if you give 2 weeks notice, they pay you for the 2 weeks and ship you home. Short timers are bad for the morale of others. If you have done your job right, everything is documented so you dont need to be around. IS this good or bad? For me, after I've given notice, I don't want to be there anyway. Even if its a great job and co-workers. Heck, you've moved on so don't linger around the water cooler. Leave the building, get in your car, throw a BIG finger at the place and split!
The RIAA would be screwed if there were many more NAT/PAT sites around. It would be hard to sue someone if everyone used the same IP ( but different port) for outbound traffic. The colleges should jump on this fast if they want to silence the music Nazis.
At my sons school, the in-class PCs were rarely used for class work. Instead, the kids loaded 'em up with video games,
music videos, and viruses/trojans/worms/spyware/spamware. No virus software or such. No patches were ever applied
( M$ machines). The school had no one to repair or troubleshoot stuff. This was all after a big push to get PCs in the classroom. There were wiring parties and meetings to show off how great it was to get a PC in the classroom. Went nowhere. A mad rush to bring our schools into the 21st century. Didnt work.
Several years ago, I had a t1 that went down. This router had a T1 plus several fiber gig links, and several ethernet interfaces. I talked to ISP help person to troubleshoot why the T1 died. After a couple minutes, the support jerk asked me to reboot the router to see if it clears the problem. There is no way I could reboot a production cisco 7500 to reset a T1. I told the support person that. She responded - " If I dont reboot the router then this support call is over". I quietly ( my temp guage was slowly rising) told the moron that this was a production router and reboot was out the question. We need to resolve without a reboot. The response was she would not be able to help me resolve this and I could call back when I could reboot router. Now, my temp gauge was maxxed out - I lost it. She hung up. I never encountered such a rude support person in my 12 year career as a network admin. I did my own troubleshooting and got a different support person to help. It took 10 mins to resolve.
Sad, but true. We have become a land of paranoid nuerotics. We see terrorists behind every rock. I feel sorry for my son. He's 26 and has to endure several decades of this crap. Me? Hell, I'm 60. I'm outta here in 10 or so years. I hope the afterlife is a little saner than this sh*t hole world. Of course, if reincarnation is real, I could come back to this mess and get to deal with it all over again. Yeah, that would be just my luck. Rats!
I remember when I hit 30...30 freaking years ago!!I thought it was over. Then I slammed into 40. All is lost! When I careened over 50, I was a living fossil. No hope here. I am now on the verge of 60 and staring at my own mortality. 30 years old today. Damn you, senorTaco, damn you....
Oh, I forgot. I still have a TR Network General sniffer in my lab. I used to have a FDDI also, but it died and I scrapped it. I have a few 4000 routers at my house ( play lab) that have TR cards and an ISDN card. Geez, I just dated myself here. Yeah, I am an old fart!
Still have a few mainframes that have the management devices on a ring. Fortunately, they also support ethernet, so we use it. I still have the 4-port TR card in my 7500 router. And if I dig around I'm sure to find a MAU somewhere.
The "powers that be" are on the verge of kicking our networking gear out of a 25x20 room and putting it all in cabinets on the computer room floor. I currently count on the fact that I have room security to protect routers, switches and firewalls. Plus all my monitoring gear and my lab. I have told the big-wigs, in meetings now, that we will be losing our physical security. It is falling on deaf ears. All they hear is that Im taking up 500 sq ft of precious room space.
I guess my only 2 choices are to 1). do what they want, after all they run the place, not me, or 2). bring a gun to work and hold my room hostage from these idiots.
If the bosses want you to do it, all you can do is document the ramifications and heed to their will. Oh, and do your best to cover your butt in case things get ugly!
A quote from a Roman general, Heraclitis, over 2000 years ago, about warfare and his troops:
"Of every 100 soldiers, 10 do not belong there and should be sent home. 80 are just targets. Nine are the true warriors, and we are glad to have them, for they make the battle. But one, he is the leader, and he brings the rest home."
I got out of college in '69. I got my first IBM-mainframe job that year. There was no mainframe-training in college. There shouldnt be. IBM has a huge education program to train people to use their hardware. I must have taken 100 classes in the past few decades relating to IBM-clone-mainframes. I dont worry about all those gray-haired IBM experts retiring. The market will train new souls to do this work. As for me, I hope I make it to retirement - the last 36 years of work has taken a toll on me physically. I had better retire soon - the workplace does not need us dinosaurs anymore.
I posted right before you - according to feds, 1 out of 4 deaths are due to cancer. Heart disease is number 1. Around 500,000 die each year from cancer. Accidental/misadventure/suicides are around 160,000 a year.
According to feds, 1 out 4 deaths in the US is from cancer ( around 500,000 a year). Sounds to me like you already have a damn good chance of dieing from cancer. Around 160,000 die from accidents ( including suicides). So, lets go to Mars and damn the cancer-torpedos!! Full speed ahead!!!
trying to avoid the draft ( 1969). Seriously, your first job after college is a throw-away. You have no clue what you want to do and what a career is. So, grab anything that is in your field. After you work a while, you may develope an interest in some field. But dont sweat your first job - remember you will probably change jobs many times in your work-life.
Of course, Im one to give advice - I have been in computers since 1969 and am burnt-out. I am a charred hull of a man. A greeter at WalMart looks like something I can sink my teeth into.
Bunch of sifi crap. Put this with transporters, space elevators, light-speed travel, ray guns, and I-will-collect-all-of-whats-owed-to-me-by-Social-S ecurity.
My take on the general public in this country is that they are sheep. Eh, I should say WE are sheep. As such, the public will do nothing. Oh, we may bitch and moan, some will say the end is near. But, nothing will get done. We are all good-little citizens and will take it up the a** often and like it. So, sit back and watch the show. The country I used to know and love is gone and nothing will get it back. Im almost 60 so its no big deal. People my age are dieing off. I feel sorry for the youngins around here. They will not remember the good times and will only know oppression and towing-the-party-line. Soon, I retire and enjoy my hobbies and let others sweat it out. Good luck, suckers!!
I have already started disinfecting all my keyboards. And, just to make sure, I am sand-blasting my monitor screens to cleanse any viral entities that are there. I always use rubber gloves when using my computer, and I wear an air mask to remove any foreign bodies. I feel much safer now!
Assuming I have my important data backed-up, I look at computer crashes as an opportunity to upgrade hardware! Much faster CPU, bigger harddrives,etc. While the computer is running fine, I cant seem to get in the right mindset for an upgrade. But after its broke, Yeahhhhhhh-Haaaaaaaa! New stuff!!!!
And BillyG is the herder. We are are slave to his OS and unable to think beyond it. Mac or Linux are our fleeting attempts to break the yolk of oppression, but, in the end, will be futile. As long as business has no guts to change and the users are clueless as what to do, we will be Windoz users. This was written from my W2k system. I am a linux advocate but at the office, I use this crap.
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if you give 2 weeks notice, they pay you for the 2 weeks and ship you home. Short timers are bad for the morale of others. If you have done your job right, everything is documented so you dont need to be around. IS this good or bad? For me, after I've given notice, I don't want to be there anyway. Even if its a great job and co-workers. Heck, you've moved on so don't linger around the water cooler. Leave the building, get in your car, throw a BIG finger at the place and split!
The RIAA would be screwed if there were many more NAT/PAT sites around. It would be hard to sue someone if everyone used the same IP ( but different port) for outbound traffic. The colleges should jump on this fast if they want to silence the music Nazis.
At my sons school, the in-class PCs were rarely used for class work. Instead, the kids loaded 'em up with video games,
music videos, and viruses/trojans/worms/spyware/spamware. No virus software or such. No patches were ever applied
( M$ machines). The school had no one to repair or troubleshoot stuff. This was all after a big push to get PCs in the
classroom. There were wiring parties and meetings to show off how great it was to get a PC in the classroom. Went nowhere.
A mad rush to bring our schools into the 21st century. Didnt work.
Several years ago, I had a t1 that went down. This router had a T1 plus several fiber gig links, and several ethernet interfaces. I talked to ISP help person to troubleshoot why the T1 died. After a couple minutes, the support jerk asked me to reboot the router to see if it clears the problem. There is no way I could reboot a production cisco 7500 to reset a T1. I told the support person that. She responded - " If I dont reboot the router then this support call is over". I quietly ( my temp guage was slowly rising) told the moron that this was a production router and reboot was out the question. We need to resolve without a reboot. The response was she would not be able to help me resolve this and I could call back when I could reboot router. Now, my temp gauge was maxxed out - I lost it. She hung up. I never encountered such a rude support person in my 12 year career as a network admin. I did my own troubleshooting and got a different support person to help. It took 10 mins to resolve.
Sad, but true. We have become a land of paranoid nuerotics. We see terrorists behind every rock. I feel sorry for my son. He's 26 and has to endure several decades of this crap. Me? Hell, I'm 60. I'm outta here in 10 or so years. I hope the afterlife is a little saner than this sh*t hole world. Of course, if reincarnation is real, I could come back to this mess and get to deal with it all over again. Yeah, that would be just my luck. Rats!
I remember when I hit 30...30 freaking years ago!!I thought it was over. Then I slammed into 40. All is lost! When I careened over 50, I was a living fossil. No hope here. I am now on the verge of 60 and staring at my own mortality. 30 years old today. Damn you, senorTaco, damn you....
Oh, I forgot. I still have a TR Network General sniffer in my lab. I used to have a FDDI also, but it died and I scrapped it. I have a few 4000 routers at my house ( play lab) that have TR cards and an ISDN card. Geez, I just dated myself here. Yeah, I am an old fart!
Still have a few mainframes that have the management devices on a ring. Fortunately, they also
support ethernet, so we use it. I still have the 4-port TR card in my 7500 router. And if I dig around
I'm sure to find a MAU somewhere.
The "powers that be" are on the verge of kicking our networking gear out of a 25x20 room and putting it all in cabinets on the computer room floor. I currently count on the fact that I have room security to protect routers, switches and firewalls. Plus all my monitoring gear and my lab. I have told the big-wigs, in meetings now, that we will be losing our physical security. It is falling on deaf ears. All they hear is that Im taking up 500 sq ft of precious room space.
I guess my only 2 choices are to 1). do what they want, after all they run the place, not me, or 2). bring a gun to work and hold my room hostage from these idiots.
If the bosses want you to do it, all you can do is document the ramifications and heed to their will. Oh, and do your best to cover your butt in case things get ugly!
A quote from a Roman general, Heraclitis, over 2000 years ago, about
warfare and his troops:
"Of every 100 soldiers, 10 do not belong there and should be sent home. 80 are just targets. Nine are the true warriors, and we are glad to have them, for they make the battle. But one, he is the leader, and he brings the rest home."
Who said I have a pension? In fact, I have diddly in retirement money. If I dont retire soon, I will die at my desk.
I got out of college in '69. I got my first IBM-mainframe job that year. There was no mainframe-training in college. There shouldnt be. IBM has a huge education program to train people to use their hardware. I must have taken 100 classes in the past few decades relating to IBM-clone-mainframes. I dont worry about all those gray-haired IBM experts retiring. The market will train new souls to do this work. As for me, I hope I make it to retirement - the last 36 years of work has taken a toll on me physically. I had better retire soon - the workplace does not need us dinosaurs anymore.
I posted right before you - according to feds, 1 out of 4 deaths are due to cancer. Heart disease is number 1. Around 500,000 die each year from cancer. Accidental/misadventure/suicides are around 160,000 a year.
According to feds, 1 out 4 deaths in the US is from cancer ( around 500,000 a year). Sounds to me like you already have a damn good chance of dieing from cancer. Around 160,000 die from accidents ( including suicides). So, lets go to Mars and damn the cancer-torpedos!! Full speed ahead!!!
nothing to say. Go Tech!
trying to avoid the draft ( 1969). Seriously, your first job after college is a throw-away. You have no clue what you want to do and what a career is. So, grab anything that is in your field. After you work a while, you may develope an interest in some field. But dont sweat your first job - remember you will probably change jobs many times in your work-life.
Of course, Im one to give advice - I have been in computers since 1969 and am burnt-out. I am a charred hull of a man. A greeter at WalMart looks like something I can sink my teeth into.
see http://www.bls.gov/search/ooh.asp?ct=OOH
Bunch of sifi crap. Put this with transporters,S ecurity.
space elevators, light-speed travel, ray guns, and I-will-collect-all-of-whats-owed-to-me-by-Social-
I stand corrected - I would never offend our friends, the sheep. So, lemmings it is!! Long live the lemmings!
My take on the general public in this country is that they are sheep. Eh, I should say WE are sheep. As such, the public will do nothing. Oh, we may bitch and moan, some will say the end is near. But, nothing will get done. We are all good-little citizens and will take it up the a** often and like it. So, sit back and watch the show. The country I used to know and love is gone and nothing will get it back. Im almost 60 so its no big deal. People my age are dieing off. I feel sorry for the youngins around here. They will not remember the good times and will only know oppression and towing-the-party-line. Soon, I retire and enjoy my hobbies and let others sweat it out. Good luck, suckers!!
I have already started disinfecting all my keyboards. And, just to make sure, I am sand-blasting my monitor screens to cleanse any viral entities that are there. I always use rubber gloves when using my computer, and I wear an air mask to remove any foreign bodies. I feel much safer now!
Assuming I have my important data backed-up, I look at computer crashes as an opportunity to upgrade hardware! Much faster CPU, bigger harddrives,etc. While the computer is running fine, I cant seem to get in the right mindset for an upgrade. But after its broke, Yeahhhhhhh-Haaaaaaaa! New stuff!!!!
Like, what else did you expect from a site named SPAMALOT!!
And BillyG is the herder. We are are slave to his OS and unable to think beyond it. Mac or Linux are our fleeting attempts to break the yolk of oppression, but, in the end, will be futile. As long as business has no guts to change and the users are clueless as what to do, we will be Windoz users. This was written from my W2k system. I am a linux advocate but at the office, I use this crap.
Let it go. we need a breather.