Your post is more rambling, incoherent, and ungrammatical than the one you so quickly criticized.
Whilst tortured syntax and archaic word forms may be popular amongst those whom you are acquainted with, they don't make you sound smarter to someone who knows the languague.
I don't mean to belittle you so much as to make a point that it's not nice to criticize, and incidentally, that the real problem with IT management is that people not qualified to judge the quality of a job should not be doing so.
And now that I've warmed up to a cold topic, allow me expand on the incidental:
You make a good point about knocking methodologies that you probably don't understand and it is true that many programmers don't fully understand the needs of management to measure, direct, and document their work; but the greater imbalance is that management, more than ever, understands less about the work they presume to direct. In order to improve the quality of programming (or construction, or medicine) you must understand the process. The problem people have with management solutions is that they are getting furhter from solving the problem and more towards satisfying management for managements sake (job security.)
Managers who take classes in management are not qualified to judge the quality of computer programmers (steel workers, etc.) If you want management to lead effectively, they must be competent in the field they work in. It is pretty easy for an experienced programmer to tell if someone is serving them shit in a job interview or checks in sloppy code.
Now, not all experienced programmers are willing to stop doing what they love to manage. And God knows they aren't all able. And of course, there is the shortage of experienced programmers. But the truth is, they aren't encouraged to. Management hires from within. That is, managers hire MBAs over experienced programmers for management positions. And they contract with Management Consultants, rather than listen to their programmers.
Why would anyone want to port a different operating system to the Intel architecture?
There's already a group in Seattle the writes software for Intel systems. I hear they're working on a Unix port called Xenix, too. Plus, if you want an open-source model, there's a unix-like operating system being worked on by professor Tannenbaum. I'm sure he has done enough for the rest of the world.
If you really have a burning desire to code, you should help him. You can visit his website at http://www.minix.com.
I know this thread had already been null-moderated, but I'm curious about what effect this solution may have on cryptography that uses elliptic curve algorithms.
The cryptogram newsletter last week had an article about products that advertize strong encryption with just such algorithms that currently use much smaller encryption keys than other systems like triple DES.
Despite what people may think or feel about JP's character, personality, or competence; Anti-online *is* one of the most highly-targeted websites. And it *is* pretty secure.
I only know of one defacement of the site, mirrored at http://www.projectgamma.com/defaced/1999/august/an tionline.com.html; which, despite its own claims, was one of the most clever hacks I have seen. And it would not have happened if Anti-online had not indiscriminately copied the contents of other websites; a practice that is both uncommon and unethical.
I think that I am not the only one that would be interested in seeing the variety and nature of attacks against Anti-online. If JP is not actually using the information now, I might just put up my own box and piss people off. At least it would be more fun than reading bugtraq. Maybe I can even get some venture capital to buy me a T-1.
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Whilst tortured syntax and archaic word forms may be popular amongst those whom you are acquainted with, they don't make you sound smarter to someone who knows the languague.
I don't mean to belittle you so much as to make a point that it's not nice to criticize, and incidentally, that the real problem with IT management is that people not qualified to judge the quality of a job should not be doing so.
And now that I've warmed up to a cold topic, allow me expand on the incidental:
You make a good point about knocking methodologies that you probably don't understand and it is true that many programmers don't fully understand the needs of management to measure, direct, and document their work; but the greater imbalance is that management, more than ever, understands less about the work they presume to direct. In order to improve the quality of programming (or construction, or medicine) you must understand the process. The problem people have with management solutions is that they are getting furhter from solving the problem and more towards satisfying management for managements sake (job security.)
Managers who take classes in management are not qualified to judge the quality of computer programmers (steel workers, etc.) If you want management to lead effectively, they must be competent in the field they work in. It is pretty easy for an experienced programmer to tell if someone is serving them shit in a job interview or checks in sloppy code.
Now, not all experienced programmers are willing to stop doing what they love to manage. And God knows they aren't all able. And of course, there is the shortage of experienced programmers. But the truth is, they aren't encouraged to. Management hires from within. That is, managers hire MBAs over experienced programmers for management positions. And they contract with Management Consultants, rather than listen to their programmers.
thanks man. He's stuck at zero and someone set my filter to 1. I only got to read it by following your meta moderation to its root.
There's already a group in Seattle the writes software for Intel systems. I hear they're working on a Unix port called Xenix, too. Plus, if you want an open-source model, there's a unix-like operating system being worked on by professor Tannenbaum. I'm sure he has done enough for the rest of the world.
If you really have a burning desire to code, you should help him. You can visit his website at http://www.minix.com.
The cryptogram newsletter last week had an article about products that advertize strong encryption with just such algorithms that currently use much smaller encryption keys than other systems like triple DES.
Does anyone out there know more about this?
Despite what people may think or feel about JP's character, personality, or competence; Anti-online *is* one of the most highly-targeted websites. And it *is* pretty secure.
I only know of one defacement of the site, mirrored at http://www.projectgamma.com/defaced/1999/august/an tionline.com.html; which, despite its own claims, was one of the most clever hacks I have seen. And it would not have happened if Anti-online had not indiscriminately copied the contents of other websites; a practice that is both uncommon and unethical.
I think that I am not the only one that would be interested in seeing the variety and nature of attacks against Anti-online. If JP is not actually using the information now, I might just put up my own box and piss people off. At least it would be more fun than reading bugtraq. Maybe I can even get some venture capital to buy me a T-1.