Actually if you rinse it right away it cleans up easily. The glass or whatever should be rinsed right away too (I use a mason jar because it makes a lot) since dried fruit is a bitch to clean.
I make a kick-ass shake when I have 5 minutes before leaving for work:
Small handful of icecubes in blender. Add heaping tablespoon of frozen concentrated o.j., about a half cup of plain nonfat yogurt, a banana, and any fruit you like. It works great with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and even pear if you don't mind a somewhat grainy consistency.
Would you choose that particular moment to lodge an official complaint?
You don't know me:)
Were I your boyfriend I would have loudly proclaimed that the security guard was singling out cute women - then cite examples and see who looked official and took notice.
Of course hind-site is 20/20 and it's easy to say that now. Also I have found that such a scene often embarasses the woman I am with more than does good, but I hate to see sleazy behavior like that and I would rather make apologies after the fact than put up with it.
But I see your point too. Probably the best way to handle it would have been to take names and follow up later but I probably wouldn't have thought of that at the time.
If this was a noticable pattern why didn't you say something to the airport administration? My wife was strip-searched in Israel, probably because she had been in London two weeks earlier and that seemed somewhat suspicious. However, it was a female guard - all business, not just for kicks. I expect that if you made some noise about the apparent pattern in their supposedly "random" searches the pattern would have vanished at least while the big-shots were watching.
I'm sorry - have you ever worked in a modern large corporate environment?
Yes, I work for a (really large) bank. Before that I worked for a large (Fortune 500) sporting goods store.
Execs aren't the only ones who travel, Salesdroids travel more.
True, but we don't employ many, so...
PGP isn't used
Bullshit - it's one of our pseudo-standards.
most laptops are so managed this isn't an issue at all.
When in the office, maybe, but do your desktop policies protect the machine when it is taken home and the user can install AOL regardless of whether it is expressly forbidden. Our written policy forbids it, but our NT policy does not prevent it, unfortunately.
Ok, so you really aren't anywhere near the point where you have any sort of real decision-making authority in a large environment.
802.11 - yeah everyone wants it. On the other hand it takes time and budgets and justifications and security reviews and site surveys such but it is rolling out.
Please, we (and I am sure other banks) have DOS and Win 3.1 legacy apps still in use. Wireless is for testing only. In a large corporate environment, we don't even roll out the latest service pack without extensive testing and change control. Our corporate standard is still NT4 SP6. 2000 on laptops. These things are slow to change for a couple of reasons. Changes to application suites need to be implemented corporate wide for compatibility. Licensing costs for upgrading 5,000+ workstations is... expensive. Service packs don't always work as advertised, or conflict with current applications or environment on which we rely.
Wireless is a nice toy, but the security is not up to snuff. It's neat, shiny and desireable but that is just not reason enough to roll it out for quite a while yet.
Yes, this may be no different from the airport hotel network (which I have not seen, however) but which corporate people travel most? Execs, of course - the people with some of the most interesting and valuable data. Of those execs, how many have clue #1 about desktop and/or network security? Very few, I am sure.
I think it is a corporate IT/security officer's responsibility to ensure that corporate laptops follow these policies:
good passwords (7 characters or more expiring every 30 days)
pgp encryption of sensitive data
have the server service disabled (on NT machines)
no running NetBIOS unless absolutely necessary, and then only when bound only to the interface needed
absolutely no web server (personal or otherwise)
connections to the Internet via VPN connection to corporate LAN, *then* through the corporate proxy.
This is definitely *not* an "act of God." So I wonder if my insurance policy will cover if it comes down on my house, car, wife, dog (just kidding - I don't have a dog)
forced him to use PPP-over-Ethernet. It included a piece of (Windows) software that took care of "signing him on", and establishing a PPP connection
There is a Linux solution for this that will still allow you to run a router and NAT several computers behind it. The Roaring Penguin PPPoE client will establish the PPP connection on your firewall's external interface (DHCP is just fine, thanks) and you can use ifconfig to fake whatever MAC they registered for your account. Happy NATing:)
I don't expect anyone non-technical to know that a.XLS.LNK or a.DOC.PIF file actually executes
Oh, neither do I. I have made sure everyone in IT who launched iloveyou knows the difference, but as for the business employees - I won't bother wasting my breath.
GETTING SOME FUCKING BALLS and blocking attachments
Not even remotely practical. With over 70,000 employees all around the world, you just cannot deny attachments - no one could work. The only solution is to scan attachments. I am not a mail admin, so I don't know details, but we occasionally experience lagtime of upto several hours in email from outside the company. This is very painful to live with, but I don't see an alternative. I would rather err on the side of safety than have to clean up the mess on thousands of clients after the fact.
I don't think it is too much to expect that users follow a few simple instructions when using a corporate LAN. They are required to keep their passwords private, report chain emails, not try to exceed their network privileges, and NOT OPEN UNEXPECTED ATTACHMENTS FROM PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE COMPANY.
Since we run antivirus at our mail gateways, we catch most of what comes through and users get a scrubbed attachment of 0 bytes with an addendum to their subject line of "Scanmail has detected a virus!" so we are not usually at major risk. But we have had people (in IT even) launch iloveyou.vbs and cause headaches.
Although I do not expect users to know which file extensions denote which type of files are attached, I do expect them to call IT before opening suspect attachments. This, of course, assumes IT has enough people to be responsive to such requests in an organization. When that is not the case, anarchy may reign...
how is playing five hours of any worse than watching five hours of television a day? Around my household, I game, and my roommate watches TV
I would answer that question with a question - what do each of you get out of it? In a game, you are initially gaining hand-eye coordination or developing your ability to strategize when learning a new game. Some games are more sustaining. Quake3, for example, may add to hand-eye coordination for longer than average since it can be challenging for whatever level player.
Your roommate may be eroding his mind with tripe like CNN, or maybe he is engaging in poignant social commentary by watching something enriching like South Park.
Heh - you could change a few words and make this a typical "sysadmin in recovery" story. I think you can burn out on any occupation - ditch-digging included. Speaking as one who has stood on a construction site with no trees in the near vicinity watching the sun rise and knowing one of the shovels stuck in the sand had my name on it, I think you can make a better choice.
I have considerable experience with attorneys (don't ask) and they seem to be prone to burnout for a simple reason - single-dimensional lifestyle. Life is work, work is life. Most I have known were also raging alcoholics. Finding balance may just be a matter of doing more than one thing. This is all very hypocritical since I spend 16+ hours every day on a computer, but hey, at least I don't want to stop yet! Good luck.
Correct - I work for a really large bank and users run the company standard - NT . period . We grudgingly install 9x if the application requires it, usually because we have to interact with some vendor's own system and they only support 9x.
Since I am in IT, I can *also* run BSD or Solaris, or just about anything non-Linux, which is forbidden on corporate-owned PC's (I could actually lose my job for installing it after the moratorium was imposed). However, I have to run Lotus Notes, Netware's administration utilities, and a couple of inhouse products that were developed on NT. For those reasons I cannot get along without NT. The posix tools and some stuff from sysinternals.com make it more bearable. A port of Debian would still be verboten tho.
I would say FreeBSD on all counts. The install is fairly intuitive and somewhat graphical. You can find the documentation here. There is also info for newbies.
You can run Linux binaries on FreeBSD if you install support for it, but since the underlying system is different you can't configure BSD that way. The FreeBSD equivalent of linuxconf would probably be sysinstall. It is pretty easy to use.
Here is the supported hardware list for x86. I have FreeBSD 4.2 running on my Toshiba laptop with a Xircom NIC for God's sake. It supports plenty.
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Actually if you rinse it right away it cleans up easily. The glass or whatever should be rinsed right away too (I use a mason jar because it makes a lot) since dried fruit is a bitch to clean.
I make a kick-ass shake when I have 5 minutes before leaving for work:
Small handful of icecubes in blender. Add heaping tablespoon of frozen concentrated o.j., about a half cup of plain nonfat yogurt, a banana, and any fruit you like. It works great with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and even pear if you don't mind a somewhat grainy consistency.
REALLY tasty and lots of fiber to boot.
You don't know me
Were I your boyfriend I would have loudly proclaimed that the security guard was singling out cute women - then cite examples and see who looked official and took notice.
Of course hind-site is 20/20 and it's easy to say that now. Also I have found that such a scene often embarasses the woman I am with more than does good, but I hate to see sleazy behavior like that and I would rather make apologies after the fact than put up with it.
But I see your point too. Probably the best way to handle it would have been to take names and follow up later but I probably wouldn't have thought of that at the time.
Easy - beer.
If this was a noticable pattern why didn't you say something to the airport administration? My wife was strip-searched in Israel, probably because she had been in London two weeks earlier and that seemed somewhat suspicious. However, it was a female guard - all business, not just for kicks. I expect that if you made some noise about the apparent pattern in their supposedly "random" searches the pattern would have vanished at least while the big-shots were watching.
Yes, I work for a (really large) bank. Before that I worked for a large (Fortune 500) sporting goods store.
Execs aren't the only ones who travel, Salesdroids travel more.
True, but we don't employ many, so...
PGP isn't used
Bullshit - it's one of our pseudo-standards.
most laptops are so managed this isn't an issue at all.
When in the office, maybe, but do your desktop policies protect the machine when it is taken home and the user can install AOL regardless of whether it is expressly forbidden. Our written policy forbids it, but our NT policy does not prevent it, unfortunately.
Ok, so you really aren't anywhere near the point where you have any sort of real decision-making authority in a large environment.
802.11 - yeah everyone wants it. On the other hand it takes time and budgets and justifications and security reviews and site surveys such but it is rolling out.
Please, we (and I am sure other banks) have DOS and Win 3.1 legacy apps still in use. Wireless is for testing only. In a large corporate environment, we don't even roll out the latest service pack without extensive testing and change control. Our corporate standard is still NT4 SP6. 2000 on laptops. These things are slow to change for a couple of reasons. Changes to application suites need to be implemented corporate wide for compatibility. Licensing costs for upgrading 5,000+ workstations is ... expensive. Service packs don't always work as advertised, or conflict with current applications or environment on which we rely.
Wireless is a nice toy, but the security is not up to snuff. It's neat, shiny and desireable but that is just not reason enough to roll it out for quite a while yet.
I think it is a corporate IT/security officer's responsibility to ensure that corporate laptops follow these policies:
good passwords (7 characters or more expiring every 30 days)
pgp encryption of sensitive data
have the server service disabled (on NT machines)
no running NetBIOS unless absolutely necessary, and then only when bound only to the interface needed
absolutely no web server (personal or otherwise)
connections to the Internet via VPN connection to corporate LAN, *then* through the corporate proxy.
802.11 what? no freaking way.
This is definitely *not* an "act of God." So I wonder if my insurance policy will cover if it comes down on my house, car, wife, dog (just kidding - I don't have a dog)
There is a Linux solution for this that will still allow you to run a router and NAT several computers behind it. The Roaring Penguin PPPoE client will establish the PPP connection on your firewall's external interface (DHCP is just fine, thanks) and you can use ifconfig to fake whatever MAC they registered for your account. Happy NATing :)
Where would you like to be from today?
From the bugtraq archive: It looks like this may perhaps be sending a username and password to the screen name sobbieraunders? I don't know.
Actually some OEM versions *do* have it installed by default, although I don't think Marc specified which ones in the bugtraq post.
I like this conspiracy theory.
We get around this by not using Outlook for email :)
Oh, neither do I. I have made sure everyone in IT who launched iloveyou knows the difference, but as for the business employees - I won't bother wasting my breath.
GETTING SOME FUCKING BALLS and blocking attachments
Not even remotely practical. With over 70,000 employees all around the world, you just cannot deny attachments - no one could work. The only solution is to scan attachments. I am not a mail admin, so I don't know details, but we occasionally experience lagtime of upto several hours in email from outside the company. This is very painful to live with, but I don't see an alternative. I would rather err on the side of safety than have to clean up the mess on thousands of clients after the fact.
Since we run antivirus at our mail gateways, we catch most of what comes through and users get a scrubbed attachment of 0 bytes with an addendum to their subject line of "Scanmail has detected a virus!" so we are not usually at major risk. But we have had people (in IT even) launch iloveyou.vbs and cause headaches.
Although I do not expect users to know which file extensions denote which type of files are attached, I do expect them to call IT before opening suspect attachments. This, of course, assumes IT has enough people to be responsive to such requests in an organization. When that is not the case, anarchy may reign...
I would answer that question with a question - what do each of you get out of it? In a game, you are initially gaining hand-eye coordination or developing your ability to strategize when learning a new game. Some games are more sustaining. Quake3, for example, may add to hand-eye coordination for longer than average since it can be challenging for whatever level player.
Your roommate may be eroding his mind with tripe like CNN, or maybe he is engaging in poignant social commentary by watching something enriching like South Park.
I have considerable experience with attorneys (don't ask) and they seem to be prone to burnout for a simple reason - single-dimensional lifestyle. Life is work, work is life. Most I have known were also raging alcoholics. Finding balance may just be a matter of doing more than one thing. This is all very hypocritical since I spend 16+ hours every day on a computer, but hey, at least I don't want to stop yet! Good luck.
Since I am in IT, I can *also* run BSD or Solaris, or just about anything non-Linux, which is forbidden on corporate-owned PC's (I could actually lose my job for installing it after the moratorium was imposed). However, I have to run Lotus Notes, Netware's administration utilities, and a couple of inhouse products that were developed on NT. For those reasons I cannot get along without NT. The posix tools and some stuff from sysinternals.com make it more bearable. A port of Debian would still be verboten tho.
You can run Linux binaries on FreeBSD if you install support for it, but since the underlying system is different you can't configure BSD that way. The FreeBSD equivalent of linuxconf would probably be sysinstall. It is pretty easy to use.
Here is the supported hardware list for x86. I have FreeBSD 4.2 running on my Toshiba laptop with a Xircom NIC for God's sake. It supports plenty.
In other words, porn. Things don't seem to have changed too much.
Yeah, but I'll takes what I can gets.
Very slick - thanks tons :)
Yeah, I meant in addition - btw I still have two dillemas - finding awk and tab line completion. Little help?
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