Yeah, innovation. He starts off okay, to catch the "first three paragraph's crowd", but he really doesn't get it. He starts losing the careful reading with a strawman, claiming that ICANN said that "the Internet had broken or would break"., which is a blatant exagerration of what ICANN said - which was expressing concern that certain servcies that depended on DNS following documented standard practices had or could break. Every mail domain now exists for starters, which confuses some anti-spam systems.
He goes on to bemoan the lack of innovation inherent in an Internet that is "flat" and of proscribed boundaries. Write an RFC buddy. Or better yet, read one.
The proper deliniation is not IT vs world + dog. The proper way to decide who gets an admin password is: if they break something, will they get paged at 4am Saturday or will someone else ? Then there are little administrative details like which VP(s) would get involved and whose budget repairs and downtime come out of.
s/Nortel/Novell for the above, but Nortel is a button for me so...
Well, Nortel does use Unix in at least some of its PBXs. So there could be a claim by SCO. Not bloody likely, but possible since there exists Linux drivers for some of their NICs, and I see some discussion traffic on Google about IPSec on Linux. That should be enough for SCO, Novell must have some sort of Unix license, they use Unix for much the same things AT&T did - they use it to run phone systems. Funny that Novell's can't f*ck*ng keep time.
But Nortel can bite me, I had two long years suffering under a support contract with them. Their San Francisco support operation was so bad I wound up talking to some VPs in Houston about it. The guy we had out from Northern Office Works had bathed, was well-groomed and friendly. That said, our cabling contractor wound up fixing the problem - and it was on the patch panel that the N.O.W. guy had looked at. Contact me if you need a good cable guy in the Bay Area.
If you document every minute and every dime spent in agonizing detail, document your hourly rate and present it succinctly to the judge, you just might get it. Suing for costs and damages is done, although I suspect you usually only get your full costs award if the judge thinks the defendant is going to try to skip on the payment anyway.
You want to do this with a (relatively) heavy phone with as much flat space on the back as possible. This helps amplify the vibration and helps make it unrecognizeable.
I had a pager long ago that I habitually left on one of my bookshelves. Not for long. I still had it on vibrate after a movie and was home drinking with a buddy. Someone paged me.
The pager was flush with the shelf and held down by the mass of a AA battery. The wooden bookshelf (well fibreboard, I'm cheap with furniture) acted as a resonator and projected the sound off the wall behind it. We had no idea what it was. In no sense did it sound like it could have come from a small device, the 'sound source' was about four feet in diameter. Fortunately I figured it out before Monday.
Well, spending time in the Finder is a lot more productive than in explorer.exe - a heinous program by any standard. "directly using the OS' also include the GUI and the widget set in Cocoa - which are excellent. And that passes through into the software available since the Insanely Great APIs and InterfaceBuilder make for a higher average quality of software available than for Windows. Remember, Apple's dev tools are better and faster for rapid prototyping than VisualBasic and use a C dialect. Any in-house development team working in OS X rather than using VisualWhatever2004 should be just as productive and put out software that's easier to use. All part of the OS - better software through OS design.
VT was trying to make a deadline for a "Top 10 Supercomputers list", so time was a factor in the bidding; Dell treid for price, but couldn't make the delivery time that Apple could (by bumping everyone else's order back). Quad G5 Xserves might have to be 2U units, due to heat. They'll probably wait for the 0.9 micron or smaller processes from IBM to do a g5 Xserve. Right now, the Xserve is a 1U dual G4 system. The desktop management tools in the OS X server package sound tempting. My Studio group is proposing half a terrabyte worth of storage, and I might be able to use that as a management machine as part of the 10.3 rollout.
It's pretty nice to be able to work with another group that closely.
Always put HR departments in the DMZ. We used to screen applicant into the "Possible" and "Sent us a virus" piles. IT Manager applications tended to end up in the "Virus" pile until some SOB faxed his in. Sadly, that's the guy they hired. At another gig, where HR really was in the DMZ, we didn't care that she'd gotten a virus, we just watched the running totals of how many. Dozens a week during the dotcom boom.
I know just what you're talking about. Back in Tucson, AZ in the late 80s I had.... a 1976 Mustang II with the 2.8L V6. I did my own brakes and tune ups, and that was it besides using quality parts. On a half-mile stoplight to stoplight run I could handle most V8s by virtue of better stopping power. They'd be way ahead and then I'd zip past and step on the brakes to stop at the finish line first. I considered skidmarks to be a concession. That kind of racing tests the whole car.
Put four frat boys in a Fiero and drive down from ASU, and I'll be in front of you, in your lane and still in second gear.
Firewalling them is good, your customers have no authority to allow them that kind of access to your network. Have your corporate attorney send them a polite C&D letter. By polite, just the followup contact - this time on an attorney's letterhead. Also consult the attorney for what you should/can tell your customers, then do so immediately.
Be very clear to your customers that your objection is the nearly-criminal (it's a DOS) heavy-handedness, mind-numbingly unethical and pathetically incompetent behavior of the monitoring company. It's not unreasonable for one of your customers to retain a third party to provide professional services of this nature; by professional I mean 'do it right' not in the sense of professional as a term of law. Loading your website at regular intervals and parsing their logs for them is fine. Right now, these guys are probably reporting the outages they caused.
Billing your clients for bandwidth used by the monitoring company they hired is not completely unreasonable. Be sure to document every cost associated with this in every way, including time reading responses to this article as 'best practices research'. I'm not kidding, if you worked late you add the pizza in or the taxi home. Every penny in fine detail. Your lawyer will be keenly intereste, so might law enforcement if the polite C&D letter didn't do it.
Since the offered protection, aka monitoring services and then caused damage to your systems you could make a case that a protection racket is being run. If, adding in their fees for their services (paid by your customers) to the damages calculated above you have more than a certain threshold, probably US$50,000, then the FBI will be interested. Also have the monthly and annual total of your revenue from the customers either employing the monitoring service plus those affected by the damage cause (probably all of them). If things go sour with them and you do go to law enforcement, wave your revenue totals around to help get DAs and FBI interested.
Basically, you call your lawyer and then contact your customers. Your lawyer asks them to behave themselves. Then you meet with the lawyer, discuss the response and post another Ask Slashdot.
Apple provides a Dvorak layout with (at least) 10.2, it's in SystemPrefs. You still have to move the keys around yourself, or buy a USB Dvorak keyboard - if such a beast exists commercially.
Here's a telemarketing situation where I'm just waiting for the payoff. Our office has several blocks of 100 numbers each, most of which aren't in use and are forwarded to the front desk (because a client may have an old number). Some months ago a mortgage company started autodialing our blocks. Our receptionist went from calm to frothing at the mouth in 60 seconds flat, and eveyone else was getting either a hangup call or a voicemail left for them.
I called the 800 number in the voicemail I personally received, got a manager on the line in record time (it helps if you sound like you want to confirm your satellite recon for the imminent airstrike) and explained that we had a block of numbers, that they were calling ALL of them and to please stop right-fucking-now. I then did the usual bit about do not call lists and a copy of the policy (which I never got). The do not call list was tough, since numbnuts didn't grok the "I have several hundred consecutive numbers" part very well.
The next day they did it again. I got another manager on the line, who was significantly less than understanding about the whole affair. In point of fact, he seemed dismissive of the whole fact that I had complained the day before and tha the was perhaps a bit offended that I was trying to interfere with his attempt to rescue a failing mortgage business. I reminded him about the FCC's $500 per call regulation and he got offended. Go figure. Apaprently the fact that the Federal government might put him out of business wasn't a factor in his worldview. I rang off.
And called the local police department and reported a couple hundred harassing phone calls. I leaned heavily on the second manager's attitude toward my request of the previous day and on his utter disregard for Federal codes covering his business. I named both managers in the complaint. These guys are less than fifty miles from us and in the same state, so it could happen.
We have a case number. Some day they'll screw up, and then a telemarketing manager will do the Perp Walk. I'll be sure to put whatever details I can on a website so we can all share the joy.
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Yeah, innovation. He starts off okay, to catch the "first three paragraph's crowd", but he really doesn't get it. He starts losing the careful reading with a strawman, claiming that ICANN said that "the Internet had broken or would break"., which is a blatant exagerration of what ICANN said - which was expressing concern that certain servcies that depended on DNS following documented standard practices had or could break. Every mail domain now exists for starters, which confuses some anti-spam systems.
He goes on to bemoan the lack of innovation inherent in an Internet that is "flat" and of proscribed boundaries. Write an RFC buddy. Or better yet, read one.
The proper deliniation is not IT vs world + dog. The proper way to decide who gets an admin password is: if they break something, will they get paged at 4am Saturday or will someone else ? Then there are little administrative details like which VP(s) would get involved and whose budget repairs and downtime come out of.
I'm glad I have telnet.exe on ZoneAlarm's "ask" list.
I have mod points and you almost got a -1: Flamebait :-)
s/Nortel/Novell for the above, but Nortel is a button for me so...
Well, Nortel does use Unix in at least some of its PBXs. So there could be a claim by SCO. Not bloody likely, but possible since there exists Linux drivers for some of their NICs, and I see some discussion traffic on Google about IPSec on Linux. That should be enough for SCO, Novell must have some sort of Unix license, they use Unix for much the same things AT&T did - they use it to run phone systems. Funny that Novell's can't f*ck*ng keep time.
But Nortel can bite me, I had two long years suffering under a support contract with them. Their San Francisco support operation was so bad I wound up talking to some VPs in Houston about it. The guy we had out from Northern Office Works had bathed, was well-groomed and friendly. That said, our cabling contractor wound up fixing the problem - and it was on the patch panel that the N.O.W. guy had looked at. Contact me if you need a good cable guy in the Bay Area.
If you document every minute and every dime spent in agonizing detail, document your hourly rate and present it succinctly to the judge, you just might get it. Suing for costs and damages is done, although I suspect you usually only get your full costs award if the judge thinks the defendant is going to try to skip on the payment anyway.
Well, it's pretty obvious that the code for the Agents is not decended from any sort of aimbot. It'd make for a shorter movie if they did.
You want to do this with a (relatively) heavy phone with as much flat space on the back as possible. This helps amplify the vibration and helps make it unrecognizeable.
I had a pager long ago that I habitually left on one of my bookshelves. Not for long. I still had it on vibrate after a movie and was home drinking with a buddy. Someone paged me.
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvibrate. Vvvvvvvvvvvvvibrate. Vvvvvvvvvvvvvibrate.
The pager was flush with the shelf and held down by the mass of a AA battery. The wooden bookshelf (well fibreboard, I'm cheap with furniture) acted as a resonator and projected the sound off the wall behind it. We had no idea what it was. In no sense did it sound like it could have come from a small device, the 'sound source' was about four feet in diameter. Fortunately I figured it out before Monday.
Coincidentally, that's also how much they're suing IBM for. It'd be an oddball way for IBM fo fund GNU/Linux developers.
Nahhh, they'll just squish SCO and then spend it on wringing the last bit of use out of the System V code
They should probably recompile the binaries just to be completely pedantic about the whole thing.
Only if Chris Claremont is writing it.
I'm gonna have to reconsider DAoC...
Lotta time on your hands ?
Well, spending time in the Finder is a lot more productive than in explorer.exe - a heinous program by any standard. "directly using the OS' also include the GUI and the widget set in Cocoa - which are excellent. And that passes through into the software available since the Insanely Great APIs and InterfaceBuilder make for a higher average quality of software available than for Windows. Remember, Apple's dev tools are better and faster for rapid prototyping than VisualBasic and use a C dialect. Any in-house development team working in OS X rather than using VisualWhatever2004 should be just as productive and put out software that's easier to use. All part of the OS - better software through OS design.
VT was trying to make a deadline for a "Top 10 Supercomputers list", so time was a factor in the bidding; Dell treid for price, but couldn't make the delivery time that Apple could (by bumping everyone else's order back). Quad G5 Xserves might have to be 2U units, due to heat. They'll probably wait for the 0.9 micron or smaller processes from IBM to do a g5 Xserve. Right now, the Xserve is a 1U dual G4 system. The desktop management tools in the OS X server package sound tempting. My Studio group is proposing half a terrabyte worth of storage, and I might be able to use that as a management machine as part of the 10.3 rollout.
It's pretty nice to be able to work with another group that closely.
Always put HR departments in the DMZ. We used to screen applicant into the "Possible" and "Sent us a virus" piles. IT Manager applications tended to end up in the "Virus" pile until some SOB faxed his in. Sadly, that's the guy they hired. At another gig, where HR really was in the DMZ, we didn't care that she'd gotten a virus, we just watched the running totals of how many. Dozens a week during the dotcom boom.
I know just what you're talking about. Back in Tucson, AZ in the late 80s I had.... a 1976 Mustang II with the 2.8L V6. I did my own brakes and tune ups, and that was it besides using quality parts. On a half-mile stoplight to stoplight run I could handle most V8s by virtue of better stopping power. They'd be way ahead and then I'd zip past and step on the brakes to stop at the finish line first. I considered skidmarks to be a concession. That kind of racing tests the whole car.
Put four frat boys in a Fiero and drive down from ASU, and I'll be in front of you, in your lane and still in second gear.
Firewalling them is good, your customers have no authority to allow them that kind of access to your network. Have your corporate attorney send them a polite C&D letter. By polite, just the followup contact - this time on an attorney's letterhead. Also consult the attorney for what you should/can tell your customers, then do so immediately.
Be very clear to your customers that your objection is the nearly-criminal (it's a DOS) heavy-handedness, mind-numbingly unethical and pathetically incompetent behavior of the monitoring company. It's not unreasonable for one of your customers to retain a third party to provide professional services of this nature; by professional I mean 'do it right' not in the sense of professional as a term of law. Loading your website at regular intervals and parsing their logs for them is fine. Right now, these guys are probably reporting the outages they caused.
Billing your clients for bandwidth used by the monitoring company they hired is not completely unreasonable. Be sure to document every cost associated with this in every way, including time reading responses to this article as 'best practices research'. I'm not kidding, if you worked late you add the pizza in or the taxi home. Every penny in fine detail. Your lawyer will be keenly intereste, so might law enforcement if the polite C&D letter didn't do it.
Since the offered protection, aka monitoring services and then caused damage to your systems you could make a case that a protection racket is being run. If, adding in their fees for their services (paid by your customers) to the damages calculated above you have more than a certain threshold, probably US$50,000, then the FBI will be interested. Also have the monthly and annual total of your revenue from the customers either employing the monitoring service plus those affected by the damage cause (probably all of them). If things go sour with them and you do go to law enforcement, wave your revenue totals around to help get DAs and FBI interested.
Basically, you call your lawyer and then contact your customers. Your lawyer asks them to behave themselves. Then you meet with the lawyer, discuss the response and post another Ask Slashdot.
Since inception, we have funded our operations primarily through loans from our major stockholder and through sales of common and preferred stock.
But we told you we were running a stock scam !
Apple provides a Dvorak layout with (at least) 10.2, it's in SystemPrefs. You still have to move the keys around yourself, or buy a USB Dvorak keyboard - if such a beast exists commercially.
We could stop calling it the September that never ended.
That'd be worth a lot of hassle.
O'Reilly's MacDev center
CocoaDev.com
Both have entry-level ProjectBuilder tutorials, including the famous one-line web browser (CocoaDev) and text editor (O'Reilly) tutorials.
Can't you lose a domain registration for providing false contact info ?
Here's a telemarketing situation where I'm just waiting for the payoff. Our office has several blocks of 100 numbers each, most of which aren't in use and are forwarded to the front desk (because a client may have an old number). Some months ago a mortgage company started autodialing our blocks. Our receptionist went from calm to frothing at the mouth in 60 seconds flat, and eveyone else was getting either a hangup call or a voicemail left for them.
I called the 800 number in the voicemail I personally received, got a manager on the line in record time (it helps if you sound like you want to confirm your satellite recon for the imminent airstrike) and explained that we had a block of numbers, that they were calling ALL of them and to please stop right-fucking-now. I then did the usual bit about do not call lists and a copy of the policy (which I never got). The do not call list was tough, since numbnuts didn't grok the "I have several hundred consecutive numbers" part very well.
The next day they did it again. I got another manager on the line, who was significantly less than understanding about the whole affair. In point of fact, he seemed dismissive of the whole fact that I had complained the day before and tha the was perhaps a bit offended that I was trying to interfere with his attempt to rescue a failing mortgage business. I reminded him about the FCC's $500 per call regulation and he got offended. Go figure. Apaprently the fact that the Federal government might put him out of business wasn't a factor in his worldview. I rang off.
And called the local police department and reported a couple hundred harassing phone calls. I leaned heavily on the second manager's attitude toward my request of the previous day and on his utter disregard for Federal codes covering his business. I named both managers in the complaint. These guys are less than fifty miles from us and in the same state, so it could happen.
We have a case number. Some day they'll screw up, and then a telemarketing manager will do the Perp Walk. I'll be sure to put whatever details I can on a website so we can all share the joy.
This looks different enough that I'm not too worried about sequelitis. I'll get into it after Xenosaga I. Whenever the heck that turns out to be.