After all, we, the public, whom cryptome.org does not specifically identify because they value the privacy of the people that view their site, are their customers/clients, and thus it is more than appropriate to share this subpoena with us because we are party to this request [which cannot be fulfilled since logs are not kept?]
and Everclear, and a few others, at Tower when I lived and worked in DC.
I don't see that this will actually provide me any cash compensation for the outrageous prices they charge compared to the paltry sums the artists actually get in the long run. I hope that legitimate music education programs do end up receiving the part of the pot the lawyers haven't already carved up for themselves.
I won't be putting my email address on that form; and especially not *verifying* it to provide whomever is distributing the cash or non-cash compensatory awards - very likely yet another marketing agency just working for a different color shark - with the ability to peg me with their particular clients' spam in the future - even if they are requests for legitimate anti-scam activity.
I skim my personal firewalls' (that's right I use a couple incl. the NAT on the router) logs every 10 days or so to see what interesting stuff is going about. My local Cable company is oh-so-glad to block port 80 to prevent its users from hosting their own personal websites; but any other activity outside of "spam filtering" [which I opt out of because they only trap legitimate mail so I use my own] appears to be outside their limited body of knowledge.
Actually, the VA uses netForensics, not Symantec, to aggregate data from a variety of IDS sensors and firewalls and HIDS. considering what they paid and what they intend to do with this particular crew - analysts and managed security and CIRC oh my - they won't farm it out to anyone other than the contractors they already have for a while.
Trust me when I tell you there *are* some government places out there using Linux. It's in a hybrid OS environment - all the workstations are still on Win2K Pro and since we are contractors we still have to access their Exchange server for that particular email address - but the good stuff runs on Linux. Apparently it was "prohibitively expensive" to run on Solaris and the chief admin *did not* want to learn any more MS than he had to.:o)
You're going to get nothing but flames for not being an MS-bashing, pro 'free as in speech AND as in beer', *nix guru already.
I'm working in a pretty neat shop that is doing NIDS monitoring; and one of the sysadmins handed me RedHat 7.2 yesterday. I have copies of a dozen other Linux distributions but have been too lazy to load anything at all on my generally blank tes70r b0x that gathers dust in the corner of my (home) office. I have a considerable amount of free [as in kid at sitter; momma at work] time coming up and think NOW is the time to start messing with it. Anyone, this particular sysadmin says boot from the CD and follow the prompts. Once all the packages you want are loaded; start playing with it. Oh and here's the documentation CD *thunk*. If you want it you must work for it even if it is mostly reading!
from what little reading I've done on the topic. This whole discussion reminds of one of y'all's slashdot sig:
Cult: a small, unpopular religion.
Religion: A large, popular cult.
Unless, of course, you really like working with those digital antiquities and don't have a problem moving to an extended suburb or countrified community where they have been so desperate for someone with 10 years' IBM mainframe experience that they will pay you over six figures and move your belongings with silk and tissue packaging to your new home...
but wait you didn't notice the "knowledge transfer" part of the job description? Once they've spent six months to a year getting you to pass your experience on to the near-minimum-wage desktop support guy they'll be ready to cut you off. Six months later; they'll look for another like you. I see it happen in my area all the time; the same job being advertised for years by different headhunters.
This is the system messenger utility that ostensibly is for legitimate network messages in the workplace such as "the server will be down for on hour starting in five minutes. please close all documents from the server", etc. and alerts to admins when certain events fire on the systems.
A home user should not need to have this enabled (unless you are playing with a small home network and are looking at legit messages) - follow the directions other posters on disabling this service.
Conscientious admins should have this blocked at their demarkation line or should disable it in their network altogether if they do not use it.
I had one day off since Thanksgiving; working the first job that I was leaving on the days off from the new job I just started.
I thought we were all underpaid; overworked cube monkeys? Must've been a student asking this question because I know of very few people that had off this holiday; and even those only had a couple hours on Christmas Eve and were very likely tied to their pager Christmas Day.
I love to tell stories; I love to flirt with the little minimum-wage earning college girls and housewives; and I keep them on the phone for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time and DON'T BUY A DAMN THING. I immediately control the conversation [a very bad habit of mine in person *LOL*] and at the end of my little yak session "I'm sorry, I just don't buy stuff like that." I think that's why I have gotten fewer and fewer calls recently.
I just followed my friends in to see it one night and was completely blown away. Why, oh why didn't *I* take the blue pill? That was the first movie in many years I went out of my way to see several times in the theater; and have seen several more times since then on video and DVD. I skimmed these articles; and am an avid viewer of whatisthematrix.com, but I am trying to avoid spoilers myself because I hope that the next two are the equals of their predecessor.
is that anyone with a little social engineering can get a lead on what 'theme' you are using to name the boxen in that room. One place I worked had a complete Beatles theme going on; including some database passwords being obscure Beatles references like "28 if". The wallpapers on all of them were sketches of the band.
Yet another place used X-Files - hundreds of names and references and insider jokes I couldn't even figure out with my wife being the X-Files nutjob she is...
In a Coast Guard facility I worked in all the printers were named after Lord of the Rings characters - that's right we attached to Legolas to print our Remedy ARS reports.
My favorite has always been the name for a PBX/Server room at a national training facility I once worked in: The Batcave. Fortunately, nothing else inside was named after the comic - could you imagine the Nortel Meridian console being named "Joker"?
As a member of a newly cobbled together group of 'entry level' security analysts I am looking at this as an example of something we may put together for our lab in order for us to gain more experience in this area. We have a number of OSes and a few lab computers as well as some of our own personal 'lab' computers to work from. [Many years' IT experience this is our first security job so we start by yep, you guessed it, watching IDS sensors but it is good learning].
Most people will tolerate modem speeds, and those that won't are mostly pretty happy with DSL or cable.
Those that are tolerating modem speeds are usually doing so because it costs them 1/4 of what it would for the cable/DSL; OR they can't convince the local telco or cable company to provide the service in their area [or add the box that gives them IDSL]. Costs, or laziness? I think both but that's a different thread. There's a lot of unused cable - not just fiber - out there. A considerable amount of it is dead telephone lines thanks to dissatisfied customers and new wireless/cellular users.
Bah, experienced sysadmins, now who'd want THOSE???
Apparently no one, according to the latest unemployment figures. That, and the laughing and clapping by small business owners when the whiny voice in the Microsoft Big Day advertisement proclaims "My secretary administers my network!"
On that same note; I can't believe the first several questions were even modded up or asked of Mr. Shatner. If you look at the questions; he may have been brief but he took time to answer meaningfully to a couple of the questions. He's probably been asked about "the kiss" so many times he may have wanted to refuse the interview after the fact after that!! I would have. I liked the answer about his Nerine foundation.
Why didn't anyone ask him about upcoming projects; the Iron Chef, etc.? Why wasn't a question asked about "how tired are you of Star Trek?" I guess I should have thought to ask those same questions myself.
All in all it was nice that he took the time to grant this particular forum an interview out of all the other places he could [or probably should] have [like Entertainment Tonight].
And if any of you have read or listened to him outside of fiction before you know he is brief and his humour takes a little intelligence and understanding of wit (AARP, anyone?)
No I didn't look at it at first but I am sure to now! I may not be 100% anti-anything but I am always interested in stuff similar to this; if only to laugh at some of the conspiracy theories.
Why, do you ask? Because not everyone has or uses a computer; regardless of the statistics. I have a couple for work and play but my neighbors? None. Well, maybe one person up the street has one. Some people like to browse; and other people make lists of specifics, get them, and go. I sometimes browse but other days I get the list from my wife and get done (that's what I loaded shopping list software on my Palm for!)
Yep. And now I've discovered as a consultant; you need to be aware that companies struggling very hard to continue being viable in the current market will try and slide a lack of specific benefits (like holidays) past you and also put a lot of pressure on you if you *do* find better work during a 2- or 3-month gig and leave before it is complete.
On the same note; you may have to be pretty flexible with your days and hours in a one- or two-week period as you transition and help the other temp get situated. But you know; 10+ years ago when I was an admin assistant trying to go to school and get a different career than clerical; you knew you had to be flexible in order to get paid.
Actually West Virginia is a bedroom community for thousands of workers in Northern VA, DC, Baltimore, and even Pittsburgh. Martinsburg, Clarksburg, Huntington, Morgantown, Charleston (the state capital) and a few other places are sites for lots of aerospace, astronomy, and mining interests. Martinsburg houses several Federal government computing facilities for the IRS, the VA, and the U.S. Coast Guard; as well as training centers for other Federal agencies - I know of OPM and one more I won't mention since I used to work for them [and don't like them at all anymore for personal reasons]. I am sure there are dozens of companies and three-letter government agencies with places out here - a quick search on Dice reveals lots of high-tech jobs if you know IBM, DB2, or financial systems like [D.B.?] Edwards.
I think regardless of the porkbelly legislation, West Virginia's Congresspeople and Senators at the DC level do try and get communications/data center work into the state - though they may not have a real concern over the salaries paid to the people manning those facilities.
Why not spend all this money on Linux...!? But, but, isn't that the point of Linux - NOT spending money on it? So you're going to use the same tactic you so obviously egregiously deplore -- giving it away for free until it is locked in; then charge for it?
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After all, we, the public, whom cryptome.org does not specifically identify because they value the privacy of the people that view their site, are their customers/clients, and thus it is more than appropriate to share this subpoena with us because we are party to this request [which cannot be fulfilled since logs are not kept?]
and Everclear, and a few others, at Tower when I lived and worked in DC.
I don't see that this will actually provide me any cash compensation for the outrageous prices they charge compared to the paltry sums the artists actually get in the long run. I hope that legitimate music education programs do end up receiving the part of the pot the lawyers haven't already carved up for themselves.
I won't be putting my email address on that form; and especially not *verifying* it to provide whomever is distributing the cash or non-cash compensatory awards - very likely yet another marketing agency just working for a different color shark - with the ability to peg me with their particular clients' spam in the future - even if they are requests for legitimate anti-scam activity.
I skim my personal firewalls' (that's right I use a couple incl. the NAT on the router) logs every 10 days or so to see what interesting stuff is going about. My local Cable company is oh-so-glad to block port 80 to prevent its users from hosting their own personal websites; but any other activity outside of "spam filtering" [which I opt out of because they only trap legitimate mail so I use my own] appears to be outside their limited body of knowledge.
Actually, the VA uses netForensics, not Symantec, to aggregate data from a variety of IDS sensors and firewalls and HIDS. considering what they paid and what they intend to do with this particular crew - analysts and managed security and CIRC oh my - they won't farm it out to anyone other than the contractors they already have for a while.
Trust me when I tell you there *are* some government places out there using Linux. It's in a hybrid OS environment - all the workstations are still on Win2K Pro and since we are contractors we still have to access their Exchange server for that particular email address - but the good stuff runs on Linux. Apparently it was "prohibitively expensive" to run on Solaris and the chief admin *did not* want to learn any more MS than he had to. :o)
You're going to get nothing but flames for not being an MS-bashing, pro 'free as in speech AND as in beer', *nix guru already. I'm working in a pretty neat shop that is doing NIDS monitoring; and one of the sysadmins handed me RedHat 7.2 yesterday. I have copies of a dozen other Linux distributions but have been too lazy to load anything at all on my generally blank tes70r b0x that gathers dust in the corner of my (home) office. I have a considerable amount of free [as in kid at sitter; momma at work] time coming up and think NOW is the time to start messing with it. Anyone, this particular sysadmin says boot from the CD and follow the prompts. Once all the packages you want are loaded; start playing with it. Oh and here's the documentation CD *thunk*. If you want it you must work for it even if it is mostly reading!
from what little reading I've done on the topic. This whole discussion reminds of one of y'all's slashdot sig: Cult: a small, unpopular religion. Religion: A large, popular cult.
Unless, of course, you really like working with those digital antiquities and don't have a problem moving to an extended suburb or countrified community where they have been so desperate for someone with 10 years' IBM mainframe experience that they will pay you over six figures and move your belongings with silk and tissue packaging to your new home...
but wait you didn't notice the "knowledge transfer" part of the job description? Once they've spent six months to a year getting you to pass your experience on to the near-minimum-wage desktop support guy they'll be ready to cut you off. Six months later; they'll look for another like you. I see it happen in my area all the time; the same job being advertised for years by different headhunters.
This is the system messenger utility that ostensibly is for legitimate network messages in the workplace such as "the server will be down for on hour starting in five minutes. please close all documents from the server", etc. and alerts to admins when certain events fire on the systems.
A home user should not need to have this enabled (unless you are playing with a small home network and are looking at legit messages) - follow the directions other posters on disabling this service.
Conscientious admins should have this blocked at their demarkation line or should disable it in their network altogether if they do not use it.
I had one day off since Thanksgiving; working the first job that I was leaving on the days off from the new job I just started.
I thought we were all underpaid; overworked cube monkeys? Must've been a student asking this question because I know of very few people that had off this holiday; and even those only had a couple hours on Christmas Eve and were very likely tied to their pager Christmas Day.
I love to tell stories; I love to flirt with the little minimum-wage earning college girls and housewives; and I keep them on the phone for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time and DON'T BUY A DAMN THING. I immediately control the conversation [a very bad habit of mine in person *LOL*] and at the end of my little yak session "I'm sorry, I just don't buy stuff like that." I think that's why I have gotten fewer and fewer calls recently.
I just followed my friends in to see it one night and was completely blown away. Why, oh why didn't *I* take the blue pill? That was the first movie in many years I went out of my way to see several times in the theater; and have seen several more times since then on video and DVD. I skimmed these articles; and am an avid viewer of whatisthematrix.com, but I am trying to avoid spoilers myself because I hope that the next two are the equals of their predecessor.
is that anyone with a little social engineering can get a lead on what 'theme' you are using to name the boxen in that room. One place I worked had a complete Beatles theme going on; including some database passwords being obscure Beatles references like "28 if". The wallpapers on all of them were sketches of the band.
Yet another place used X-Files - hundreds of names and references and insider jokes I couldn't even figure out with my wife being the X-Files nutjob she is...
In a Coast Guard facility I worked in all the printers were named after Lord of the Rings characters - that's right we attached to Legolas to print our Remedy ARS reports.
My favorite has always been the name for a PBX/Server room at a national training facility I once worked in: The Batcave. Fortunately, nothing else inside was named after the comic - could you imagine the Nortel Meridian console being named "Joker"?
As a member of a newly cobbled together group of 'entry level' security analysts I am looking at this as an example of something we may put together for our lab in order for us to gain more experience in this area. We have a number of OSes and a few lab computers as well as some of our own personal 'lab' computers to work from. [Many years' IT experience this is our first security job so we start by yep, you guessed it, watching IDS sensors but it is good learning].
Most people will tolerate modem speeds, and those that won't are mostly pretty happy with DSL or cable.
Those that are tolerating modem speeds are usually doing so because it costs them 1/4 of what it would for the cable/DSL; OR they can't convince the local telco or cable company to provide the service in their area [or add the box that gives them IDSL]. Costs, or laziness? I think both but that's a different thread. There's a lot of unused cable - not just fiber - out there. A considerable amount of it is dead telephone lines thanks to dissatisfied customers and new wireless/cellular users.
Bah, experienced sysadmins, now who'd want THOSE???
Apparently no one, according to the latest unemployment figures. That, and the laughing and clapping by small business owners when the whiny voice in the Microsoft Big Day advertisement proclaims "My secretary administers my network!"
On that same note; I can't believe the first several questions were even modded up or asked of Mr. Shatner. If you look at the questions; he may have been brief but he took time to answer meaningfully to a couple of the questions. He's probably been asked about "the kiss" so many times he may have wanted to refuse the interview after the fact after that!! I would have. I liked the answer about his Nerine foundation.
Why didn't anyone ask him about upcoming projects; the Iron Chef, etc.? Why wasn't a question asked about "how tired are you of Star Trek?" I guess I should have thought to ask those same questions myself.
All in all it was nice that he took the time to grant this particular forum an interview out of all the other places he could [or probably should] have [like Entertainment Tonight].
And if any of you have read or listened to him outside of fiction before you know he is brief and his humour takes a little intelligence and understanding of wit (AARP, anyone?)
No I didn't look at it at first but I am sure to now! I may not be 100% anti-anything but I am always interested in stuff similar to this; if only to laugh at some of the conspiracy theories.
the one that says "Adbusters". I closed the page just before I could see if that was another article or an ad itself.
Why, do you ask? Because not everyone has or uses a computer; regardless of the statistics. I have a couple for work and play but my neighbors? None. Well, maybe one person up the street has one. Some people like to browse; and other people make lists of specifics, get them, and go. I sometimes browse but other days I get the list from my wife and get done (that's what I loaded shopping list software on my Palm for!)
and I bet this movie does just as well as that blockbuster A.I. did.
Yep. And now I've discovered as a consultant; you need to be aware that companies struggling very hard to continue being viable in the current market will try and slide a lack of specific benefits (like holidays) past you and also put a lot of pressure on you if you *do* find better work during a 2- or 3-month gig and leave before it is complete.
On the same note; you may have to be pretty flexible with your days and hours in a one- or two-week period as you transition and help the other temp get situated. But you know; 10+ years ago when I was an admin assistant trying to go to school and get a different career than clerical; you knew you had to be flexible in order to get paid.
Actually West Virginia is a bedroom community for thousands of workers in Northern VA, DC, Baltimore, and even Pittsburgh. Martinsburg, Clarksburg, Huntington, Morgantown, Charleston (the state capital) and a few other places are sites for lots of aerospace, astronomy, and mining interests. Martinsburg houses several Federal government computing facilities for the IRS, the VA, and the U.S. Coast Guard; as well as training centers for other Federal agencies - I know of OPM and one more I won't mention since I used to work for them [and don't like them at all anymore for personal reasons]. I am sure there are dozens of companies and three-letter government agencies with places out here - a quick search on Dice reveals lots of high-tech jobs if you know IBM, DB2, or financial systems like [D.B.?] Edwards.
I think regardless of the porkbelly legislation, West Virginia's Congresspeople and Senators at the DC level do try and get communications/data center work into the state - though they may not have a real concern over the salaries paid to the people manning those facilities.
I bet Boies would do it pro bono if Ellison and co. sent him a few briefcases full of cash.
... but then it wouldn't be pro bono, would it? If money's the source of all evil why do we all need it so much for food?
Why not spend all this money on Linux...!? But, but, isn't that the point of Linux - NOT spending money on it? So you're going to use the same tactic you so obviously egregiously deplore -- giving it away for free until it is locked in; then charge for it?