For one thing, whistleblowers typically get the shaft after their deed. It goes with the territory - you blow the whistle, you lose your job. fact of life.
Installing spyware on ANYones computer is not ethical, I dont care what your intentions. You can get fired for this. Can your boss install spyware on your computer? If its work-related and you are informed, it maybe legal. Tough area to figure out.
What the heck was he doing trying to get shit on his boss? Not a good thing to do politically. Not a good career decision. If his supervisors lack of work was affecting his work, he might be able to go over the bosses head, but, again, not good in the long run.
The guy must have been frustrated to do this. If the job market was better, he could have moved out. But I'm sure he felt trapped and had to do something. Glad it wasnt me.
Jesus, does everything we do these days end up in court? I have been a firm believer that the career of the millenium is law. We see law suits now for just about everything. If I was back in college, Id switch to law. Definetly going to have a job waiting for you. Business is booming! About the only field that has an unlimited future.
ISS was a bad journey in space exploration. We actually got to the moon. Then we backed off. We spent 20 years flying an edsel oh I mean space shuttle and then decided to waste more time and $$$ in building ISS. How about going back to the frecking moon!! Theres your base for the Mars mission.
The last moon mission was early 70s. We have blown over 30years screwing around. Now, to go back to moon will costs a HUGE amount of cash. And Mars? Well, the money for Mars was sent to Iraq. Sorry!!!
I would hate to go thru life without just bugging the hell outta somebody. If we dont annoy SOMEBODY, then that says we have a milktoast personality. Theres not much there.
During Vietnam, the government avoided a "guns or butter" choice. But things are differnet now. We are rapidly coming to a choice - we can either run the Iraq war and cut the crap outta every other project, or, fund the services that the people want/need and cut the $$$ to Iraq war. Wonder where the feds will get the funds for our next war - Iran. Maybe we should cancel SocialSecurity/Medicare. Take the money and fund our wars. Yeah, that makes sense.
It had incredible value, we just didnt know it. Just imagine if we had stayed. What better place to practise going to Mars than from the moon. WE would have had a few poeple living there for months ( or year). We would know how to built and setup supply points for longer mission. We could practise for a few years, get the bugs outta the software, and then make a giant leap.
The ISS has sapped the energy and $$$ out of our space program. We have spent years watching fies mate or crystals grow. We should be developing the technology and science to go to some planet. And dont get me started on the Shuttle. It has become the Yugo of the space program. It is our main space craft, built on 1960-1970 technology. It is failing apart and we cant afford to replace 'em.
So here we sit, watching the ISS circle the earth, and doing squat. The space program is dead, my firend! NASA just doesnt know it yet.
Yeah, we went to the moon. We had a decent space program. And it was underfunded because most of US budget went to cold-war and war in Vietnam.
We had several missions and then we pulled out. And our space program has not been the same since. When we dropped our moon program, we proved that we didnt go there for science or "just because its there". We went to beat the Ruskies and that was it. If the russians had mounted a serious moon program, you can bet your winning lottery ticket that things would have been different.
But when russians didnt follow us, we lost all desire to finish the program. We just gave up!
As noted by others, there are other exposures that have done equal or more damage. My dad died from asbestos exposure during WWII ( mesothelioma cancer). He was a MMM3rd and worked in the engine room. A lotta guys worked around asbestos and have since died. In a way, similar story to radiation exposure. No one knew the risks. So, people worked and played around this stuff for years. I grew up in Los ALamos, NM and remember playing in a few creek beds that had wierd smells and dark, greyish slim on the rocks. Life is nothing but dealing with and accepting a certain level of risk. This story is just another sad tale of life on this planet.
I am really looking forward to getting stuck in a home. 3 squares a day. 24 hour security. cameras or RFID tags to follow me. No worries or responsibilities. Wait...sounds like prison.....!
Pardon the review but its for those who are clueless about old IBM systems. Early days of MVS on an IBM 145. I was responsible for JES2 - the input/output system. All job processing starts and ends with JES2. It is just a job that runs all the time. Thing is - no JES2 system - no input/output processing. So, in my course of work I modified the task itself to reflect some new libraries. So we ran like this for a week or so. Like a lotta computers, data modified on disk is NOT reflected in the running system. I changed the JES2 JCL but the changes wont be reflected until an IPL or so. We ran for over 2 weeks, great system. THis was a state government data center so we ran 24/7. Also, our backups covered about 2 weeks back ( you may see where this is going). One day, we take a hit and have to reboot MVS. But my JES2 changes had a JCL error ( ie typo). So JES2 wont come up. So system is dead. Just so happens we were in our AFDC ( welfare) cycle so we had to get our subsidy checks out quick. But system is kaput. No problem - we go to backup tapes. But our oldest backup also had job error. WE have no system. We miss our window on getting payroll/welfarechecks/ out to our finacial people to process. The data center manager starts getting phone calls from department heads about late processing. Soon, the governors office calls about a rumor of late welfare check processing. NOw its pucker time. Fortunately we had an old SVS system pack lying around ( in an old store room). We got system back. Needless to say our backup system was changed, we modified our change control processes, I learned a hard-learned lesson - "There is no such thing as too many backups".
Im 57 and made a zillion errors. Here is what Ive learned:
1. If you are in a high-tech field, get a hobby that involves the arts. Photography, painting, sculpting. You dont have to be great. 30 years from now, when you burnout, your artistic talents will be the number 1 interest in your life. You'll thank me.
2. Dont get married till after 30. The twenties are for partying.
3. Plan on retiring around 55. Start looking at that age to leave the job market. Get a house paid off by then. Talk to smart financial people about this. You'll thank me.
4. Manage your own career. Forget about job security, putting in your 30 years at a company. Make sure your current employer pays for career education. Masters degree may help. PhD may or may not help ( i know some PhDs outta work).
5. Health. Do everything in moderation. Avoid drugs and booze. Especially if your relatives have problems in these areas. Exercise 4 days a week. Eat what you like. Dont diet or go off on some weird food binge. Eating is one of lifes great enjoyments. enjoy.
6. Work on your enlightenment. Kinda goes with (1). Find a balance with the world. Especially people who piss you off or push your buttons. Learn to focus your anger to solve problems. You want to be a free-flowing human when you retire. As a recently passed-away coworker told me, "life is too important to be taken seriously".
What you should be striving to do is have all your energies come together when you retire. All the facets of your life should arrive in unison as you give up work. Then, you will really discover who you are. Its not work, your friends, or wives, or kids. Its not the money or cars, or PCs. Its arriving at a spot where your life can begin. 30 years of work is really a waste of a humans energy. We gotta do it but still. Remember, all paths to enlightenment lead to you. I know we are supposed to live in the now, but your need to plan. I didnt, I regret it. I f**cked up.
Of course all of this is for naught if you die an early death. A lot of that you cant control.
At work, we have security policy that any new PCs bought pre-loaded or any new rebuild, cannot be connnected to our network without first running 2 CDs. These CDs contain current SP, virus software and recent DAT, STINGER, M$ patches that address worms ( Doom, Nachi,sasser), plus docs. The user must configure virus and WindowsUPdate to use our servers. After all this is done, THEN user is allowed to connect to network. Works great. These CDs cover NT, W2k, XP and 2003 ( and 64bit versions).
I totally agree. We Americans think we have the moral high-ground in the world. We get indignant when some groups parade our dead around a dirty street. Then this surfaces. Great - even more reasons for the world ( and arab nations) to hate us. If Rumsfeld is right, theres more coming. The soldiers doing this should be sent to jail. Their immediate commanders should be sent to jail. And their commanders should be busted to Pfcs. If we dont deal harshly with this, then we are putting any future captured american, anywhere in the world, in even deeper sh*t. I wonder how Sen. McCain feels about this?
The best programmer I have every worked with had a BS in Phys Ed. I got a math degree and have worked in dataproc/IT for over 35 years. Spent several years coding, db admin, now a network engineer. My math degree has not helped a bit. Thats not to say that you never use any math concepts beyond basic algebra writing most apps. But by and large, I coulda had a degree in 17th century french literature and probably done just fine!
Save your money. I know CCDPs/CCNAs that have been outta work for over a year. Recently, I interviewed several folks for a networking position. Over half of the responders were cisco CCIEs, who were not working.
I saw my first computer in 1966 - a IBM 360/44 ( a mod 40 without MVCL instruction). FORTRAN was the language of choice. I knew where my career was headed. Here I am almost 40 years later. Tired of computing and hoping for a less-stressful retirement.
I feel like a stuck record - the career of the future is law. The US is rapidly becoming a country of sue-rs and the sue-es. Like the judical system has nothing better to do than process numbskull litigations.
HIgh tech and IT careers are the pits. But corporate litigation and patent law is blooming. One lawyer in my company was hired away by another firm, only to be re-hired with us for more bucks! There was a bidding war for this person. That hasnt happened to me in a long while ( Im in network engineering).
So, rather than complain about the job market, GO TO LAW SCHOOL.
I think I dated a chick from that club a few years ago. I should have remembered what my dad told me - never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself.
The plots were,at best, flimsy. But the strange dubbing, the even stranger cast of characters, the great miniature sets, throbbin music, and the lady with the big ears.
You gotta love these movies. Just rent one, with a big bag of popcorn and a six pack. Sit back and watch the "big fellow" destroy Tokyo.
My son, when he was very young, even came up with a dance called the Godzilla Stomp.
I have been in the computer field since 1969. I have done just about every job there is to do in this field, from operation to network design, from coding RPG to designing document processing for state legislatures.
I had all this time to change careers but I was a whore to my profession ( I couldnt get away from the money).
Now, in my 50s I realize what I REALLY want to do with my life and it aint in IT!
Can I be retrained? Is there enough time? Will anyone hire a 60yearold novice in a new field?
Hint - if you hate your IT job and you are under 35, then bail now! Time will slowly catch up with you and you will be stuck in a lifeless job, in a lifeless company, doing lifeless work.
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For one thing, whistleblowers typically get the shaft after their deed. It goes with the territory - you blow the whistle, you lose your job. fact of life.
Installing spyware on ANYones computer is not ethical, I dont care what your intentions. You can get fired for this. Can your boss install spyware on your computer? If its work-related and you are informed, it maybe legal. Tough area to figure out.
What the heck was he doing trying to get shit on his boss? Not a good thing to do politically. Not a good career decision. If his supervisors lack of work was affecting his work, he might be able to go over the bosses head, but, again, not good in the long run.
The guy must have been frustrated to do this. If the job market was better, he could have moved out. But I'm sure he felt trapped and had to do something. Glad it wasnt me.
Jesus, does everything we do these days end up in court? I have been a firm believer that the career of the millenium is law. We see law suits now for just about everything. If I was back in college, Id switch to law. Definetly going to have a job waiting for you. Business is booming! About the only field that has an unlimited future.
ISS was a bad journey in space exploration. We actually got to the moon. Then we backed off. We spent 20 years flying an edsel oh I mean space shuttle and then decided to waste more time and $$$ in building ISS. How about going back to the frecking moon!! Theres your base for the Mars mission.
The last moon mission was early 70s. We have blown over 30years screwing around. Now, to go back to moon will costs a HUGE amount of cash. And Mars? Well, the money for Mars was sent to Iraq. Sorry!!!
I would hate to go thru life without just bugging the hell outta somebody. If we dont annoy SOMEBODY, then that says we have a milktoast personality. Theres not much there.
During Vietnam, the government avoided a "guns or butter" choice. But things are differnet now. We are rapidly coming to a choice - we can either run the Iraq war and cut the crap outta every other project, or, fund the services that the people want/need and cut the $$$ to Iraq war. Wonder where the feds will get the funds for our next war - Iran.
Maybe we should cancel SocialSecurity/Medicare. Take the money and fund our wars. Yeah, that makes sense.
It had incredible value, we just didnt know it. Just imagine if we had stayed. What better place to practise going to Mars than from the moon. WE would have had a few poeple living there for months ( or year). We would know how to built and setup supply points for longer mission. We could practise for a few years, get the bugs outta the software, and then make a giant leap.
The ISS has sapped the energy and $$$ out of our space program. We have spent years watching fies mate or crystals grow. We should be developing the technology and science to go to some planet.
And dont get me started on the Shuttle. It has become the Yugo of the space program. It is our main space craft, built on 1960-1970 technology. It is failing apart and we cant afford to replace 'em.
So here we sit, watching the ISS circle the earth, and doing squat. The space program is dead, my firend! NASA just doesnt know it yet.
Yeah, we went to the moon. We had a decent space program. And it was underfunded because most of US budget went to cold-war and war in Vietnam.
We had several missions and then we pulled out. And our space program has not been the same since. When we dropped our moon program, we proved that we didnt go there for science or "just because its there". We went to beat the Ruskies and that was it. If the russians had mounted a serious moon program, you can bet your winning lottery ticket that things would have been different.
But when russians didnt follow us, we lost all desire to finish the program. We just gave up!
I need the cheat codes ASAP!! Need godmode or its all over......
As noted by others, there are other exposures that have done equal or more damage. My dad died from asbestos exposure during WWII ( mesothelioma cancer). He was a MMM3rd and worked in the engine room. A lotta guys worked around asbestos and have since died. In a way, similar story to radiation exposure. No one knew the risks. So, people worked and played around this stuff for years. I grew up in Los ALamos, NM and remember playing in a few creek beds that had wierd smells and dark, greyish slim on the rocks. Life is nothing but dealing with and accepting a certain level of risk. This story is just another sad tale of life on this planet.
I am really looking forward to getting stuck in a
home. 3 squares a day. 24 hour security. cameras or RFID tags to follow me. No worries or
responsibilities. Wait...sounds like prison.....!
Never mind
Pardon the review but its for those who are clueless about old IBM systems. Early days of MVS on an IBM 145. I was responsible for JES2 - the input/output system. All job processing starts and ends with JES2. It is just a job that runs all the time. Thing is - no JES2 system - no input/output processing. So, in my course of work I modified the task itself to reflect some new libraries. So we ran like this for a week or so. Like a lotta computers, data modified on disk is NOT reflected in the running system. I changed the JES2 JCL but the changes wont be reflected until an IPL or so.
We ran for over 2 weeks, great system. THis was a state government data center so we ran 24/7. Also, our backups covered about 2 weeks back ( you may see where this is going). One day, we take a hit and have to reboot MVS. But my JES2 changes had a JCL error ( ie typo). So JES2 wont come up. So system is dead. Just so happens we were in our AFDC ( welfare) cycle so we had to get our subsidy checks out quick. But system is kaput. No problem - we go to backup tapes. But our oldest backup also had job error. WE have no system. We miss our window on getting payroll/welfarechecks/ out to our finacial people to process. The data center manager starts getting phone calls from department heads about late processing. Soon, the governors office calls about a rumor of late welfare check processing. NOw its pucker time.
Fortunately we had an old SVS system pack lying around ( in an old store room). We got system back. Needless to say our backup system was changed, we modified our change control processes, I learned a hard-learned lesson - "There is no such thing as too many backups".
Your 15Billion bucks was sent to Iraq last week.
But thanks for playing.............
Im 57 and made a zillion errors. Here is what Ive learned:
1. If you are in a high-tech field, get a hobby that involves the arts. Photography, painting, sculpting. You dont have to be great. 30 years from now, when you burnout, your artistic talents will be the number 1 interest in your life. You'll thank me.
2. Dont get married till after 30. The twenties are for partying.
3. Plan on retiring around 55. Start looking at that age to leave the job market. Get a house paid off by then. Talk to smart financial people about this. You'll thank me.
4. Manage your own career. Forget about job security, putting in your 30 years at a company. Make sure your current employer pays for career education. Masters degree may help. PhD may or may not help ( i know some PhDs outta work).
5. Health. Do everything in moderation. Avoid drugs and booze. Especially if your relatives have problems in these areas. Exercise 4 days a week. Eat what you like. Dont diet or go off on some weird food binge. Eating is one of lifes great enjoyments. enjoy.
6. Work on your enlightenment. Kinda goes with (1). Find a balance with the world. Especially people who piss you off or push your buttons. Learn to focus your anger to solve problems. You want to be a free-flowing human when you retire. As a recently passed-away coworker told me, "life is too important to be taken seriously".
What you should be striving to do is have all your energies come together when you retire. All the facets of your life should arrive in unison as you give up work. Then, you will really discover who you are. Its not work, your friends, or wives, or kids. Its not the money or cars, or PCs. Its arriving at a spot where your life can begin. 30 years of work is really a waste of a humans energy. We gotta do it but still. Remember, all paths to enlightenment lead to you. I know we are supposed to live in the now, but your need to plan. I didnt, I regret it. I f**cked up.
Of course all of this is for naught if you die an early death. A lot of that you cant control.
Good luck....
Amen.
At work, we have security policy that any new PCs bought pre-loaded or any new rebuild, cannot be connnected to our network without first running 2 CDs. These CDs contain current SP, virus software and recent DAT, STINGER, M$ patches that address worms ( Doom, Nachi,sasser), plus docs. The user must configure virus and WindowsUPdate to use our servers. After all this is done, THEN user is allowed to connect to network. Works great. These CDs cover NT, W2k, XP and 2003 ( and 64bit versions).
I totally agree. We Americans think we have the moral high-ground in the world. We get indignant when some groups parade our dead around a dirty street. Then this surfaces. Great - even more reasons for the world ( and arab nations) to hate us. If Rumsfeld is right, theres more coming.
The soldiers doing this should be sent to jail. Their immediate commanders should be sent to jail.
And their commanders should be busted to Pfcs. If we dont deal harshly with this, then we are
putting any future captured american, anywhere in the world, in even deeper sh*t. I wonder how Sen. McCain feels about this?
The best programmer I have every worked with had a BS in Phys Ed. I got a math degree and have worked in dataproc/IT for over 35 years. Spent several years coding, db admin, now a network engineer. My math degree has not helped a bit. Thats not to say that you never use any math concepts beyond basic algebra writing most apps. But by and large, I coulda had a degree in 17th century french literature and probably done just fine!
Save your money. I know CCDPs/CCNAs that have been outta work for over a year. Recently, I interviewed several folks for a networking position. Over half of the responders were cisco CCIEs, who were not working.
Here we go again. Nothing new here. Everybody
go to windows update, again.
If someone off-shore wants my lousy job, they can have it. Good luck, pal!
I saw my first computer in 1966 - a IBM 360/44 ( a mod 40 without MVCL instruction). FORTRAN was the language of choice. I knew where my career was headed. Here I am almost 40 years later.
Tired of computing and hoping for a less-stressful retirement.
I feel like a stuck record - the career of the future is law. The US is rapidly becoming a country of sue-rs and the sue-es. Like the judical system has nothing better to do than process numbskull litigations.
HIgh tech and IT careers are the pits. But corporate litigation and patent law is blooming.
One lawyer in my company was hired away by another firm, only to be re-hired with us for more bucks! There was a bidding war for this person. That hasnt happened to me in a long while ( Im in network engineering).
So, rather than complain about the job market, GO TO LAW SCHOOL.
I think I dated a chick from that club a few years ago. I should have remembered what my dad told me - never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself.
The plots were,at best, flimsy. But the strange dubbing, the even stranger cast of characters, the
great miniature sets, throbbin music, and the lady with the big ears.
You gotta love these movies. Just rent one, with
a big bag of popcorn and a six pack. Sit back and
watch the "big fellow" destroy Tokyo.
My son, when he was very young, even came up with a dance called the Godzilla Stomp.
I have been in the computer field since 1969. I have done just about every job there is to do in this field, from operation to network design, from coding RPG to designing document processing for state legislatures.
I had all this time to change careers but I was a whore to my profession ( I couldnt get away from the money).
Now, in my 50s I realize what I REALLY want to do with my life and it aint in IT!
Can I be retrained? Is there enough time? Will anyone hire a 60yearold novice in a new field?
Hint - if you hate your IT job and you are under 35, then bail now! Time will slowly catch up with you and you will be stuck in a lifeless job, in a lifeless company, doing lifeless work.
Get out now!!!!