Assess: Does this harass you that much? yes or no.
If yes: Does this job pays you a good sum of money and allows you to have financial freedom, pay your bills comfortably, pay your car, mortgage and etc? yes or no.
if yes: Suck it up. Jobs are supposed to give you money in exchange to you doing something they need, not to fulfilling your desires.
if no: If you have the guts and skill to find a better job, just leave. Chances are that you might find something better or at least the same, without the policies that bother you.
ME?
The policies harass me but i get paid very well, don't wanna leave this job (good money = freedom to do what i REALLY want on weekends and hobby projects, and support my family). I just have a vps on a cheap provider out there with ssh running on port 443:-) snoop ssh encrypted traffic all you want. I get safe internet browsing on my breaks (also can access blocked sites here like GMAIL or YOUTUBE).
The good thing is that they're lazy to really analyze the logs (well, squid generates huge logs anyway) and puncturing a hole for SSH just makes ONE entry to your server ip (connect XXXXX:443) on the squid log (instead of one for each object, when you're just http browsing), so i guess i'm leaning on that and getting lucky as well!
If they ask me someday what server is it, i'll just explain to them what that means and also remind them that *when i was hired, i didn't sign or was given to read ANY documents about internet usage policies on the company*. Be aware that if you have a clause like that on your contract you might as well get fired for that, even if it's legitimate use.
My 2 cents. Don't work against the system (it's impossible, you have bills to pay and if you keep your pipe dream of ever getting a perfect job you'll end up frustrated and jobless:D). Work around it!
A friend of mine once said. A job can be 2 of those characteristics: I LIKE DOING IT, WELL PAID, LEGAL.... don't try to find the magical three!
What on earth disallows me to : 1- Run a Linux Distro on the thing? 2- Put Java via OpenJDK on that? 3- Enjoy the order of magnitude loss of performance for running interpreted code on such a restrained system? FFuu...
Anyone here is with me that Slashdot is hitting a hard downhill on news quality since 2006's ?
Linode with OpenVPN + SQUID + SSH. Cheap and takes care of everything i need.
The Good:
- Having a smallish vps is cool. If you want to roll other services (icecast2 server to stream tunes between friends from your bandwidth-deprived home adsl link or even a cheap portfolio page from apache) you can, and it probably won't effect the main use of it.
- Custom, routed solutions are the least prone to being caught and blocked by Hulu/NetFlix and friends (If you're into that sort of thing. I'm not but once i tried Hulu and it just worked, for the sake of testing). (whatever)VPN + Iptables + ip_forward=1 will make that machine essentially you, without a way of detecting it's a vps or something else (unless they start logging vps'es ip ranges and blocking, maybe? too mission impossible for me!)
The Bad:
- Custom means manual set up. This is Slashdot anyway so it's not like people that hang around here are going to struggle with a bit of command line mumbo jumbo
- If it breaks you'll have to set it up all over again, unless you're careful and make backups or snapshots (do we even have this capability in cheapass vpses??? i dunno.)
I'm living in Japan for 3 years now and 90% of the people i see in the streets (any age!) have at least some misaligned/missing/black/rotten/decayed/cavity-laden but untreated teeth.... o_O
This must be some extreeeeeeemely advanced piece of software engineering, because for me, all of them would score lower as they open their mouths T__T
PS: Did i say something about their breath? and did i say i see those pretty teeth in a lot of women too? no wonder why girls cover their mouths here when they smile here (cultural thing my ass:D)
Cool solution, BTW, if you don't have an AT case and power supply, you can 'emulate' that hardware switch behavior even with an ATX case:
1- Get the main 20/24-pin atx molex and use a clip or a small piece of wire to patch permanently the only _green_ (atx power sens) wire to any black wire (GND) or if you don't care about reusing the power supply, ditch the molex, insulate everything else and twist the green and one black wires together, and insulate.
2- If you have any cruft inside this case (old cdrom drives/motherboard) remove everything and put only the hard drives for extra air flow:)
3- wire with sata-2-esata adapters or very long sata cables.
4- Turn on your 'JBOD' with the power supply's back power switch (AT-like behavior)
Im questioning it because here where i live (rented apartment, cant pass cabling) i have a 30M cable being passed between the "router room" and my room, its clipped thru all the house ceiling.... then it goes down the all and plugs direclty into my computer (i know this is hackish but im not living here forever)....
The thing is , once i ran over this cable with a really heavy thing and it broke, near my computer end...cut an inch of the cable , over the part that was broken, tested conectivity with a multitester and a clip and then resoldered the then untwisted wires....wrapped everything up, did a loop in that part of the cable so you cant move the "harmed" part and snap the poorly soldered wires and shoved electrical tape
from a linux machine on the other side...i copy/dev/zero [using samba]...9.7MB/s [100mbit link]... so what the fsck with all you guys and your sad experiences with these things....its running like this for 3 years , no problems at all, no nothing.
How do you guys know it was really a failure? have someone already salvaged the parts and found the main part which contains the 'program' for the missile, and its destination? i'm pretty sure they were testing range, and as they're TESTING they can't allow it to fall on land, so they could just have hit the 'drop dead' button on the command central.... isn't that a bit more logic than saying that it was a failure?
If it was a failure, what was the original destination? land? are they already calling for war? wtf.
I live in japan and these days the media has been hammering us with the fact that north korea is not happy with Japan and they're threatening to throw us a present....showing anti-missile apparel and whatnot on the tv is already saying 'we're prepared but scared'.... think again the failure already cleared Japan so they're SPOT-ON.
I can't guarantee that you're getting 15 years out of it, but build a cheap system with good quality parts and no moving parts at all and you're set
why don't you try something like this:
1-cheap but good quality/sturdy case, full atx, prefferably without a power supply
2-GOOD quality ATX Power Supply, rated quite a bit higher than you're going to need.
3-an (mini/micro/pico)ATX all-in-one good quality Atom based motherboard, with 1 or 2gb of DDR ram, that'll give you good performance and memory, if you have 2 memory chips you can swap them in case just ONE fails, Atom is already cool enough but put in a passive cooler over it just in case:P
4-(pick your poison) an SSD OR a CompactFlash/WhateverCheapMemoryCard-to-Ide and a BUNCH of cheap sticks, those 5 dollar 2GB [2gb wtf! bunch of years ago that was my main hard drive capacity] SD Cards you see lying aroung...they can last a looooooong time even being written at a *regular* basis, you can have an adapter plus like 10 2gb cards for real cheap, and i guarantee you that ONE card will last for much more than you're expecting, 3 or 4 years, maybe more if the system only reads stuff , and barely writes..... and, if you want to backup the database or clone the card so you have the most recent set of data you just have to pop it , plug it somewhere else and you're done.
hope my post sheds some light into your problem:)
ps: the main failure point of this system is the ATX Power Supply , since it has a fan and huge capacitors pumping and stuff converting energy 24/7 BUT as you're using quite less than the power supply is rated for, you shouldn't be facing overheat/capacitor issues.
just disable it in the installation, it will bark saying that is dangerous, but man you have frigging 192GB you can run like 100 copies of Crysis simultaneously or like , 2 virtual machines with Vista!
RTCW: Enemy Territory is still pretty alive in certain countries, here in Japan we have 2 servers that are almost always full after 12:00pm.....one has a 42 player limit and the other, 30....you have to FIGHT or come earlier and spectate several games if you wanna play when you're free...
also we have here a bunch of not-so-crowded but fun TRICK JUMP servers in which you challenge yourself in leaping over several nice places, or climbing places which seem impossible...fun!
well, first of all you should be worried about doing what your boss told you to do, if he wants shaping, shaping it be....you said that the locality doesn't helps, if they can't use your solution, it's dial-up....i presume you're also using your own ISPs broadband connection...
you could also {if you're a downloader} set up shaping for everyone else and secretly {oops!} set up a rule for your login/pass that'll bypass the firewall rules, so free internets for you dude:P
i know i'm a filthy ass but that's what i would try to do, protect my job (just answer stuff with "yes, sir!") while taking benefit:P
random joes already say people talking 'to a computer' (say, in a IM session or something) are strange, imagine if they enter somewhere and see a person randomly putting his tongue out, winking and blinking frenetically?
instead, they could use some kind of device or even your normal usb camera with some calibration software to pinpoint where are you looking at the screen, even if it's not pixel accurate, it would still be very useful...say you want more browsing space, so you put your browser in fullscreen mode, then you want to quickly swap to another application, just LOOK down the screen, where most 'task bars' are located, it'll temporarily show up , allowing you to then click it using your mouse, look back to the center of the screen, bars disappear... put a clock on the upper right corner, peek at it and it shows you the time, briefly
that would be useful and wouldn't even have a learning curve....we have to focus at different parts of the screen to be able to use a computer, the device/camera would just tap into this unused 'looks':P
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Assess: Does this harass you that much? yes or no.
If yes: Does this job pays you a good sum of money and allows you to have financial freedom, pay your bills comfortably, pay your car, mortgage and etc? yes or no.
if yes: Suck it up. Jobs are supposed to give you money in exchange to you doing something they need, not to fulfilling your desires.
if no: If you have the guts and skill to find a better job, just leave. Chances are that you might find something better or at least the same, without the policies that bother you.
ME?
The policies harass me but i get paid very well, don't wanna leave this job (good money = freedom to do what i REALLY want on weekends and hobby projects, and support my family). I just have a vps on a cheap provider out there with ssh running on port 443 :-) snoop ssh encrypted traffic all you want. I get safe internet browsing on my breaks (also can access blocked sites here like GMAIL or YOUTUBE).
The good thing is that they're lazy to really analyze the logs (well, squid generates huge logs anyway) and puncturing a hole for SSH just makes ONE entry to your server ip (connect XXXXX:443) on the squid log (instead of one for each object, when you're just http browsing), so i guess i'm leaning on that and getting lucky as well!
If they ask me someday what server is it, i'll just explain to them what that means and also remind them that *when i was hired, i didn't sign or was given to read ANY documents about internet usage policies on the company*. Be aware that if you have a clause like that on your contract you might as well get fired for that, even if it's legitimate use.
My 2 cents. Don't work against the system (it's impossible, you have bills to pay and if you keep your pipe dream of ever getting a perfect job you'll end up frustrated and jobless :D). Work around it!
A friend of mine once said. A job can be 2 of those characteristics: I LIKE DOING IT, WELL PAID, LEGAL.... don't try to find the magical three!
Is this UMD all over again!?
http://haxe.org/
Multiplatform, statically typed, open source...outputs to desktop and mobile platforms as well.
Any thoughts on this one??
I wonder why this is making headlines here...
What on earth disallows me to : 1- Run a Linux Distro on the thing? 2- Put Java via OpenJDK on that? 3- Enjoy the order of magnitude loss of performance for running interpreted code on such a restrained system? FFuu...
Anyone here is with me that Slashdot is hitting a hard downhill on news quality since 2006's ?
Hooray!
Linode with OpenVPN + SQUID + SSH. Cheap and takes care of everything i need.
The Good:
- Having a smallish vps is cool. If you want to roll other services (icecast2 server to stream tunes between friends from your bandwidth-deprived home adsl link or even a cheap portfolio page from apache) you can, and it probably won't effect the main use of it.
- Custom, routed solutions are the least prone to being caught and blocked by Hulu/NetFlix and friends (If you're into that sort of thing. I'm not but once i tried Hulu and it just worked, for the sake of testing). (whatever)VPN + Iptables + ip_forward=1 will make that machine essentially you, without a way of detecting it's a vps or something else (unless they start logging vps'es ip ranges and blocking, maybe? too mission impossible for me!)
The Bad:
- Custom means manual set up. This is Slashdot anyway so it's not like people that hang around here are going to struggle with a bit of command line mumbo jumbo
- If it breaks you'll have to set it up all over again, unless you're careful and make backups or snapshots (do we even have this capability in cheapass vpses??? i dunno.)
Just my 2c
7:30 o' clock, arm resting on my left thigh.
I quickly read it as a JOINT that grows new JOINTS.... that would be the holy grail!
Is my mind twisted or you guys also took the marijuana bait?
.... and what a "change" !
Comments like this are what makes GREAT, STABLE and LEAN software keep being developed. Congratulations on the 'big shovel' philosophy!
downside? o_O
I'm living in Japan for 3 years now and 90% of the people i see in the streets (any age!) have at least some misaligned/missing/black/rotten/decayed/cavity-laden but untreated teeth.... o_O
This must be some extreeeeeeemely advanced piece of software engineering, because for me, all of them would score lower as they open their mouths T__T
PS: Did i say something about their breath? and did i say i see those pretty teeth in a lot of women too? no wonder why girls cover their mouths here when they smile here (cultural thing my ass :D)
Cool solution, BTW, if you don't have an AT case and power supply, you can 'emulate' that hardware switch behavior even with an ATX case:
1- Get the main 20/24-pin atx molex and use a clip or a small piece of wire to patch permanently the only _green_ (atx power sens) wire to any black wire (GND) or if you don't care about reusing the power supply, ditch the molex, insulate everything else and twist the green and one black wires together, and insulate.
2- If you have any cruft inside this case (old cdrom drives/motherboard) remove everything and put only the hard drives for extra air flow :)
3- wire with sata-2-esata adapters or very long sata cables.
4- Turn on your 'JBOD' with the power supply's back power switch (AT-like behavior)
5- ????
6- Profit??
Rockbox.
for item in list:
print list
------program output--------
Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!
Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!
Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!
Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!
Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!Oops!
FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!FAIL!
Im questioning it because here where i live (rented apartment, cant pass cabling) i have a 30M cable being passed between the "router room" and my room, its clipped thru all the house ceiling.... then it goes down the all and plugs direclty into my computer (i know this is hackish but im not living here forever)....
The thing is , once i ran over this cable with a really heavy thing and it broke, near my computer end...cut an inch of the cable , over the part that was broken, tested conectivity with a multitester and a clip and then resoldered the then untwisted wires....wrapped everything up, did a loop in that part of the cable so you cant move the "harmed" part and snap the poorly soldered wires and shoved electrical tape
from a linux machine on the other side...i copy /dev/zero [using samba]...9.7MB/s [100mbit link]... so what the fsck with all you guys and your sad experiences with these things....its running like this for 3 years , no problems at all, no nothing.
if i'm missing something please explain ;)
Uh.. suddenly i wanna play nethack!
tofu 'cheese' tacos
How do you guys know it was really a failure? have someone already salvaged the parts and found the main part which contains the 'program' for the missile, and its destination? i'm pretty sure they were testing range, and as they're TESTING they can't allow it to fall on land, so they could just have hit the 'drop dead' button on the command central.... isn't that a bit more logic than saying that it was a failure?
If it was a failure, what was the original destination? land? are they already calling for war? wtf.
I live in japan and these days the media has been hammering us with the fact that north korea is not happy with Japan and they're threatening to throw us a present....showing anti-missile apparel and whatnot on the tv is already saying 'we're prepared but scared' .... think again the failure already cleared Japan so they're SPOT-ON.
I can't guarantee that you're getting 15 years out of it, but build a cheap system with good quality parts and no moving parts at all and you're set
why don't you try something like this:
1-cheap but good quality/sturdy case, full atx, prefferably without a power supply
2-GOOD quality ATX Power Supply, rated quite a bit higher than you're going to need.
3-an (mini/micro/pico)ATX all-in-one good quality Atom based motherboard, with 1 or 2gb of DDR ram, that'll give you good performance and memory, if you have 2 memory chips you can swap them in case just ONE fails, Atom is already cool enough but put in a passive cooler over it just in case :P
4-(pick your poison) an SSD OR a CompactFlash/WhateverCheapMemoryCard-to-Ide and a BUNCH of cheap sticks, those 5 dollar 2GB [2gb wtf! bunch of years ago that was my main hard drive capacity] SD Cards you see lying aroung...they can last a looooooong time even being written at a *regular* basis, you can have an adapter plus like 10 2gb cards for real cheap, and i guarantee you that ONE card will last for much more than you're expecting, 3 or 4 years, maybe more if the system only reads stuff , and barely writes..... and, if you want to backup the database or clone the card so you have the most recent set of data you just have to pop it , plug it somewhere else and you're done.
hope my post sheds some light into your problem :)
ps: the main failure point of this system is the ATX Power Supply , since it has a fan and huge capacitors pumping and stuff converting energy 24/7 BUT as you're using quite less than the power supply is rated for, you shouldn't be facing overheat/capacitor issues.
with 192GB of Ram you don't NEED swap :)
just disable it in the installation, it will bark saying that is dangerous, but man you have frigging 192GB you can run like 100 copies of Crysis simultaneously or like , 2 virtual machines with Vista!
RTCW: Enemy Territory is still pretty alive in certain countries, here in Japan we have 2 servers that are almost always full after 12:00pm.....one has a 42 player limit and the other, 30....you have to FIGHT or come earlier and spectate several games if you wanna play when you're free...
also we have here a bunch of not-so-crowded but fun TRICK JUMP servers in which you challenge yourself in leaping over several nice places, or climbing places which seem impossible...fun!
"2009 we are at about 10mbs/15mbs (with paying extra for 15mbs)" wtf??
i'm on 100mbit/100mbit unmetered FTTH :)
well, first of all you should be worried about doing what your boss told you to do, if he wants shaping, shaping it be....you said that the locality doesn't helps, if they can't use your solution, it's dial-up....i presume you're also using your own ISPs broadband connection...
you could also {if you're a downloader} set up shaping for everyone else and secretly {oops!} set up a rule for your login/pass that'll bypass the firewall rules, so free internets for you dude :P
i know i'm a filthy ass but that's what i would try to do, protect my job (just answer stuff with "yes, sir!") while taking benefit :P
retarded.
random joes already say people talking 'to a computer' (say, in a IM session or something) are strange, imagine if they enter somewhere and see a person randomly putting his tongue out, winking and blinking frenetically?
instead, they could use some kind of device or even your normal usb camera with some calibration software to pinpoint where are you looking at the screen, even if it's not pixel accurate, it would still be very useful...say you want more browsing space, so you put your browser in fullscreen mode, then you want to quickly swap to another application, just LOOK down the screen, where most 'task bars' are located, it'll temporarily show up , allowing you to then click it using your mouse, look back to the center of the screen, bars disappear... put a clock on the upper right corner, peek at it and it shows you the time, briefly
that would be useful and wouldn't even have a learning curve....we have to focus at different parts of the screen to be able to use a computer, the device/camera would just tap into this unused 'looks' :P
just my 2yen