tb1tre - Slashdot User

Comment age shouldnt be a barrier (Score 1) 708

by tb1tre on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:00AM (#40525139) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable?

only go down the management route if its something you are good at, expect a pay cut at first teer management if you want to stay technical then update your cv, make sure your techinal skills are upto date and get some interviews (think of the first few interviews as practice, dont be put off by rejection)
most of all, be proactive, it does not hurt to look around, just because you have an interview doesnt mean you have to take the job, and if you know you can get another job it makes you negotiations at your current employerthat much stronger.
Also the advice about getting into some of the trickier problems was a good one, your less likly to be laid off if your noticedand known to be helpful
being 40 should not be an issue if your good at your job, keep your skills upto date and remain flexible

Submission + - Vista activation cracked by brute force

Submitted by Bengt on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:27AM

Bengt writes: The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack.

From TFA: The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people.

There is really no differentiating between a legit copy with a manually typed in wrong key and a hack attempt. Sure MS can throttle this by limiting key attempts to one a minute or so on new software, but the older variants are already burnt to disk. The cat is out of the bag. The crack was first mentioned on the Keznews forums, a step by step How-to can be found HERE

Submission + - Selling open source to upper management

Submitted by on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: I am the single member of the IT department at a small nonprofit. We were looking to replace our commercial content management system with a custom combination of open source solutions (Lucene, Jackrabbit, etc.) However, since I was the sole developer, progress was slow and we have little resources to recruit potential volunteers.

Recently, we had a closed source, commercial vendor demo their version of a content management system, and immediately upper management was willing to go along with their proposal, even at the expense of project requirements.

Although I understand and accept the decision (and am quite relieved I am not expected to deliver as the sole developer), I am interested to know if there are resources for promoting open source software in a manner like closed source, commercial software. If not, is this a challenge within the OS community? It seems that OS solutions are primarily promoted to technical implementors rather than upper management. Of course, many technical implementors do not have the marketing skills to promote open source, but are there resources to help us do so?

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