Myers-Briggs test December 10, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , add a commentI don’t really have a clue what this means but it said I was INTJ.
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Why smart people do dumb things. September 8, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , add a commentI’m going to have to pick up this book. I think there should however be a book called why dumb people do dumb things. However, that would require so much paper that it would cost several thousand dollars to publish a single copy so never mind.
Custom Visitor Map August 31, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , add a commentSo I’ve created what I think is a pretty cool use of the google maps. You can click here to see it. What it does is record each visit to my site then at random intervals I lookup on www.hostip.info the latitude and longitude associated with that IP address. I’m in process of finding a different source of data seeing at this one is only slightly accurate approximately 50% of the time by their own estimates. When the page loads I grab a list of Latitudes and Longitudes and then look up the IP addresses that are associated with said latitude and longitude and I then put that in a list with the number of visits and the last visit recorded for that IP address. I then build the list and boom show it when you pull up the page.
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Why are manhole covers round? What if you get that in a job interview? August 23, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , add a comment“The question of why manhole covers are typically round, at least in the U.S., was made notorious by Microsoft, who began asking it as a job-interview question. Originally meant as a psychological assessment of how one approaches a question with more than one “right” answer, the problem exerts a strange fascination on people.”
I’m in a position where I interview people and as such I ask this question for the exact same reason microsoft does. I’ve been surprised at how many people will stammer around when posed this question and never really spit out an answer. I typically don’t hire these people. I have to say though I learned the answer to this question when I was just a child from watching an episode of “Mr. Wizard” when I was a child.
Yamaha V-Star August 22, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , add a commentI’ve recently purchased a Yahama V-star, but after riding in Sturgis this year, and seeing the new Harley bikes I think I’m going to upgrade to a Vrod. Has anyone owned one of these machines and do they have any insight they can lay on me before I purchase this bad boy?
Mac OSX safe as houses not Windows May 4, 2006
Posted by vinnyt in : General , 4commentsThe recent ruckus about the claimed growing vulnerability of Mac OSX from certain sources has caused an indignant outcry from Mac advocates who claim the stories are mostly media hype. According to an expert in Unix and Linux systems, the outcry is not without justification.
Again my point has been made for me. Mac users do not understand what the hell is going on. An operating system by itself on a computer is secure. This assumes no network connection, and no phsyical access to the console. Once you introduce phsyical access to the system either via a network connection or through a key board you begin to lose that security. The fact of the matter is apple has always catered to that crowd of people that frankly can barely use a computer. There are the occasional intelligent one who have no common sense and use a mac but for the most part we’re talking about Granny’s and morons so the user base is not exactly what I’d say are security gurus. I was at one time in my career a “secuirty consultant” for Ernst & Young LLP. Essentially we auidted network security for companies, and how we did it was to plug in our laptops and get root. I focused on UNIX because for the 4 years prior to that I had only worked on Solaris and IRIX and Linux( P.O.S.) so I was extremely well versed in how to setup and maintain secure UNIX. Mac users as a whole can’t draw on this experience, now I’m sure apple takes precautions to ensure some level of default security, but a dumb user who doesn’t understand what’s going on can very quickly enable a service that could lead of a compromise of the system and not be any the wiser. Hence the outcry from the mac community that they are secure is just like those cats living under a smoking Mt. St. Helen’s and saying it has never errupted since I lived here so it isn’t going to now.
