Sadly, we (my team) all graduated last year so we were unable to defend our crown. First time we didn't place or win since it started, we were all quite depressed.:)
Whoops, hit the AC button instead of no karma. That was me.
But, I find the NU CCIS students to be an order of magnitude more freaky then the BU CompSci Students. Of course, MIT blows both of them out of the water.
Besides, COE schools CCIS when it comes to computers. [Coming from someone who beat the pants off CCIS students in their CTF game 3 years running]
Besides, NU is still a small time school, In spite of what Freeland says. But don't get me started on that tangent.
Which people who cannot get broadband (yes, there are still people like that) and people who don't want to spend 2 hours figuring out what the hell IMAP is, will use.
I don't like it either, my parents still use AOL despite my 1.5Mb DSL connection ([shamlessplug]Brought to me by the wonderful people at Speakeasy.Net[/shamelessplug]) because its a nice pre-chewed web and e-mail package. I don't bother to change it as they know how to use it, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm not saying the policy is foolproof, he just specifically stated the preview pane, so I suggested our solution. As for executing arbitrary code, Outlook hasn't done that in a while, in fact, I have trouble sending office attachements to people with OutlookXP, as Outlook deems them 'unsafe' and won't allow you to see them until you rip the attachment out of its hands with a crowbar.
So, yes, Outlook sucks and unless someone is using Exchange, I do not recommend it, but people want it and they are comfortable with it, so you have to deal with it work around its defects.
After reading your two postings I feel sorry for you in your current situation, I've seen it too much and it sucks.
That being said, its not windows faults that is keeping you employed, its bad management decisions. I agree with you Outlook should really not be used unless there is a/real/ good reason (Exchange) But as for not having the latest virus updates? Get Norton Corporate Edition, a quick clickety click, and everyone in my department (250+ workstations, 8 servers, a mix of 98/2K/NT4/XP/2003), as for your statement of viruses being out before the updates, they are, but I have yet to see Norton have more then a 12 hour turnaround time for updates if its anything more then a couple of hits. As for outlook multiplying the problem, make it a policy that no one use auto preview. We did it after nimda and it took a month or so of Facist checking, but everyone has stopped using it. And, most of the autopreview bugs have had patches release by microsoft, so by telling me that autopreview causes problems, you are also informing me that you are woefully behind on your patches.
Helpful hint: anti-virus software is not a cureall.
No, it isn't. But 9 times out of 10 (if properly maintained), it will save your ass.
We are behind a firewall, that doesn't sales men and execs from bringing in their infected laptops.
Why aren't you running AV on these laptops? I'm willing to look beyond keeping laptops 100% up to date on patches because some people refuse to bring them in, but at my jopb, the 3rd friday every month, we have all our users with laptops brought in so we can patch them, AV updates are pushed over to them when they connect to the VPN. We also can call an emergency and have them haul in their laptop if there is a major patch. (We did this on MS03-026) Didn't bring your laptop? Sorry, no VPN
It seems that your suffering from bad management, please keep that in mind before crying "Microsoft Sucks!" and blaming most of your problems on "half rate solutions like windows xp".
(Yes, I am an Windows Sysadmin, I am also posting this from my workstation at home running Slackware 9)
if you manage to find one that configures correctly, compiles without complaints, and boots up, chances are that it will work well. But if my experience is any guide, that's a big "if"
Wow, seriously, what/are/ you doing to your kernel? I have yet to see any kernel not configure correctly, very rarely seen a compile blow up (and 90% of the time that happened it was user error ['make depend'? We don't need no 'make depend'!]) And most of the time it fails to boot is because I don't have the right support compiled in (ReiserFS used to always bite my ass when I first started using it, never compiled support in for it, I just did ext2)
What/are/ you doing, or what platform are you compiling on? I've only seen errors remotely related to what you are talking about when I was playing with ARM processors.
But, while you are right, and academic freedom is a very important part of the University system, the amount (at my school, in my experience, YMMV) of people who have tenure that actaully give a damn about their job is just a small number of profs. Most profs with tenure I've run into look at you as a name and number and grade.
Want to complain about that last test? Want to try and change your grade because your cat died the night of your midterm? Go stuff it, because he ain't budging, after all, what can you do? He has tenure!
On the flip side I have a instructor who hates profs with tenure and has specifically avoided getting on the tenure track because he hates the idea of the system. And you know what? He is the most understanding and friendly instructor I've had during my college career. He memorized my name within two sessions of my first class with him, and constantly has his door open for questions, gassbagging, scuttlebutt, whatever. IMHO, we(US college-types) need more professors like that.
So while tenure is a good idea, in my school its abused way too much. Also, the post tenure review board is a OBN and I have never heard of someone getting let go from it.
Wow, aren't you cocky? geek-wannabe my ass. I'll go toe-to-toe with you any day.
Like I said, I haven't used it in a year or so. I dunno if its changed. I'm running it on a K5 266 with 48M RAM (You running an IBM Aptiva too?) MP3, SMB, NFS, DNS, Mail, along with a smattering of other crazy stuff. Misterhouse CHUGGED. Horribly. It sucked. Right now I'm running heyu with some CGI to do most of my work that I want. I use SMS to control most of the gadgets when I'm sans Internet connection.
So, unless it's really improved in a year I still think its far from perfect. Really nice program, fun to have, but unless you got some nice stuff under the hood, be prepared for some chugging.
I've tried MisterHouse (a year ago, take this with a large helping of NaCl), and I was not that impressed by it. It has all these "Gee Whiz" features, and there are some neat things, but you need to run it on a dedicated box, with a lot of horsepower. I would much rather have a smaller, more compact version with less features.
If you have the computing power to use it though, try it, it's fun:)
I read the Van Riper story when it first came out. It was a Pentagon simulation. Now, there are two types of people in the Pentagon, just like in every other office, the PHBs and the clueful. The PHBs are the 5 star generals who play wargames, and the rear admirals and Lt. Cols who know how things work in the world.
When peacetime is around, the Five star generals slash budgets and figure out funding, but when the shit hits the fans, its the people who know what the fsck to do who are calling the shots.
I read this from an interview by Tom Clancy (and it's reflected in a few of his books), so whenever I read the story, the first thing that popped in my mind was Riper, who sounded like a clued individual, was playing against a bunch of whiny PHBs.
I didn't know he resigned,/that/ is a shame.
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Who put Sadam in power??????
Uhm, sorry, not us. He came to power while Iraq was on our Terrorist States list. We were still friends with Iran then.
Who armed him at the beginning?
Again, not us. We helped him/after/ the begining, long after he took power, and also, I can't seem to find anything about Nuclear reactors, link please?
Who in terms of $$ has the most business with Iraq?
Right now, that would be Russia. They are knee deep in contracts with Iraq.
Again, I may be wrong, I am pretty sure about 1 and 3, and iffy about 2, so feel free to post contrary evidence.
I forsee a lot of problems with this. The state WAN people, will/never/ go for this. They will have a hissy fit a the thought of having Linux on the network, as it's too 'insecure'. Next, MA Govt. has a massive Exchange system going on, I doubt Linux/SMTP will plug into this nicely, WAN people (who also do a lot with the Exchange system) will also have a major issue with this.
Also, why oh why after pushing for years over at DPH for a Linux standard (big step for adoption), DOR is going to start doing it? Feh.
Again, I am not speaking in any official sense, just my gut feelings. I do hope they pull it off though.
They think that their abilities with code and electronics elevate them above language students, artists, sportsmen.
I feel that I am no smarter then my girlfriend who is a primary education major, in some studies she mops the floor with me. In other ways I can mop the floor with her. The same way goes with a lot of other people. I don't feel superior with some sportsmen, but I do feel superior to some who can't speak in complete sentences, who if they could hit/shoot/catch/whatever would probably be holding up a liquor store.
And yet they are often socially awkward, irritating, and with little ability to talk on subjects other than computers. Their behavior towards women is much like that of a dog; they lust after them, publicly voicing their desire, and if a woman makes herself know to them on the web, they are surrounded by them like puppies taking turns on a mother's teat.
I must say, this is true for most of the male population. Go into any college male's dorm and you will see some picture of Heidi Klum, or somebody else there.
In the workplace they demand casual dress. They demand completely relaxed environments, with full control over operating systems, hardware (remind me why a sysadmin needs a GeForce?), software - and they don't see the hypocrisy when whinging about a "mere user" trying to do something their way rather than "the right way".
Yes, I like casual dress, I'm sure a lot of other people like it too, just because I am willing to stand up for it doesn't make me bad. As for your GeForce comment, I still use my Compaq PII 300 that was assigned to me 3-4 years ago, I've been given the chance to upgrade, but there are users who need more horsepower then I do.
Yes, I whine when users do something the wrong way, mainly because 'the right way' exists for a reason. Its the same way as somebody cruising down the breakdown lane or cutting you off on the highway, that is not the right way. It is a detriment for the other users.
But that's OK, because they can code. In fact, that's all they can do. And that's why they are universally diliked, bullied, lonely.
I don't like to code. I also draw, play paintball, and sail. I was disliked, bullied and lonely in high school. I am better then some, and worse then some. I try to improve myself and I naver stop learning. I am a nerd, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Another thing to break. Honestly, my computer breaks a lot more then my speedometer does on my car. While this is really neat and it probably set out all the things it is required to do, I'd rehter have a simple, 2-3 part blivit telling me info rather then a highly complex LCD.
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You must not have the right plan then. My boss, yesterday, (yes, really) called in his C600 becasue his LCD was acting up, mainly because he beats the shit out it. Dell sent some guy out today, replaced the LCD no problem. He even had solvent to remove the scratches in the LCD of mine, which is a common problem with C600s. No questions asked.
Well, Source based distros are a just an extension of what some people (like myself) do. I try to compile everything from source. I hardly use binaries, IMHO they are not worth the effort. I've run into numerous problem where a certain library a program is expecting is one patchlevel behind what it was compiled with and it doesn't work, while when I compile it, it works fine. Source also lets me shove everything where I want it to go, if it doesn't support that option, let me plow through a couple of config files and do it myself. I've run into less problems with source then using binaries. I don't use gentoo, I like my slack, but I've been tempted to toss it on a spare machine sometime. I'm also debating downloading this, since I've already download 3GB of ISO images today.
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Sadly, we (my team) all graduated last year so we were unable to defend our crown. First time we didn't place or win since it started, we were all quite depressed. :)
Whoops, hit the AC button instead of no karma. That was me.
But, I find the NU CCIS students to be an order of magnitude more freaky then the BU CompSci Students. Of course, MIT blows both of them out of the water.
Besides, COE schools CCIS when it comes to computers. [Coming from someone who beat the pants off CCIS students in their CTF game 3 years running]
Besides, NU is still a small time school, In spite of what Freeland says. But don't get me started on that tangent.
(NU Alum, Class of '03)
And AOL dialup will still cost $24.99 a month.
Which people who cannot get broadband (yes, there are still people like that) and people who don't want to spend 2 hours figuring out what the hell IMAP is, will use.
I don't like it either, my parents still use AOL despite my 1.5Mb DSL connection ([shamlessplug]Brought to me by the wonderful people at Speakeasy.Net[/shamelessplug]) because its a nice pre-chewed web and e-mail package. I don't bother to change it as they know how to use it, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Hey David, I figured out your callsign, and I also got your name from the callsign server at my house. :)
What do I get?
Read your AUP for your ISP. That should tell you.
I'm not saying the policy is foolproof, he just specifically stated the preview pane, so I suggested our solution. As for executing arbitrary code, Outlook hasn't done that in a while, in fact, I have trouble sending office attachements to people with OutlookXP, as Outlook deems them 'unsafe' and won't allow you to see them until you rip the attachment out of its hands with a crowbar.
So, yes, Outlook sucks and unless someone is using Exchange, I do not recommend it, but people want it and they are comfortable with it, so you have to deal with it work around its defects.
That being said, its not windows faults that is keeping you employed, its bad management decisions. I agree with you Outlook should really not be used unless there is a
No, it isn't. But 9 times out of 10 (if properly maintained), it will save your ass.
Why aren't you running AV on these laptops? I'm willing to look beyond keeping laptops 100% up to date on patches because some people refuse to bring them in, but at my jopb, the 3rd friday every month, we have all our users with laptops brought in so we can patch them, AV updates are pushed over to them when they connect to the VPN. We also can call an emergency and have them haul in their laptop if there is a major patch. (We did this on MS03-026) Didn't bring your laptop? Sorry, no VPN
It seems that your suffering from bad management, please keep that in mind before crying "Microsoft Sucks!" and blaming most of your problems on "half rate solutions like windows xp".
(Yes, I am an Windows Sysadmin, I am also posting this from my workstation at home running Slackware 9)
I can't find any mention of it on any of the manufacturers, and Seagate has said That there is no recall Maybe my porn stash is safe after all.
Want to complain about that last test? Want to try and change your grade because your cat died the night of your midterm? Go stuff it, because he ain't budging, after all, what can you do? He has tenure!
On the flip side I have a instructor who hates profs with tenure and has specifically avoided getting on the tenure track because he hates the idea of the system. And you know what? He is the most understanding and friendly instructor I've had during my college career. He memorized my name within two sessions of my first class with him, and constantly has his door open for questions, gassbagging, scuttlebutt, whatever. IMHO, we(US college-types) need more professors like that.
So while tenure is a good idea, in my school its abused way too much. Also, the post tenure review board is a OBN and I have never heard of someone getting let go from it.
Wow, aren't you cocky? geek-wannabe my ass. I'll go toe-to-toe with you any day.
Like I said, I haven't used it in a year or so. I dunno if its changed. I'm running it on a K5 266 with 48M RAM (You running an IBM Aptiva too?) MP3, SMB, NFS, DNS, Mail, along with a smattering of other crazy stuff. Misterhouse CHUGGED. Horribly. It sucked. Right now I'm running heyu with some CGI to do most of my work that I want. I use SMS to control most of the gadgets when I'm sans Internet connection.
So, unless it's really improved in a year I still think its far from perfect. Really nice program, fun to have, but unless you got some nice stuff under the hood, be prepared for some chugging.
Now excuse my, I need to grab another beer.
I've tried MisterHouse (a year ago, take this with a large helping of NaCl), and I was not that impressed by it. It has all these "Gee Whiz" features, and there are some neat things, but you need to run it on a dedicated box, with a lot of horsepower. I would much rather have a smaller, more compact version with less features.
:)
If you have the computing power to use it though, try it, it's fun
Damn, say what you want about telemarketers, but I think I want to work for this company.
The whistleblower obviously was a person that was not laid.
Hard Drives, now part of your daily balanced breakfast...
I read the Van Riper story when it first came out. It was a Pentagon simulation. Now, there are two types of people in the Pentagon, just like in every other office, the PHBs and the clueful. The PHBs are the 5 star generals who play wargames, and the rear admirals and Lt. Cols who know how things work in the world.
/that/ is a shame.
When peacetime is around, the Five star generals slash budgets and figure out funding, but when the shit hits the fans, its the people who know what the fsck to do who are calling the shots.
I read this from an interview by Tom Clancy (and it's reflected in a few of his books), so whenever I read the story, the first thing that popped in my mind was Riper, who sounded like a clued individual, was playing against a bunch of whiny PHBs.
I didn't know he resigned,
Who armed him at the beginning?
Who in terms of $$ has the most business with Iraq?
Again, I may be wrong, I am pretty sure about 1 and 3, and iffy about 2, so feel free to post contrary evidence.
I work for the MA Dept. of Public Health.
/never/ go for this. They will have a hissy fit a the thought of having Linux on the network, as it's too 'insecure'. Next, MA Govt. has a massive Exchange system going on, I doubt Linux/SMTP will plug into this nicely, WAN people (who also do a lot with the Exchange system) will also have a major issue with this.
I forsee a lot of problems with this. The state WAN people, will
Also, why oh why after pushing for years over at DPH for a Linux standard (big step for adoption), DOR is going to start doing it? Feh.
Again, I am not speaking in any official sense, just my gut feelings. I do hope they pull it off though.
Neither did Apollo 8 or 10. However, they did orbit the moon, so I assume that is what they are counting.
No, me and one of my roomies stop everything we're doing and watch it every time it's on.
They think that their abilities with code and electronics elevate them above language students, artists, sportsmen.
I feel that I am no smarter then my girlfriend who is a primary education major, in some studies she mops the floor with me. In other ways I can mop the floor with her. The same way goes with a lot of other people. I don't feel superior with some sportsmen, but I do feel superior to some who can't speak in complete sentences, who if they could hit/shoot/catch/whatever would probably be holding up a liquor store.
And yet they are often socially awkward, irritating, and with little ability to talk on subjects other than computers. Their behavior towards women is much like that of a dog; they lust after them, publicly voicing their desire, and if a woman makes herself know to them on the web, they are surrounded by them like puppies taking turns on a mother's teat.
I must say, this is true for most of the male population. Go into any college male's dorm and you will see some picture of Heidi Klum, or somebody else there.
In the workplace they demand casual dress. They demand completely relaxed environments, with full control over operating systems, hardware (remind me why a sysadmin needs a GeForce?), software - and they don't see the hypocrisy when whinging about a "mere user" trying to do something their way rather than "the right way".
Yes, I like casual dress, I'm sure a lot of other people like it too, just because I am willing to stand up for it doesn't make me bad. As for your GeForce comment, I still use my Compaq PII 300 that was assigned to me 3-4 years ago, I've been given the chance to upgrade, but there are users who need more horsepower then I do.
Yes, I whine when users do something the wrong way, mainly because 'the right way' exists for a reason. Its the same way as somebody cruising down the breakdown lane or cutting you off on the highway, that is not the right way. It is a detriment for the other users.
But that's OK, because they can code. In fact, that's all they can do. And that's why they are universally diliked, bullied, lonely.
I don't like to code. I also draw, play paintball, and sail. I was disliked, bullied and lonely in high school. I am better then some, and worse then some. I try to improve myself and I naver stop learning. I am a nerd, and there is nothing wrong with that.
So, in conclusion, fsck off.
Another thing to break. Honestly, my computer breaks a lot more then my speedometer does on my car. While this is really neat and it probably set out all the things it is required to do, I'd rehter have a simple, 2-3 part blivit telling me info rather then a highly complex LCD.
You must not have the right plan then. My boss, yesterday, (yes, really) called in his C600 becasue his LCD was acting up, mainly because he beats the shit out it. Dell sent some guy out today, replaced the LCD no problem. He even had solvent to remove the scratches in the LCD of mine, which is a common problem with C600s. No questions asked.
Well, Source based distros are a just an extension of what some people (like myself) do. I try to compile everything from source. I hardly use binaries, IMHO they are not worth the effort. I've run into numerous problem where a certain library a program is expecting is one patchlevel behind what it was compiled with and it doesn't work, while when I compile it, it works fine. Source also lets me shove everything where I want it to go, if it doesn't support that option, let me plow through a couple of config files and do it myself. I've run into less problems with source then using binaries. I don't use gentoo, I like my slack, but I've been tempted to toss it on a spare machine sometime. I'm also debating downloading this, since I've already download 3GB of ISO images today.
Its not /all/ versions of Apache, just All 2.0 versions prior to 2.0.43.
For those of us still running the 1.3 branch, we're good.