Installing software from Group1. (MailStream Plus at the moment, but Code1-Plus, Merge/Purge Plus, and Dispatcher4 were all the same way.)
Every single piece of the software comes with a (braindamaged) install shell script.
I need to patch every single one of those install scripts with this:
— install.orig Thu Aug 28 [...]
So my employer's in the market to hire a second Unix sysadmin (that is, in addition to me). We had one already… but, um, it didn't work out.
So this means I've got the dubious honor of interviewing people unquestionably my elders, but seldom my betters (when it comes to the job for which they're interviewing, [...]
So, two weeks ago, one day before I left for a Thursday-Tuesday vacation on which I had no intention of taking work, I was told that by the following Friday morning, I'd need to be able to answer this question:
Is this Dell PowerEdge 2650 capable of sustaining increased loads of Group1's Code1 Plus, or do [...]
This is totally choked up, thanks to slashdot.
Here’s a mirror of that analysis on my own server. Please, don’t go and post this to /., or even spread it too far across lj. I’m just putting it up for friends who are hitting perens.com slightly after I did.
I’m wget(1)ing a copy of the slideshow too [...]
From here (tendra.org). I can't decide if this is completely lame or funny.
In any case, there are plenty more over there. Including this (who's the enemy, then; the Korean chip market?) and this, which should make happy.
6 August 2003 strip from Dr. Fun.
http://www.snapgear.com/linuxworldhackercontestrules.html
So, first off, this is Yet Another security company trying to show off how un-hackable their wares are by having people pound on them, but in an environment they, the security company, control. So of course no one's going to walk away with free stuff.
But the contest rules are completely ridiculous. For instance:
Viral attacks are [...]
I’ve been thinking for quite a while about wiring various things into one of my cars[1]. Clearly a Mini-ITX-based computer is a must, ideally hooked into an after-market whip antenna for 802.11{a,b,g} (big bonus: magic resynching with the next day’s playlist when it’s parked behind my apartment and, thus, on my home wireless… so this [...]