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Re:3 minutes on google gives us... by santos_douglas · 2004-04-20 14:08 · Score: 1 · on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers?

Surprised no one else put this one up, but Monster Salary has pretty detailed jobs and geographic regions.

Re:Those jobs will vanish by Thumpnugget · 2004-04-12 05:07 · Score: 1 · on Two Takes on the Java Dilemma

Here's 14 pages of job postings for COBOL programmers.

Yes, I realize that's nothing compared to the 100+ for Java programmers, but you clearly missed his point.

Re:Apathetic... by Tassach · 2004-04-07 05:39 · Score: 1 · on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest

Look at the list of job openings at Fort Meade on Dice or Monster. If memory serves correctly, maybe 1 in 10 jobs in the Baltimore/Washington area required a clearance prior to 9/11; now it's more like 1 in 3. It's getting hard to find an IT job that's NOT national security related in this part of the country.

Re:"Titanic Saturn" by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-04 12:54 · Score: 0 · on Titanic Saturn

telephone sanitizers - Please tell me that's not a real profession but something you made up for the joke?

Look real, but seems the job postings I can find aren't so specialized to focus on telephones.

Machine Sanitizer-3rd Shift
Status: Full Time, Temporary/Contract/Project Salary: from USD 8.00 per year
Lafayette area. Fulltime 3RD SHIFT. Duties consist of sanitizing production machines at the end of 1st & 2nd Shift production. 3rd Shift starts 12:00AM - 8:00AM. MUST BE ABLE TO DO 3RD SHIFT. Send resume or respond to email.

No thanks... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-22 05:02 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Social Networking in the Digital Age

> The pumping will be done for you.

That hasn't been my experience. I signed up for the Monster.com networking thing, and all it does is send me periodic messages stating "other people who are like you". What am I supposed to do with this?

Crap. I get far more kudos from people e-mailing me to ask about or compliment source code and articles I post on my web site, and often times they contribute code back to me.

No thanks... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-22 05:02 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Social Networking in the Digital Age

> The pumping will be done for you.

That hasn't been my experience. I signed up for the Monster.com networking thing, and all it does is send me periodic messages stating "other people who are like you". What am I supposed to do with this?

Crap. I get far more kudos from people e-mailing me to ask about or compliment source code and articles I post on my web site, and often times they contribute code back to me.

No thanks... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-22 05:02 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Social Networking in the Digital Age

> The pumping will be done for you.

That hasn't been my experience. I signed up for the Monster.com networking thing, and all it does is send me periodic messages stating "other people who are like you". What am I supposed to do with this?

Crap. I get far more kudos from people e-mailing me to ask about or compliment source code and articles I post on my web site, and often times they contribute code back to me.

Re:Yeah, bit of a difference. by psykocrime · 2004-03-12 05:16 · Score: 1 · on Need a Job? Move to India

Weirdness with your first query... looking at those 79 results, they all appear to the in the state of Michigan... But curiously, when I click the "next page" link, the results banner changes to say "jobs 51-100 of 4430" or so. But, skimming through the first few, they still all appear to be in Michigan, but it seems like Monster has changed the query terms, because there's a lot more crap listed than perl / unix / scripting / linux stuff.

Anyway, I went to the main monster.com query page, ran a query against the entire US, using your search terms, and go back over 5000 listings.

results here

What does all this mean? I have no idea, but I think there are more than 79 jobs in the U.S. of the type you're looking for.

Yeah, bit of a difference. by the+Man+in+Black · 2004-03-12 04:54 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Need a Job? Move to India

I ran my Monster query [(unix or linux) AND (perl OR shell OR scripting OR debian OR "red hat" OR solaris OR admin OR administrator OR web OR apache) AND NOT "work at home"] against US jobs:

Query Results

Then the SAME query against Indian jobs:

Query Results

79 for US, 3,433 for India. Yep, and now I'm even more depressed, and that's saying quite a bit. I have GOT to get out of this industry as soon as possible.

Found this SCO job on Monster.com by r_j_prahad · 2004-03-09 20:21 · Score: 1 · on Computer Associates Pays Off SCO

I just found this very interesting help-wanted ad on Monster.com. You can read all of it here.

Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.

I wonder what the story is behind this one... it looks like SCO is about to be thrown off of a site.

This is hilarious! by r_j_prahad · 2004-03-09 18:45 · Score: 3, Funny · on SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth

I just found this help-wanted ad on Monster.com. My keyboard is now full of coffee! Find it here.

Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.

Ohhh, my side hurts from laughing so hard! I wonder what the story is behind this one....

A C to sail them on. by mrmeval · 2004-02-28 18:40 · Score: 2, Funny · on Anatomy of Game Development

Designers in abundance, salesmen all around but what I need is a coder and a C to sail them on.

But this C is tiny and difficult to sail so I'll hand them all an upgrade to C++ and let them wail.

This shrieking is ill met, I stop and look profound as I have a solution it's C pound.

My coders all have left me with this ugly stinking mess I should have not given them more and more but merely better less.

All you need by Piquan · 2004-02-24 14:23 · Score: 4, Funny · on Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop?

You can find what you need at monster.com.

More Information by only_1 · 2004-02-23 08:06 · Score: 1 · on Internet Job Boards a Bunch of Hype?

All the employer-paid job hunting sites such as Monster , HotJobs , Dice , and CareerBuilder make job hunters look at the same job again and again. JobFan has posted raw data and summaries here showing that fully 75% of postings are duplicates. And more than 40% are posted by recruiters. That just ain't right!

lets count the books on Amazon and jobs on monster by asv108 · 2004-02-14 10:28 · Score: 5, Informative · on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free!

All 76021 results for .net :

All 112533 results for java :

Lets take a look at jobs son monster too

over 5000+ with java

2079 with .net

Lets look at jobs in California as a good indicator of the current state of .NET

1361 w/ the keyword java.

310 jobs with .NET

Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.

lets count the books on Amazon and jobs on monster by asv108 · 2004-02-14 10:28 · Score: 5, Informative · on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free!

All 76021 results for .net :

All 112533 results for java :

Lets take a look at jobs son monster too

over 5000+ with java

2079 with .net

Lets look at jobs in California as a good indicator of the current state of .NET

1361 w/ the keyword java.

310 jobs with .NET

Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.

lets count the books on Amazon and jobs on monster by asv108 · 2004-02-14 10:28 · Score: 5, Informative · on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free!

All 76021 results for .net :

All 112533 results for java :

Lets take a look at jobs son monster too

over 5000+ with java

2079 with .net

Lets look at jobs in California as a good indicator of the current state of .NET

1361 w/ the keyword java.

310 jobs with .NET

Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.

lets count the books on Amazon and jobs on monster by asv108 · 2004-02-14 10:28 · Score: 5, Informative · on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free!

All 76021 results for .net :

All 112533 results for java :

Lets take a look at jobs son monster too

over 5000+ with java

2079 with .net

Lets look at jobs in California as a good indicator of the current state of .NET

1361 w/ the keyword java.

310 jobs with .NET

Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.

Re:Colorado Technical by w3svc_animal · 2004-02-06 17:52 · Score: 1 · on The Best Colleges for Network Engineering?

Actually, as of today there are only 1009.

see it here

What is the Actual Cost of Slashdot Access? by rimu+guy · 2004-01-28 21:59 · Score: 2, Funny · on What's The Actual Cost of A Virus?

Wow, this topic really got me thinking. All that time I spend every day deleting spam, driking coffee, having toilet breaks. It all adds up. It's amazing I every get time do any work.

In fact, I've just figured out that if we can shut down slashdot - maybe feature it on a front page article and get it slashdotted - we could scape together enough coin to fulfill George Bush Juniors plan of putting a person on Mars.

Do the math:

800,000 Readers a day
30 Minutes a day to scan the front page and browse at level 5
$30 Per hour wage, these are _mostly_ employed geeks after all
$24,000,000,000 Annual lost time cost, assuming a 40 hour week, 50 weeks of the year.

Chicken and the egg by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-17 17:10 · Score: 0 · on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500

> for supposed nerds, you'd think more of them would have more of a clue about the various facets of computing.

Perhaps we would have experience if we could just break into the damn industry. There are no entry-level sysadmin jobs. Everyone wants tons of experience, so those of us who aspire to be great admins can never have the level of experience required. Meanwhile, we dwell with the other bottom feaders in code-monkey land...

All we have is our home network and just enough money to pay rent and treat the girlfriend once in awhile.

Current GPL victims by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-11 05:18 · Score: 0 · on 2003: Year of Apache

Sun, Microsoft, SCO.

Future victims:

Adobe, Macromedia, Symantec, every other proprietary non-GPL software company, proprietary developers, and you.

Move on. Your career in proprietary software development is about to come to an abrupt halt.

New spammers everywhere... by hlh_nospam · 2003-11-29 06:14 · Score: 1 · on Spam Through HTTP Referrer Logs

... check out what the Herbalife and other MLM scumbags are doing to Monster.com. This phenomenon appears to be spreading over the entire net.

I have used Monster.com on several occasions, and even found a contract there a couple of times, and I was even considering advertising on their site. In just the last week or so, however, I have noticed a new trend that is rapidly rendering Monster.com completely worthless. Seems that my current job search agents (for C++/C#/Java programming) are returning dozens of hits -- but almost all for Multi-Loser-Marketing scams (mostly Herbalife, aka Global Online Systems--this is one of several thousand of their replicated websites) and ads for services that purport to teach me how to "work at home" for a membership fee.

I have complained to Monster, and they have replied that yes, this is a violation of thier TOS, and yes, they would remove the ads that I called to their attention. Just for grins, I checked this morning to see just how many such ads there were on Monster, and found over 5,000 of the Herbalife ads, and about 1,000 of the "work at home" membership ads. This appears to be primarily the output of 3 organizations, with Herbalife 'distributors' responsible for the largest portion. If this is the beginning of a trend, then every MLM and suckerbait outfit on earth is going to be putting their crap there by the end of next week, drowning the legitimate job ads in the noise. For example, my last search produced exactly one legitimate job opening in the last 2 days, and 10 listings for a "work at home" service. (How many legitimate businesses actually use the word 'legitimate' in their names, anyway?)

While tracking down the perpetrators of the most egregious ads, I came across this description of just what Herbalife is, and the damage being done to the Sacramento area by Herbalife 'distributors'. Very interesting read. These scumbags are making spammers look good... OTOH, it sure seems to me that Monster needs to clean up its act, too. They obviously can't remove these fraudulent ads as fast as the MLM victims post them, so they need to start preventing them from getting there in the first place.

Re:But if you're really evil... by corbettw · 2003-11-21 04:08 · Score: 1 · on Mafia Tech Support

Couldn't find anything for the RIAA, but here's a job with their evil twin, the MPAA:
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=1994 2039&AVSDM=2003%2D11%2D20+17%3A58%3A00&Logo=1&col= dltci&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863&lid=348&fn=&q=copy right.

Enjoy your new career!

Re:wonderful by Hentai · 2003-11-10 09:37 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With Xbox Next

Are we sure this is new?

Note the company profile doesn't mention ANY connection to Microsoft. But note the font. Note the logo. Note the colors.

Domino Administrator jobs by solprovider · 2003-10-16 12:15 · Score: 1 · on Yet Another Critical Windows Flaw

Your search - Domino Administrator wanted - did not find any openings.
--Monster.com

Monster.com has 26 jobs listed.
Dice.com has 20 jobs listed.
JustNotesJobs.com has 16 jobs in the U.S.

If you are going to troll, at least do it correctly.

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The problem with finding Domino Administrator jobs is:
1. The people in those jobs are rather highly paid for an computer administration position. In 2000, Certified Lotus Professional System Administrators averaged $89,000.
2. They do not need to worry about viruses beyond choosing and installing a mail filter/virus protection, since no viruses have hurt Lotus Notes yet. The virus protection checks those virus-prone Word files, and helps if users are using MSOutlook as the mail client.
3. The number of administrators needed for a company running Notes and Domino is much less than the same company running Exchange. This is anecdotal from personal experience. I know a 500 person company that grew from one person doing Notes Admin work part-time in a computer department of 2 people to 2 full-time Exchange Admins with 10 people in the computer department, at a time when the company was shrinking. A 30,000+ employees company went from 10 Notes administrators maintaining their own servers to 60 Exchange administrators with the servers maintained by a different group. This is only the Administration side, application development costs skyrocketed while application rollouts almost disappeared after the switch.

Domino Administrators are happy, and companies of any size do not need very many of them. There is little turnover, and so there are few jobs to be filled. (Besides, who is going to quit with today's job market?)

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To be on-topic, Lotus/IBM releases updates at least quarterly. The updates usually add functionality, and fix crashes due to very unique circumstances. I only remember 2 that were for security issues. One was only an issue if the option to use MSIE as the browser was selected. The other was only an issue if Notes Designer was run in a certain configuration without a firewall. None of the updates are "critical". I just upgraded one large company's server from Domino 5.0.2 because the hardware was being replaced.

To be fair, while Domino is a platform, it is not an OS. It relies on Unix, Linux, or MSWindows for its file protection. If you are running MSWindows, you may need some of these patches. Then again, if Domino is only running mail, web applications, and Notes client applications, you can turn off most of the vulnerable MS services.

hmm lets look at jobs on monster by asv108 · 2003-09-05 09:28 · Score: 1 · on Java vs .NET

J2EE 1651
.NET 1509(probably a lot of server .net jobs)

Java 4378
C# 705

hmm lets look at jobs on monster by asv108 · 2003-09-05 09:28 · Score: 1 · on Java vs .NET

J2EE 1651
.NET 1509(probably a lot of server .net jobs)

Java 4378
C# 705

hmm lets look at jobs on monster by asv108 · 2003-09-05 09:28 · Score: 1 · on Java vs .NET

J2EE 1651
.NET 1509(probably a lot of server .net jobs)

Java 4378
C# 705

hmm lets look at jobs on monster by asv108 · 2003-09-05 09:28 · Score: 1 · on Java vs .NET

J2EE 1651
.NET 1509(probably a lot of server .net jobs)

Java 4378
C# 705

Re:And? by whatch+durrin · 2003-08-01 01:58 · Score: 1 · on Time Warner Cable NYC Begins DVR Distribution

Apparently, SA is in the process of trying to engineer the interfaces for the USB and Firewire ports. In searching for a job on Monster, I found this.

Confusion by Broodje · 2003-07-29 05:01 · Score: 1 · on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List

Sorry, but this list can't be just cold calling telemarketers, they must be help desk types, right? So, if thats the case, why does the ATA lead me to believe that these non-nagging telephone jobs have anything to do with the do-not-call list? I think they are lumping the two in the same boat to make up that "2 million jobs".

Monster Tech-en developer demand tag team match by NZheretic · 2003-07-28 06:14 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Essential .NET, Volume I

Based upon job keyword searches on Monster.com, the most of the demand is still moving towards Java and J2EE. Lets play Monster Tech-en developer demand tag team over the last 31 days.

Java Vs C#
Java and C# = 239, C# = 736 OR 497 for C# alone, Java = 4596 OR 4357 for Java alone, Java Wins outright 4357 to 497.

In fact Java is more in demand than C++ (3081) or Visual Basic ( 2252 )

J2EE Vs .NET
J2EE AND .NET = 23, .NET = 1392 or 1369 for .NET alone, J2EE = 2120 or 2097 for J2EE alone, J2EE wins by points 2097 to 1369.

According to theory, .NET should be picking up the bulk of Visual Basic Developers...
J2EE With Visual Basic Vs .NET WITH Visual Basic, Visual Basic AND J2EE AND .NET = 5, Visual Basic AND .NET = 58 or 53 alone, Visual Basic AND J2EE = 168 or 163 for J2EE alone, J2EE wins by points 163 to 53.

In comparison to the number of Visual Basic based jobs, there is very little demand for the shift towards the backward incompatable Visual Basic.NET.

According to theory, C# should be picking up the bulk of Visual Basic Developers...
Java With Visual Basic Vs C# WITH Visual Basic
Visual Basic AND Java AND C# = 65, Visual Basic AND C# = 250 or 185 alone, Visual Basic AND Java = 696 or 534 alone, Java wins by points 534 to 185.

According to theory, C# should be picking up the bulk of the C++ developers...
Java With C++ Vs C# WITH C++
C++ AND Java AND C# = 149, C++ AND C# = 311 or 162 alone, C++ AND Java = 1242 or 1093 alone, Java wins outright 1093 to 162.