Seconded. The book is a decidedly amoral bent to it. Despite that, it lays power dynamics out in black and white and uses a lot of real world examples to illustrate the various points. It was a real eye opener for me because I helped me to understand why certain situations from my past played out like they did.
I think this book should be required reading for anyone who has to deal with corporate culture.
Even if you do not want to play the game, you had better be aware of the fact that it is being played around you because it will affect you.
Google Maps on my Droid Razr absolutely supports rotating the map. Hold one finger on the center of the map and then drag another finger left to right above it. The map will rotate around the pivot point of the first finger.
The same technique does not work on a first generation Samsung Galaxy, so it is somewhat device dependent.
Then that employee gets to explain to the judge why they destroyed evidence. There is zero lag time between the employee being notified that they need to preserve their data and the requirement that they preserve their data. Once the employee is given notice, they are legally bound by a court order to cooperate. If they decide not to, they can have fun hanging out in jail.
If the employee has problems with their device being subject to litigation, they should not use their device for work related activities. I have two phones for that very reason.
The decision about what is or is not evidence is not addressed at the time of the collection. The collection takes place, and then the lawyers sort through what they have to determine what is or is not relevant to the particular dispute or litigation taking place. Of course they will exclude those pictures of your cat, but you can bet that someone will have to look at that picture of your cat to determine that it truly is a picture of your cat.
BYOD deserves mention in this context. While a lot of people are in love with the idea of bringing their own devices to work, they have not fully considered the legal implications of doing that. If an employer is involved in a dispute and there is any potential that any relevant information could be on the device, the device will be subjected to collection activities. Personal contacts, emails, photos, passwords (potentially) will be collected. The device owner will be without the device for hours, or potentially even days or weeks while the forensics are done.
I have seen it happen. I work with a company that has an established presence in the eDiscovery / EDRM space. Our teams are out doing forensic collections all the time, and it is more and more common to see employees end up in pissing matches with their internal legal and HR departments over who "owns" a device that has been used for work purposes. The employee always loses. Having paid for a device does not exclude them from the collection process.
In this economy, any prospects for growth are iffy at best. I just recently hired a guy who had been promised growth opportunities at his last job and they never materialized. The number one question I ask when considering changing jobs is, "Why did the person who had this position before leave?" The way that question is answered will speak volumes about what you are getting into. Usually, people do not leave good jobs, and if they do, they do not do so lightly.
Going from a company that does software primarily, to a company that does not is a big change. The culture is going to be very different. In most companies, IT is viewed as a cost center. The IT department is continually battling with other departments for resources. Do you want to step into a position where your colleagues are constantly trying to snatch your budget? Do you want to be there knowing that those same colleagues are in "core" departments that management fully supports, while your department is just something that they are kind of interested in?
If you do not absolutely need the money, be very, very careful about exchanging money for freedom and free time. I went from a non-profit organization to a major consulting firm. I am making 50% more per year, but I seriously miss my old life style. I might have had as much disposable income, but I had all the time I wanted to train kung fu, meditate and take care of myself. Now I have very little free time, kung fu has fallen by the way side and my stress levels are way up. In my opinion, the extra cash is BARELY worth it.
Last I checked dailies ran into the hundreds of gigabytes. Of course, maybe we are talking about different kinds of dailies. My only experience has been with the Editors Guild and Avid systems.
Maybe the technology has changed in the last five years and dailies now fit on a 64GB iPad?
The airlines know exactly how much weight a plane can carry and how much fuel it requires to move that much weight. If they can remove 35 pounds of weight from the plane, someone else can check a bag, or they can put a little bit more cargo into the hold.
I do not buy that they are going to save any fuel. They will make up for the weight elsewhere (like checked bags).
The computer game has a retail economy. Many people are making the argument that players should have known that the price was too good to be true and therefore should not have purchased the items.
In the real world, if goods are priced incorrectly, the merchant has to sell it for what the price tag says. The same logic carries over into the virtual world. The price on a good is the price the good sells for. If another merchant buys the good for more than it costs to buy it, a profit can be realized.
To use the OP's example, if a customer can buy a $100 product for $50, and then turn around and sell the product on eBay for $90, what is wrong with that? The merchant sold the product. The customer bought the product and then re-sold it for a profit. There is nothing illegal about selling something for more than you bought it for.
The OP lives in Texas. I live in California. For the longest time there were signs on practically every cash register in the state that said (and I'm paraphrasing), "If the amount the tag and the amount that the register rings up do not match, the customer is entitled to ONE item at the lower price." In my mind that is a good compromise. It encourages the merchant to label their goods accurately. It gives the customer some protection against being taken advantage of. It gives the merchant an out so that a customer does not exploit the scenario.
Before going into generalizations, it seems like the submitter realizes that they do not know enough about Windows. Given that, this whole discussion seems pretty irrelevant. The guy does not know Windows, so how is he going to know if the "Windows expert" is blowing smoke up his ass or not? He won't.
With that out of the way...
Just because a server runs Windows does not change the fact that it is a computer. There are some basic concepts that any sysadmin needs to have a handle on.
Security Backup and Recovery Performance monitoring and tuning Networking
A general rule of thumb is that anyone with less than 10 years of experience is not an expert, no matter what their resume and job experience might say.
Make the candidate prove that they know the concepts.
"In Unix, if we lose a system drive, we need to take some steps to recover it. What are those equivalent steps in Windows?"
"In Unix, if Jane is working on a system on a different subnet and she needs to access files on my server, we setup NFS and she connects to it with mount. What is the Windows equivalent?"
I have been saying this for years, but have never had any data to back it up. For me it has always been a "seat of the pants" sort of metric. Over the last decade I have tried AMD CPUs on a number of occasions, and always found them to be lacking in comparison to Intel CPUs of the same generation. My latest gaming machine is running an i7-960 (got it cheap from NewEgg) and it works great with all of the games I play.
I can think of one reason that kinda makes sense, and that's getting access to an image that's going to be spread into the cloud, but that seems like such an insanely specialized usecase that I don't grok why it's included in a generic piece of malware.
I take it you've never written a virus? It is like a game. You create a piece of code that functions like a living organism inside the ecosystem of the computer. It has one overriding function, survival. The whole point of a virus is to live for as long as possible. In order to do that, it spreads as widely as possible. There are only so many places to hide on a computer. MFT/GPT on the hard disk. RAM. Video memory. Files. A few others.
A VM is just another place for the virus to hide so that it can live a little longer and fulfill its second purpose.. replication.
Imagine of the machine is mapped to a network share where a team of developers store their VM images. Before this risk came out, the developers could be fairly certain that if a workstation was infected, they could just pick up another laptop and resume their work while IT re-images the infected machine.
One of the key benefits of virtual machines in a development environment is the portability of the VM. You can fire it up on a laptop, work on it, and then later deploy it onto a 50 node cluster. Or you can setup a golden image VM and use that VM to clone out all other subsequent VMs.
According to the wiki, they are trying to reproduce Google's internal Dremel tool, while at the same time extending it to support a multitude of query languages. Not only do they want to reproduce something that took Google who knows how many years of developer time to create, they also want to extend it.
I wish them the best. Dremel seems like a very valuable tool. I can think of a couple use cases for it today. Google offers access to it via an API, but the problem with that is that the data has to be sent to Google. I am not in the position to send Google terabytes of highly sensitive and confidential data.
Now I know we don't actually READ the articles around here, but did you even skim the summary?
"If you're not using any vendor-specific APIs, then it's safe to say the experience you get on either Amazon or Microsoft will be roughly the same,' he writes. 'But that means you're also not developing an app that necessarily takes advantage of all possible cloud capabilities—not just add-ons, but scalability"
Where did you read that the trades were reversed? Everything that I've seen says that Knight had to eat all of the bad trades. They ended up unwinding their trades to Goldman Sachs, presumably because GS can hold onto them long enough to wait for enough of them to turn positive at some point in the future.
Unless they have categories for "warez" and "pr0n", I can guarantee that the feature results are completely irrelevant for what 95% of the world uses bitTorrent for.
"We'll pay your fine... not because we are wrong, but because it.... 'costs too much' to prove that we didn't really do anything wrong."
I see that Google has grown large enough and been around long enough to attract high priced, high powered legal council. Good for them. They are a true corporation now.
They just need to take the final step of setting up the revolving door between themselves and Washington DC and they will truly be in the big leagues.
That might explain it, but no. I was hiring for a senior technical position. I needed someone with experience doing sysadmin work, networking experience, and some basic scripting skills.
A lot of the candidates I came across used to do some or all of those things, but were interested in transitioning into management. I do not need those people. That is what is being forced upon me. I spent the last two years, single handedly running 192 sq/ft of data center space that provided the foundation for a tripling of revenue from $20 to $60 million. I needed two clones of myself who could hit the ground running and not destroy the place with stupid mistakes. I found one and will have another in the next year.
Back to the original point, the market is woefully short on people who can step into a 24x7 data center operation and not only grasp what is going on, but contribute meaningfully to the continued growth of the organization. In the last year we've gone from one data center to four and are pushing up on our second petabyte of storage. There are a lot of people in the market whose VMware and SAN experience is limited to what they learned in class, or certification courses. Those people might make great employees and could one day make great contributions. Unfortunately I do not have the time for one day. I need good people now.
I really feel for people who are entering the IT job market right now. I got lucky. Seriously lucky. I was self taught upon a foundation of 2600 meetings and phone phreaking, with exposure to seriously smart hackers who knew their shit. I got lucky enough to have some good bosses who gave me excellent opportunities and I excelled. They gave me the business knowledge and professionalism that rounded out my tech skills. I don't think that many of those opportunities exist anymore. I started in a small shop, an in house IT department with 4 servers and 50 workstations. 99% of those environments are outsourced to consultants / IT service providers these days. Those providers are taking care of multiple sites like that and want experienced technicians. There are so many people out of work these days that the guys with experience are going to get the entry level jobs, and the people who really need those jobs are going to be assed out.
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Seconded. The book is a decidedly amoral bent to it. Despite that, it lays power dynamics out in black and white and uses a lot of real world examples to illustrate the various points. It was a real eye opener for me because I helped me to understand why certain situations from my past played out like they did.
I think this book should be required reading for anyone who has to deal with corporate culture.
Even if you do not want to play the game, you had better be aware of the fact that it is being played around you because it will affect you.
Undoing a bunch of moderation to post... grrrrrr.
Google Maps on my Droid Razr absolutely supports rotating the map. Hold one finger on the center of the map and then drag another finger left to right above it. The map will rotate around the pivot point of the first finger.
The same technique does not work on a first generation Samsung Galaxy, so it is somewhat device dependent.
Then that employee gets to explain to the judge why they destroyed evidence. There is zero lag time between the employee being notified that they need to preserve their data and the requirement that they preserve their data. Once the employee is given notice, they are legally bound by a court order to cooperate. If they decide not to, they can have fun hanging out in jail.
If the employee has problems with their device being subject to litigation, they should not use their device for work related activities. I have two phones for that very reason.
The decision about what is or is not evidence is not addressed at the time of the collection. The collection takes place, and then the lawyers sort through what they have to determine what is or is not relevant to the particular dispute or litigation taking place. Of course they will exclude those pictures of your cat, but you can bet that someone will have to look at that picture of your cat to determine that it truly is a picture of your cat.
BYOD deserves mention in this context. While a lot of people are in love with the idea of bringing their own devices to work, they have not fully considered the legal implications of doing that. If an employer is involved in a dispute and there is any potential that any relevant information could be on the device, the device will be subjected to collection activities. Personal contacts, emails, photos, passwords (potentially) will be collected. The device owner will be without the device for hours, or potentially even days or weeks while the forensics are done.
I have seen it happen. I work with a company that has an established presence in the eDiscovery / EDRM space. Our teams are out doing forensic collections all the time, and it is more and more common to see employees end up in pissing matches with their internal legal and HR departments over who "owns" a device that has been used for work purposes. The employee always loses. Having paid for a device does not exclude them from the collection process.
My 72 Datsun 510 will drive circles around your 2002. ;)
In this economy, any prospects for growth are iffy at best. I just recently hired a guy who had been promised growth opportunities at his last job and they never materialized. The number one question I ask when considering changing jobs is, "Why did the person who had this position before leave?" The way that question is answered will speak volumes about what you are getting into. Usually, people do not leave good jobs, and if they do, they do not do so lightly.
Going from a company that does software primarily, to a company that does not is a big change. The culture is going to be very different. In most companies, IT is viewed as a cost center. The IT department is continually battling with other departments for resources. Do you want to step into a position where your colleagues are constantly trying to snatch your budget? Do you want to be there knowing that those same colleagues are in "core" departments that management fully supports, while your department is just something that they are kind of interested in?
If you do not absolutely need the money, be very, very careful about exchanging money for freedom and free time. I went from a non-profit organization to a major consulting firm. I am making 50% more per year, but I seriously miss my old life style. I might have had as much disposable income, but I had all the time I wanted to train kung fu, meditate and take care of myself. Now I have very little free time, kung fu has fallen by the way side and my stress levels are way up. In my opinion, the extra cash is BARELY worth it.
Last I checked dailies ran into the hundreds of gigabytes. Of course, maybe we are talking about different kinds of dailies. My only experience has been with the Editors Guild and Avid systems.
Maybe the technology has changed in the last five years and dailies now fit on a 64GB iPad?
The airlines know exactly how much weight a plane can carry and how much fuel it requires to move that much weight. If they can remove 35 pounds of weight from the plane, someone else can check a bag, or they can put a little bit more cargo into the hold.
I do not buy that they are going to save any fuel. They will make up for the weight elsewhere (like checked bags).
So they got banned for gaming a game.
The computer game has a retail economy. Many people are making the argument that players should have known that the price was too good to be true and therefore should not have purchased the items.
In the real world, if goods are priced incorrectly, the merchant has to sell it for what the price tag says. The same logic carries over into the virtual world. The price on a good is the price the good sells for. If another merchant buys the good for more than it costs to buy it, a profit can be realized.
To use the OP's example, if a customer can buy a $100 product for $50, and then turn around and sell the product on eBay for $90, what is wrong with that? The merchant sold the product. The customer bought the product and then re-sold it for a profit. There is nothing illegal about selling something for more than you bought it for.
The OP lives in Texas. I live in California. For the longest time there were signs on practically every cash register in the state that said (and I'm paraphrasing), "If the amount the tag and the amount that the register rings up do not match, the customer is entitled to ONE item at the lower price." In my mind that is a good compromise. It encourages the merchant to label their goods accurately. It gives the customer some protection against being taken advantage of. It gives the merchant an out so that a customer does not exploit the scenario.
Before going into generalizations, it seems like the submitter realizes that they do not know enough about Windows. Given that, this whole discussion seems pretty irrelevant. The guy does not know Windows, so how is he going to know if the "Windows expert" is blowing smoke up his ass or not? He won't.
With that out of the way...
Just because a server runs Windows does not change the fact that it is a computer. There are some basic concepts that any sysadmin needs to have a handle on.
Security
Backup and Recovery
Performance monitoring and tuning
Networking
A general rule of thumb is that anyone with less than 10 years of experience is not an expert, no matter what their resume and job experience might say.
Make the candidate prove that they know the concepts.
"In Unix, if we lose a system drive, we need to take some steps to recover it. What are those equivalent steps in Windows?"
"In Unix, if Jane is working on a system on a different subnet and she needs to access files on my server, we setup NFS and she connects to it with mount. What is the Windows equivalent?"
etc
I have been saying this for years, but have never had any data to back it up. For me it has always been a "seat of the pants" sort of metric. Over the last decade I have tried AMD CPUs on a number of occasions, and always found them to be lacking in comparison to Intel CPUs of the same generation. My latest gaming machine is running an i7-960 (got it cheap from NewEgg) and it works great with all of the games I play.
Previous post re: serious applications
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3065739&cid=41087425
I can think of one reason that kinda makes sense, and that's getting access to an image that's going to be spread into the cloud, but that seems like such an insanely specialized usecase that I don't grok why it's included in a generic piece of malware.
I take it you've never written a virus? It is like a game. You create a piece of code that functions like a living organism inside the ecosystem of the computer. It has one overriding function, survival. The whole point of a virus is to live for as long as possible. In order to do that, it spreads as widely as possible. There are only so many places to hide on a computer. MFT/GPT on the hard disk. RAM. Video memory. Files. A few others.
A VM is just another place for the virus to hide so that it can live a little longer and fulfill its second purpose.. replication.
Imagine of the machine is mapped to a network share where a team of developers store their VM images. Before this risk came out, the developers could be fairly certain that if a workstation was infected, they could just pick up another laptop and resume their work while IT re-images the infected machine.
One of the key benefits of virtual machines in a development environment is the portability of the VM. You can fire it up on a laptop, work on it, and then later deploy it onto a 50 node cluster. Or you can setup a golden image VM and use that VM to clone out all other subsequent VMs.
What kind of data are you backing up? 3-4TB seems WAY above average. We get about 2TB per LTO-4 tape.
Is Apple REALLY worth more than the other 5 major players in the tech industry?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-apple-really-worth-more-sum-microsoft-dell-google-facebook-and-hp
According to the wiki, they are trying to reproduce Google's internal Dremel tool, while at the same time extending it to support a multitude of query languages. Not only do they want to reproduce something that took Google who knows how many years of developer time to create, they also want to extend it.
I wish them the best. Dremel seems like a very valuable tool. I can think of a couple use cases for it today. Google offers access to it via an API, but the problem with that is that the data has to be sent to Google. I am not in the position to send Google terabytes of highly sensitive and confidential data.
Now I know we don't actually READ the articles around here, but did you even skim the summary?
"If you're not using any vendor-specific APIs, then it's safe to say the experience you get on either Amazon or Microsoft will be roughly the same,' he writes. 'But that means you're also not developing an app that necessarily takes advantage of all possible cloud capabilities—not just add-ons, but scalability"
Where did you read that the trades were reversed? Everything that I've seen says that Knight had to eat all of the bad trades. They ended up unwinding their trades to Goldman Sachs, presumably because GS can hold onto them long enough to wait for enough of them to turn positive at some point in the future.
Unless they have categories for "warez" and "pr0n", I can guarantee that the feature results are completely irrelevant for what 95% of the world uses bitTorrent for.
"Providing an OS to a device over a local network" sounds a lot like PXE boot to me. Or VMware's Boot from SAN.
"We'll pay your fine... not because we are wrong, but because it.... 'costs too much' to prove that we didn't really do anything wrong."
I see that Google has grown large enough and been around long enough to attract high priced, high powered legal council. Good for them. They are a true corporation now.
They just need to take the final step of setting up the revolving door between themselves and Washington DC and they will truly be in the big leagues.
That might explain it, but no. I was hiring for a senior technical position. I needed someone with experience doing sysadmin work, networking experience, and some basic scripting skills.
A lot of the candidates I came across used to do some or all of those things, but were interested in transitioning into management. I do not need those people. That is what is being forced upon me. I spent the last two years, single handedly running 192 sq/ft of data center space that provided the foundation for a tripling of revenue from $20 to $60 million. I needed two clones of myself who could hit the ground running and not destroy the place with stupid mistakes. I found one and will have another in the next year.
Back to the original point, the market is woefully short on people who can step into a 24x7 data center operation and not only grasp what is going on, but contribute meaningfully to the continued growth of the organization. In the last year we've gone from one data center to four and are pushing up on our second petabyte of storage. There are a lot of people in the market whose VMware and SAN experience is limited to what they learned in class, or certification courses. Those people might make great employees and could one day make great contributions. Unfortunately I do not have the time for one day. I need good people now.
I really feel for people who are entering the IT job market right now. I got lucky. Seriously lucky. I was self taught upon a foundation of 2600 meetings and phone phreaking, with exposure to seriously smart hackers who knew their shit. I got lucky enough to have some good bosses who gave me excellent opportunities and I excelled. They gave me the business knowledge and professionalism that rounded out my tech skills. I don't think that many of those opportunities exist anymore. I started in a small shop, an in house IT department with 4 servers and 50 workstations. 99% of those environments are outsourced to consultants / IT service providers these days. Those providers are taking care of multiple sites like that and want experienced technicians. There are so many people out of work these days that the guys with experience are going to get the entry level jobs, and the people who really need those jobs are going to be assed out.