do you know of any major organizations that are similar the CDC? <Lucent> who? <Thumb> center for disease control <Lucent> i said WHO <Thumb> what? i'm asking you <Lucent> World Health Organization
get a toughbook, a satellite uplink, and colo a server somewhere controlled.
seriously. finding the computational strength you want with the power restrictions is not going to happen.
my company just shipped some units to a desert in the middle east (can't mention where). we bought an entire trailer and powering units (generators, solar, etc) to provide the juice to run the servers and air conditioning. it was _not_ cheap. you can do that or you can remote to a controlled area.
Why should they have the right? If I'm not mistaken, the Boston College Police Department consists of Special State Police Officers. That they were able to obtain a search warrant should be another indicator.
Look at your link. Boston College != Boston University
But, to that end, I believe BC does use staties, in addition to BU, while Northeastern, Harvard, and MIT do not.
I'd say the answer is no. I've never looked at a resume and saw that they had no PAID experience and then said, wait, they played around on some open source project, they must be good...
as a part of my department's hiring team, more weight is given to paid positions, definitely.
but the programming skill / quality of some of these paid positions is the same as the programming skill / quality of the fuzzies in my sock -- non-existent.
if you work on an open source project, we can at least look back at the commit tree and see some of the actual codewrites and adds/changes in the tree. in some cases, it gives us more of a knowledge of the applicants skill then someone who is just providing a resume, and using the buzzwords-of-the-{day,month,year}, since we actually have something TANGIBLE to look at. Plus, working on an open source project, the OP may likely start on a low end, handling documentation or tickets, until progressing upwards into the high technical levels -- useful skills to have.
if you filter out all technical people right off the bat, due to past paid experience or college degree, you may lose a great hire. some of our best workers are non-ee/cs (surpisingly, civil engineers make good coders, and one of our best is a former music major, orchestra performer, & music theory professor). additionally, having someone come in without the 'dogma' from a standard ee/cs education & job background may be refreshing -- as they think and will approach problems in different ways.
YMMV, but just my experience that cares more about the people than your standard fortune 500 chairfiller...
Unfortunately, I can't share the scripts. And they wouldn't be of much use, either, because of the huge differences amongst systems. Slackware != Ubuntu != CentOS != OS X, etc
And I must say up front that it wasn't originally my idea. I only know the person who showed it to me (thanks, EW!).
I can explain an overview on how to set up:
1) Identify how your machine (OS/distro) identifies USB Devices. If they always come up as, say, '/media/USBDISK', you may be gold. Some systems will replace USBDISK with the formatted name of the drive. Simple solution: format all of your drives for this with the same name.
2) Find out how your drive handles startup scripts (is it Linux/etc/init.d/, or OS X launchd?), and how to always ensure the script gets run at boot (priority levels, chkconfigs, this is all different based upon system).
3) Have one script (say, checkUSB.sh) that forces an attempt at doing a mount, and then does a simple -f (bash) test to see if a file is present. ie, 'mount/dev/sdc1/media/USBDISK; if [ -f/media/USBDISK/checkUSB.sh ]; then do_something; fi'. Depending on the system, you may not have to worry about doing the mount manually. Some OS's will have things automount before your script runs. That is a very happy, very sane environment to work with:]
4) All I have 'checkUSB.sh' do is copy a second shell script down from the drive. So, on every USBDISK, there is a shell script called 'install.sh'. The contents of this script can vary by machine (ie, my DNS flashkey's install.sh does different things than my firewall flashkey's install.sh). At this point, checkUSB.sh should call install.sh (if you are anal, you can do md5 checksums on the transfer to ensure it was copied correctly -- important for a safe/secure/important environment).
5) install.sh is where all the magic happens. The contents of this script varies, but it usually involves performing atomic moves (based upon success and checksums) to ensure everything happens or nothing happens. For example, almost all of my keys change the network configuration, so I include a new ifconfig file on the flash key. The process may work like this: move old ifconfig to ifconfig.old, md5sum the ifconfig on the flashkey, move ifconfig from flashkey to machine, perform md5sum. If md5sums match, move on to next file in script. If md5sums do not match, move old back to original (for all files) and note failure somewhere on the machine. You can also put in system beeps if you'd like. Once all files are transferred and md5sums confirmed, delete all original files.
6) At the end of the script, you should halt the machine from booting (it needs to boot with fresh files). I prefer to do a shutdown -h, as this will ensure to me that the data was read off the flash key. If you do a restart, you'll need to know that the machine went down and up (and finished copying), which is hard to do with a headless machine on a rack. If the machine goes fully down (and the power out), you'll know the script ran to completion. Otherwise, the machine can be put in a continual restart state.
I build all of my rack machines from the same ISO image (well, images. One for Linux, one for OS X).
Within this image, there is a script that runs at boot time that checks for the presence of a USB Drive. If there is a USB Drive, the script will place machine specific configuration files from the USB Key onto the machine in question, so that the machine no longer holds a vanilla install, but instead a completely unique version.
This is great for replacing a down machine on a network -- if 'node1.example.com' goes down, just grab a waiting, fresh machine from the stock pile, insert the usb key labeled 'node1', and start the machine, and watch as the machine takes on the persona of 'node1' without user interaction. Kind of similar to a kickstart script, but with the versatility of being able to change an already configured machine.
Tens of thousands of people have read and commented on this story, making it one of the most-read stories in the history of WKOWTV.COM. 27 News reporter Dan Cassuto will file an update on 27 News at 5:00 on Thursday. We'll review viewer comments, explain why this story is making some viewers so angry, and explore how quickly it's spreading around the internet.
Under DARPA sponsorship, and together with our academic colleagues Harvard University and Boston University, BBN Technologies has recently built and begun to operate the world's first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network. The DARPA Quantum Network employs 24x7 quantum cryptography to provide unprecedented levels of security for standard Internet traffic flows such as web-browsing, e-commerce, and streaming video.
The DARPA Quantum Network became fully operational on October 23, 2003 in BBN's laboratories, and has run continuously since.
I note that our game's up on The Pirate Bay for people to download no, your game is not up for download. simply a torrent file, which contains metadata about the file to be downloaded, as well as the address of the tracker. the actual content is only available from others, and was initially seeded by someone not affiliated with the site.
My company already has this. Lights / ventilation run only from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. At that points, the lights / hvac goes out. But if you are working and want to reactivate these systems, there is a webpage (and a phone extension) that you go to, input your office location, and voila -- the systems come back on.
and according to the company, its dropped costs by a third.
The U.S. Army has had that for almost two decades with the Fire Finder radar system, but that's for heavy artillery. Now DARPA is downsizing the technology to the counter-sniper level.
When I was three or four years old, I played videogames -- a lot. Everyone in my family did. I used to spend a lot of time playing with my dad, and when I got stuck, he would read from a Player's Guide (or other help book) to me.
One time, when I was playing and got stuck, I asked him to read from the Player's Guide. He told me that he was too tired. So I took the book, opened it up, and looked at it. The words came, and I eventually started reading. Taking words that I knew (my own, SUPER MARIO, etc.), I was able to figure out and put together other words. When my parents found me, in my room, reading, they were ecstatic. Video games were the catalyst here (thank you, mario brothers).
It didn't just stop there. Through Civilization I got a rough knowledge of history that I worked to expand (the same with Colonization). SimCity taught me, to an extent, how cities function -- balancing residence and commerce, infrastructure, etc. The list goes on.
Would I have eventually learned to read if my father wasn't tired? Or if I was reading about something other than video games? Probably. But I learned at that instance because it was something I was interested in.
what about maps like de_cpl_mill (nee de_clan1_mill) and other cpl maps that were emblazoned with the CPL logo? does that not count as advertising, or does the cpl have a special agreement?
But really, the programs suggested have reasonable alternates that I know of (minus autoCAD, since I haven't used that since college).
Photoshop -- gimp itunes -- there are multiple, but i'm still content with xmms flash -- HTML web pages. i'm not the only one browsing with flashblock on, for good reason dreamweaver -- vi & emacs -- nuf said
but I've bought a ton of cd's by listening to a song on the radio, writing down a random verse, and later googling that phrase to get to one of those cheesy lyric pages. I then can see what the song is, and what artist is making it.
At least in the counter-strike, the sponsorship is seen pretty prominently.
When watching the game over HLTV (which lets you pretty much watch the game as its being played, through player pov and omniscient views), you see player names. If the clan/team is sponsored, they try to make this pretty known through their clan tag. IE, in one tournament in the past, Team 3D (sponsored by NVidia) used the ingame tag "3D.NVidia Kim", making it known that NVidia played a prominent role.
Additionally, I haven't been on gamesnet/gamesurge lately, but in the past, teams with a sponsorship would readily display that info through their IRC channel. "TEAM 123, Sponsored by JOERANDOM(www.joerandom.com)." With 40,000 people on the network, if your team was large enough, you could definately have sizeable traffic just coming from people double-clicking the url.
Finally, let's not doubt the traffic of fanboys. Take a look at Team3D's website here. There are tons of kids posting / viewing the site who are young & maleable. No doubt, they want to be like their 'idols' and use the same equipment, which is no doubt NVidia / Intel (Team 3D's sponsors).
Hope that clears things up. It is a lucrative market, and one that's just starting to be addressed.
I don't know if 6 is a little too young, but let him play some games on the computer. Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Civilization, Colonization, maybe Age of Empires. All of those (excluding AoE) were games that I played when I was younger, and I am certain that because of those games I have very good knowledge of ancient history (civilization), the pioneers (oregon trail), and geography / culture of the world (carmen sandiego).
Slashdot Mirror
do you know of any major organizations that are similar the CDC?
<Lucent> who?
<Thumb> center for disease control
<Lucent> i said WHO
<Thumb> what? i'm asking you
<Lucent> World Health Organization
http://www.bash.org/?4780
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function
you could tell there was a bunker there when they started blurring the location in google maps:
source
hit the nail right on the head!
that, and an optimized straight ssh connection as a failover works fine (just a _lot_ of latency).
get a toughbook, a satellite uplink, and colo a server somewhere controlled.
seriously. finding the computational strength you want with the power restrictions is not going to happen.
my company just shipped some units to a desert in the middle east (can't mention where). we bought an entire trailer and powering units (generators, solar, etc) to provide the juice to run the servers and air conditioning. it was _not_ cheap. you can do that or you can remote to a controlled area.
Why should they have the right?
If I'm not mistaken, the Boston College Police Department consists of
Special State Police Officers.
That they were able to obtain a search warrant should be another indicator.
Look at your link. Boston College != Boston University
But, to that end, I believe BC does use staties, in addition to BU, while Northeastern, Harvard, and MIT do not.
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I'd say the answer is no. I've never looked at a resume and saw that they had no PAID experience and then said, wait, they played around on some open source project, they must be good...
as a part of my department's hiring team, more weight is given to paid positions, definitely.
but the programming skill / quality of some of these paid positions is the same as the programming skill / quality of the fuzzies in my sock -- non-existent.
if you work on an open source project, we can at least look back at the commit tree and see some of the actual codewrites and adds/changes in the tree. in some cases, it gives us more of a knowledge of the applicants skill then someone who is just providing a resume, and using the buzzwords-of-the-{day,month,year}, since we actually have something TANGIBLE to look at. Plus, working on an open source project, the OP may likely start on a low end, handling documentation or tickets, until progressing upwards into the high technical levels -- useful skills to have.
if you filter out all technical people right off the bat, due to past paid experience or college degree, you may lose a great hire. some of our best workers are non-ee/cs (surpisingly, civil engineers make good coders, and one of our best is a former music major, orchestra performer, & music theory professor). additionally, having someone come in without the 'dogma' from a standard ee/cs education & job background may be refreshing -- as they think and will approach problems in different ways.
YMMV, but just my experience that cares more about the people than your standard fortune 500 chairfiller...
Unfortunately, I can't share the scripts. And they wouldn't be of much use, either, because of the huge differences amongst systems. Slackware != Ubuntu != CentOS != OS X, etc
And I must say up front that it wasn't originally my idea. I only know the person who showed it to me (thanks, EW!).
I can explain an overview on how to set up:
1) Identify how your machine (OS/distro) identifies USB Devices. If they always come up as, say, '/media/USBDISK', you may be gold. Some systems will replace USBDISK with the formatted name of the drive. Simple solution: format all of your drives for this with the same name.
2) Find out how your drive handles startup scripts (is it Linux /etc/init.d/, or OS X launchd?), and how to always ensure the script gets run at boot (priority levels, chkconfigs, this is all different based upon system).
3) Have one script (say, checkUSB.sh) that forces an attempt at doing a mount, and then does a simple -f (bash) test to see if a file is present. ie, 'mount /dev/sdc1 /media/USBDISK; if [ -f /media/USBDISK/checkUSB.sh ]; then do_something; fi'. Depending on the system, you may not have to worry about doing the mount manually. Some OS's will have things automount before your script runs. That is a very happy, very sane environment to work with :]
4) All I have 'checkUSB.sh' do is copy a second shell script down from the drive. So, on every USBDISK, there is a shell script called 'install.sh'. The contents of this script can vary by machine (ie, my DNS flashkey's install.sh does different things than my firewall flashkey's install.sh). At this point, checkUSB.sh should call install.sh (if you are anal, you can do md5 checksums on the transfer to ensure it was copied correctly -- important for a safe/secure/important environment).
5) install.sh is where all the magic happens. The contents of this script varies, but it usually involves performing atomic moves (based upon success and checksums) to ensure everything happens or nothing happens. For example, almost all of my keys change the network configuration, so I include a new ifconfig file on the flash key. The process may work like this: move old ifconfig to ifconfig.old, md5sum the ifconfig on the flashkey, move ifconfig from flashkey to machine, perform md5sum. If md5sums match, move on to next file in script. If md5sums do not match, move old back to original (for all files) and note failure somewhere on the machine. You can also put in system beeps if you'd like. Once all files are transferred and md5sums confirmed, delete all original files.
6) At the end of the script, you should halt the machine from booting (it needs to boot with fresh files). I prefer to do a shutdown -h, as this will ensure to me that the data was read off the flash key. If you do a restart, you'll need to know that the machine went down and up (and finished copying), which is hard to do with a headless machine on a rack. If the machine goes fully down (and the power out), you'll know the script ran to completion. Otherwise, the machine can be put in a continual restart state.
good luck and let me know if your system works!
I build all of my rack machines from the same ISO image (well, images. One for Linux, one for OS X).
Within this image, there is a script that runs at boot time that checks for the presence of a USB Drive. If there is a USB Drive, the script will place machine specific configuration files from the USB Key onto the machine in question, so that the machine no longer holds a vanilla install, but instead a completely unique version.
This is great for replacing a down machine on a network -- if 'node1.example.com' goes down, just grab a waiting, fresh machine from the stock pile, insert the usb key labeled 'node1', and start the machine, and watch as the machine takes on the persona of 'node1' without user interaction. Kind of similar to a kickstart script, but with the versatility of being able to change an already configured machine.
***THURSDAY MORNING UPDATE***
Tens of thousands of people have read and commented on this story, making it one of the most-read stories in the history of WKOWTV.COM. 27 News reporter Dan Cassuto will file an update on 27 News at 5:00 on Thursday. We'll review viewer comments, explain why this story is making some viewers so angry, and explore how quickly it's spreading around the internet.
Under DARPA sponsorship, and together with our academic colleagues Harvard University and Boston University, BBN Technologies has recently built and begun to operate the world's first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network. The DARPA Quantum Network employs 24x7 quantum cryptography to provide unprecedented levels of security for standard Internet traffic flows such as web-browsing, e-commerce, and streaming video.
The DARPA Quantum Network became fully operational on October 23, 2003 in BBN's laboratories, and has run continuously since.
source: http://bbn.com/technology/information_security/quantum_cryptography
My company already has this. Lights / ventilation run only from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. At that points, the lights / hvac goes out. But if you are working and want to reactivate these systems, there is a webpage (and a phone extension) that you go to, input your office location, and voila -- the systems come back on.
and according to the company, its dropped costs by a third.
already done:
http://bbn.com/Products_and_Services/Physical_Sec
...we had to hang out in AOL Chat Rooms in order to have older guys try to pick us up...
and this was on dial up!
In defense of games:
When I was three or four years old, I played videogames -- a lot. Everyone in my family did. I used to spend a lot of time playing with my dad, and when I got stuck, he would read from a Player's Guide (or other help book) to me.
One time, when I was playing and got stuck, I asked him to read from the Player's Guide. He told me that he was too tired. So I took the book, opened it up, and looked at it. The words came, and I eventually started reading. Taking words that I knew (my own, SUPER MARIO, etc.), I was able to figure out and put together other words. When my parents found me, in my room, reading, they were ecstatic. Video games were the catalyst here (thank you, mario brothers).
It didn't just stop there. Through Civilization I got a rough knowledge of history that I worked to expand (the same with Colonization). SimCity taught me, to an extent, how cities function -- balancing residence and commerce, infrastructure, etc. The list goes on.
Would I have eventually learned to read if my father wasn't tired? Or if I was reading about something other than video games? Probably. But I learned at that instance because it was something I was interested in.
Simple. Remember this incident with internet2?
There was a list of all of the universities involved. Simply assume that most of these universities have since set up a local lan-only hub.
note: not for the faint of heart, or those of us with morals (there must be somebody out there)
Tucker Max
what about maps like de_cpl_mill (nee de_clan1_mill) and other cpl maps that were emblazoned with the CPL logo? does that not count as advertising, or does the cpl have a special agreement?
already slashdotted.
Maybe this will work.
But really, the programs suggested have reasonable alternates that I know of (minus autoCAD, since I haven't used that since college).
Photoshop -- gimp
itunes -- there are multiple, but i'm still content with xmms
flash -- HTML web pages. i'm not the only one browsing with flashblock on, for good reason
dreamweaver -- vi & emacs -- nuf said
Just my personal experience --
but I've bought a ton of cd's by listening to a song on the radio, writing down a random verse, and later googling that phrase to get to one of those cheesy lyric pages. I then can see what the song is, and what artist is making it.
Shut that down and you're gonna lose my sales.
At least in the counter-strike, the sponsorship is seen pretty prominently.
When watching the game over HLTV (which lets you pretty much watch the game as its being played, through player pov and omniscient views), you see player names. If the clan/team is sponsored, they try to make this pretty known through their clan tag. IE, in one tournament in the past, Team 3D (sponsored by NVidia) used the ingame tag "3D.NVidia Kim", making it known that NVidia played a prominent role.
Additionally, I haven't been on gamesnet/gamesurge lately, but in the past, teams with a sponsorship would readily display that info through their IRC channel. "TEAM 123, Sponsored by JOERANDOM(www.joerandom.com)." With 40,000 people on the network, if your team was large enough, you could definately have sizeable traffic just coming from people double-clicking the url.
Finally, let's not doubt the traffic of fanboys. Take a look at Team3D's website here. There are tons of kids posting / viewing the site who are young & maleable. No doubt, they want to be like their 'idols' and use the same equipment, which is no doubt NVidia / Intel (Team 3D's sponsors).
Hope that clears things up. It is a lucrative market, and one that's just starting to be addressed.
Will this delay be all that blu-ray needs to become the market standard?
I don't know if 6 is a little too young, but let him play some games on the computer. Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Civilization, Colonization, maybe Age of Empires. All of those (excluding AoE) were games that I played when I was younger, and I am certain that because of those games I have very good knowledge of ancient history (civilization), the pioneers (oregon trail), and geography / culture of the world (carmen sandiego).