Know what? The fucking number doesn't matter at all.
It isn't just Microsoft that makes up version numbers to fit marketing "needs". But they have certainly done it. Look at the above list.
"4.) July 1993 Windows NT 3.1 NT 3.1" - Actually the first Windows in the NT line. Whoops.
The Netscape browser skipped version 5 to catch up with MSIE.
And I can't think of any others just now, but the point remains, it's just a marketing gimmick and doesn't matter shit.
Anyone (including "geeks") who gets upset by it needs to have a look around. There are far more important things to get upset about (war, hunger starvation, capitalism, the state, the lack of anarchy, etc.). Of course, if you are just laughing, then go ahead. I'll be sitting here wondering why.
You can use OpenOffice.org to forward documents in [i]PDF[/i] to potential employers. Any potential (IT related) employer that insists on MS Word format for resumes isn't worth the bother.
However, if you do want to bother, OpenOffice.org can open and save MS Word Document formats since at least MS Word 6.0 (the first version I ever used, and I still have files from that time).
And, if that doesn't satisfy you, OOo can also open a variety of other "legacy proprietary file formats" 1.
I never understood the "pay to receive" idea in the first place.
Anyway, in Australia (at least with one of the companies), you have two types of message. The ones that someone sends to you, and they pay for it. Then there are "premium" services (such as weather, news, games whatever), which you pay to request.
Charging to send AND receive? Greedy bastards should be lined up against the wall and shot.
Over and under rated also don't affect a person's karma.
A person might think that a post is interesting, just not the current +5 interesting (and thus the overrated). Or, alternatively, they might think it is errm, interesting, but aren't willing to mod it interesting. Maybe underrated isn't needed.
Perhaps it could be made that overrated can not be used to push a post below 2 (or 1, depending on who you ask), which would mean that it can't push a post to oblivion, but a mod can still express the opinion that it isn't such a great post (though not a troll or flame).
The Firehose (and by extension, Index v2), came about from people saying that they wanted to vote down stories. But that's the only one I can think of, can you think of any others?
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As for paying to post, well that would rule me out. I don't even have a credit card (the two times I've tried to get one, the bank in each case refused, I think due to the lack of sufficient income on my part). Not to mention, I'm not about to hand over my details for a few cents a day. (And PayPal doesn't like me for some reason, something to do with my combination of NoScript, not accepting cookies and FireFox?)
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I don't even understand the second suggestion.
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And I just don't think the first suggestion could work. There are enough trolls who would vote each others posts up, even if they don't know each other. And of course, one person's flame is another's insightful post.
I agree that physical access is basically equivalent to root (assuming everything isn't encrypted, in which case the best you can do is wipe it all).
When something is encrypted using a strong method, then all the "determination and resources" in the universe isn't going to let you get access to that information without the passphrase.
That's cause of mathematics.
So yeah, I'll send you an encrypted file, I'll even tell you that it's plain text in the English Language using UTF-8, and you'll never be able to get into that file without the passphrase. (And if you seize my laptop with that file on it, I'll be away from the border before you notice that file needs a password.)
(Off topic to the story, but relevant to the thread: After being wrongfully arrested once, and had three extra charges (one of which could not have had anything to do with what I was doing at the time, as it only applied to drivers, when I was a pedestrian) added to encourage me to plead guilty to one of them, I flew across the country and before being rung at 5pm (the court time was 9am the next day) by my lawyer to be told that all charges had been dropped. I asked about suing for costs, stress etc., and was told I wouldn't have a chance.)
On topic to the story: I think this not only exposes problems with the "fair use" defence, but with the entire US legal system. Exposes problems that anyone who has paid attention would already know about mind you. Court is just too expensive.
Justice is meant to be available to all, without regard to the amount of money a person has. But, no where has a justice system, merely legal systems.
(Off topic again slightly, John Lennon wrote a few songs that seemed to have a distinctly leftist bent, does anyone know if he was actually a socialist or anything similar?)
How about don't go? Seriously, unless your job is on the line (and you like, and enjoy your job), then there isn't a worthwhile reason to go to the US via air. (And via the Canadian border is apparently also shit, but not as bad.)
If you are worried about your laptop, buy one of these cheap arse ones (and then return it when you get back, or sell it if you have moral scruples about screwing over corporations, or keep it if you travel a lot), have just the information you need (and encrypt it anyway).
Or you could just mail it, like someone else suggested.
It would be really easier to have the code written in something like PHP or Python, and then have a simple link directly to the code. I know, I've done it myself.
And it would be how you would do it if you were to ever run elections over the Internet. (Indeed, you could run elections over the Internet, but still have polling stations (rather then let anyone vote from home). Centralised counting.)
All these problems people have with voting machines, it amazes me, because it would be so easy to write a secure, clearly written and generally good voting system.
"Clearly a college sophomore with a small dick." Great argument.
As for the Hitler and Stalin jibs, most of the crazy god bothering fuckers keep bring up these two as examples of "evil atheism", can't you see the irony? Hitler was religious (and not an atheist). Stalin had a religious education, and while in power supported the Russian Church! Their problems had nothing to do with "atheism" (nor, mostly, to do with religion), they were just nasty fuckers. But then again, so were lots of other actually religious people (Crusades anyone?).
"Read a book, get a life, and do something about that acne." Great argument. I read lots of books, I have a life, and I'm not a teenager (nor have been for a few years now).
I can see why you posted anon, too scared to link your name with your shit arguments.
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal...
Don't be fooled this election won't change anything.
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Let's have a looked at some of the differences between the parties shall we? Republicrats, want to bomb Iraq, bomb Afghanistan
Democans, want to bomb Iraq (but say they won't do it for quite so long), and bomb Afghanistan
Republicrats, want to keep the same shitty capitalist system which oppresses the vast majority of people, and want to keep making the rich richer Democans, want to keep the same shitty capitalist system which oppresses the vast majority of people, and want to keep making the rich richer
And to make the point even clearer,
For all the "Obama is the lesser evil, McCain is the devil!" people: During the debate, Obama went out of his way to state his agreement with John McCain no less than 11 times. On issue after issue, whether it be foreign policy, the economy, Obama concurred with the "evil Republican" McCain repeatedly ad-nauseum.
Pick one, I don't care. But don't start crying because the one you picked got elected and is screwing you over. (And don't start crying that the one you picked didn't get elected either, by voting you agree to support whomever got elected.)
"They encountered a - problem - that could not be fully analyzed within the lifetime of the Universe. Though it involved only six operators, they became totally obsessed by it."
I think it is safe to say that there are many games that could be invented that has more possible moves then atoms in the universe. A simple application of maths to the problem would be all that is needed.
Given enough pieces, and enough possible combinations...
Christians are notoriously scary people, who want to kill gays, Jews, witches, people who eat shell fish 1, 2, blacks (that's why he burned 'em), atheists etc. If there was a Christian around my neighbourhood, I would surely want to string 'em up too, just in case that damn god botherer started attacking me (a queer, drug using, shell fish eating, atheist hooker) first!
So yeah, fuck off with the damn Christians. (Also, I never claimed to be tolerant. I hate religion, it has caused far more problems then atheism ever did. Hitler was religious for example. Stalin went to a seminary before he joined the attacks on the Tsar, and when he got into power, he supported the Orthodox Church. It wasn't until after he died that the Church started getting put down again.)
Oh, I'm not afraid of karma. Mod me down and I shall become more powerful then you can imagine (or something...).
I really don't understand all this crap from US posters about how you should drive at the speed limit, or even faster(!).
Take your reason, someone might be driving the speed limit and not notice "a rolling roadblock". What are they? Blind? When driving, you should always be aware of what cars are near by. And if you are driving along, and you are approaching a car, it is pretty damn obvious that you are going faster then them...
You therefore, take your foot of the accelerator and access the situation, and then decide whether it is safe to pass, or whatever.
Where I'm from learners have to have a big L displayed, and must drive a maximum of 80 kilometres per hour (or the speed limit, whichever is lower). But of course, because they are learners, they often drive slower then the speed limit, even if they don't have to. It would be very rare for people to get upset at these learners, whether they are on a highway or a city street.
OK, that's one reason why someone might be driving slower, what if they don't know the area? What if they are looking for a house number? What if there are children around? Maybe their breaks don't work so well and they are going to the mechanic? Maybe they just think, "well it's a nice day, no rush to go to work/home, I'll take my time"?
And if some idiot is driving along and cuts that slower driver off, who is at fault? The idiot driving fast and cutting off the slower driver.
Actually, while on the topic of cars, I've often see idiots talking about how they tailgate other drivers because the other drivers drive too slow. Yeah, and you know who is rightfully to blame in the event of a rear ending? The idiot doing the tailgating.
You should always leave enough space between yourself and the car in front to stop safely. If you can't, you aren't driving safely.
Basically, you should be driving safely, and if that means slowing down, then yeah, there isn't a problem with that. (The only case where you can complain legitimately about someone driving too slow is if they are more then about 20 km/h below the speed limit on a highway.)
Of course Linux is not a magical shield. But having a diverse eco-system is known to protect against many attacks.
One of the reasons stories about how the banana is going extinct come up every few years is because the "modern" banana that most people in the over developed world can buy, are all clones! One disease can attack all the plants in the same manner.
In the same way, computers that have the same OS tend to be vulnerable to the same attack. Because there are a lot more OSs based around Linux (and BSD), people running these OSs are less vulnerable, because they are in a diverse eco-system. Especially when these kernels and the user-land tools are FLOSS.
As such, yes, it maybe a generic vulnerability in the TCP spec. (though how likely is that?), however, it is not specified, which is why I asked if it did affect *nix.
If nothing else, due to the nature of FLOSS, the attack could quickly be coded around as soon as it is known, and then pushed out to many many people running auto-update systems (such as Debian, Ubuntu and similar). (Even if that breaks the spec.)
More seriously, I wonder if this actually affects *nix machines, and how the various environments in that area affect the attack.
After all, they may find a single attack against all MS Windows XP machines, but they need a lot more then one to attack all Linux based systems (and then you throw in BSD based ones as well...).
Abiword is great. It can open ODF, MS Word Docs, and a variety of other files. (It can't save MS Word Docs though, it saves as RTF.)
It does have a few problems, though most of the time you won't encounter them. One I found once had to do with pasting a formatted header... Another I have, I think has to do with different character sets.
But, if you only work in AbiWord, and you don't go messing with other word processors, then most of the time it will work great.
Loads fast, works well, has built in grammar checker (underlines in green, though doesn't tell you why it needs looking at), spell checker, saves in a simple XML format which can be read in a text-editor if needed etc.
Give it a try. I have both OpenOffice.org and AbiWord, and unless I'm doing something complicated, or sharing with MS Office, I use AbiWord for almost all my word processing needs.
"1) Your employer will never give you sufficient time to finish what you need to do. Bend over and take it. It comes with the job" Don't take it, if you can't do the job because the expectations are over the top, say it and relax.
"3) Don't expect overtime pay. You'll never get it. If you ask for it, things will conveniently become a "this isn't working out" situation " If it doesn't work out, you're better off anyway. If you aren't getting paid over time, don't work over time.
"4) The salesmen will sell things that you probably can't provide without working 24/7 for the next 6 months. They will also likely make 4x what you make, plus commission. Bend over and take it." If the salesperson promises stuff that can't be delivered, make it clear that it can't be delivered and don't deliver it. Don't bend over and take it.
Keep your CV up to date, and relax. Don't stress unless you are being paid to do it. Join the union (and stupid fuckers think that IT workers shouldn't have a union, if you don't have a union, you can get fucked over). Don't work overtime unless you are being paid. If the boss treats you like shit, don't do more work then what you are being paid to. Don't ever work 24/7, only work overtime sometimes, and even less if you aren't being paid.
Keep your CV up to date and savings in the bank, and if you have a shit boss who expects you to work crazy hours and isn't willing to pay you, apply for other jobs.
Don't listen to crap advice like I've quoted, don't "bend over and take it". (2,5 and 6 is OK or good advice, but "bend over and take it" is never good advice. Always be prepard to leave your job if its shit. And being raped is not good, whether figuratively or literally.)
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Know what? The fucking number doesn't matter at all.
It isn't just Microsoft that makes up version numbers to fit marketing "needs". But they have certainly done it. Look at the above list.
"4.) July 1993 Windows NT 3.1 NT 3.1" - Actually the first Windows in the NT line. Whoops.
The Netscape browser skipped version 5 to catch up with MSIE.
And I can't think of any others just now, but the point remains, it's just a marketing gimmick and doesn't matter shit.
Anyone (including "geeks") who gets upset by it needs to have a look around. There are far more important things to get upset about (war, hunger starvation, capitalism, the state, the lack of anarchy, etc.). Of course, if you are just laughing, then go ahead. I'll be sitting here wondering why.
You can use OpenOffice.org to forward documents in [i]PDF[/i] to potential employers. Any potential (IT related) employer that insists on MS Word format for resumes isn't worth the bother.
However, if you do want to bother, OpenOffice.org can open and save MS Word Document formats since at least MS Word 6.0 (the first version I ever used, and I still have files from that time).
And, if that doesn't satisfy you, OOo can also open a variety of other "legacy proprietary file formats" 1.
I never understood the "pay to receive" idea in the first place.
Anyway, in Australia (at least with one of the companies), you have two types of message. The ones that someone sends to you, and they pay for it. Then there are "premium" services (such as weather, news, games whatever), which you pay to request.
Charging to send AND receive? Greedy bastards should be lined up against the wall and shot.
Viva le revolution!
Over and under rated also don't affect a person's karma.
A person might think that a post is interesting, just not the current +5 interesting (and thus the overrated). Or, alternatively, they might think it is errm, interesting, but aren't willing to mod it interesting. Maybe underrated isn't needed.
Perhaps it could be made that overrated can not be used to push a post below 2 (or 1, depending on who you ask), which would mean that it can't push a post to oblivion, but a mod can still express the opinion that it isn't such a great post (though not a troll or flame).
The Firehose (and by extension, Index v2), came about from people saying that they wanted to vote down stories. But that's the only one I can think of, can you think of any others?
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As for paying to post, well that would rule me out. I don't even have a credit card (the two times I've tried to get one, the bank in each case refused, I think due to the lack of sufficient income on my part). Not to mention, I'm not about to hand over my details for a few cents a day. (And PayPal doesn't like me for some reason, something to do with my combination of NoScript, not accepting cookies and FireFox?)
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I don't even understand the second suggestion.
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And I just don't think the first suggestion could work. There are enough trolls who would vote each others posts up, even if they don't know each other. And of course, one person's flame is another's insightful post.
I agree that physical access is basically equivalent to root (assuming everything isn't encrypted, in which case the best you can do is wipe it all).
When something is encrypted using a strong method, then all the "determination and resources" in the universe isn't going to let you get access to that information without the passphrase.
That's cause of mathematics.
So yeah, I'll send you an encrypted file, I'll even tell you that it's plain text in the English Language using UTF-8, and you'll never be able to get into that file without the passphrase. (And if you seize my laptop with that file on it, I'll be away from the border before you notice that file needs a password.)
Except that, too, is very expensive...
(Off topic to the story, but relevant to the thread: After being wrongfully arrested once, and had three extra charges (one of which could not have had anything to do with what I was doing at the time, as it only applied to drivers, when I was a pedestrian) added to encourage me to plead guilty to one of them, I flew across the country and before being rung at 5pm (the court time was 9am the next day) by my lawyer to be told that all charges had been dropped. I asked about suing for costs, stress etc., and was told I wouldn't have a chance.)
On topic to the story:
I think this not only exposes problems with the "fair use" defence, but with the entire US legal system. Exposes problems that anyone who has paid attention would already know about mind you. Court is just too expensive.
Justice is meant to be available to all, without regard to the amount of money a person has. But, no where has a justice system, merely legal systems.
(Off topic again slightly, John Lennon wrote a few songs that seemed to have a distinctly leftist bent, does anyone know if he was actually a socialist or anything similar?)
"Goon: What's on this encrypted partition?"
The word in bold is important hmmkay?
How about don't go? Seriously, unless your job is on the line (and you like, and enjoy your job), then there isn't a worthwhile reason to go to the US via air. (And via the Canadian border is apparently also shit, but not as bad.)
If you are worried about your laptop, buy one of these cheap arse ones (and then return it when you get back, or sell it if you have moral scruples about screwing over corporations, or keep it if you travel a lot), have just the information you need (and encrypt it anyway).
Or you could just mail it, like someone else suggested.
When travelling I often don't book ahead, instead just rock up in the new country, find the local terrorist (err, tourist) office and go from there.
I also sometimes just have a list of hostels, and rock up to each in turn until I find a room.
Sometimes I am staying with friends, and they are collecting me, and taking me to their place. And I don't know their address.
Sometimes I'm going to protests, and don't want the border thugs to know that.
There are a lot more reasons then just hiking in the wilderness for not having an address to provide to the border thugs.
(And I haven't even started to get into privacy concerns in any depth.)
I give up.
All the information I found was:
Grimbleton has an account on Slashdot, and an account on YouTube.
According to the YouTube account, they are in the UK.
"Pickering steam tractor rally show 2007 Dr Busker and the Dorset Rats. In the cider tent entertaining"
"Yeah, my name is Peter Richard (Last name omitted), so imagine the fun I've had."
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=261533&cid=20124249
It locks you out even if you download the content still? (And just don't view it?)
Except that actually, at least two states in the USA have moved almost entirely to postal voting only.
Yes, there are all sorts of possible problems, but the fact is, it is happening anyway.
And that's why you would never see entire states move to postal voting only.
Actually, you know, while I agree what you say could be a problem, the fact is that lots of people don't actually care.
It would be really easier to have the code written in something like PHP or Python, and then have a simple link directly to the code. I know, I've done it myself.
And it would be how you would do it if you were to ever run elections over the Internet. (Indeed, you could run elections over the Internet, but still have polling stations (rather then let anyone vote from home). Centralised counting.)
All these problems people have with voting machines, it amazes me, because it would be so easy to write a secure, clearly written and generally good voting system.
"Clearly a college sophomore with a small dick." Great argument.
As for the Hitler and Stalin jibs, most of the crazy god bothering fuckers keep bring up these two as examples of "evil atheism", can't you see the irony? Hitler was religious (and not an atheist). Stalin had a religious education, and while in power supported the Russian Church! Their problems had nothing to do with "atheism" (nor, mostly, to do with religion), they were just nasty fuckers. But then again, so were lots of other actually religious people (Crusades anyone?).
"Read a book, get a life, and do something about that acne."
Great argument. I read lots of books, I have a life, and I'm not a teenager (nor have been for a few years now).
I can see why you posted anon, too scared to link your name with your shit arguments.
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal...
Don't be fooled this election won't change anything.
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Let's have a looked at some of the differences between the parties shall we?
Republicrats, want to bomb Iraq, bomb Afghanistan
Democans, want to bomb Iraq (but say they won't do it for quite so long), and bomb Afghanistan
Republicrats, want to keep the same shitty capitalist system which oppresses the vast majority of people, and want to keep making the rich richer
Democans, want to keep the same shitty capitalist system which oppresses the vast majority of people, and want to keep making the rich richer
And to make the point even clearer,
http://www.revleft.com/vb/all-obama-lesser-t90625/index.html
Pick one, I don't care. But don't start crying because the one you picked got elected and is screwing you over. (And don't start crying that the one you picked didn't get elected either, by voting you agree to support whomever got elected.)
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.8.2.shtml
I think it is safe to say that there are many games that could be invented that has more possible moves then atoms in the universe. A simple application of maths to the problem would be all that is needed.
Given enough pieces, and enough possible combinations...
No. It sounds good.
Christians are notoriously scary people, who want to kill gays, Jews, witches, people who eat shell fish 1, 2, blacks (that's why he burned 'em), atheists etc. If there was a Christian around my neighbourhood, I would surely want to string 'em up too, just in case that damn god botherer started attacking me (a queer, drug using, shell fish eating, atheist hooker) first!
So yeah, fuck off with the damn Christians. (Also, I never claimed to be tolerant. I hate religion, it has caused far more problems then atheism ever did. Hitler was religious for example. Stalin went to a seminary before he joined the attacks on the Tsar, and when he got into power, he supported the Orthodox Church. It wasn't until after he died that the Church started getting put down again.)
Oh, I'm not afraid of karma. Mod me down and I shall become more powerful then you can imagine (or something...).
I really don't understand all this crap from US posters about how you should drive at the speed limit, or even faster(!).
Take your reason, someone might be driving the speed limit and not notice "a rolling roadblock". What are they? Blind? When driving, you should always be aware of what cars are near by. And if you are driving along, and you are approaching a car, it is pretty damn obvious that you are going faster then them...
You therefore, take your foot of the accelerator and access the situation, and then decide whether it is safe to pass, or whatever.
Where I'm from learners have to have a big L displayed, and must drive a maximum of 80 kilometres per hour (or the speed limit, whichever is lower). But of course, because they are learners, they often drive slower then the speed limit, even if they don't have to.
It would be very rare for people to get upset at these learners, whether they are on a highway or a city street.
OK, that's one reason why someone might be driving slower, what if they don't know the area? What if they are looking for a house number? What if there are children around? Maybe their breaks don't work so well and they are going to the mechanic? Maybe they just think, "well it's a nice day, no rush to go to work/home, I'll take my time"?
And if some idiot is driving along and cuts that slower driver off, who is at fault? The idiot driving fast and cutting off the slower driver.
Actually, while on the topic of cars, I've often see idiots talking about how they tailgate other drivers because the other drivers drive too slow. Yeah, and you know who is rightfully to blame in the event of a rear ending? The idiot doing the tailgating.
You should always leave enough space between yourself and the car in front to stop safely. If you can't, you aren't driving safely.
Basically, you should be driving safely, and if that means slowing down, then yeah, there isn't a problem with that. (The only case where you can complain legitimately about someone driving too slow is if they are more then about 20 km/h below the speed limit on a highway.)
Of course Linux is not a magical shield. But having a diverse eco-system is known to protect against many attacks.
One of the reasons stories about how the banana is going extinct come up every few years is because the "modern" banana that most people in the over developed world can buy, are all clones! One disease can attack all the plants in the same manner.
In the same way, computers that have the same OS tend to be vulnerable to the same attack. Because there are a lot more OSs based around Linux (and BSD), people running these OSs are less vulnerable, because they are in a diverse eco-system. Especially when these kernels and the user-land tools are FLOSS.
As such, yes, it maybe a generic vulnerability in the TCP spec. (though how likely is that?), however, it is not specified, which is why I asked if it did affect *nix.
If nothing else, due to the nature of FLOSS, the attack could quickly be coded around as soon as it is known, and then pushed out to many many people running auto-update systems (such as Debian, Ubuntu and similar). (Even if that breaks the spec.)
My IPv4 address is 127.0.0.1 ...
More seriously, I wonder if this actually affects *nix machines, and how the various environments in that area affect the attack.
After all, they may find a single attack against all MS Windows XP machines, but they need a lot more then one to attack all Linux based systems (and then you throw in BSD based ones as well...).
Meh, the article doesn't give much detail.
Abiword is great. It can open ODF, MS Word Docs, and a variety of other files. (It can't save MS Word Docs though, it saves as RTF.)
It does have a few problems, though most of the time you won't encounter them. One I found once had to do with pasting a formatted header... Another I have, I think has to do with different character sets.
But, if you only work in AbiWord, and you don't go messing with other word processors, then most of the time it will work great.
Loads fast, works well, has built in grammar checker (underlines in green, though doesn't tell you why it needs looking at), spell checker, saves in a simple XML format which can be read in a text-editor if needed etc.
Give it a try. I have both OpenOffice.org and AbiWord, and unless I'm doing something complicated, or sharing with MS Office, I use AbiWord for almost all my word processing needs.
Big Brother is Dutch. Just so you know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(TV_series)
"1) Your employer will never give you sufficient time to finish what you need to do. Bend over and take it. It comes with the job"
Don't take it, if you can't do the job because the expectations are over the top, say it and relax.
"3) Don't expect overtime pay. You'll never get it. If you ask for it, things will conveniently become a "this isn't working out" situation "
If it doesn't work out, you're better off anyway. If you aren't getting paid over time, don't work over time.
"4) The salesmen will sell things that you probably can't provide without working 24/7 for the next 6 months. They will also likely make 4x what you make, plus commission. Bend over and take it."
If the salesperson promises stuff that can't be delivered, make it clear that it can't be delivered and don't deliver it. Don't bend over and take it.
Keep your CV up to date, and relax. Don't stress unless you are being paid to do it. Join the union (and stupid fuckers think that IT workers shouldn't have a union, if you don't have a union, you can get fucked over). Don't work overtime unless you are being paid. If the boss treats you like shit, don't do more work then what you are being paid to. Don't ever work 24/7, only work overtime sometimes, and even less if you aren't being paid.
Keep your CV up to date and savings in the bank, and if you have a shit boss who expects you to work crazy hours and isn't willing to pay you, apply for other jobs.
Don't listen to crap advice like I've quoted, don't "bend over and take it". (2,5 and 6 is OK or good advice, but "bend over and take it" is never good advice. Always be prepard to leave your job if its shit. And being raped is not good, whether figuratively or literally.)