How old are you? If you're over 55, congratulations. If you're under 55, get a job you lazy bastard.
I used to ride the Metro Blue Line to work. I saw so many young, otherwise healthy people on the train with nothing but free time who were complaining about how SSI wasn't enough and how they hate their free Section 8 housing. But they would never go get a job, because then they'd lose "their benefits". For way too many people in this society, SSI, SDI and Section 8 are a free ticket to a life paid for by everyone else.
I recently left a job where I was making under $75,000 and took a job where I am now making over $75,000. In the first case I was slightly below, and in the latter I am slightly above. In my previous job I had a lot of slack. I took the train to work. I worked pretty much whatever hours I felt like. I did not have very many responsibilities. In my current job I have less slack, I am working longer hours and I have significantly more responsibility.
In the previous job, my debt was not shrinking as quickly as I wanted it to. None the less I wasn't scratching out a subsistance living while trying to pare it down. I was going out to eat with my girlfriend a lot and making random purchases when I wanted things (PS3, HDTV, etc.) I was driving a beater car, but since I was taking the train, it didn't matter so much. In my new job, my debt is falling quickly and I'm driving a much newer car. I am still going out to eat a lot, but having obtained most of the crap that I wanted, I have extra money to pay down debt.
All in all, I'm not sure that I am any happer >$75,000 than I was at $75,000. I do know that I have less time to practice tai chi and kung fu and that irks me. I have a lot more responsibility, but I saw that coming. I'm now the guy we all read about with his Blackberry going off at all hours of the night. In life we have the opportunity to trade our time for someone else's money. They have things that need to be done, and they get to the point where their own time is so valuable that they can pay other people to do it for them. The more money that you make, the more of yourself and your time that you have to give up for it.
Based on my experience, $75,000 seems to be a good number (in Southern California) at least. A part of me thinks it is a little high. Someone who can content themselves with a simplistic life (as I wish I could, and I do half heartedly strive for), it is more than enough. Too far below it and you start having to make some sacrifices like living in not so great neighborhoods, driving older / less unreliable cars, not being able to go out whenever the mood strikes you. Yet once you get above it, you start giving up yourself. You enter that realm of responsibility where you are the go to person when things need to get done. You lose the ability to tell others, "I will deal with it tomorrow" in all but the most extreme cases. In Southern California the $75,000 mark seems to be the bottom of the "You can really do what you say you can do" pay scale. It only goes up from there as you continue to prove yourself, but you get more money at the expense of your free time.
Personally, I think I reached a little too far. I would have rather stayed below $75,000 and enjoyed the slack.
I have had an almost identical experience. I have been working with HP hardware my entire career but recently started a new job in a Dell shop. The last two months have been one "Doh!" moment after another. The first issue was when the battery on my Perc controller "failed" (it discharged and had to recharge). The server rebooted and failed to come up. I had the same issue happen a few years ago on an HP Smart Array controller. On the HP box, the driver just logged an error message in the event viewer telling me that the battery had discharged.
HP has a great set of software/firmware update tools for the Windows environment (Proliant Support Pack). I asked my Dell rep for a similar program and he pointed me to the Server Update Utility. The stupid thing simply does not work. It identifies the driver and firmware that needs to be updated, but then when the time comes to update it, the program just hangs and doesn't do anything.
Dell's equivalent of HP Insight Manager is this piece of crap, rebranded Symantec garbage that won't even run on a 64-bit OS (namely, every single server I have).
Every time I go to the data center I'm embarassed to stand in front of my racks of Dell hardware. I pine for the days of Proliant servers that were engineered by a company that actually knows what they are doing.
I wonder how they'd react if something they sold lots of started to be replaced with an OSS equivalent? A Sharepoint -> Drupal converter for example
This is an interesting question. When I first saw Sharepoint, my thought was along the lines of, "Microsoft is jumping on the Wiki bandwagon." Keep in mind that was in 2002 or so. Since then it seems like Sharepoint growth has only accelerated, despite the fact that it seems to be the kind of copy cat product that Microsoft is known for. They absorbed the collaboration methodologies of other projects like Wiki and made it their own. Five years ago it might have been possible to get a Sharepoint to OSS conversion tool. Now that Microsoft has so tightly integrated Sharepoint with Office, it will be harder to do. The big selling point of Sharepoint that I have seen is the process and workflow tools, integrated with Office. OSS is just too fragmented to offer a similar software stack and keep it consistent. Which Wiki would you use? Which CMS? Which versioning control? Hell, which Office-like suite? Once you pick all of the pieces, how long until one project folds or gets forked?
The only PS3 game that I've played online so far is CoD:MW2. That game seems to put the hosting off on the client. It does not have a true dedicate server feature, but it does allow you to setup a private match. I'm still neutral about dedicated servers. I appreciate the community the arises around a dedicate server. On the other hand, the lack of a dedicated server doesn't bum me out (other than when I really want to play one specific map).
The final decision that tipped me toward the PS3 and away from the Xbox360 was the fact that playing online games on the PS3 is free. I hadn't even considered the fact that Microsoft would eventually increase the fee for their service.
Government departments don't allow all sorts of programs that work just fine. Some of our clients are the FCC and the DOJ. Those guys can barely install anything, and it has zero to do with whether or not the software is secure.
One of my clients was in the waste management business. They had stationary misting nozzles that did the same thing that this truck is doing in Jersey.
The coolest thing they had was a hawk to chase away the gulls. Almost as cool as sharks with laser beams... almost.
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The gay bars, duh! (I kid, I kid. I have a MBP and I don't swing that way).
Here you go. Here is a real world, just happened to me example of why you need physical access to a server. We have redundant load balancers and redundant switches for our front end web servers. The load balancers glitched and for whatever reason stopped forwarding traffic to one of the virtual IPs. It wasn't enough of a glitch for them to fail over or to throw an alert. The other two VIPs on the load balancers were still working fine. It took me fourty-five minutes to coordinate with the network team, diagnosis the issue, and re-create a NAT rule to route around the borked load balancer.
If any time during that 45 minutes, some PHB had come to me and told me that he needed data off of that server RIGHT NOW, I would have needed physical access to the console. SSH wouldn't have done jack shit for me. I would have had to physically access the box, put a stupid USB stick into the physical piece of hardware and transfered whatever data the imaginary PHB needed.
Anyone who gets on someone else's case for "failing at managing task dependencies" hasn't worked in the real world long enough. You can have redundancies up the wazoo and things will still go sideways from time to time. If a person is so ignorant to believe that the only access they will ever need to their Linux box is an SSH connection, then that person deserves the down time they will be facing sooner or later.
It sucked for the first two weeks but the mind has this wonderful ability to adapt. Besides, if I really needed a keyboard and mouse I could hook them up to the PS3. I don't, so I haven't. The inconvenience of having to adapt to a new control setup was minor compared to the game ruining lameness of aimbots.
Thanks for the answer. Out of 11+ replies, you're the only one who addressed the question. I 3/. sometimes. I know what you are talking about when you mention not modifying the executable. Like you mentioned, most mods hook the executable or just modify the memory addresses once the executable has loaded.
What I was wondering is if the USB hack allows any sort of modified boot loader. It does not seem like that. Such a thing would be the holy grail to hackers. If they could boot the game executables plus their hacks, they would be set.
The whole reason I bought a PS3 was because it was a closed platform, and because it was a closed platform, it was harder to hack the games. I like playing FPS games and they are absolutely ruined as soon as you have to deal with wallhacks and aimbots. Will this new hack open the door to programs like that?
I have a Netflix account that lets me stream "HD" to my PS3. In many cases it is only 720, and sometimes even 480. It SUCKS on a 50+ inch Samsung screen. On the laptop it isn't too bad, but on the big screen forget about it (even with the aspect ratio changed). If I really want to enjoy a show, I will watch it on the laptop. The huge, blurred pixels ruin it for me. Once the mind gets used to perceiving true 1080p HD, anything else just sucks. I hate even typing that because it makes me sound like a snob or some sort of elitist. It's not that anything less than 1080p sucks. It is that having a 1080p TV and then watching less then optimal quality is a let down. The high resolution TV makes it worse, it exadurates the poor quality because the blurry pixels are stretched across more screen space.
How about a hybrid approach? The government mandates that ISPs are not allowed to do bad things A thru Z, but other than that they are free to do what they want. As much as I would like to give the "free market" a chance, we've all seen far too many instances of collusion among the major vendors in any vertical. The funny thing about the "bad government" approach, in my mind, is that it seems as if people are against the government because often times it acts in concert with business and does not protect the interests of the citizens. The citizens are denied real choice so they have a difficult time standing up for themselevs, because their real option is either accept the corporate way of doing things, or just do without whatever the service is. So the irony is that people are against big government when it seems to favor corporations, yet the "solution" is to allow corporations more freedom?
The remarkable thing is not that humans are into violence. As you've stated that has always been there. The troubling trend about MMA is the acceptance of it. I train more traditional martial arts (Chinese) and the MMA mentality is scary. Those guys have very little respect for themselves, or for others. They put themselves in compromised situations that for most participants will result in permanent, long term injuries. Contrast that with a tradtional art, where the martial exercises are there to strengthen the body and condition the spirit. The ability to break limbs and dislocate bones are a biproduct of the training, not the focus of it.
The level of violence in society has been steadily increasing. There is a certain tolerance for it. From a philosophical point of view, the collective conscious has been conditioned for it. Most people will shrug it off as being a part of life. It takes a conscious effort to perceive just how much conflict and competition underly nearly everything in the media. The alternatives are pushed further and further out to the fringes. It has gotten to the point where anti-war protesters are met with violence and intimidation. We live in a society that has been so conditioned by violence, that the very act of speaking out against violence will often times be perceived as a threat to the system.
In high school and when I first started using computers before that, I always used one space at the end of the sentence. After a while in the working world I realized that everyone I was working with used two. I have been using two for a while now.
The habit of using two spaces led me to an interesting discovery on my Blackberry a few years ago. If you enter two spaces, it will insert a period for you to end the sentence. So it seems that at least in the world of RIM, two spaces for the end of a sentence is so common that they've gone ahead and used that convention to automatically end sentences for you.
Your router was set to the default password after 3 YEARS and you're claiming to be upset that Verizon secured it for you? Are you kidding me? I'm all for letting people wallow in their own stupidity and ignorance, but come on buddy. They did you a favor. In all seriousness, they shouldn't have left it default in the first place. It should have been set to your serial number from the factory.
Citation needed. I fully believe that they would like to do so. I doubt that they have the resources and manpower to do it though. Do you have any evidence to the contrary, any articles or other documentation that proves they "aggressively" go after folks "on an ongoing basis."??
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How old are you? If you're over 55, congratulations. If you're under 55, get a job you lazy bastard.
I used to ride the Metro Blue Line to work. I saw so many young, otherwise healthy people on the train with nothing but free time who were complaining about how SSI wasn't enough and how they hate their free Section 8 housing. But they would never go get a job, because then they'd lose "their benefits". For way too many people in this society, SSI, SDI and Section 8 are a free ticket to a life paid for by everyone else.
I recently left a job where I was making under $75,000 and took a job where I am now making over $75,000. In the first case I was slightly below, and in the latter I am slightly above. In my previous job I had a lot of slack. I took the train to work. I worked pretty much whatever hours I felt like. I did not have very many responsibilities. In my current job I have less slack, I am working longer hours and I have significantly more responsibility.
In the previous job, my debt was not shrinking as quickly as I wanted it to. None the less I wasn't scratching out a subsistance living while trying to pare it down. I was going out to eat with my girlfriend a lot and making random purchases when I wanted things (PS3, HDTV, etc.) I was driving a beater car, but since I was taking the train, it didn't matter so much. In my new job, my debt is falling quickly and I'm driving a much newer car. I am still going out to eat a lot, but having obtained most of the crap that I wanted, I have extra money to pay down debt.
All in all, I'm not sure that I am any happer >$75,000 than I was at $75,000. I do know that I have less time to practice tai chi and kung fu and that irks me. I have a lot more responsibility, but I saw that coming. I'm now the guy we all read about with his Blackberry going off at all hours of the night. In life we have the opportunity to trade our time for someone else's money. They have things that need to be done, and they get to the point where their own time is so valuable that they can pay other people to do it for them. The more money that you make, the more of yourself and your time that you have to give up for it.
Based on my experience, $75,000 seems to be a good number (in Southern California) at least. A part of me thinks it is a little high. Someone who can content themselves with a simplistic life (as I wish I could, and I do half heartedly strive for), it is more than enough. Too far below it and you start having to make some sacrifices like living in not so great neighborhoods, driving older / less unreliable cars, not being able to go out whenever the mood strikes you. Yet once you get above it, you start giving up yourself. You enter that realm of responsibility where you are the go to person when things need to get done. You lose the ability to tell others, "I will deal with it tomorrow" in all but the most extreme cases. In Southern California the $75,000 mark seems to be the bottom of the "You can really do what you say you can do" pay scale. It only goes up from there as you continue to prove yourself, but you get more money at the expense of your free time.
Personally, I think I reached a little too far. I would have rather stayed below $75,000 and enjoyed the slack.
I have had an almost identical experience. I have been working with HP hardware my entire career but recently started a new job in a Dell shop. The last two months have been one "Doh!" moment after another. The first issue was when the battery on my Perc controller "failed" (it discharged and had to recharge). The server rebooted and failed to come up. I had the same issue happen a few years ago on an HP Smart Array controller. On the HP box, the driver just logged an error message in the event viewer telling me that the battery had discharged.
HP has a great set of software/firmware update tools for the Windows environment (Proliant Support Pack). I asked my Dell rep for a similar program and he pointed me to the Server Update Utility. The stupid thing simply does not work. It identifies the driver and firmware that needs to be updated, but then when the time comes to update it, the program just hangs and doesn't do anything.
Dell's equivalent of HP Insight Manager is this piece of crap, rebranded Symantec garbage that won't even run on a 64-bit OS (namely, every single server I have).
Every time I go to the data center I'm embarassed to stand in front of my racks of Dell hardware. I pine for the days of Proliant servers that were engineered by a company that actually knows what they are doing.
It is very true.
I wonder how they'd react if something they sold lots of started to be replaced with an OSS equivalent? A Sharepoint -> Drupal converter for example
This is an interesting question. When I first saw Sharepoint, my thought was along the lines of, "Microsoft is jumping on the Wiki bandwagon." Keep in mind that was in 2002 or so. Since then it seems like Sharepoint growth has only accelerated, despite the fact that it seems to be the kind of copy cat product that Microsoft is known for. They absorbed the collaboration methodologies of other projects like Wiki and made it their own. Five years ago it might have been possible to get a Sharepoint to OSS conversion tool. Now that Microsoft has so tightly integrated Sharepoint with Office, it will be harder to do. The big selling point of Sharepoint that I have seen is the process and workflow tools, integrated with Office. OSS is just too fragmented to offer a similar software stack and keep it consistent. Which Wiki would you use? Which CMS? Which versioning control? Hell, which Office-like suite? Once you pick all of the pieces, how long until one project folds or gets forked?
The only PS3 game that I've played online so far is CoD:MW2. That game seems to put the hosting off on the client. It does not have a true dedicate server feature, but it does allow you to setup a private match. I'm still neutral about dedicated servers. I appreciate the community the arises around a dedicate server. On the other hand, the lack of a dedicated server doesn't bum me out (other than when I really want to play one specific map).
The final decision that tipped me toward the PS3 and away from the Xbox360 was the fact that playing online games on the PS3 is free. I hadn't even considered the fact that Microsoft would eventually increase the fee for their service.
It makes one wonder why it was so hard to do while the code was still under the independent Sun Microsystems. Patents, maybe?
They might have been holding onto it in hopes of one day monetizing it.
Government departments don't allow all sorts of programs that work just fine. Some of our clients are the FCC and the DOJ. Those guys can barely install anything, and it has zero to do with whether or not the software is secure.
One of my clients was in the waste management business. They had stationary misting nozzles that did the same thing that this truck is doing in Jersey.
The coolest thing they had was a hawk to chase away the gulls. Almost as cool as sharks with laser beams... almost.
The gay bars, duh! (I kid, I kid. I have a MBP and I don't swing that way).
Here you go. Here is a real world, just happened to me example of why you need physical access to a server. We have redundant load balancers and redundant switches for our front end web servers. The load balancers glitched and for whatever reason stopped forwarding traffic to one of the virtual IPs. It wasn't enough of a glitch for them to fail over or to throw an alert. The other two VIPs on the load balancers were still working fine. It took me fourty-five minutes to coordinate with the network team, diagnosis the issue, and re-create a NAT rule to route around the borked load balancer.
If any time during that 45 minutes, some PHB had come to me and told me that he needed data off of that server RIGHT NOW, I would have needed physical access to the console. SSH wouldn't have done jack shit for me. I would have had to physically access the box, put a stupid USB stick into the physical piece of hardware and transfered whatever data the imaginary PHB needed.
Anyone who gets on someone else's case for "failing at managing task dependencies" hasn't worked in the real world long enough. You can have redundancies up the wazoo and things will still go sideways from time to time. If a person is so ignorant to believe that the only access they will ever need to their Linux box is an SSH connection, then that person deserves the down time they will be facing sooner or later.
It sucked for the first two weeks but the mind has this wonderful ability to adapt. Besides, if I really needed a keyboard and mouse I could hook them up to the PS3. I don't, so I haven't. The inconvenience of having to adapt to a new control setup was minor compared to the game ruining lameness of aimbots.
Lets see... there is data on the server that needs to be accessed NOW, not between now and the time switch gets fixed.
That's all great, until the switch fails. Let me know when SSH overcomes that whole lack of network connectivity scenario.
Thanks for the answer. Out of 11+ replies, you're the only one who addressed the question. I 3 /. sometimes. I know what you are talking about when you mention not modifying the executable. Like you mentioned, most mods hook the executable or just modify the memory addresses once the executable has loaded.
What I was wondering is if the USB hack allows any sort of modified boot loader. It does not seem like that. Such a thing would be the holy grail to hackers. If they could boot the game executables plus their hacks, they would be set.
The whole reason I bought a PS3 was because it was a closed platform, and because it was a closed platform, it was harder to hack the games. I like playing FPS games and they are absolutely ruined as soon as you have to deal with wallhacks and aimbots. Will this new hack open the door to programs like that?
I have a Netflix account that lets me stream "HD" to my PS3. In many cases it is only 720, and sometimes even 480. It SUCKS on a 50+ inch Samsung screen. On the laptop it isn't too bad, but on the big screen forget about it (even with the aspect ratio changed). If I really want to enjoy a show, I will watch it on the laptop. The huge, blurred pixels ruin it for me. Once the mind gets used to perceiving true 1080p HD, anything else just sucks. I hate even typing that because it makes me sound like a snob or some sort of elitist. It's not that anything less than 1080p sucks. It is that having a 1080p TV and then watching less then optimal quality is a let down. The high resolution TV makes it worse, it exadurates the poor quality because the blurry pixels are stretched across more screen space.
People and their "either/or" choices, bah.
How about a hybrid approach? The government mandates that ISPs are not allowed to do bad things A thru Z, but other than that they are free to do what they want. As much as I would like to give the "free market" a chance, we've all seen far too many instances of collusion among the major vendors in any vertical. The funny thing about the "bad government" approach, in my mind, is that it seems as if people are against the government because often times it acts in concert with business and does not protect the interests of the citizens. The citizens are denied real choice so they have a difficult time standing up for themselevs, because their real option is either accept the corporate way of doing things, or just do without whatever the service is. So the irony is that people are against big government when it seems to favor corporations, yet the "solution" is to allow corporations more freedom?
The graphics are nice but it seems like most of the load would be on the CPU as it computes all of the computer opponent's turns.
The remarkable thing is not that humans are into violence. As you've stated that has always been there. The troubling trend about MMA is the acceptance of it. I train more traditional martial arts (Chinese) and the MMA mentality is scary. Those guys have very little respect for themselves, or for others. They put themselves in compromised situations that for most participants will result in permanent, long term injuries. Contrast that with a tradtional art, where the martial exercises are there to strengthen the body and condition the spirit. The ability to break limbs and dislocate bones are a biproduct of the training, not the focus of it.
The level of violence in society has been steadily increasing. There is a certain tolerance for it. From a philosophical point of view, the collective conscious has been conditioned for it. Most people will shrug it off as being a part of life. It takes a conscious effort to perceive just how much conflict and competition underly nearly everything in the media. The alternatives are pushed further and further out to the fringes. It has gotten to the point where anti-war protesters are met with violence and intimidation. We live in a society that has been so conditioned by violence, that the very act of speaking out against violence will often times be perceived as a threat to the system.
In high school and when I first started using computers before that, I always used one space at the end of the sentence. After a while in the working world I realized that everyone I was working with used two. I have been using two for a while now.
The habit of using two spaces led me to an interesting discovery on my Blackberry a few years ago. If you enter two spaces, it will insert a period for you to end the sentence. So it seems that at least in the world of RIM, two spaces for the end of a sentence is so common that they've gone ahead and used that convention to automatically end sentences for you.
Damn straight. I was so lame that I got up and walked out of Mark Ludwig's presentation on virii and polymorphism.
Your router was set to the default password after 3 YEARS and you're claiming to be upset that Verizon secured it for you? Are you kidding me? I'm all for letting people wallow in their own stupidity and ignorance, but come on buddy. They did you a favor. In all seriousness, they shouldn't have left it default in the first place. It should have been set to your serial number from the factory.
Citation needed. I fully believe that they would like to do so. I doubt that they have the resources and manpower to do it though. Do you have any evidence to the contrary, any articles or other documentation that proves they "aggressively" go after folks "on an ongoing basis."??