In other words, Microsoft Windows supports a standard that has fallen out of common use and in your own words is "so minimal that its [sic] useless". Why so you feel supporting such an out-of-use standard would be helpful to any Linux distros? The world is moving toward Linux and away from UNIX and Windows.
I've found in my work history that regular reviews of what you do vs what the business feels is important can be quite eye-opening and insightful for all involved. Yes, some managers don't care to know the details but if you align your tasks with company needs you will do OK. Sometimes that means education, which can be tough in some environments but if they really understand that the things you do are necessary for smooth operation things will be fine.
Try smaller businesses first, who don't have an HR department, assuming you know the basics and have the interest to do a lot of OJT. Build experience and make friends. At some point your experience will be enough to offset the lack of a degree.
I was one of the tinkerers who was lucky enough to start programming very very young, had few friends etc, and was genuinely curious and interested in computers, and I get to work with them all day every day. I have no degree, but I was willing to work part-time in a "regular" job and spend a lot of hours doing consulting work. I charged very little but my condition was that the clients told friends about me. I had more work than I could ever have imagined, which was exactly what I wanted. I switched to full-time consulting, and eventually accepted a position as an employee. Through the years I've been able to play with much larger, more expensive equipment that I would have ever owned, and as my skills have grown I've secured better and better positions.
May not work for everyone, but stay hungry and do everything you can. I am not a college graduate but I made up for it with dedication to my work and clients. Good luck on your endeavors!
+1 Insightful. There is just no need for anyone to know what I'm doing every minute of every day. What's important is that I'm available when needed, accountable, and the work gets done as scheduled.
+1 Insightful. The labels saw how the mp3.com "win" worked out for them, and they've had some time to reflect on it. This is a huge offer for them... it's handing them a wad of cash to shut up and stay out of the way. Also huge with Apple because no one else has made a deal like this. Unless I'm missing something, $25 a year buys a big upgrade for people with large libraries.
+1 Insightful. I would argue that -- just like you have a lifecycle for software development -- you have a lifecycle for nontrivial amounts of data. Some data is useful in detail for a short term, but wherever possible it should be more coarsely aggregated as time progresses, and you should get sign-in from executives that it can be dumped after a period of time.
Where I work, I estimated the cost to upgrade our SAN to continue to store a set of large tables which helped everyone understand the cost in real terms. People tend to think once the data is imported or created that it's a small incremental cost to house it from that point forward, but backup times and storage along with execution plan costs increase with size. There is a performance benefit to this trimming; partitioning and check constraints will only get you so far.
What is difficult to gauge in advance sometimes is how the data will be used -- some things are obvious in the short-term, but as the company looks to different metrics or to shine some light on an aberration, you really need to be able to determine how quickly you can dump the detail. Get signoff then add some padding so you are conservative when you destroy. Make a backup "just in case" and delete it after a few months. The good news in my work is that changing your mind later to adapt to the new requirements means expectations are already set to change the way it works "from this point forward". There are many fields of work that do not have that luxury, because of the time or cost to gather detail again.
Every piece of hardware has a lifespan. It's not practical to continue supporting all hardware forever. Somewhere along the line you will either need to upgrade your hardware or stop upgrading your OS.
Depending on your needs, it may make sense to make a VM out of the existing system and migrate it to new hardware (as opposed to a reinstall). There are options to run VM's on hypervisors or on full-blown OS's, so you have some choice there.
+1 Insightful. I left WoW for many of the same reasons. I'd add to the list as follows:
- Guild indifference. When I started playing years ago, a lot of the guilds were generally helpful -- pretty much everyone showed up on time for runs and events, we had brief discussions before each encounter so people knew what they were doing, people used guild Vent, etc. Lots of people doing things for fun as a guild group. People helping someone farm something. It was a social thing, too, with some people just hanging out. Contrast that with the last few months I played (Cata). I tried several guilds, but they all really had problems with people not showing up for events, people in guild just to grab things out of GB and demand someone take them on runs etc. The helpfulness and community feeling of the guild were gone.
- Bugged quests. I can't count the number of bugged quests I had to do multiple times, or drop and reform groups or raids to accomplish. The trend became significantly worse over time, and I had to leave entire regions incomplete (and come back to them later) because some pivotal questline was interrupted.
- Dailies were still awful, and there were even fewer reasons to do them. We used to do certain dailies to grind a specific item / rep / etc, but as the game had changed, there was much less reason to do any of them. Equivalent gear could be bought or picked up with a random group, and there weren't general-use benefits (such as the ability to travel directly between nodes, instead of indirectly by flying through each).
- Reforged gear. This might be a bit controversial, but in the old days we knew what gear was for whom, and you didn't have all the petty fighting when something dropped that could be used for a mage, lock, or priest. Etc. Many many many many of my runs went to hell because some random person in the PUG got mad because they wanted some drop, and the people c/wouldn't work it out. Used to be if you were PUG'ing with people on your own server you could trade gold or other items to get the drop. Now you can't. Which brings me to add to the...
- Cross-realm PUG's suck more than in-realm PUGs. You can't sell chants / upgrades, you can't give someone you know (and trust) 50g for repairs so they don't have to switch toons, you aren't playing with those you know. But the worst part is when you enjoy grouping with someone (this is how I met most of my WoW friends) you can't easily group with them again because they're on some other realm. Yes I made this point again, because without this sense of community, WoW is not the same.
Except that Firewire isn't dead or abandoned -- its devices will work under Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is a way of getting faster speeds for new equipment, connecting to old equipment, and doing it all with a single plug... the issue as I understand it was not enough room for more plugs on laptops.
I don't think he (she?) was making the point that a wipe would magically restore applications and settings. It's that there are very few valid reasons to wipe and reinstall Linux or OS X annually.
Although technically speaking -- on Snow Leopard anyway -- installing a fresh copy of the OS to a new drive (or installing clean to the current drive after backing it up to Time Machine) would allow you to restore your apps, documents, network settings, shortcuts, desktop icons, etc etc as part of the clean install. It's a few checkboxes under Snow Leopard presented during the install. I was absolutely floored when I saw it work after upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard.
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+1 Informative.
In other words, Microsoft Windows supports a standard that has fallen out of common use and in your own words is "so minimal that its [sic] useless". Why so you feel supporting such an out-of-use standard would be helpful to any Linux distros? The world is moving toward Linux and away from UNIX and Windows.
BTW who pissed in your Cheerios today?
+1 Insightful. I've heard from many friends all abuzz regarding this game and I'm sorry I missed it.
I've found in my work history that regular reviews of what you do vs what the business feels is important can be quite eye-opening and insightful for all involved. Yes, some managers don't care to know the details but if you align your tasks with company needs you will do OK. Sometimes that means education, which can be tough in some environments but if they really understand that the things you do are necessary for smooth operation things will be fine.
I don't know about you, but I approved about $7200 in RHEL subscriptions this morning.
Try smaller businesses first, who don't have an HR department, assuming you know the basics and have the interest to do a lot of OJT. Build experience and make friends. At some point your experience will be enough to offset the lack of a degree.
I was one of the tinkerers who was lucky enough to start programming very very young, had few friends etc, and was genuinely curious and interested in computers, and I get to work with them all day every day. I have no degree, but I was willing to work part-time in a "regular" job and spend a lot of hours doing consulting work. I charged very little but my condition was that the clients told friends about me. I had more work than I could ever have imagined, which was exactly what I wanted. I switched to full-time consulting, and eventually accepted a position as an employee. Through the years I've been able to play with much larger, more expensive equipment that I would have ever owned, and as my skills have grown I've secured better and better positions.
May not work for everyone, but stay hungry and do everything you can. I am not a college graduate but I made up for it with dedication to my work and clients. Good luck on your endeavors!
+1 Insightful. There is just no need for anyone to know what I'm doing every minute of every day. What's important is that I'm available when needed, accountable, and the work gets done as scheduled.
+1 Insightful. The labels saw how the mp3.com "win" worked out for them, and they've had some time to reflect on it. This is a huge offer for them... it's handing them a wad of cash to shut up and stay out of the way. Also huge with Apple because no one else has made a deal like this. Unless I'm missing something, $25 a year buys a big upgrade for people with large libraries.
Wait... win-win-win?? Now I'm suspicious...
+1 Insightful. I feel the same way, why bother re-ripping music when I never finished ripping all my CD's in the first place? $25 a year is nothing.
Would a throat mic help?
+1 Insightful. I would argue that -- just like you have a lifecycle for software development -- you have a lifecycle for nontrivial amounts of data. Some data is useful in detail for a short term, but wherever possible it should be more coarsely aggregated as time progresses, and you should get sign-in from executives that it can be dumped after a period of time.
Where I work, I estimated the cost to upgrade our SAN to continue to store a set of large tables which helped everyone understand the cost in real terms. People tend to think once the data is imported or created that it's a small incremental cost to house it from that point forward, but backup times and storage along with execution plan costs increase with size. There is a performance benefit to this trimming; partitioning and check constraints will only get you so far.
What is difficult to gauge in advance sometimes is how the data will be used -- some things are obvious in the short-term, but as the company looks to different metrics or to shine some light on an aberration, you really need to be able to determine how quickly you can dump the detail. Get signoff then add some padding so you are conservative when you destroy. Make a backup "just in case" and delete it after a few months. The good news in my work is that changing your mind later to adapt to the new requirements means expectations are already set to change the way it works "from this point forward". There are many fields of work that do not have that luxury, because of the time or cost to gather detail again.
I say we gang up to beat this panda with our canes. Right after our naps.
Thank you for sharing that article. Very insightful.
Every piece of hardware has a lifespan. It's not practical to continue supporting all hardware forever. Somewhere along the line you will either need to upgrade your hardware or stop upgrading your OS.
Depending on your needs, it may make sense to make a VM out of the existing system and migrate it to new hardware (as opposed to a reinstall). There are options to run VM's on hypervisors or on full-blown OS's, so you have some choice there.
Contrast that with the last few months I played (Cata). I tried several guilds, but they all really had problems with people not showing up for events, people in guild just to grab things out of GB and demand someone take them on runs etc. The helpfulness and community feeling of the guild were gone.
Try the "Status-4-Evar" addon which adds the status bar. It still works fine in FF 5 beta.
I also want a status bar in FF, so I use the addon "Status-4-Evar" which adds the status bar. Running 5 beta and the addon still works fine.
Accidentally what an apostrophe?
Oh, sorry, didn't see your laptop keyboard.
+1 Informative. Thanks for the info -- I've been using Red Hat since it was called 5.2 (before Fedora Core existed) and somehow missed this option.
28% of all US music sales and growing. http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-accounts-for-28-of-u-s-music-sales/
The unholy software called Flash has the ability to possess the machine, unless you roll a natural 20 to save. Duh.
Yes. d3vi1 ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2173728&cid=36197702 ) is right-on. Linkie is http://www.sonnettech.com/news/pr2011/pr041111_thunderbolt.html . No pricing available yet, availability projected this summer. This stuff is so new there's only a handful of products right now.
+1 Actually understands the technology.
Except that Firewire isn't dead or abandoned -- its devices will work under Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is a way of getting faster speeds for new equipment, connecting to old equipment, and doing it all with a single plug... the issue as I understand it was not enough room for more plugs on laptops.
I don't think he (she?) was making the point that a wipe would magically restore applications and settings. It's that there are very few valid reasons to wipe and reinstall Linux or OS X annually.
Although technically speaking -- on Snow Leopard anyway -- installing a fresh copy of the OS to a new drive (or installing clean to the current drive after backing it up to Time Machine) would allow you to restore your apps, documents, network settings, shortcuts, desktop icons, etc etc as part of the clean install. It's a few checkboxes under Snow Leopard presented during the install. I was absolutely floored when I saw it work after upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard.