There's another option. Let them continue using their insecure systems. Then us sys admins can patch them everytime they break. This equates to more jobs and is good for the economy.
If you don't have them, you can pretty much write off any upward mobility, and you'll be treated like cattle.
The interesting thing here is anyone can start their own business and that gives them management experience. Experience is enough to get a job most anywhere. And if your company is successful it could make you a lot of money. Money is the goal here, not three letters after your name. Don't forget that.
I think they want to integrate voice activation stuff into Longhorn. If they're really serious about this sort of thing then it might take some resources.
Plus they have a lot of explaining to do about their trustworthy computing intiative. We'll see how that pans out.
Laws are there to keep the people honest, if I *really* wanted to commit a computer crime, the feds would never find me.
I suspect any intelligent administrator could walk all over the net without being caught. Let's just hope I don't lose my job, eh? Wanna give me a dotcomcrash? I'll show you a dotcomcrash!;)
I enjoy being on the good side of the force, when it pays well.
What if you change your MAC address? How is your ISP even going to know your MAC address if you route through a gateway device?
They have to cache some indentifiable data somewhere. If they cache a false MAC address then the only thing they can prove is it came from your connection to their network. Now if you have a wireless AP on your network or any other form of anonymous access, then you're innocent until proven guilty.
You're still the number 1 suspect, tho, which is why I recommend posting anonymously from a cyber cafe with DHCP and a modified MAC, just in case.
Personally I think once he left the company he should have purchased one of these "secure" email accounts and then turned around and sued the company for fraud for all the money he could make. Early retirement would be very nice 6 months after telling management to patch that security hole.
I think we can agree that all forms of rape are humorous, along with all forms of punishment, abuse, torture, etc. In fact people are simply funny, the way they run around their whole lives, slowly dying, pretending its not funny. But it really is.
If you were a politician would you rather make money or work for the people? If you make money you can keep it for the rest of your life. If you work for the people, they might reelect you if your opponent doesn't have more money.
The reason everyone uses Microsoft products is because everyone uses Microsoft products. Once Linux gets 20% I'm sure most of the compatibility problems will disappear. And we're talking like 4 years.. Where was Linux 4 years ago?
Since when did we encourage competition and the free market?
There have always been monopolies. And when there's two we can argue that we have choice and thus freedom.
Can anyone tell me the exact date America stopped being a free country and started creating black markets and monopolies to ensure the employment of all people, except those that get laid off? I don't even think it happened last century, I think we changed very shortly after winning our independance, maybe one or two generations. Now we're no different than Britain or whereever. Simply capitalist.
the CEO should pick the computers he wants to use. It obviously doesn't come down to technical capability of the OS or important things like security, performance or TCO. It comes down to one things and its very simple, preference.
I don't know of any company or oligopolistic corporation that ever does a QA evaluation before purchasing several hundred new systems from Dell or Compaq or wherever. Companies don't want well designed technology. They just want a cheap outsourced "solution" that may or may not work, it doesn't matter. As long as it can be squeezed into place and forced to fit the bill. Then management goes on patting itself on the back for a job well done.
The alternative is to use your brain. So you've finally decided to save money. What you do is buy 1 PC, 1 Mac, 1 *nix box and test to see which one is the best tool for the job. Or for desktop equipment you require your employees to learn whatever OS you want to use and you throw something like Linux across a bunch of very cheap PCs, built with the exact hardware you want. Use generic parts like Antec cases, good motherboards, CPUs, memory, disks, cdrws, etc. Build the systems in house and order replacements parts as they wear out. Keep track of the failure rate of each piece of hardware. If you find a certain brand of harddrives failing more than expected, try an alternative. If one brand of hardware is has a high failure rate you might even consider posting a press release or something.
I dunno. I just know if I ever manage a business I'll do it right, there are no excuses. But that's a big if.
I recommend we can the whole space program and put the money back in my pocket. I changed my mind. I don't want to go out in space, ever. Definitely not on Southwest Airline's commercial space-liner, with plenty of leg room for people under 5' in height, poor air circulation, etc.
I've come to the conclusion that we're not smart enough to do these things. So let them go.. and gimme back my money!
I think its both. We need to create a social structure that takes away the incentive to prey on people. Capitalism encourages this, either in the black market by theft or in the legal market through commercialism. Theft via psychological manipulation.
And we need to educate the masses about human nature and why we would prey on eachother.
How about we choose a pixel off the webcam's picture, aiming the camera at a TV that's playing CNN News, it has to be CNN, won't work with anything else. Anyway, use/dev/random to grab the location of the pixel and store its color value to check against, to make sure its changing. If you use CNN it will be truely random!
Its probably in gconf. I couldn't find it the last time I looked for it.
I prefer to have a GNOME/Metacity desktop running KDE on top of it as the icons, backgrounds and extras. What else are my poor 2 Ghz systems going to spend their extra CPU cycles on? I just can't write enough email to justify the power of this system, so I'll put lots of eye candy on the screen and pretend I need it.:)
I've always wondered something. When you choose to use/opt how do you recommend the filesystem be partitioned? Some people like to make a small / filesystem and keep/var and/usr separate. Do you also recommend having a/opt. Or should the / filesystem be increased in size to support the extra apps? Or should there be a symbolic link from/opt to/usr/opt? Or should we just have one large filesystem like windows?
We are learning more and discovering more about our environment every day with possibly an exponential rate of increase. But as a society we're incapable of creating the proper structure and environment to promote art like software developement. There are too many distractions in daily life for most people to be able to focus on complex algorithms. But once we finally squeeze AI out of our puny little tortured brains it can take over where we left off, giving us software capable of doing what we want.
The problem is not that the system lacks the capacity to do those neat things. Its just that we don't have enough intelligent programmers. Society doesn't foster that sort of intense study and thought very well in its present form. I contribute most of the problems to money.
I'm sorry, I misread the FSF's statement. I thought I read they were running gnuftp, when I know I read elsewhere they were running wu-ftpd.. gnuftp, hmmm, never heard of that ftp daemon. Probably because that's the hostname of the server. Doh!:P
Okay, so maybe anonymous ftp isn't all that bad. I've just been frustrated with security this week. I'm like, 'If it ain't encrypted I don't wanna hear about it'. Maybe I've had too much SCO and MSBlast.
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There's another option. Let them continue using their insecure systems. Then us sys admins can patch them everytime they break. This equates to more jobs and is good for the economy.
If you don't have them, you can pretty much write off any upward mobility, and you'll be treated like cattle.
The interesting thing here is anyone can start their own business and that gives them management experience. Experience is enough to get a job most anywhere. And if your company is successful it could make you a lot of money. Money is the goal here, not three letters after your name. Don't forget that.
I think they want to integrate voice activation stuff into Longhorn. If they're really serious about this sort of thing then it might take some resources.
Plus they have a lot of explaining to do about their trustworthy computing intiative. We'll see how that pans out.
SCO stole 1,000,000 lines of code from the Linux kernel.
Laws are there to keep the people honest, if I *really* wanted to commit a computer crime, the feds would never find me.
;)
I suspect any intelligent administrator could walk all over the net without being caught. Let's just hope I don't lose my job, eh? Wanna give me a dotcomcrash? I'll show you a dotcomcrash!
I enjoy being on the good side of the force, when it pays well.
I'd throw them all in jail, along with their customers. For wasting our time over something as trivial as email.
What if you change your MAC address? How is your ISP even going to know your MAC address if you route through a gateway device?
They have to cache some indentifiable data somewhere. If they cache a false MAC address then the only thing they can prove is it came from your connection to their network. Now if you have a wireless AP on your network or any other form of anonymous access, then you're innocent until proven guilty.
You're still the number 1 suspect, tho, which is why I recommend posting anonymously from a cyber cafe with DHCP and a modified MAC, just in case.
Personally I think once he left the company he should have purchased one of these "secure" email accounts and then turned around and sued the company for fraud for all the money he could make. Early retirement would be very nice 6 months after telling management to patch that security hole.
I think we can agree that all forms of rape are humorous, along with all forms of punishment, abuse, torture, etc. In fact people are simply funny, the way they run around their whole lives, slowly dying, pretending its not funny. But it really is.
I think the FCC acknowledged that 802.11g will not be as fast as advertised.
If you were a politician would you rather make money or work for the people? If you make money you can keep it for the rest of your life. If you work for the people, they might reelect you if your opponent doesn't have more money.
Ahh the beauty of capitalism.
The reason everyone uses Microsoft products is because everyone uses Microsoft products. Once Linux gets 20% I'm sure most of the compatibility problems will disappear. And we're talking like 4 years.. Where was Linux 4 years ago?
I'm a troll because my opinion hurts, doesn't it? Yeah!
Since when did we encourage competition and the free market?
There have always been monopolies. And when there's two we can argue that we have choice and thus freedom.
Can anyone tell me the exact date America stopped being a free country and started creating black markets and monopolies to ensure the employment of all people, except those that get laid off? I don't even think it happened last century, I think we changed very shortly after winning our independance, maybe one or two generations. Now we're no different than Britain or whereever. Simply capitalist.
the CEO should pick the computers he wants to use. It obviously doesn't come down to technical capability of the OS or important things like security, performance or TCO. It comes down to one things and its very simple, preference.
I don't know of any company or oligopolistic corporation that ever does a QA evaluation before purchasing several hundred new systems from Dell or Compaq or wherever. Companies don't want well designed technology. They just want a cheap outsourced "solution" that may or may not work, it doesn't matter. As long as it can be squeezed into place and forced to fit the bill. Then management goes on patting itself on the back for a job well done.
The alternative is to use your brain. So you've finally decided to save money. What you do is buy 1 PC, 1 Mac, 1 *nix box and test to see which one is the best tool for the job. Or for desktop equipment you require your employees to learn whatever OS you want to use and you throw something like Linux across a bunch of very cheap PCs, built with the exact hardware you want. Use generic parts like Antec cases, good motherboards, CPUs, memory, disks, cdrws, etc. Build the systems in house and order replacements parts as they wear out. Keep track of the failure rate of each piece of hardware. If you find a certain brand of harddrives failing more than expected, try an alternative. If one brand of hardware is has a high failure rate you might even consider posting a press release or something.
I dunno. I just know if I ever manage a business I'll do it right, there are no excuses. But that's a big if.
I recommend we can the whole space program and put the money back in my pocket. I changed my mind. I don't want to go out in space, ever. Definitely not on Southwest Airline's commercial space-liner, with plenty of leg room for people under 5' in height, poor air circulation, etc.
I've come to the conclusion that we're not smart enough to do these things. So let them go.. and gimme back my money!
I think its both. We need to create a social structure that takes away the incentive to prey on people. Capitalism encourages this, either in the black market by theft or in the legal market through commercialism. Theft via psychological manipulation.
And we need to educate the masses about human nature and why we would prey on eachother.
With Microsoft getting DOS attacks and viruses all the time one might begin to think that someone doesn't like them. Hrmm. Wonder who that could be..
The only thing that amazes me is people keep support these institutions and the capitalist society that created them.
Is everyone blind, deaf and stupid?
What excuses do you want to give me for this type of "accident"?
When do you think we'll be seeing the next one?
How about we choose a pixel off the webcam's picture, aiming the camera at a TV that's playing CNN News, it has to be CNN, won't work with anything else. Anyway, use /dev/random to grab the location of the pixel and store its color value to check against, to make sure its changing. If you use CNN it will be truely random!
Its probably in gconf. I couldn't find it the last time I looked for it.
:)
I prefer to have a GNOME/Metacity desktop running KDE on top of it as the icons, backgrounds and extras. What else are my poor 2 Ghz systems going to spend their extra CPU cycles on? I just can't write enough email to justify the power of this system, so I'll put lots of eye candy on the screen and pretend I need it.
I've always wondered something. When you choose to use /opt how do you recommend the filesystem be partitioned? Some people like to make a small / filesystem and keep /var and /usr separate. Do you also recommend having a /opt. Or should the / filesystem be increased in size to support the extra apps? Or should there be a symbolic link from /opt to /usr/opt? Or should we just have one large filesystem like windows?
We are learning more and discovering more about our environment every day with possibly an exponential rate of increase. But as a society we're incapable of creating the proper structure and environment to promote art like software developement. There are too many distractions in daily life for most people to be able to focus on complex algorithms. But once we finally squeeze AI out of our puny little tortured brains it can take over where we left off, giving us software capable of doing what we want.
The problem is not that the system lacks the capacity to do those neat things. Its just that we don't have enough intelligent programmers. Society doesn't foster that sort of intense study and thought very well in its present form. I contribute most of the problems to money.
I'm sorry, I misread the FSF's statement. I thought I read they were running gnuftp, when I know I read elsewhere they were running wu-ftpd.. gnuftp, hmmm, never heard of that ftp daemon. Probably because that's the hostname of the server. Doh! :P
Okay, so maybe anonymous ftp isn't all that bad. I've just been frustrated with security this week. I'm like, 'If it ain't encrypted I don't wanna hear about it'. Maybe I've had too much SCO and MSBlast.