangovers and omelette house bfasts at 3am during 14 hour bus rides to Midland got me i guess) they are just killing themselves with this last stats idea... come on, i played for parts of 3 or 4 seasons in the 'bigs' and ended up with 50 some odd appearances (left-handed reliever no less) and now you are saying my 5+ ERA is worth something? will i ever see the .00000001 my meager numbers earned? i don't care... but i don't want them charging someone to 'download' it or 'view' it or 'print' it... gawd they have some balls (no pun intended)
i was against the strike in 1995 and while my arm was shot by then, i felt i could still came out of 'retirement' to stage a final 'comeback'... too bad my arm had a different story than what my head was telling me.. :)
i love that game... learned a lot from it... good AND bad... i truly hope they figure things out so that i will be able to take my sons to a game someday and not be embarrassed...
I have to agree here... for the last 2+ years I moved my 12 domains to a hosting provider and the first 6 months things were okay... the last 18 have been horrible.. mail alias' disappearing in the cpanel admin application, getting spammed up the wazoo (when they upgrade the cpanel app it seemed to reset EVERYTHING, include spamassasian rules and such... last straw was when they restored some files after a drive died and they reset EVERYONES password to their username to username123 and did not tell anyone except by posting it to their support website... uh... hellooooooo..
anyway, i signed up for freedns.afraid.org, moved the 8 domains i still have and i can point to anywhere i want and have it running on exchange 2003 with sp2 (gasp)... the nice thing about E2k3 is that they finally GOT the idea of allowing RBL type checks and SenderID checks when connections are intiated... it works... i turn it off and i get 250 spams a day, i turn it on using just 1 RBL and it drops to around 25-30... I am sure that if i added some other RBL checks it might drop a little more...
just using common sense and some knowledge on configuring your given mailserver things will definately start to get better...
beavis and butthead are alive and well
my gawd i needed that laugh... had me howling at the chuck norris facts website... thx
it's stupid people... man, i have to get out more often...
it is NOT hard to configure a Windows system to be both secure AND capable of easily running software people need... its stupid people who purchase e-machines at their corner wal-mart and give it to junior who starts downloading crap from who knows where... The bugs focus on the weak points of the network... its NOT Microsoft itself, its the people running the software who are the dolts... hell, you can use ms antispyware, freeware av software and spend 17.99 for the airlinksucks 4 port router/firewall and take the huge target off your head... (that, and not be cruising for warez on some of hte more iffy websites out there) i hate hearing how windows can't do this, windows can't do that... it can, it does... if it could not do it how the hell do fortune 1000 companies get anything done anymore? rant now set to stun...
I just did what I thought is the unthinkable... I moved my personal home workstation to Ubuntu 5.1 and have been using it for about 2+ weeks now... I still have a Win2003 server in the house acting as a dhcp/wins/dns box (and for file/print sharing) and my daily work duties in software pre-sales puts me in front of win2003 and 'nix boxes daily... Most of what I have been experiencing at home have to do with things burned into my auto-pilot by Microsoft I have a feeling... I just am having a hard time getting over the whole (but I usually do it this way problem) and have found myself rebooting back into XP a few times to do a certain thing that just needs to be done NOW... some things i have not totally tweaked/configged (samba for instance) and it just is a 'do it once, learn it and move on' procedure that must be done... I for one like using Ubuntu/Vmware and Firefox to do my stuff now... I am just keeping my dual boot this way until I have spent a full month doing my daily work/home duties before ridding myself (or just moving) XP to a less than front and center place in my day...
Stand on one leg.. Hop like a bunny.. I'm bored so I will write something stupid... jeez
there are golf games with women not 'vixen-ized' out there... Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is one of them... annika sorenstam (okay) , natalie gulbis (nice on the eyes), etc are not all 'pumped up' in any way...
went from sysadmin at small (300 users) sysadmin role, gave notice and worked last 2 weeks (probably helped that my counterpart was a total doof and instead of learning routers, switching, etc he would just call the local consultants and pay them to travel out to replace a remote WAN router or rebuild a server... next job was at a fairly large netscape reseller in the south (remember netscape?) working internall on IT stuff and then also handling customer site installs of the netscape web and mail servers that our developers wrote custom apps on top of... gave notice and was ASKED to stay for 2 more weeks since there was a large project and they requested that i help interview my replacement... after that i was at a large (1.5B) systems management firm where i did QA and pre-sales consulting on java/db/network performance monitoring solutions and was there 6+ years and on giving notice i was told that since i was going to the competition that i would be asked to leave that day but that i had 2 hours to go around the buildings and do the whole good-bye thing... i was supposed to have a HR person with me but my mgr was like 'yeah' you BUILT have the stuff we use in our department anyway... if you mucked with something nobody around was going to tear it down and slow our day in day out stuff with the rebuild... last place... uh, well, i have not given notice yet... still there but sometimes the grass DOES look greener on the other side :)
that it will use clippy from microsoft office fame...
heh... my back bedroom looks like that...
I have to share this story with the masses. I was a sysadmin or a small company (400users) and we had another admin like myself. We handled the wan setups, the 25 or so servers and things were fine... I took the WAN setup/config and was out in the field quite a bit and the other guy (being a lazy sob) decided he wanted to hire an entry level person to handle the simple stuff... We brought a girl in from AP and she was okay... She got this idea she would study for her MCSE and then leave in 12-18 months.. I just said go for it... About 6 months into her working in our group she did indeed take the tests and passed the suite of MCSE tests and was happy as a lark... We had a CxO level person who was having problems iwth outlook and the patch involved rebooting to safe mode and copying a .exe from a floppy to the laptop and running the fix/patch from there and rebooting....
She left with teh floppy i gave her around 3pm... I made my rounds around 4:30 and she was still sitting at his desk and did not know how to use the DOS command line to copy a:\fix.exe c:\
i just gave her a little nudge in teh right direction and on the command syntax and all worked fine.. so a 10 minute task hd taken nearly 2 hours...
I do have my certs on NT 3.51 and have not updated them... I really see the certs as an okay way to document your training but to certify you as 'ready' they fall WAY short...
my .02
yup... its a comfort thing for me... i can prop a couple of billows behind me, have the remote in my hand and work...
i can do work, have the tv in front of me and relax on a something a little more comfortable...
one at the office (sitting behind a pix and used only as a wap) one at the house (sitting behind a smoothie and used as a wap) one sitting right here in my laptop bag for those hotels that put the ethernet port at the damned opposite end of the room (far from the bed)... 17.99 each and i managed to get a beta firmware from one of their engineers a while ago.. (latest release is like .23 and i have .26 P)
anyway... nice little cheap router/wap...
Got me thinking about the 9th place ribbon Gaylord had in the 'shrine'...
rate this...
most of the all in one linux based firewalls (that boot of floppies or cdroms don't have pcmcia support.. i just went through a little test of m0n0wall, smoothwall, astaro and ipcop... smoothwall installed easiest on my aptiva p200/64mb/3.2gb ide... works great... m0n0wall looks good though... i had to jump through a couple of hoops since there does not seem to be a boot to floppy, then install option (my old aptiva does not boot from cdrom) astaro is getting to be bloatware... good product it appears... but they tear all the good stuff out for 'free' home use... (vpn/QoS) ipcop is right on par with smoothwall IMHO (should be, since ipcop forked off the smoothwall 1.0 GPL and ipcop has a pretty loyal following nd tons of mods for it) its ipcop or smoothwall for me (using smoothwall now, testing ipcop tonight) :P
genuity has a ton at
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6
4.2.2.7
4.2.2.8
they just flat out work.. i don't use comcast's all.. override the ones i get via dhcp from them and put x.x.x.4 and x.x.x.5 and they are fine...
just ran www.dslreports.com speed test.. 7200/764
nasty fast...
They also have some pretty active undersea activity (can you say tsunami?)
okay... neither do consoles... look at the XBox... the idea here is they have control over what hardware they run on. put the same control over the PC market and you would have far fewer random lockups, etc...
Those parts were not 100.00 when they first came out or shortly after I assume. I too have a few old junkers (had one of hte AST Manhattan servers for the longest time (dual p60) with 64mb ram and it was rock solid and ran OS/2 Warp for years and i just shut it down about 18 months ago and tossed it... it was built like a tank... There seems to be a trend lately to get price down with a disregard for quality... Fry's up here in Seattle practically GIVES awa this PC Chumps motherboards with a new CPU as a 'kit'. PC enthusiasts purchase mismatched ram, cpu's that are OEM or possibly overclocked and returned (selling of B grade parts basically) and they then wonder why their Windows machine is acting up...
okay, will give the 'cost' is not a good barometer... my post was off in that respect... quality parts are what make things much easier to chase down (quality ram, mobo, no overclocked cpu's, etc)
I think its great... look a the PC market... you have people buying B and C grade memory to put in 4 layer motherboards that are practically given away... the mobo and ram, given they are high quality make a ton of difference.
I personally have a dual 3ghz xeon box with 4gb of ram running Vmware ESX server (linux kernel is at its underpinnings) and its been online going on 7 months without the need for a reboot.. put cheap hardware in the mix and you end up with blue screens, kernel panics, etc that are nearly impossible to trace..