If you make it my job to turn on your computer for me to work on, then you owe me money for waiting while it boots. If You don't want to pay me, get someone else to boot it for me in the morning.
My home directory ussually looks like the following:
~/download - for all downloaded files. If I am downloading many related files I put them in appropriately named sub dirs ~/library - for any documentation downloaded from the net, and a copy of my O'Reilly CD Bookshelves ~/temp - for a temp directory ~/test - for temp files from tarballs and installations ~/bin - for locally installed apps ~/work - for a temporary work space when working on projects ~/devel - all personal programming projects ~/locker - any other files I wish to keep ~/Document - any office or other personal documentation.
The only files I purposely keep in the root of my home directory (aside from the dot-files) is a running todo list of notes and tasks, all of which is contained in one file.
Salesman and IT guy in the same conversation isn't shocking. On the other hand, salesman and IT guy actually communicating with each other is shocking.
Does anyone else get the feeling that SCO is trying to get the Linux Kernel into the public domain so Microsoft can use it as a base for Longhorn? Robert X Cringley had an article about this a few months back.
If that talk was anything like his "Meme Hacking For Fun and Profit" talk on technetcast, the rational for not wearing a suit is that geeks tend to not look good in a suit because they are not used to wearing them.(this is a gross generality, but its true in my case). They are used to more comfortable clothing such as jeans and t-shirts. He does advocate dressing neatly (such as a sports shirt and pants). The idea being that you want to give the impression that "I can play the 'dress for success' game, I just don't have to"
I think it boils down to looking comfortable and competent in your position (as a technical person) as opposed to looking uncomfortable which can lead to an impression of incompetency(and therefore irrelevancy).
If you look good in a suit, and are comfortable wearing them, then by all means wear one to the meeting with the CEO, but if your not, don't
On the other hand, enterprise administrators should be more careful about protecting access to services.
regardless of MS SQL needing to be patched, and the merits of doing it, compared to not, the databases should NEVER be accessible from the Internet. Put it behind a firewall, or use some other method to block access (like not binding to public IPs)
If, for some reason, database access is required from locations, and it must be done over the Internet, tunnel the connection. Leaving an open connection to your database from the outside world is simply irresponsible.
When an idiot with an IT degree from the local community college can integrate Apache on Unix with a corporate network and can authenticate users and implement access controls without opening a book, then Open Source will have arrived in the corporation, and will start to eat into IIS market share of the Intranet.
Um... do you really want an idiot configuring your web servers? Explains a lot, doesn't it?:)
I would take this larger, and not want to put all of my info into a single cookie jar regardless of platform/os/political affiliation/whatever. It just gives too much power to the people running the jar.
The fallout of a major security breach is too nasty to think about.
I whole heartedly agree with The Practice Of System and Network Administration. Its not *nix or MS centric, and full of great advice on anything you want or need to know.
The sections on time management is saving my sanity as we speak:)
If you are a System Admin, or want to be one, run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore/site and get this book...
of course, if I finished reading your reply (or bothered to read the article in the first place:) I'd have noticed the "Doesn't want to use Intel" bit, which makes my argument a tad pointless. oh well
Slashdot was an attempt at a confusing name: http-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
AnimeFu - no idea... I assume it has something to do with using the word Kungfu as the "magic" that a hacker uses to control systems... just a guess tho
Slashdot Mirror
If you make it my job to turn on your computer for me to work on, then you owe me money for waiting while it boots. If You don't want to pay me, get someone else to boot it for me in the morning.
>Is Microsoft really nothing more than a wanking session for two really pathetic men?
Yes. It is exactly what it seems. A wanking session for two guys who haven't gotten past having really small penises.
My home directory ussually looks like the following:
~/download - for all downloaded files. If I am downloading many related files I put them in appropriately named sub dirs
~/library - for any documentation downloaded from the net, and a copy of my O'Reilly CD Bookshelves
~/temp - for a temp directory
~/test - for temp files from tarballs and installations
~/bin - for locally installed apps
~/work - for a temporary work space when working on projects
~/devel - all personal programming projects
~/locker - any other files I wish to keep
~/Document - any office or other personal documentation.
The only files I purposely keep in the root of my home directory (aside from the dot-files) is a running todo list of notes and tasks, all of which is contained in one file.
I think the new name should be NotWindows.
:)
How can they complain? Its obviously not windows, right?
He played an alien in a 2-part Seaquest DSV episode
Salesman and IT guy in the same conversation isn't shocking. On the other hand, salesman and IT guy actually communicating with each other is shocking.
Does anyone else get the feeling that SCO is trying to get the Linux Kernel into the public domain so Microsoft can use it as a base for Longhorn? Robert X Cringley had an article about this a few months back.
If that talk was anything like his "Meme Hacking For Fun and Profit" talk on technetcast, the rational for not wearing a suit is that geeks tend to not look good in a suit because they are not used to wearing them.(this is a gross generality, but its true in my case). They are used to more comfortable clothing such as jeans and t-shirts. He does advocate dressing neatly (such as a sports shirt and pants). The idea being that you want to give the impression that "I can play the 'dress for success' game, I just don't have to"
I think it boils down to looking comfortable and competent in your position (as a technical person) as opposed to looking uncomfortable which can lead to an impression of incompetency(and therefore irrelevancy).
If you look good in a suit, and are comfortable wearing them, then by all means wear one to the meeting with the CEO, but if your not, don't
On the other hand, enterprise administrators should be more careful about protecting access to services.
regardless of MS SQL needing to be patched, and the merits of doing it, compared to not, the databases should NEVER be accessible from the Internet. Put it behind a firewall, or use some other method to block access (like not binding to public IPs)
If, for some reason, database access is required from locations, and it must be done over the Internet, tunnel the connection. Leaving an open connection to your database from the outside world is simply irresponsible.
Many programming languages have functions similar to javadocs. Perldocs, PHPdocs. I believe Doxygen works on C++.
Not everyone writes comments that support these tools however (myself included) which dilutes the dopumentation process.
You are right, MS Office is truly a terrible computer product :)
> 14.
:)
I believe thats known as the exception that proves the rule
I noticed the same thing. The question is, does the lack of oppurtunity to view the EULA negate it?
Maybe Lucas is already using Steven Speilbergo. He's gotta be cheaper
I would take this larger, and not want to put all of my info into a single cookie jar regardless of platform/os/political affiliation/whatever. It just gives too much power to the people running the jar.
The fallout of a major security breach is too nasty to think about.
I whole heartedly agree with The Practice Of System and Network Administration. Its not *nix or MS centric, and full of great advice on anything you want or need to know.
:)
The sections on time management is saving my sanity as we speak
If you are a System Admin, or want to be one, run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore/site and get this book...
what are you still doing here?
Yeah, SuSE is an excellent Distro. Too bad I won't be upgrading to 8.0 now.
Root user, no.
:)
Concept of root - absolutely.
Root is basically a user that can do whatever he pleases with no restrictions (or without restrictions that can't be overridden or removed)
non-NT based windows every has absolute access
NT based windows, administrator has this access.
Think of root as a metaphor
of course, if I finished reading your reply (or bothered to read the article in the first place :) I'd have noticed the "Doesn't want to use Intel" bit, which makes my argument a tad pointless. oh well
It seems more appropriate now.
I disagree with your disagreement :)
:)
This is serious overkill in the money department (but kudos for the cool factor
My company uses a dual PIII 500 PC (built from scratch) with 1GB RAM running FreeBSD and it supports 6000 email addresses without a hitch.
Total cost: $2,000 Canadian.
Slashdot was an attempt at a confusing name:
http-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
AnimeFu - no idea... I assume it has something to do with using the word Kungfu as the "magic" that a hacker uses to control systems... just a guess tho
Yes, but a lot of search engines ignore meta tags - I believe that Google is one of them.
Although you are right, a flash site does not have to be done completely in flash, it can just be a subset of HTML.
How many keys could a typing geek type if a typing geek could type keys?
A typing geek could type as many keys as a typing geek would type, if a typing geek could type keys.
Whats kinda funny is that this book is on the shelf beside real cook books at my colleges bookstore