5/7     What's a good reverse port forwarding for a PC(inside firewall) ->
        Unix, so that I can VNC into the Unix that gets forwarded to
        PC's VNC server?
        \_ http://micrux.net/?p=26
           Syntax, to be executed from the PC behind firewall:
           % ssh -R 5900:127.0.0.1:5901 <destination_server>
           You can also use Putty, by going to Connections->SSH->Tunnels,
           and enter:
                Source port:5900
                Destination:127.0.0.1:5901
                Remote (not Local)
                and finally click on Add
           So the connectivity looks like this:
                PC --ssh--> FIREWALL --ssh--> destination_server
           And the resulting "virtual" connectivity:
                PC:5900 <--- destination_server:5901
           With the "-R" argument the destination_server binds to
           port 5901 which will connect back to PC's port 5900. Hence, it's
           a "reverse" tunnel. Note that this can potentially open up
           a lot of problems for companies and is generally frowned
           upon by network administrators. Please use with care.
           \_ Thanks, this is super useful info in general.
        \_ I do this with inetd and netcat.  Just put a line like this in
           /etc/inetd.conf, and reload inetd:
               5900 stream tcp nowait nobody /bin/nc nc YOUR-PC 5900
           You can also do it with ssh port forwarding (e.g. using PuTTY),
           but then you have to remember to keep your ssh connection open
           all the time.

5/7     I am trying to reproduce a customer bug where their apache header
        has the content-encoding as the last line in the header.
        My test platform is running apache2.2 on ubuntu. Is there a way
        to do this ?i I have already read the apache 2.0 docs and
        I dont see anything obvious ? page is txt/html

5/7     had 3 interviews (over 2 days) that all went well but didn't
        get an offer. I've heard its totally normal and acceptable to
        ask for feedback and/or "what went wrong" or "why didn't I
        get an offer". Is that really true? How should I approach this?
        ask one of the tech people I spoke to? or the recruiter (who
        seems generally unknowledgeable but maybe in a better position
        to get feedback from everyone i spoke to)? thx
        \_ May I ask which companies?
           \_ this was all at one company. its a web agency. I live in nyc.
        \_ Asking why you didn't get the job doesn't hurt.  What are they going
           to do, not hire you?
           \_ GOOG just likes screwing with you
           \_ well, I'm hoping to freelance there in lieu or a fulltime job.
        \_ You can ask, but you're unlikely to get more than a stock
           response, ("We appreciated your skills and experience, but we
           had another candidate who was a better fit.")  -tom
           \_ Yup.  When I was interviewing people, we rejected a lot who were
              completely unqualified, and a few who had other issues (unable to
              form a coherent sentence, etc.); the rest were fine, and we tried
              to pick the best one.  If you think the interviews went well, you
              were probably in the third category, and so they really won't
              be able to tell you more than "you were fine, there was someone
              better".
           \_ This is true, most places are concerned about liability issues.
        \_ I interviewed some intern candidates a few months ago and the
           college gave me an eval form to fill out for each candidate, asking
           me to grade them (A,B,C,D,F) on 5-6 topics and had a spot for
           feedback. I gave feedback (e.g. "didn't answer questions clearly",
           "best answer to question X", "didn't seem knowledgable or interested
           in the job", "good grasp of industry issues"). I wish this was more
           acceptable/common.
        \_ I interviewed at this startup where a buddy of mine worked at.
           I kicked ass on the technical interview. I knew the CEO and we
           used to work together when he was a director at our old company.
           Everyone seemed to liked me, and I thought I was going to get
           an offer. The CEO called and said he was sorry but they don't
           have funding for another engineer at the time. I asked my buddy
           and the real answer was everyone liked me EXCEPT this one PhD
           tech lead dude who just didn't like me (he had communications
           problems, or that I was not good enough to get through his
           communications gap). Personally, I thought he was just too smart
           for everyone else.  That's it. All it takes is one person who
           REALLY doesn't want to work with you on a daily basis, period.
           \_ Seems unfair, but almost reasonable.  If the team is small and
              the dude you are going to work with 30 hours a week can't stand
              you, he shouldn't hire you.
              \_ I know, life is not fair, but I really didn't want to work
                 with him 70 hours a week anyways. P.S. what startup compnay
                 allows people to work 30 hours a week?         -pp
                \_ I made up an arbitrary amount of hours you would be working
                   directly with the dude who hates you.

5/7     is there a wiki who's backend is stored COMPLETELY in mysql?
        data, pages, images, all that stuff?  thanks

5/7     Does anybody here use splunk?  Any thoughts you'ld care to share?
        It seems pretty resource hungry to me, and it appears to have a
        fairly steep learning curve, so needs a bit of an investment before
        you see any pay off.  Wht I am looking for is a fast way to "grep"
        many gigs of logs.  Probably 50-100gb initially.  Maybe terabytes
        later.
        \_ I tested splunk and it seems like it would do what I wanted, but
           was kind of pricey. Right now I am testing out SQLStream for
           something similar, though it will involve more work on our end.
           I can let you know how it goes, if you drop me a line. -ausman

5/7   I work at a year old startup, 50 employees, pre-ipo, almost
      profitable but not quite, fast paced, lots of work, everyone
      pulls weight.  I just found out my CEO makes nearly .5 million
      a year and has about 50,000X my stock options (no joke), and he's
      not even a founder.  Is this reasonable?
        \_ Not in my opinion and I have worked at lots of startups.
           Unfortunately, it is all too common. How senior are you?
           You should be getting between .1-.4% of the total outstanding
           company stock every four years in vested options, imo.
           Here is a guy I found who says pretty much the same thing:
           http://piaw.blogspot.com/2009/01/stock-compensation-at-startups.html
           \_ thanks for posting this.  i still feel screwed.  and not in a good
              way.
              \_ You know piaw@blogspot = piaw@soda.
        \_ Salary sounds way high.  Stockwise it sounds like you just accepted
           the offer you were given.  You can go to your CEO and tell him you
           want more stock.
        \_ $500K/year seems reasonable. He's the CEO. You don't think he
           should make 4X what a developer makes? His options might be out
           of line, but that's not coming out of your bottom line anyway.
           Is he doing a good job? I'm not really sure what your point is.
           Would you feel better if he made $280K/year? What would it matter?
        \_ $500K/year seems reasonable. He's the CEO. You don't think he
           should make 4X what a developer makes? His options might be out
           of line, but that's not coming out of your bottom line anyway.
           Is he doing a good job? I'm not really sure what your point is.
           Would you feel better if he made $280K/year? What would it matter?
           \_ Difficult to say.  He lives in Phoenix.  We're in bay area.
              He also has a house in London.   He makes an appearance here
               once every few weeks.  I hear him on a conf call if I want to. I
             suppose we pay his plane fair and hotel too.  I guess I'd feel better
             suppose we pay his plain fair and motel too.  I guess I'd feel better
            for slaving away all week if he were around to watch.
                also we reently layed off a bunch of developers,I think to impress
                the board with our cost cutting.  ok no i dont think if we are
                laying off developers, impacting our future , that we should be
               paying our fatass British CEO 1/2 a million a year and basically
                more equity than every single other employee combined, except
                for founders.
                \- you are saying for every $20k your stock options are worth,
                   he will get $1bn? these numbers dont seem to add up ...
                   either you have some seriously optimistic estimates of
                   the valuation growth of your company, or your options arent
                   worth jack [i.e. if he is taking away $1m for every $20
                   you get]. Let's take Adobe with mkt cap of ~$15bn ... if
                   this guy owns 10% of the company, then you are looking at
                   your options being worth $30k, not a sum which would greatly
                   affect your life. If he owns 5% of the company, then you
                   seem to need some pretty optimistic growth expectations
                   to have your options to be worth more than a car ...
                   unless the expectation down the road is you'll be getting
                   lots more options and the current grant is more like a
                   bonus up front rather than the sum of your vesting
                   expectations. Run the numbers on a billion dollar valuation,
                   and your options are going to be worth a nice vacation.
                   your options being worth $30k, which is hardly a sum which
                   would really affect your life. If he owns 5% of the
                   company, then you seem to need some pretty optimistic
                   growth expectations to have your options to be worth
                   more than a car ... unless the expectation down the road
                   is you'll be getting lots more options and the current
                   grant is more like a bonus up front rather than the sum
                   of your vesting expectations.

5/7     Help, I think something's wrong with my network setting. I'd go to
        a web site, and then it would say "cannot find address". Then I'd
        reload again, occassionally 3 times, to load the page. Is this
        due to DNS being too slow, TTL setting, or something else?
        \_ windows mac or linux ?
           \_ windows (company issued laptop, no alternative)
              \_ Ugh, get corporate IT to fix your problem. I assume you
                 don't have admin privs, or do you?
      \_ do you have to go through some weirdo proxy?  Also run Adaware
         and make you aren't carrying a virus SARS infected laptop