Take a step back from the problem. If you have a well documented policy that no one is following, think about why that is. Maybe the policy is just too much of a pain in the ass for people to comply with and still get their jobs done. Maybe you need a different policy.
Anyone can sit around and complain about how stupid or noncompliant their users are. But seeing problems from the prospective of the user (or boss) is the difference between a good IT person and a great one.
In the case of backup, consider continuous protection solutions like mozy.com.
This is a an extremely one-sided presentation of this story. Linus makes some controversial but insightful points about the security obsessed culture in the community. This should not have been a "Linus has gone mad" story. This is a legitimate re-evaluation of how security patches are handled.
Read the thread, make your own decision: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/701694/focus=706950
I've been going through similar benchmarking to try to figure out what filesystem to use for an NFS server. I don't have anything comprehensive yet, but it is frequently the case that a filesystem that appears the fastest locally is slower than others over NFS.
The original Luddites were hosiery and lace workers in Nottingham, England, in 1811. They smashed knitting machines that embodied new labor-saving technology as a protest against unemployment(theirs), publicizing their actions in circulars mysteriously signed signed "King Ludd."....
English government officials, after careful study, addressed the Luddites'concerns by hanging fourteen of them in January 1813.
- William Easterly "The Elusive Quest for Growth"
The moral of the story is, "things change". Your job will not be here forever. You've been born with more privledge than any other country in the world.
Re-train, learn, adapt, or get hung.
Re:Why not just move to a foreign country?
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Not a bad idea, but not terribly easy to do legally. Since America makes it nearly imposible for people to emmigrate to America, many countries have repayed us in kind. But if you have the skills, you could probably do it under the table fairly easily.
But if you think you're standard of living at $100k is not so great, you may want to go have a look at the third world before you move there. Even the very rich would have trouble matching your standard of living due to the lack of infrastructure. If you have money you'll spend half of it just protecting yourself from those who want it.
What we should do is play the same game the big companies are playing. Accept the contracts being offered in the first world and hire programmers overseas via elance.com or similar mechanism. There's thousand of very competent programmers out there who are willign to work a lot harder than the average American.
Since when was capitalism a means for just America? Capitalism has been around for a lot longer than any country in this world. When it works, it is a means to make sure that everyone in every country has a decent standard of living provided they work hard. It also ensures that the lazy get replaced by the industrious.
I don't know if you've done any traveling lately, but if you do you might notice that the American standard of living is enormously inflated, and that the average American doesn't work anywhere near as hard as the average person in the third world.
Capitalism is about to do exactly what it is suppose to, give America a serious reality check.
This may be insensitive but i've found that the only thing that can set you back more than a disability is to be bitter about that disability. No doubt you've had numerous inter-personal problems with this throughout your life. But if I may suggest that you make your would-be employers aware of your condition before the interview (in email or whatever) and the affect (not effect:) it frequently has on people, they may be willing to fight against their natural inclination to over interpret your gaze.
I've worked on enough volunteer projects to realize that most volunteers are people that have too much time on their hands. They've just moved to a new city, are between jobs, broke up with their significant other, etc. There is nothing wrong with this other than that all these situations are extremely temporary. As soon as the other parts of their lives start back up, the desire to volunteer disappears.
This a huge pain for the organization as they have devoted time and resources to orient and train these very short term volunteers.
Your proposal is even more likely to suffer from this as volunteers who never meet the people they are helping will feel even less obligation to the people them. You need to find some way to secure a time commitment from you volunteers and work very hard to make them feel connected to the work, otherwise the turnover will kill you.
One of the biggest questions in my mind is whether life on Mars (assuming its there) was seeded by earth (or vice versa), or if it evolved independently.
Either way its fascinating. Evolutionary Biology has essentially ignored the possability that there may be interplanetary contributions to the process. Changes the game entirely. Alternatively if we discover that life did evolve independently on Mars, thats huge. Remeber we bascially have an N of 1 in studying evolution.
Seems to me this may be the biggest "hey that's cool" discovery in our lifetimes.
I've had zero success finding a mobile phone (in the US) that could sync with anything. Really would love to have this feature. "bluetooth" doesn't even bring up a hit searching the sprintpcs, verizon wireless, or voicestream websites.
How does OpenAFS rank on stability and speed? Some folks at redhat were telling me it's not ready for primetime. Anybody know of any posted benchmarks?
I've often thought it would be great if I could save my email to a mysql (or postgres, if you prefer) that would automatically parse the header and body into table fields. Then when you want to search it you can use SQL queries instead of the covoluted grep commands I use now.
Doesn't seem hard to write. Anybody know of such a thing?
The RHCE certification is to Linux what the CCIE certification is to networking. An extraordinary amount of knowledge is required on all levels in order to attain this certification. RHCE is without a doubt one of the most difficult certifications to get.
I had heard this exam wasn't all that bad. Any stories from people out there who have taken it? Esp. from those who went in confidently (like I'm about to next month) and ultimately failed?
I ran across the Fujitsu S-Series in Thailand. Don't seem to see it around here very much. Starting at $2100 it's not cheap but, no one else I know of has managed to get a cd-rom, let alone a CD-RW/DVD combo, crammed into 4.5 lbs.
Disclaimer: I don't own one yet.
Not only am I fine with Taco posting his political opinions but I think slashdot ought to endorse a candidate. Not necessarily who Taco likes, but who the slashdot community likes. Maybe run a little poll.
Face it, we are something of a special interest group here and I for one would be interested to know who this crowd thinks is the "President for Nerds".
I've always had trouble with "Just Vote!" message.
It causes a lot of clueless people to go to the
pole and just pick the names that sound nice or
that they recognize. Then they get a little
sticker that sez "I Voted Today!" and all they're
co-workers think they're socially responsible. This contributes to the wrong people getting elected.
So if you haven't spent at least a few minutes considering the issues for god sake stay home.
Or if your willing to spend just a couple minutes go to www.vote-smart.org and get a quick and simply summary of what the candiadates do and do not support.
I have to agree that a little more heart felt apology is in order here. You really don't seem to believe that you may have messed with something pretty darn important. An open letter to Mr. King explaining that you may have tainted his results would be a good idea. Perhaps if his webmaster keeps good logs he can adjust the tally accordingly.
Re:You've got to be careful with this...
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> There may be many people in Clarkesville, TN > reading this story now -/. is widely read, and, > significantly, is widely read by journalists who > may take up the story. By publishing personal > details about them we risk stirring up something > like a lynch mob - not necessarily in this case, > but the potential is there.
I agree. And furthermore I really think slashdot should have done a little more research before posting this one. I mean, these people's lives are likely to be completely hell for a long time now because of this slashdot post. What if the story is not true or only partially true?
Don't get me wrong, I love slashdot and read daily, but "the slashdot effect" is a damn powerful thing. I would like to think you folks would stop to think and make sure you are using it wisely.
Slashdot Mirror
Take a step back from the problem. If you have a well documented policy that no one is following, think about why that is. Maybe the policy is just too much of a pain in the ass for people to comply with and still get their jobs done. Maybe you need a different policy.
Anyone can sit around and complain about how stupid or noncompliant their users are. But seeing problems from the prospective of the user (or boss) is the difference between a good IT person and a great one.
In the case of backup, consider continuous protection solutions like mozy.com.
This is a an extremely one-sided presentation of this story. Linus makes some controversial but insightful points about the security obsessed culture in the community. This should not have been a "Linus has gone mad" story. This is a legitimate re-evaluation of how security patches are handled.
Read the thread, make your own decision:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/701694/focus=706950
Well NX is just absurdly complicated.
How long ago was this?
I've been using it for a year or so. Just installed the RPM and it worked fine.
I've been going through similar benchmarking to try to figure out what filesystem to use for an NFS server. I don't have anything comprehensive yet, but it is frequently the case that a filesystem that appears the fastest locally is slower than others over NFS.
The original Luddites were hosiery and lace workers in Nottingham, England, in 1811. They smashed knitting machines that embodied new labor-saving technology as a protest against unemployment(theirs), publicizing their actions in circulars mysteriously signed signed "King
Ludd."....
English government officials, after careful study, addressed the Luddites'concerns by hanging fourteen of them in January 1813.
- William Easterly
"The Elusive Quest for Growth"
The moral of the story is, "things change". Your job will not be here forever. You've been born with more privledge than any other country in the world.
Re-train, learn, adapt, or get hung.
Not a bad idea, but not terribly easy to do legally. Since America makes it nearly imposible for people to emmigrate to America, many countries have repayed us in kind. But if you have the skills, you could probably do it under the table fairly easily.
But if you think you're standard of living at $100k is not so great, you may want to go have a look at the third world before you move there. Even the very rich would have trouble matching your standard of living due to the lack of infrastructure. If you have money you'll spend half of it just protecting yourself from those who want it.
What we should do is play the same game the big companies are playing. Accept the contracts being offered in the first world and hire programmers overseas via elance.com or similar mechanism. There's thousand of very competent programmers out there who are willign to work a lot harder than the average American.
Since when was capitalism a means for just America? Capitalism has been around for a lot longer than any country in this world. When it works, it is a means to make sure that everyone in every country has a decent standard of living provided they work hard. It also ensures that the lazy get replaced by the industrious.
I don't know if you've done any traveling lately, but if you do you might notice that the American standard of living is enormously inflated, and that the average American doesn't work anywhere near as hard as the average person in the third world.
Capitalism is about to do exactly what it is suppose to, give America a serious reality check.
This may be insensitive but i've found that the only thing that can set you back more than a disability is to be bitter about that disability. No doubt you've had numerous inter-personal problems with this throughout your life. But if I may suggest that you make your would-be employers aware of your condition before the interview (in email or whatever) and the affect (not effect :) it frequently has on people, they may be willing to fight against their natural inclination to over interpret your gaze.
I love this idea but I am a little skeptical.
I've worked on enough volunteer projects to realize that most volunteers are people that have too much time on their hands. They've just moved to a new city, are between jobs, broke up with their significant other, etc. There is nothing wrong with this other than that all these situations are extremely temporary. As soon as the other parts of their lives start back up, the desire to volunteer disappears.
This a huge pain for the organization as they have devoted time and resources to orient and train these very short term volunteers.
Your proposal is even more likely to suffer from this as volunteers who never meet the people they are helping will feel even less obligation to the people them. You need to find some way to secure a time commitment from you volunteers and work very hard to make them feel connected to the work, otherwise the turnover will kill you.
One of the biggest questions in my mind is whether life on Mars (assuming its there) was seeded by earth (or vice versa), or if it evolved independently.
Either way its fascinating. Evolutionary Biology has essentially ignored the possability that there may be interplanetary contributions to the process. Changes the game entirely. Alternatively if we discover that life did evolve independently on Mars, thats huge. Remeber we bascially have an N of 1 in studying evolution.
Seems to me this may be the biggest "hey that's cool" discovery in our lifetimes.
I wish I had mod privs today, so I could mod this thread up. Essentially I have the same questions.
e st .bluetooth.ap/
Is Bluetooth ready for mainstream?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/08/tech.t
What are people's experiences?
I've had zero success finding a mobile phone (in the US) that could sync with anything. Really would love to have this feature. "bluetooth" doesn't even bring up a hit searching the sprintpcs, verizon wireless, or voicestream websites.
Another interesting link:
http://www.antonio.perrotta.com/palm/
How does OpenAFS rank on stability and speed? Some folks at redhat were telling me it's not ready for primetime. Anybody know of any posted benchmarks?
I've often thought it would be great if I could save my email to a mysql (or postgres, if you prefer) that would automatically parse the header and body into table fields. Then when you want to search it you can use SQL queries instead of the covoluted grep commands I use now.
Doesn't seem hard to write. Anybody know of such a thing?
The RHCE certification is to Linux what the CCIE certification is to networking. An extraordinary amount of knowledge is required on all levels in order to attain this certification. RHCE is without a doubt one of the most difficult certifications to get.
I had heard this exam wasn't all that bad. Any stories from people out there who have taken it? Esp. from those who went in confidently (like I'm about to next month) and ultimately failed?
I ran across the Fujitsu S-Series in Thailand. Don't seem to see it around here very much. Starting at $2100 it's not cheap but, no one else I know of has managed to get a cd-rom, let alone a CD-RW/DVD combo, crammed into 4.5 lbs.
Disclaimer: I don't own one yet.
Not only am I fine with Taco posting his political opinions but I think slashdot ought to endorse a candidate. Not necessarily who Taco likes, but who the slashdot community likes. Maybe run a little poll.
Face it, we are something of a special interest group here and I for one would be interested to know who this crowd thinks is the "President for Nerds".
I've always had trouble with "Just Vote!" message. It causes a lot of clueless people to go to the pole and just pick the names that sound nice or that they recognize. Then they get a little sticker that sez "I Voted Today!" and all they're co-workers think they're socially responsible. This contributes to the wrong people getting elected. So if you haven't spent at least a few minutes considering the issues for god sake stay home. Or if your willing to spend just a couple minutes go to www.vote-smart.org and get a quick and simply summary of what the candiadates do and do not support.
I have to agree that a little more heart felt apology is in order here. You really don't seem to believe that you may have messed with something pretty darn important.
An open letter to Mr. King explaining that you may have tainted his results would be a good idea. Perhaps if his webmaster keeps good logs he can adjust the tally accordingly.
Vote Smart needs programmers.
> There may be many people in Clarkesville, TN /. is widely read, and,
> reading this story now -
> significantly, is widely read by journalists who
> may take up the story. By publishing personal
> details about them we risk stirring up something
> like a lynch mob - not necessarily in this case,
> but the potential is there.
I agree. And furthermore I really think slashdot
should have done a little more research before
posting this one. I mean, these people's lives
are likely to be completely hell for a long time
now because of this slashdot post. What if the
story is not true or only partially true?
Don't get me wrong, I love slashdot and read
daily, but "the slashdot effect" is a damn
powerful thing. I would like to think you folks
would stop to think and make sure you are using it
wisely.