I remember coming in every other morning in the office to restart our oracle concurrent manager servers because they had mysteriously gone haywire somewhere between their backend and apache interface.
I remember teams of expensive consultants, weeks without sleep and 24/hr oncall in order to restart crashed IStore servers
this was when i worked for a certain popular bed company.
i also remember our oracle DBA's primary solution being to "reboot all the oracle servers" when something was wrong. his "learn oracle from oracle" book clenched firmly in hand.
I remember the database running as a privileged user with full passwordless sudo, as per our oracle reps insistence. i remember files stored at access 777 and no one caring.
more power to the 0-day exploits. people need to know this software isnt indestructible just because marketing says it is.
i tool a pretty proactive approach as i headed toward 200lbs of IT Flab. when my apartment lease was up, i moved downtown and limited myself to 1 tank of gas a month. i bike 2 miles to work every day. i dont take the elevator at work so i hike up 6 flights of stairs twice a day. "wanna get lunch?" has been a killer for me, as the office lunch is nothing but fat, but ive found sticking to something like salads at fast food chains or something light generally works. turn your office into exercise.
what a bunch of spam. next you'll tell me the hourglass in windows doesnt actually indicate work properly and the estimated time to copy isnt accurate either.
companies tend to adapt to business practices in the countries in which they operate. example: oil companies pay bribes to local officials in south america.
seeing as america is a capitalism, it isnt really frowned upon to charge alot for a product.
im sure the price goes down considerably for things like a site license, or say open source competition from gimp. prices are always negotiable.
just like the DVD became a nanny for kids, the tazer is becoming the defacto response for law enforcement. just like the airbag replaces the seatbelt for a lot of adults, the telephone has slowly turned into a tracking device for parents. (http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2744)
abnormal activity detection technology is likely to become a surrogate for actual law enforcement and security. if "motion zones" in cameras provide multiple false positives, which they do, this technology will find itself likely ignored just as quickly by an operator.
ive spent my entire professional career trying to teach PHB's NOT to dip sensitive electronics in liquids, and now these shit-whistles are telling them its okay?
the litmus test for product functionality (read: "i gotta get me some of that") at this point is simple: a member of marketing coating a hair-dryer in "golden shellback" and jumping into a jacuzzi.
thats funny, their website doesnt seem to load in my browser either...i guess it doesnt support firefox 3 in freebsd 7.
what business actively tries to subvert the customer?? buying a new motherboard to replace your shitty foxconn is STILL cheaper than a copy of vista!
the sudden outbreak of common sense that yes, while a $25000 all-in-one load balancing appliance can do the job, the companies cost-advantage is to just pay you to use stuff that already exists for free, and has been around longer in most cases.
the downside is you dont get any cool vendor swag, and lunch that day is provided by you. it does however save about an hour and 20 minutes in powerpoint BS from a guy who spends more time in airports than he does at a computer.
HP and most major pharmaceutical companies do the same thing. set up shop on campus and reap the rewards. large companies see R&D just tend to fizzle out as they get bigger...something about all the "town-hall meetings" with management and "facetime" just sucks the will to create right out of 'em. heck, i work for a fortune 100, and i struggled to make a pot of coffee today, let alone do anything that might revolutionize....stuff.....
i felt there could be a reference to this when i read the quote. the CEO of sandisk seems really upset about/eager to cement blame on windows vista. will the U3 app/aes security app/glorified windows rootkit suite provided on sandisk drives still work in vista? does it cause poor performance and not the OS? did we just not anticipate microsofts bold "no more XP" move?
eh, i beg to disagree.
firefox's inline spellcheck and predictive text in the integrated search window are a few new features that, to my knowledge as i dont have windows, IE doesnt have.
sure, the BSD memory management i agree is competition by performance, but isnt a browser 90% interface anyway? if ff hadnt competed at this level before, than what?
the audience base for Firefox is much larger as well. competition aside, more people get to try firefox than IE.
as microsoft keeps doing a good job of adopting "almost all of the features" in ff, i dont see how the road is going to get hard. how does the road get hard for a company completely oriented to its users as opposed to market share?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html
i see microsoft, if put in a pinch, making a BAU move: kill it with money and buy mozilla.
is it just me, or does the story need a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?
we couldnt do flying cars for numerous reasons, or the osprey without killing quite a few people. but we think we can float an entire city above a gaseous acid bath!?
if you want to be a nurse, be a nurse. i for one love what i do in IT.
I've had 5 job offers this month in various states, not to mention a technical recruiter in toronto willing my beat my contractor hourly rate at a permanent salary job by 15%. IT is not going to just decline in demand because a survey company decides FUD is good business.
I've found its easier to reject all cookies and establish a list of trusted sites (banks, etc...) for whom you accept cookies. as an added level of protection in firefox, you can force these cookies to be "session only."
this would have had more credibility if it came from a more neutral party..
study by anti-spam vendor concludes: spam is on the rise.
google responds: we know.
vendor insists: we're still 98%+ effective!
agreed. raiding his house, full public disclosure of his salary, and a 5 million dollar bail?
in tfa, he was even 'threatened' with arrest, and still refused to relent.
if he were just disgruntled, wouldnt he drop a logic bomb for future execution? why stick around and take the fall?
what happens when i spill my coke on it?
what happens if it goes off while im touching the armrest, which is wired to the planes audio system?
where are we going to charge all of these bracelets?
what if mine doesnt fit?
do we put them on children?
of course, this is from the same wing of the government that brought us duct tape and plastic sheeting to defeat anthrax....right?
to see something like icq, if decommissioned, go open-source as opposed to being dungeoned away for indefinite copyright enforcement like alot of old dos games.
could prove a bold move for AOL.
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I remember coming in every other morning in the office to restart our oracle concurrent manager servers because they had mysteriously gone haywire somewhere between their backend and apache interface.
I remember teams of expensive consultants, weeks without sleep and 24/hr oncall in order to restart crashed IStore servers
this was when i worked for a certain popular bed company. i also remember our oracle DBA's primary solution being to "reboot all the oracle servers" when something was wrong. his "learn oracle from oracle" book clenched firmly in hand. I remember the database running as a privileged user with full passwordless sudo, as per our oracle reps insistence. i remember files stored at access 777 and no one caring. more power to the 0-day exploits. people need to know this software isnt indestructible just because marketing says it is.
i tool a pretty proactive approach as i headed toward 200lbs of IT Flab. when my apartment lease was up, i moved downtown and limited myself to 1 tank of gas a month. i bike 2 miles to work every day. i dont take the elevator at work so i hike up 6 flights of stairs twice a day. "wanna get lunch?" has been a killer for me, as the office lunch is nothing but fat, but ive found sticking to something like salads at fast food chains or something light generally works. turn your office into exercise.
bring new meaning to the phrase "per seat" CAL's
what a bunch of spam. next you'll tell me the hourglass in windows doesnt actually indicate work properly and the estimated time to copy isnt accurate either.
companies tend to adapt to business practices in the countries in which they operate. example: oil companies pay bribes to local officials in south america. seeing as america is a capitalism, it isnt really frowned upon to charge alot for a product. im sure the price goes down considerably for things like a site license, or say open source competition from gimp. prices are always negotiable.
just like the DVD became a nanny for kids, the tazer is becoming the defacto response for law enforcement. just like the airbag replaces the seatbelt for a lot of adults, the telephone has slowly turned into a tracking device for parents. (http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2744) abnormal activity detection technology is likely to become a surrogate for actual law enforcement and security. if "motion zones" in cameras provide multiple false positives, which they do, this technology will find itself likely ignored just as quickly by an operator.
ive spent my entire professional career trying to teach PHB's NOT to dip sensitive electronics in liquids, and now these shit-whistles are telling them its okay? the litmus test for product functionality (read: "i gotta get me some of that") at this point is simple: a member of marketing coating a hair-dryer in "golden shellback" and jumping into a jacuzzi.
to which phoenix replies to mars regarding the short circuit: "i swear, this has never happened before..."
thats funny, their website doesnt seem to load in my browser either...i guess it doesnt support firefox 3 in freebsd 7. what business actively tries to subvert the customer?? buying a new motherboard to replace your shitty foxconn is STILL cheaper than a copy of vista!
the sudden outbreak of common sense that yes, while a $25000 all-in-one load balancing appliance can do the job, the companies cost-advantage is to just pay you to use stuff that already exists for free, and has been around longer in most cases. the downside is you dont get any cool vendor swag, and lunch that day is provided by you. it does however save about an hour and 20 minutes in powerpoint BS from a guy who spends more time in airports than he does at a computer.
HP and most major pharmaceutical companies do the same thing. set up shop on campus and reap the rewards. large companies see R&D just tend to fizzle out as they get bigger...something about all the "town-hall meetings" with management and "facetime" just sucks the will to create right out of 'em. heck, i work for a fortune 100, and i struggled to make a pot of coffee today, let alone do anything that might revolutionize....stuff.....
funny, people said the same thing about IBM too.
i felt there could be a reference to this when i read the quote. the CEO of sandisk seems really upset about/eager to cement blame on windows vista. will the U3 app/aes security app/glorified windows rootkit suite provided on sandisk drives still work in vista? does it cause poor performance and not the OS? did we just not anticipate microsofts bold "no more XP" move?
eh, i beg to disagree. firefox's inline spellcheck and predictive text in the integrated search window are a few new features that, to my knowledge as i dont have windows, IE doesnt have. sure, the BSD memory management i agree is competition by performance, but isnt a browser 90% interface anyway? if ff hadnt competed at this level before, than what? the audience base for Firefox is much larger as well. competition aside, more people get to try firefox than IE. as microsoft keeps doing a good job of adopting "almost all of the features" in ff, i dont see how the road is going to get hard. how does the road get hard for a company completely oriented to its users as opposed to market share? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html i see microsoft, if put in a pinch, making a BAU move: kill it with money and buy mozilla.
is it just me, or does the story need a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag? we couldnt do flying cars for numerous reasons, or the osprey without killing quite a few people. but we think we can float an entire city above a gaseous acid bath!?
if you want to be a nurse, be a nurse. i for one love what i do in IT. I've had 5 job offers this month in various states, not to mention a technical recruiter in toronto willing my beat my contractor hourly rate at a permanent salary job by 15%. IT is not going to just decline in demand because a survey company decides FUD is good business.
Perfectly safe....provided your name isnt John Connor. sorry, couldnt resist.
the kernel can be stripped to boot quite quickly. Hibernation i agree, is also a good option with power off.
in soviet russia, martian moon studies you! oh if not for yakov smirnoff
I've found its easier to reject all cookies and establish a list of trusted sites (banks, etc...) for whom you accept cookies. as an added level of protection in firefox, you can force these cookies to be "session only."
this would have had more credibility if it came from a more neutral party.. study by anti-spam vendor concludes: spam is on the rise. google responds: we know. vendor insists: we're still 98%+ effective!
agreed. raiding his house, full public disclosure of his salary, and a 5 million dollar bail? in tfa, he was even 'threatened' with arrest, and still refused to relent. if he were just disgruntled, wouldnt he drop a logic bomb for future execution? why stick around and take the fall?
do what you love. let corporations collide. in the end mergers, outsourcing and smartsourcing mean very little to anyone but stockholders.
what happens when i spill my coke on it? what happens if it goes off while im touching the armrest, which is wired to the planes audio system? where are we going to charge all of these bracelets? what if mine doesnt fit? do we put them on children? of course, this is from the same wing of the government that brought us duct tape and plastic sheeting to defeat anthrax....right?
to see something like icq, if decommissioned, go open-source as opposed to being dungeoned away for indefinite copyright enforcement like alot of old dos games. could prove a bold move for AOL.