'After almost two decades of constant, grinding email use, we should all be too tech-savvy to keep making the same mortifying mistake, too careful to keep putting our relationships and careers on the line because of sloppiness.'
Screw that. I had a user last week going crazy because she couldn't send an email to her boss. I was at home sick, so after talking to her on the phone for about 15 minutes and having her freak out because of it and having her boss yell at me to fix the issue, I crawled out of bed to log in remotely to her workstation. The "problem" was that instead of putting an email address in the To field, she opted to just write the name of her boss and ignored the error messages. If you can believe it, she wouldn't admit she was at fault and still said it was my problem.
The first thing I did when I took over as the Network Administrator at my workplace was put an end to personal computers in the office. The company makes enough money that if we can't afford to give an employee a usable workstation, then we shouldn't be hiring anyone. If you want to bring in a new keyboard or mouse, that's fine with me, but anything else isn't happening
When I need to work on a computer or have to wipe it due to a virus or whatever, I don't want to have to waste my time backing up music collections or pictures or crap like that. The first thing I tell a new employee is that the computer is the property of the company, so if you want to load personal stuff on there its at your own risk.
Didn't the old Apple USB keyboards (from the original iMac) that had the power button on it somehow violate the USB standards at the time? Isn't that why they no longer have that button? Or maybe they do, I haven't used a Mac in a while.
I found out very quickly when I went to school that these schools aren't around for our benefit. They don't really care if we succeed or not, they're just around to make as much money off of us as they can. I know when I went to University two years ago, I would go into the bookstore with my booklist, get the prices, and go to Chapters. I remember saving almost $200 one year by doing it this way, but I would occassionally get the odd book that I could only get through the bookstore. It changed a bit when I finished at University and went to College, since all of my books are either Microsoft or Cisco certification books, they apparently aren't allowed to mark them up (they wouldn't tell me the reason), so I don't have to buy them online anymore. Still, occassionally I would have to buy some book for some course that would be marked up like crazy, and I always found it cheaper elsewhere.
One thing I loved about the bookstore was how they would help me out and buy back my books at the end of the semester, but I only ever did that once. I'm not going to do them a favour and have them buy back my $200 text book for $25 and have them resell it next year for $150. Fuck them, I'd rather give it away for free or burn the damn thing.
Theres no sense in bitching about it anyways, I'm in my fourth year of school and I'm already $35000 in debt, another $15000 and I should be done.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been following this whole GPLv3 debate for a while, and I don't really see what the big deal about it is. I've read and I understand the differences between the three versions of the license, and I really don't see how that is going to really affect me. I've been using Red Hat/Fedora and Gentoo since 2000, and I can't think of a single instance of a software license ever really affecting me. Maybe its because I'm not a software developer, but does the regular user really care about any of this? I can't speak for everyone else, but I know I don't care. Maybe I just don't care about the politics of the whole thing, I have better things to do with my time.
Am I going to jump ship on GNU/Linux because of an updated license? No. Would I ever? Probably not. Will this license ever affect me? Doubtful. Do I really care? No. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't like GPLv3, then you don't have to use it. Problem solved, next FUD article.
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'After almost two decades of constant, grinding email use, we should all be too tech-savvy to keep making the same mortifying mistake, too careful to keep putting our relationships and careers on the line because of sloppiness.' Screw that. I had a user last week going crazy because she couldn't send an email to her boss. I was at home sick, so after talking to her on the phone for about 15 minutes and having her freak out because of it and having her boss yell at me to fix the issue, I crawled out of bed to log in remotely to her workstation. The "problem" was that instead of putting an email address in the To field, she opted to just write the name of her boss and ignored the error messages. If you can believe it, she wouldn't admit she was at fault and still said it was my problem.
The first thing I did when I took over as the Network Administrator at my workplace was put an end to personal computers in the office. The company makes enough money that if we can't afford to give an employee a usable workstation, then we shouldn't be hiring anyone. If you want to bring in a new keyboard or mouse, that's fine with me, but anything else isn't happening When I need to work on a computer or have to wipe it due to a virus or whatever, I don't want to have to waste my time backing up music collections or pictures or crap like that. The first thing I tell a new employee is that the computer is the property of the company, so if you want to load personal stuff on there its at your own risk.
Didn't the old Apple USB keyboards (from the original iMac) that had the power button on it somehow violate the USB standards at the time? Isn't that why they no longer have that button? Or maybe they do, I haven't used a Mac in a while.
I found out very quickly when I went to school that these schools aren't around for our benefit. They don't really care if we succeed or not, they're just around to make as much money off of us as they can. I know when I went to University two years ago, I would go into the bookstore with my booklist, get the prices, and go to Chapters. I remember saving almost $200 one year by doing it this way, but I would occassionally get the odd book that I could only get through the bookstore. It changed a bit when I finished at University and went to College, since all of my books are either Microsoft or Cisco certification books, they apparently aren't allowed to mark them up (they wouldn't tell me the reason), so I don't have to buy them online anymore. Still, occassionally I would have to buy some book for some course that would be marked up like crazy, and I always found it cheaper elsewhere. One thing I loved about the bookstore was how they would help me out and buy back my books at the end of the semester, but I only ever did that once. I'm not going to do them a favour and have them buy back my $200 text book for $25 and have them resell it next year for $150. Fuck them, I'd rather give it away for free or burn the damn thing. Theres no sense in bitching about it anyways, I'm in my fourth year of school and I'm already $35000 in debt, another $15000 and I should be done.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been following this whole GPLv3 debate for a while, and I don't really see what the big deal about it is. I've read and I understand the differences between the three versions of the license, and I really don't see how that is going to really affect me. I've been using Red Hat/Fedora and Gentoo since 2000, and I can't think of a single instance of a software license ever really affecting me. Maybe its because I'm not a software developer, but does the regular user really care about any of this? I can't speak for everyone else, but I know I don't care. Maybe I just don't care about the politics of the whole thing, I have better things to do with my time. Am I going to jump ship on GNU/Linux because of an updated license? No. Would I ever? Probably not. Will this license ever affect me? Doubtful. Do I really care? No. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't like GPLv3, then you don't have to use it. Problem solved, next FUD article.