@MarkHenderson That could very well be it... women are weird. For some strange reason "it'll be over before you know it" isn't a selling point to them. :/
(If your government is ZOMG MARIJUANA IS THE HEATHEN DEVIL WEED yet still allows people to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco products to their hearts' content your government is doing it wrong...)
@MarkHenderson Well, sure, if you're of the opinion that "taking drugs" is a bad thing. Which I find hard to reconcile with the police telling me they'll put me away for good if I go off my meds one more time. :p
@HopelessN00b Sorry, just back-tracking, even if you don't think that drugs are the root of all evil, you should still speak to your kids about it, like alcohol and safe drinking and how to stay safe while you do it
@HopelessN00b I don't mind being old enough that I can go into liquor stores that have signs "We ID anyone we think looks less than 40" and never get asked...
Although I buy most of my booze at the duty-free or in the US at Costco.
@MarkHenderson Well, your government probably isn't absurdly cuntly bout the whole thing. It's a liability issue over here. Accidentally sell to an underage individual over here, and they really rake you over the coals.
I solved a problem regarding changing the umask of a file directory here: Chmod wont stick
But now I have a new problem all together. PHP fails to write to files on that directory even though they are all chmod 644, fulle read write access to users, groups and public. After executing ls -la in S...
Wow - just reading that Nasa managed to position the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in such a way that it watched Curiosity enter the atmosphere and land - video footage to be released later
There's probably a point to be made here about the difference between "acting nice" and standing by and enabling stupid behaviour
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I'd suggest the person who rudely shouts at you to stop you sticking your hand into a running meatgrinder is far "nicer" than the person who didn't want to shout a warning at you because shouting is rude...
I think there can be a balance, particularly to a new user. In fact I would say, the user in question would ignore that particular (very useful and important) advice because of how it was phrased .
Setting up SSH keys is pretty easy. I know that the UK hosting provider The Bunker simply don't give you a password. They ask for a public key, verify the fingerprint with you on the phone and then put it in place for you to log in. Amazon EC2 also doesn't do passwords by default but generates both public and private and gives you the private key to use to log in.
Not sure if I would use SSH keys/passwords as the defining line between professional and amateur but there really isn't any excuse to keep using passwords once you know about keys.
We should probably give them what they want but a discliamer as well. this is the way to do what you want but this is a very very bad idea so don't come crying to us when you get hax0red.
@DJPon3 I don't disagree, I'm just not sure we should expend huge energy in trying to change peoples ways. Everything seems easy to suggest, but at the end of the day some people just don't have the power to change things
I like what @tombull89 says - there's nothing wrong with pointing out issues in what someone is trying to do, but ultimately we should still be trying to answer their base questions.
Really started to get worried now - for the last week or so I've seen an increasing rise in the number of queries coming to me about how I hedge my budget against swings in UKP-USD rates - just had a conf call forced on my for this afternoon to bottom it out - anyone know what the hell's going on - I've spoken to a few of my old FX mates in the city but they know nothing.
we don't hedge directly as we're a much smaller organisation but we've been caught out by price increases due to hedging by US companies with UK operations.
could someone else there have neglected to think about this and got their balls caught in a vice and now some higher up is in a panic about whether or not other groups are the same?
This spam question got me thinking. How many of you allow your users to see their spam quarantine?
For years, I've applied spam rules globally... I discovered early on that users weren't vigilant about checking their quarantine or junk mail folders..
Good $(date).. Quick question to the regulars/mods (I've asked on TL already, but haven't received a reply yet) — would this question here be a good fit for SF or is it too much on the "best practices" side?
@pauska I have seen it before, though - don't really recall a solution though it wasnt' my problem as such. Could have a play with the GPO "Always wait for the network at computer startup" but I'm not convinced
@ewwhite we don't let users see all their incoming spam. There's some stuff that we're not sure of which is held rather than rejected and they're welcome to pick the bones out of that if they wish
@ewwhite - not sure how long its kept for, we've never had complaints about 'lost' email so it must be a while. It's part of an outsourced 'SMTP gateway' service.
@ewwhite in my last place, we had them sent to junk box, prior to that, we had daily email notification summary showing what has been quarantined and it was up to the user to logon (SSO) and release if required.
@ewwhite I have the same policies for my work and home e-mail servers. All mail is delivered (though attachments deemed "dangerous" are deleted) to either the Inbox or Spam folder. Stuff in the Spam folder is deleted once it hits 2 weeks old. At home SA learns from the Spam folder before emptying it. The system at work doesn't do Bayesian.
We get false positives.... on a somewhat regular basis. So any other option would have the C-Levels calling every week to recover some e-mail that didn't make it through because our dumb@$$ clients put "Financial Success" in the subject of the e-mail.
It's certainly worrying. I'm not convinced that other providers wouldn't have fallen for it either though. It does illustrate how much our online security really is a house of cards
I have a series of directories, and images contained within:
/Volumes/library/Originals/2012/2012-05-13 Event/filename.jpg
/Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-03-11 Event/filename.jpg
/Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-01-12 Event/filename.jpg
/Volumes/library/Originals/2009/2019-07-11 Event/...
@ChrisS 2.4k of that is on SO, though. I could take a shit on my monitor, take a picture of it with my phone, upload it to imgur, take a screenshot of that, and upload it to SO and get 2.4k rep there.
I don't know what everyone else is doing but I've got issues I'm dealing with... Everything from a broken power connector on someone's cube (I think the electricians are going to be here shortly) to people screwing with our LOB software and messing it up. To viruses... and apparently Wikipedia is down.
@ChrisS Apple doesn't want people going into the unix level for things like that. The i-Apps... iPhoto, Aperture, etc... they are meant to do non-destructive editing. So, there are provisions to export your data, share it from within the app and do what you need without ever touching the original file.
The Screensaver dialog also can see the albums defined in those apps... so the real answer is to create an album of the photos you want and let the Screensaver use that as the source for the slideshow.
> I'm sorry I even got involved in answering your question. Your level of understanding is way below that which we would expect from our target demographic and as such you should really invest some time in basic Unix filesystem and process security concepts.
@Iain That first sentence seems out of character for you, but otherwise an honest comment, and I'm not sure how you can put it any gentler while conveying the message.
Sometimes the cluebat really is the only way to get the message across. =]
@ewwhite Buying a house... and have some other big news coming. I had good justification for the 17-40L but couldn't spring for the 16-35. Just wasn't happening right now. For what this will be used for, it will work great.
@ewwhite Interior, yes. We're putting our condo on the market and need to get some good real estate shots up. Buying a new place and want to take tons of pics through construction. Plus, I tend to shoot a lot of landscapes. The 35L is great, but I missed having something wider.
@ewwhite That's also why I didn't spend the big money on the 16-35L. Too much extra cash for a couple stops of light. I'll be using speedlights for the interior shots. Don't care to shoot those wide open anyway. And landscapes wide open? Don't think so. I just didn't think I'd need it.
Yea, it would have been nice. I'm sure sooner or later it would come in handy. But maybe the 35L @ f1.4 will be fast enough if I don't also need super-wide.
@Iain True - but some of the oddest crap I ever had when I did support came from developers. Guys who were fairly sharp C++ devs who didn't get the correlation between network cables disconnected and problems with the version control system.. I had to lock doors to keep them from randomly taking CD's and tapes from running servers. A couple of them tried to make cat5 patch cables with needle nosed pliers and silver satin telephone cable.
It was like a pre-school, but without the technical savvy.
@Chopper3 well they have remote administration tools that can reapply the permissions right? Quick - send the commands before Odyssey moves out of range and the SSH session drops!
The Mars Curiosity rover has landed successfully, and one of the promo videos "7 minutes of terror" brags about there being 500,000 lines of code. It's a complicated problem, no doubt. But that is a lot of code, surely there was a pretty big programming effort behind it. Does anyone know anything...
I'm working on a software which has one administrator.
My question is: When the administrator changes (in the organisation), how are the credentials given to the new admin?
I have two options (but never seen a practical situation),
The current admin changes the password to default, clears th...
A software company delivers software and hosts the solution on their own servers.
Once, a faulty hardware caused delays, random reboots, service downtime and client disappointment. The backup servers were down-sized, so they couldnt handle the load during the fall-back.
The company already had s...
I'm really surprised (though it's is SU) that several people think it's "too much" to force users to register (paperwork & all) their BYOD before allowing it on your network.
@voretaq7 I suppose... But really... I would think most companies would be getting more aggressive with security in the wake of disclosures, virii, and everything else going on in the world.
I'm not asking for your firstborn child... I just want to know the make/model and MAC of your cell phone, and that you know our policy, before I let it on our network.
@ChrisS how would you handle say 500 mobile devices in a college wanting to jump onto the network? would you like a queue of 500 odd people outside your office?
The college I went do requires you to register every device you want on their network (laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, whatever). When you connected a non-registered device it prompted you to register by either contacting the Helpdesk, or if you knew your network credentials you could login and fill out the forms right there.
I've actually never heard of anything they are talking about... just typical DR drills to plan for an outage
not much you can do to prevent it at a hardware level other than periodically review and test specific hardware components I suppose... but thats the reason we have n+1 redundancy in place normally
I think the best thing you could do is hardware abstraction. Oh, the hardware died? That's cool, just reboot the VM on another host.
Could also help with resource utilization rather than having under utilized hardware in those discrete environments (Test, UAT, Preproduction and Production). Setup resource pools so that Production is guaranteed a bigger piece of the pie.
That way when hardware goes down, production isn't crippled. The others are.
Not sure why you would make that software QA's job, though. If your infrastructure folks can't do their jobs, there's more serious matters.
![As of this writing the NASA/JPL websites are still overloaded. Trying CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].torrent.SwEsUb.DVDRip.XviD-aXXo.jpg instead.](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curiosity.png "As of this writing the NASA/JPL websites are still overloaded. Trying CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].torrent.SwEsUb.DVDRip.XviD-aXXo.jpg instead.")
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I'm working on a software which has one administrator.
My question is: When the administrator changes (in the organisation), how are the credentials given to the new admin?
I have two options (but never seen a practical situation),
The current admin changes the password to default, clears th...
