Also, some switches support spanning ports, which will allow you to sniff the traffic on another port. Your typical home network dumb switch probably doesn't support this, but if you have temporary access to a higher end switch, it makes such tasks much easier. You can pick up older switches that support this fairly cheap on Ebay, although you probably won't want to spend the money for a one-time usage.
The point of using a hub instead of a switch is that hubs are dumb. They broadcast all traffic to all ports and rely on the attached equipment to filter out what they don't need. Sophisticated switches aren't necessary. A $10 hub will do the same job, be portable, and easily replaced.
Similarly, as an IT manager, I measure (and get measured) on how upset people get when something major goes wrong.
If the network is in a state where it breaks regularly, minor problems are seen as major, and major problems are seen as disaster. Feedback to upper management is 'IT sucks.'
If the network is in a working state that rarely breaks, and communication to the company is good, then minor problems are fixed before people notice, and major problems are seen as minor problems. Feedback to upper management is 'Nothing ever seems to go wrong. IT is great.' That's the response we had a month ago, from one of our most vocal critics, in spite of the fact that we had a major server outage less than a week before.
I appreciate your conversion, but you left something out: Nobody in the UK uses UK gallons. Not even the car companies. I can tell you that because my Passat gets 50 mpg in the UK. When I purchase petrol, I do it in litres. I then do a calculation myself, using the standard litre per gallon conversion, and get the same exact mileage that my Passat automatically calculated.
Your fix implies effort on my part. The only effort I'm willing to put in here is to contact the site creator and tell him the page doesn't render in my browser, and therefore I can't view his wonderful experiment. Perhaps, if he gets enough of those emails, he'll redesign his page to be viewable for the large minority that don't use IE.
It should be noted that this proposal is for children aged 11 and under. That is, 5th grade and lower (British call it Year 6).
I don't remember studying much American history when I was that age. In fact, I mostly remember reading, arithmetic, and P.E.
The truth is that the UK has over-legislated what to teach, leaving little room for children to be children. These recommendations are actually a step in the right direction, in that they decrease the amount of mandated work that little children have to do.
They are trying other things. They're building another island called Hulhumale that they're hoping is above sea level with the oceans rise. However, it's not going to be enough, which is why they're investigating other options.
You can't hold it against them for trying everything, including asking the world to pay attention to their plight.
I think you're grossly underestimating the power of the Die Hard movies, particularly when combined with a populace that's more concerned with entertainment than politics.
John McClane for president!
What, he didn't test it before placing it in production? Never mind, move along - nothing to see here.
...The only way this isn't the original poster's error is if the patch worked different in production than in test...
It occurs to me that you have entirely missed the point. The point is not that the user screwed up. Everybody knows that. Had the user done the same thing in hist test environment and noticed the problem, it still would have been a valid post on/. and a valid problem for RedHat.
The only effective difference between what he did and the right way to do it is the amount of ridicule he's going to face from people who have either A) a proper test environment to test it in (not every company thinks that sort of investment is a good way to spend money), or B) want to act pedantic about a point that really should be a footnote to the article, rather than the focus.
The interesting question, IMHO, is: Was this particle predicted by anybody else's research?
I remember an alternative theory being mentioned a while back that proposed An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything that included predictions for 5 new particles. If this one is on his list, where he said it would be, it could be a big step for non-string theory theories.
I would go one further. I want to vote for a president who's smarter than I am. Forget 'average joe.' Average Joe doesn't have to make decisions that are life and death for millions (health care for the poor), hundreds of thousands (war in Iraq), or the entire nation (educate the masses). Give me someone bright enough to understand the topic he's discussing AND hire someone bright enough to handle most of the issues that come up.
No. Evolution is not a theory. Evolution is a fact. It has been scientifically observed and studied. The only theory is how much of an effect it has on who we are now. And how it caused us to end up this way.
Evolution is verifiable fact. The mechanism is theory.
It's worse than that. The coffee was kept that hot by corporate order. They knew it would burn people, but the argument that it's for commuters was always put forward. That, of course, makes no sense, since the same coffee is brewed for people sitting down in the store.
From the parent's link:
Evidence presented to the jury
During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchises to serve coffee at 180-190 F (82-88 C). At that temperature, the coffee would cause a third-degree burn in two to seven seconds.
I would be interested to see if the results of those crash studies correct for left-right hand dominance. My best friend and I discussed this many years ago, and we discovered that our natural reaction is not to avoid the accident, or even preserve our life. The natural reaction is to turn the vehicle (or anything else) so that the stronger side of the body faces the danger. Right handed drivers, with steering wheels on the left hand side of the car, turn the car so the passenger side of the car faces danger, because that's the drivers stronger (right) side. Lefties do the opposite, putting themselves into more danger.
Since moving to the UK, I have discovered that the opposite holds true. With a wheel on the right side of the car, in the event of danger I am more likely to put the passenger into danger by turning my strong (left) side into the potential danger. And it's for the same reason. In the UK the steering wheel is on the opposite side, and we drive on the opposite side. Righties in the UK probably have a real disadvantage, as lefties do in the US.
It is not a controllable reaction, as far as I can see. It can be overridden with thought, but the natural reaction is to face strong-side forward in the hope that it will more successfully absorb any impact.
Mod Parent Up.
Potential voters who complain because there's nobody to vote for should be informed that their apathy is hurting the only people who can actually help -- the non-mainstream politicians. Yes, they're Democrats and Republicans, but they don't follow either of the current idiocy trends followed by the rest of their parties.
"Decisions are made by those who show up." is a famous quote whose intent predates the West Wing, but at the moment I can only find references to the West Wing when trying to find its origins.
I disagree with statement 1. I can't find, in my head, this website, or anywhere else, a single argument that can rationalize why smoking is legal for anybody. Ever.
It's toxic, addictive and your smoking can harm me. Since your rights stop where mine start, you should have no right to smoke where it could be inhaled by anybody else (or get on their carpets, in their hair, in their furniture, clothing, etc.)
Why not do the sensible thing and allow vendors to preload any OS, just include the cost in the list of price options?
Operating System Installation
1. Microsoft Windows XP: $150 (or however much it is) 2. Linux : $0 3. Neither
If Linux:
Additional support options
1. None 2. Official support option
If Neither:
1. Send me Linux software, I'll install it myself: $5 (Disk cost) 2. Send me Windows software, I'll install and activate it myself: $5 (Disk cost) 3. Don't send me any software: $0
If Linux:
[] Open Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $0 [] Media Codecs: $0 [] Media players: $0 etc.
If Windows:
[] Microsoft Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $200 [] Open Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $0 [] Media players: $0 etc.
Let people make their own decisions, based on the costs involved and their desire to have their software preinstalled, or not.
A more informed populace is better for everybody. With a simple receipt, people could see which software they already have installed and which software they need to buy.
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Also, some switches support spanning ports, which will allow you to sniff the traffic on another port. Your typical home network dumb switch probably doesn't support this, but if you have temporary access to a higher end switch, it makes such tasks much easier. You can pick up older switches that support this fairly cheap on Ebay, although you probably won't want to spend the money for a one-time usage.
The point of using a hub instead of a switch is that hubs are dumb. They broadcast all traffic to all ports and rely on the attached equipment to filter out what they don't need. Sophisticated switches aren't necessary. A $10 hub will do the same job, be portable, and easily replaced.
Researcher Implants Brain Cell-Activated Lasers!
Fixed that for you.
Similarly, as an IT manager, I measure (and get measured) on how upset people get when something major goes wrong.
If the network is in a state where it breaks regularly, minor problems are seen as major, and major problems are seen as disaster. Feedback to upper management is 'IT sucks.'
If the network is in a working state that rarely breaks, and communication to the company is good, then minor problems are fixed before people notice, and major problems are seen as minor problems. Feedback to upper management is 'Nothing ever seems to go wrong. IT is great.' That's the response we had a month ago, from one of our most vocal critics, in spite of the fact that we had a major server outage less than a week before.
Except for that one. Nicely done.
I appreciate your conversion, but you left something out: Nobody in the UK uses UK gallons. Not even the car companies.
I can tell you that because my Passat gets 50 mpg in the UK. When I purchase petrol, I do it in litres. I then do a calculation myself, using the standard litre per gallon conversion, and get the same exact mileage that my Passat automatically calculated.
I don't usually reply to myself, but I contacted the owner and he's fixed the page.
Your fix implies effort on my part. The only effort I'm willing to put in here is to contact the site creator and tell him the page doesn't render in my browser, and therefore I can't view his wonderful experiment. Perhaps, if he gets enough of those emails, he'll redesign his page to be viewable for the large minority that don't use IE.
It should be noted that this proposal is for children aged 11 and under. That is, 5th grade and lower (British call it Year 6).
I don't remember studying much American history when I was that age. In fact, I mostly remember reading, arithmetic, and P.E.
The truth is that the UK has over-legislated what to teach, leaving little room for children to be children. These recommendations are actually a step in the right direction, in that they decrease the amount of mandated work that little children have to do.
here we come!
They are trying other things. They're building another island called Hulhumale that they're hoping is above sea level with the oceans rise. However, it's not going to be enough, which is why they're investigating other options. You can't hold it against them for trying everything, including asking the world to pay attention to their plight.
10 years ago, that would be a respectable wager. Now it's what, 4 oz of fuel?
I think you're grossly underestimating the power of the Die Hard movies, particularly when combined with a populace that's more concerned with entertainment than politics. John McClane for president!
What do you expect? John McCain is a puppet of the Jew.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and give the response most /.ers are probably thinking:
"Fuck you, clown"
(For the 8 of you out there who don't know the reference)
What, he didn't test it before placing it in production? Never mind, move along - nothing to see here.
...The only way this isn't the original poster's error is if the patch worked different in production than in test...
It occurs to me that you have entirely missed the point. The point is not that the user screwed up. Everybody knows that. Had the user done the same thing in hist test environment and noticed the problem, it still would have been a valid post on /. and a valid problem for RedHat.
The only effective difference between what he did and the right way to do it is the amount of ridicule he's going to face from people who have either A) a proper test environment to test it in (not every company thinks that sort of investment is a good way to spend money), or B) want to act pedantic about a point that really should be a footnote to the article, rather than the focus.
The interesting question, IMHO, is: Was this particle predicted by anybody else's research? I remember an alternative theory being mentioned a while back that proposed An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything that included predictions for 5 new particles. If this one is on his list, where he said it would be, it could be a big step for non-string theory theories.
Simple calculations of how much time is cost indicated long ago that disrupting highly skilled workers was detrimental to their work. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
I would go one further. I want to vote for a president who's smarter than I am.
Forget 'average joe.' Average Joe doesn't have to make decisions that are life and death for millions (health care for the poor), hundreds of thousands (war in Iraq), or the entire nation (educate the masses). Give me someone bright enough to understand the topic he's discussing AND hire someone bright enough to handle most of the issues that come up.
No. Evolution is not a theory. Evolution is a fact. It has been scientifically observed and studied. The only theory is how much of an effect it has on who we are now. And how it caused us to end up this way. Evolution is verifiable fact. The mechanism is theory.
It's worse than that. The coffee was kept that hot by corporate order. They knew it would burn people, but the argument that it's for commuters was always put forward. That, of course, makes no sense, since the same coffee is brewed for people sitting down in the store.
From the parent's link:
Evidence presented to the jury
During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchises to serve coffee at 180-190 F (82-88 C). At that temperature, the coffee would cause a third-degree burn in two to seven seconds.
WTF? You think that's reasonable?
I would be interested to see if the results of those crash studies correct for left-right hand dominance. My best friend and I discussed this many years ago, and we discovered that our natural reaction is not to avoid the accident, or even preserve our life. The natural reaction is to turn the vehicle (or anything else) so that the stronger side of the body faces the danger. Right handed drivers, with steering wheels on the left hand side of the car, turn the car so the passenger side of the car faces danger, because that's the drivers stronger (right) side. Lefties do the opposite, putting themselves into more danger. Since moving to the UK, I have discovered that the opposite holds true. With a wheel on the right side of the car, in the event of danger I am more likely to put the passenger into danger by turning my strong (left) side into the potential danger. And it's for the same reason. In the UK the steering wheel is on the opposite side, and we drive on the opposite side. Righties in the UK probably have a real disadvantage, as lefties do in the US. It is not a controllable reaction, as far as I can see. It can be overridden with thought, but the natural reaction is to face strong-side forward in the hope that it will more successfully absorb any impact.
Mod Parent Up. Potential voters who complain because there's nobody to vote for should be informed that their apathy is hurting the only people who can actually help -- the non-mainstream politicians. Yes, they're Democrats and Republicans, but they don't follow either of the current idiocy trends followed by the rest of their parties. "Decisions are made by those who show up." is a famous quote whose intent predates the West Wing, but at the moment I can only find references to the West Wing when trying to find its origins.
You must be new here.
I disagree with statement 1.
I can't find, in my head, this website, or anywhere else, a single argument that can rationalize why smoking is legal for anybody. Ever.
It's toxic, addictive and your smoking can harm me. Since your rights stop where mine start, you should have no right to smoke where it could be inhaled by anybody else (or get on their carpets, in their hair, in their furniture, clothing, etc.)
Discuss.
Without trivial entries in wikipedia how are you going to get this chain of links?
http://xkcd.com/214/
Somewhere along the chain somebody is going to think something is trivial, making the interesting traversal impossible.
Why not do the sensible thing and allow vendors to preload any OS, just include the cost in the list of price options?
Operating System Installation
1. Microsoft Windows XP: $150 (or however much it is)
2. Linux : $0
3. Neither
If Linux:
Additional support options
1. None
2. Official support option
If Neither:
1. Send me Linux software, I'll install it myself: $5 (Disk cost)
2. Send me Windows software, I'll install and activate it myself: $5 (Disk cost)
3. Don't send me any software: $0
If Linux:
[] Open Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $0
[] Media Codecs: $0
[] Media players: $0
etc.
If Windows:
[] Microsoft Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $200
[] Open Office (Word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, etc): $0
[] Media players: $0
etc.
Let people make their own decisions, based on the costs involved and their desire to have their software preinstalled, or not.
A more informed populace is better for everybody. With a simple receipt, people could see which software they already have installed and which software they need to buy.