It is always possible for them to have built in code that checks the servers, and if it can't reach the servers after 90 days (or whatever), then start decreasing/removing functionality, until finally it doesn't work. Kind of like a deadman switch.
At one of my jobs we were required to test our backups at least once a quarter. 8T database backups that took hours to restore, then hours to import, so several days of work, so that we made sure the backups were tested and accurate. It was a lot of work, but worth the trouble to make sure something like this doesn't happen. And with deduping and versioning, it should be easy to go back to an older version, even only a few minutes old.
I once had to write a module for a pc/104 board on an embedded system running kernel 2.4. It had 8 relays that were write-only, there was no way to query a relay for what it's current position was, so I kept track of it myself and made the cached status available by a proc entry.
It wasn't really that hard and I learned a bit more about how the kernel modules got initialized and executed. I wrote a couple of others also, like for the Sensoray Model 518 (which is discontinued now I think).
I can't remember, but it is likely I came here for the same reason. I wrote a patch for wm back then that added scale and tile options for the background, which was accepted (but rewritten). I have been using it for my vnc sessions for a long time. I get good response time with it. Still one of my favorite window managers, and I really like the color scheme.
Kind of like the tv shows. Nowhere Man lasted only 1 season, years ago, but that was still 22 episodes. There are shows today that get canceled after 3 episodes. Perhaps they should be left out there a little longer to give them a chance to build public interest. I see this in a lot of things, tech, tv, movies, for example.
Reminds me of a book by John De Chancie, one of the Castle books. In it, Gene is dumped in a world with InnerVoice (tm), which is a virus which monitors your endocrine system and whatnot for "guilty" feelings (such as raised heart rate, sweating, stuff like that). If you feel guilty, it starts giving you bad cramps and other things until you "adjust" your behavior. Someone said "put a smile on your face", but he didn't at first, until the cramps and other pains came. When he did, it went away.
Yes, these were cool games. I had Pinball Construction Set, Racing Destruction Set, and Lode Runner on my Commodore 64. I made about 150 levels of my own for Lode Runner; I almost filled a disk. I made quite a few pinball games and racing levels too. That was the most fun.
My problem is not the linux distro coming up to a login prompt, but the server getting past all the cards prompts to get to the normal boot. What with scsi controller cards having their own bios, the system bios, and miscellaneous others, it can take longer to get past the post then to boot linux. The HP DL360 G5's we have can take almost 30 seconds just to starting booting the linux kernel.
I used to work for a company at JSC that got SBIR's. I used to think the same thing, but what happens is that even if a project is canceled, they use all the information learned from the project to further other projects. So even projects that aren't "finished" are at least useful.
Yes, it does. I first started getting a subscription sometime in about 1984, and I started getting it again a couple of years ago. They do have different difficulties of puzzles: crosswords, cryptic crosswords, word searches, code crosswords, and various other puzzles.
I used to work in this department, a few months ago. They were using linux, probably either fedora or gentoo, maybe.
I know in the water reclamation lab they had vxworks on several boards, but now in an air lab project they are using linux (eldk for the mips405 pc/104 board, and I used fedora core 5 for a dev server/nfs for the mips405).
I remember a problem we had with backups (using windows backup) back in 98. If you had, so "Program Files", which had a short name of Progra~1, then created a file/directory called ProGrabber, it would be created with Progra~2. However, windows backup backed up the files in alphabetical order by long name. So, ProGrabber would be backed up first. However, when restoring, it restored in some funky way, so ProGrabber would be restored and created with a short name of Progra~1, but when "Program Files" was restored, it would restore its short name of Progra~1, which was already taken, so it would overwrite that file/directory. It took us a while to figure why the file was incorrect in those few circumstances, and then figure some way around it.
Granted, nobody uses windows backup anymore, but if a program doesn't take that kind of issue into consideration, than it could become a problem.
Race car drivers aren't dialing on a cell phone, looking through their contact list, and whatnot, with their (not-so-)free hand. They tend to be in permanent communication via a headset embedded/attached to their helmet.
I don't think that's the case at all. Most companies could really care less what an employee does in their off time so long as it doesn't harm the company. What they do care about is things like trade secrets going out via an anonymous hotmail account or employees wasting hours talking to their significant other and circumventing the phone system monitoring by using Skype.
Because we all know that nobody can figure out how to use that cdburner thing (the cup holder?) attached to their computer to take information out...
In these days of printers everywhere, everybody has a cdburner on their pc, just about everybody has one of those usb flashdrives, probably more than one, the network is no longer the only security risk. You also have to limit cell phones, usb flash drives, cdburners, and things of that sort.
I remember some time ago (10+ years) when Windows NT 3.51 attained C2 security by unplugging it from the network and removing the floppy drive. That is the only way to completely protect trade secrets.
Well, for me I'm having to upgrade a machine to FC5. At work we had FC4, but some people had their machines upgrade to hp compaq dc7600. FC4 doesn't like the keyboard; once past grub, the keyboard is unresponsive. However, FC5 works. Probably something with the kernel, but at least the machine is usable now.
I'm curious about this statistic. If a person takes time off to do this, is it really costing the company money? Don't they get vacation time anyway? What makes vacation time watching a movie any more "expensive" than normal?
If they are just skipping work without vacation time, don't they lose the pay? Doesn't the company get to keep the money then, therefore not losing any money at all?
I'm just wondering where they are getting this information.
Wow, your signature brought back some memories. I used to work on Unisys mainframes (1100/60 and 2200/400), and I remember the @FIN, $$CLOSE statements (end a job, and close the terminal, I believe).
I have those on my resume, even though it's been a while since I've used them. I'm not sure it will do any good, but it may show that I'm somewhat experienced, at least.
Does having the ability to connect over a network automatically mean it is reachable by the rest of the Internet? Would anybody out there think of putting it on a separate network, completely disconnected from the Internet? How will our hero escape this latest trap?
Exactly. That's why I stopped using galeon for my browser, and went back to mozilla. I like the 'standard' emacs keyboard bindings, but the programmers of galeon decided that the windows key bindings were much better (or less confusing to new linux users, whatever) than the previous behavior. The problem is that the new users have no problem using, but now the rest of us have to remember two different bindings, depending on which application we use.
Linux is not Windows. Stop trying to make it as such.
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It is always possible for them to have built in code that checks the servers, and if it can't reach the servers after 90 days (or whatever), then start decreasing/removing functionality, until finally it doesn't work. Kind of like a deadman switch.
At one of my jobs we were required to test our backups at least once a quarter. 8T database backups that took hours to restore, then hours to import, so several days of work, so that we made sure the backups were tested and accurate. It was a lot of work, but worth the trouble to make sure something like this doesn't happen. And with deduping and versioning, it should be easy to go back to an older version, even only a few minutes old.
I once had to write a module for a pc/104 board on an embedded system running kernel 2.4. It had 8 relays that were write-only, there was no way to query a relay for what it's current position was, so I kept track of it myself and made the cached status available by a proc entry.
It wasn't really that hard and I learned a bit more about how the kernel modules got initialized and executed. I wrote a couple of others also, like for the Sensoray Model 518 (which is discontinued now I think).
I can't remember, but it is likely I came here for the same reason. I wrote a patch for wm back then that added scale and tile options for the background, which was accepted (but rewritten). I have been using it for my vnc sessions for a long time. I get good response time with it. Still one of my favorite window managers, and I really like the color scheme.
Kind of like the tv shows. Nowhere Man lasted only 1 season, years ago, but that was still 22 episodes. There are shows today that get canceled after 3 episodes. Perhaps they should be left out there a little longer to give them a chance to build public interest. I see this in a lot of things, tech, tv, movies, for example.
We are using http://www.groundworkopensource.com/ for our monitoring. It is working pretty well, and we can use existing Nagios scripts with it.
Reminds me of a book by John De Chancie, one of the Castle books. In it, Gene is dumped in a world with InnerVoice (tm), which is a virus which monitors your endocrine system and whatnot for "guilty" feelings (such as raised heart rate, sweating, stuff like that). If you feel guilty, it starts giving you bad cramps and other things until you "adjust" your behavior. Someone said "put a smile on your face", but he didn't at first, until the cramps and other pains came. When he did, it went away.
Yes, Ultimate Wizard. I made quite a few levels for that too.
Yes, these were cool games. I had Pinball Construction Set, Racing Destruction Set, and Lode Runner on my Commodore 64. I made about 150 levels of my own for Lode Runner; I almost filled a disk. I made quite a few pinball games and racing levels too. That was the most fun.
I just installed it and tried a couple of sites that use flash. Seems to work well so far...
My problem is not the linux distro coming up to a login prompt, but the server getting past all the cards prompts to get to the normal boot. What with scsi controller cards having their own bios, the system bios, and miscellaneous others, it can take longer to get past the post then to boot linux. The HP DL360 G5's we have can take almost 30 seconds just to starting booting the linux kernel.
I used to work for a company at JSC that got SBIR's. I used to think the same thing, but what happens is that even if a project is canceled, they use all the information learned from the project to further other projects. So even projects that aren't "finished" are at least useful.
Usually.
I've been here a while also. Not as long as a few, but longer than most.
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Yes, it does. I first started getting a subscription sometime in about 1984, and I started getting it again a couple of years ago. They do have different difficulties of puzzles: crosswords, cryptic crosswords, word searches, code crosswords, and various other puzzles.
Something really interesting I found out is that it appears to be running on a modified RH7.3.
I know in the water reclamation lab they had vxworks on several boards, but now in an air lab project they are using linux (eldk for the mips405 pc/104 board, and I used fedora core 5 for a dev server/nfs for the mips405).
I remember a problem we had with backups (using windows backup) back in 98. If you had, so "Program Files", which had a short name of Progra~1, then created a file/directory called ProGrabber, it would be created with Progra~2. However, windows backup backed up the files in alphabetical order by long name. So, ProGrabber would be backed up first. However, when restoring, it restored in some funky way, so ProGrabber would be restored and created with a short name of Progra~1, but when "Program Files" was restored, it would restore its short name of Progra~1, which was already taken, so it would overwrite that file/directory. It took us a while to figure why the file was incorrect in those few circumstances, and then figure some way around it.
Granted, nobody uses windows backup anymore, but if a program doesn't take that kind of issue into consideration, than it could become a problem.
Race car drivers aren't dialing on a cell phone, looking through their contact list, and whatnot, with their (not-so-)free hand. They tend to be in permanent communication via a headset embedded/attached to their helmet.
Just a little different...
I don't think that's the case at all. Most companies could really care less what an employee does in their off time so long as it doesn't harm the company. What they do care about is things like trade secrets going out via an anonymous hotmail account or employees wasting hours talking to their significant other and circumventing the phone system monitoring by using Skype.
Because we all know that nobody can figure out how to use that cdburner thing (the cup holder?) attached to their computer to take information out...
In these days of printers everywhere, everybody has a cdburner on their pc, just about everybody has one of those usb flashdrives, probably more than one, the network is no longer the only security risk. You also have to limit cell phones, usb flash drives, cdburners, and things of that sort.
I remember some time ago (10+ years) when Windows NT 3.51 attained C2 security by unplugging it from the network and removing the floppy drive. That is the only way to completely protect trade secrets.
Not everybody is "guilty until proven innocent".
Well, for me I'm having to upgrade a machine to FC5. At work we had FC4, but some people had their machines upgrade to hp compaq dc7600. FC4 doesn't like the keyboard; once past grub, the keyboard is unresponsive. However, FC5 works. Probably something with the kernel, but at least the machine is usable now.
If they are just skipping work without vacation time, don't they lose the pay? Doesn't the company get to keep the money then, therefore not losing any money at all?
I'm just wondering where they are getting this information.
I have those on my resume, even though it's been a while since I've used them. I'm not sure it will do any good, but it may show that I'm somewhat experienced, at least.
Does having the ability to connect over a network automatically mean it is reachable by the rest of the Internet? Would anybody out there think of putting it on a separate network, completely disconnected from the Internet? How will our hero escape this latest trap?
Linux is not Windows. Stop trying to make it as such.
Maybe total, I guess, but for me, so far today I've got 58 spam, and 25 real mail. That's about 2/3 spam.