Reporting numbers that are from a different department is silly. sysadmin for an airline website? report costs of operation, and current load with a reminder of where you need to upgrade. if you are a sysadmin and you are dipping into the database to look at sales numbers, you are not doing your job, you are doing the accounting departments job.
Website operational costs $xxxx.xx per month we had XXXXXXX visitors in that time period and are operating at 46% capacity. Currently experiencing a 6% growth from last month and a 1% growth from last year at this time. At this growth rate barring any hardware failures, we will not need any capacity upgrades for XX months. We had to replace a hard drive array at a cost of $X,XXX.xx and will be scheduling a 12 hour downtime window later this month for software upgrades to protect the company and site from fraud.
That is what an executive wants to see, distilled down to a small paragraph that gives him everything he wanted in less than 30 seconds. Also if you distill it tightly like that, you end up showing up the other guys that report because you are concise and to the point not wasting any of his time. They REALLLLY appreciate that.
15 person company needs 1 CEO and that is it. if the CEO cant manage 14 people then he is a incompetent idiot.
One Competent CEO with 4 competent staff below him can easily, EASILY manage a company of that size. Idiots that hand out titles like candy are incompetent, be wary of a small start up with all executive staff.
Too bad, because outside the cordless I have Cisco phones on a Asterisk box. works ALL THE TIME as well, and my VoIP service never goes down unless internet is out, and if internet is out, then POTS phone is out too. (DSL is screwy that way)
Most people dont want to pay hundreds for a cordless phone. THAT is why.
My Engenius cordless has a 2 mile range (real 2 mile range not fake marketing crap) and it cost me $325.00 for a single handset+basestation and antenna. I have never met another person that owned an engenius phone because of the cost.
DECT phones already auto copy their phonebook to each other. At least quality ones do. I have 6 cordless phillips DECT phones and when you add a number to one, they all have it.
Now create a PC to DECT gateway, they has a very light saleability at around $19.95
Yup... The United state population that firmly believes in Ghosts, will buy useless shit like this on a REGULAR BASIS, oh and believes that a corporation wont screw with your vote in their voting machines that are Secret inside!
The general public is ragingly gullible. This is a given across the board from the USA to Underland, to that little country with one moron waving his tic tac toe flag and calls himself mister gumby.
I agree. Then Damned Lief Erickson had to go and put his first settlement here after some other vikings discovered it and let him and his father know about it.
Then the Copycat wannabe Columbus came here.
At least the Vikings were consistent, they simply killed and burned everything. The "pilgrims" bullshitted the native Indians before killing them.
No you didn't. Because there are no cars on this planet that can go 650 miles at 75mph without stopping for gas. and you cant find a 650 mile stretch of road that has no cars or delays in it.
Going 75 versus 65 will not get you there much faster unless you live in a fantasy world where there are no other cars and no stoplights or traffic delays. Let's forget that you will have an 11% increase in fuel economy by going slower therefore will probably have 1 less fuel stop (at 75mph you will probably have to make 2 fuel stops)
you will not save nearly an hour, you will save maybe 15 minutes total, nothing worth the increased risk of having a 1 hour delay added by the officer writing you a ticket.
You claim you did the math.... yeah, how a 5th grader would have done it.
Checking the OIL gives you lots of indicators if you are educated in how to check it. Looking for water or other contamination as well as oil level and if there is any oil consumption.
The Idiot light = you just fried your engine. low oil pressure at highway speeds = toasted crank bearings and a destroyed cam in very short order. Well designed cars will cut the fuel pump when the oil light comes on.
My experience with Mensa people is that they are primarily losers. I quit after my first meeting, I saw how every one of them had a complete 8 foot 4X4 made of oak up each of their asses.
Honestly, it gets' you NOTHING in the real world. It's like wasting your time in the National Honors society, that has NEVER helped me in my career.
I would have been far further ahead by volunteering or getting management positions in various campus groups.
It's because it is not what you know but WHO you know.
Rich = well connected.
Smart typically = antisocial loaner.
yes there are some incredibly rare exceptions, but typically the frat party boy that can chat people up will be rich while the quiet hermit with 4X the IQ of the frat boy will discover amazing things quietly and poorly in his basement.
Charisma, being able to bullshit very well, and how to schmooze is how you get rich.
How do you filter out the people screwing around and staging a fake darpa balloon.
There is enough information in the rules for me to set up fake ones that contestants will NOT be able to distinguish from real. also no judge on the planet will hear a lawsuit against someone signing a unenforceable legal contract and feeding bad information. In fact the "organizer" has more legal danger than the helpers as having 10 angry people suing you has a far higher chance of winning in court than you suing 10 people.
P.S. it's not illegal for me to fly a red balloon and have a white rental car with a magnetic sign on it that says DARPA. If I am vague and say "YUP you found this red balloon! congrats!" I never lied.
They are also really easy to get. that was with 6 seconds of searching, 500 gram red weather balloons would be even more distracting as they will be seen from longer distances.
The Helium will be pricey though.
2 teams spending a few hundred bucks with a pickup truck can launch 20 of them the day before tethered at a 200 foot mark will be very visible for a distance. it will throw off a LOT of reports, BUT the reports will be clustered within areas that will be easy to filter out. you need to get a group of 20 or more people scattered all over the USA that are willing to launch only 1 balloon.
There is actually time to do this if someone start's now.
Ok Slackware. I can netboot install it. I can embed it on tiny stuff. Whole OS on a single floppy with busybox.
Also I can make it work on a 386. you know you are allowed to recompile the kernel to take out all that you dont want. In fact anyone that wants to run a fast machine typically does that.
You are one of those people we dont hire. In fact that is a question asked at interview, what do you think about low power hardware like 386's? We do embedded work and a 486 is considered high end.
Cripes I have a robot wandering the office that has a 386 as it's processor that is doing more than most current office machines ever do.
why use a floppy? take out the hard drive and install the base OS to the drive from a host PC. I do that all the time with tablets as they dont have CD or floppy.
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Reporting numbers that are from a different department is silly. sysadmin for an airline website? report costs of operation, and current load with a reminder of where you need to upgrade. if you are a sysadmin and you are dipping into the database to look at sales numbers, you are not doing your job, you are doing the accounting departments job.
Website operational costs $xxxx.xx per month we had XXXXXXX visitors in that time period and are operating at 46% capacity. Currently experiencing a 6% growth from last month and a 1% growth from last year at this time. At this growth rate barring any hardware failures, we will not need any capacity upgrades for XX months. We had to replace a hard drive array at a cost of $X,XXX.xx and will be scheduling a 12 hour downtime window later this month for software upgrades to protect the company and site from fraud.
That is what an executive wants to see, distilled down to a small paragraph that gives him everything he wanted in less than 30 seconds. Also if you distill it tightly like that, you end up showing up the other guys that report because you are concise and to the point not wasting any of his time. They REALLLLY appreciate that.
15 person company needs 1 CEO and that is it. if the CEO cant manage 14 people then he is a incompetent idiot.
One Competent CEO with 4 competent staff below him can easily, EASILY manage a company of that size. Idiots that hand out titles like candy are incompetent, be wary of a small start up with all executive staff.
Cheap assholes in the design department and Management of the companies that make them. That is the ONLY reason.
Too bad, because outside the cordless I have Cisco phones on a Asterisk box. works ALL THE TIME as well, and my VoIP service never goes down unless internet is out, and if internet is out, then POTS phone is out too. (DSL is screwy that way)
the Cisco voip phones are incredible sounding.
Most people dont want to pay hundreds for a cordless phone. THAT is why.
My Engenius cordless has a 2 mile range (real 2 mile range not fake marketing crap) and it cost me $325.00 for a single handset+basestation and antenna. I have never met another person that owned an engenius phone because of the cost.
no.
DECT phones already auto copy their phonebook to each other. At least quality ones do.
I have 6 cordless phillips DECT phones and when you add a number to one, they all have it.
Now create a PC to DECT gateway, they has a very light saleability at around $19.95
Yup... The United state population that firmly believes in Ghosts, will buy useless shit like this on a REGULAR BASIS, oh and believes that a corporation wont screw with your vote in their voting machines that are Secret inside!
The general public is ragingly gullible. This is a given across the board from the USA to Underland, to that little country with one moron waving his tic tac toe flag and calls himself mister gumby.
I have a bomb repelling and detecting cat. It not only chases away bombs but it will alert you to a suspected bomb that may be within 50 feet of you.
Far more effective than the rock as it's reactive instead of passive.
I agree. Then Damned Lief Erickson had to go and put his first settlement here after some other vikings discovered it and let him and his father know about it.
Then the Copycat wannabe Columbus came here.
At least the Vikings were consistent, they simply killed and burned everything. The "pilgrims" bullshitted the native Indians before killing them.
Most GM cars sold from 2001- now use electronic transmission control and electronic fuel control.
They do not suffer these problems. There fore your assertation that drive by wire is dangerous is simply silly.
I have a 1983 vehicle that has a digital speedo, and a 2001 vehicle that uses a cable.
it's not a older/ newer. it's however they are designing it today.
No you didn't. Because there are no cars on this planet that can go 650 miles at 75mph without stopping for gas. and you cant find a 650 mile stretch of road that has no cars or delays in it.
Going 75 versus 65 will not get you there much faster unless you live in a fantasy world where there are no other cars and no stoplights or traffic delays. Let's forget that you will have an 11% increase in fuel economy by going slower therefore will probably have 1 less fuel stop (at 75mph you will probably have to make 2 fuel stops)
you will not save nearly an hour, you will save maybe 15 minutes total, nothing worth the increased risk of having a 1 hour delay added by the officer writing you a ticket.
You claim you did the math.... yeah, how a 5th grader would have done it.
Checking the OIL gives you lots of indicators if you are educated in how to check it. Looking for water or other contamination as well as oil level and if there is any oil consumption.
The Idiot light = you just fried your engine. low oil pressure at highway speeds = toasted crank bearings and a destroyed cam in very short order. Well designed cars will cut the fuel pump when the oil light comes on.
High IQ is very close to nuts.
Seriously, the farther over the 140IQ line you go the more nuts the person it. Genius and insanity are really close together up near the top.
I have never met a 160IQ or higher person that was not a complete nutjob.
My experience with Mensa people is that they are primarily losers. I quit after my first meeting, I saw how every one of them had a complete 8 foot 4X4 made of oak up each of their asses.
Honestly, it gets' you NOTHING in the real world. It's like wasting your time in the National Honors society, that has NEVER helped me in my career.
I would have been far further ahead by volunteering or getting management positions in various campus groups.
It's because it is not what you know but WHO you know.
Rich = well connected.
Smart typically = antisocial loaner.
yes there are some incredibly rare exceptions, but typically the frat party boy that can chat people up will be rich while the quiet hermit with 4X the IQ of the frat boy will discover amazing things quietly and poorly in his basement.
Charisma, being able to bullshit very well, and how to schmooze is how you get rich.
Nope that's plain old greed that causes that one. They know that it's too good to be true, but their greed inside makes them want more.
Greed makes people do stupid things. Ask a gambling addict, they know they are doing the wrong thing.
How do you filter out the people screwing around and staging a fake darpa balloon.
There is enough information in the rules for me to set up fake ones that contestants will NOT be able to distinguish from real. also no judge on the planet will hear a lawsuit against someone signing a unenforceable legal contract and feeding bad information. In fact the "organizer" has more legal danger than the helpers as having 10 angry people suing you has a far higher chance of winning in court than you suing 10 people.
P.S. it's not illegal for me to fly a red balloon and have a white rental car with a magnetic sign on it that says DARPA. If I am vague and say "YUP you found this red balloon! congrats!" I never lied.
http://www.scientificsales.com/8233-Weather-Balloon-100-Grams-Red-p/8233.htm
They are also really easy to get. that was with 6 seconds of searching, 500 gram red weather balloons would be even more distracting as they will be seen from longer distances.
The Helium will be pricey though.
2 teams spending a few hundred bucks with a pickup truck can launch 20 of them the day before tethered at a 200 foot mark will be very visible for a distance. it will throw off a LOT of reports, BUT the reports will be clustered within areas that will be easy to filter out. you need to get a group of 20 or more people scattered all over the USA that are willing to launch only 1 balloon.
There is actually time to do this if someone start's now.
Exactly, I just got nearly $590.00 for my Tandy Model 12 in near mint shape.
Ok Slackware. I can netboot install it. I can embed it on tiny stuff. Whole OS on a single floppy with busybox.
Also I can make it work on a 386. you know you are allowed to recompile the kernel to take out all that you dont want. In fact anyone that wants to run a fast machine typically does that.
You are one of those people we dont hire. In fact that is a question asked at interview, what do you think about low power hardware like 386's? We do embedded work and a 486 is considered high end.
Cripes I have a robot wandering the office that has a 386 as it's processor that is doing more than most current office machines ever do.
It's only game over if you ride a recumbent with a full tight spandex kit.
why use a floppy? take out the hard drive and install the base OS to the drive from a host PC. I do that all the time with tablets as they dont have CD or floppy.
Actually it's not hard to set up slackware or even debian to do a netboot install.
If it has a network card you can configure them to do a netboot.