I'm not sure what your workout routine looked like before you started this job but here is what worked for me when I was working 60+ hours a week and getting physically prepared to join the United States Army.
I found it worked quite well. If you are already partially in shape you should be able to run the 2 miles in less than 16 minutes. The squat program takes another 15 minutes. The upper body workout took me about 30 minutes to perform all three phases.
It had me sweating and working out each morning and left me feeling like I had done a thorough workout (I was getting up at 0500). It helped me build and tone muscle and take the weight off. Additionally, the only thing I needed to buy was a decent pair of running shoes and a pull-up bar, the rest of the exercises used my body weight as resistance.
While it's not that hard to make cables... making cables that will last and perform well is a whole nother ball game. If it takes you longer than 30 seconds to pair the wires properly and crimp it... just buy some prefab.
In my industry as a data telecom technical consultant... I make my own cables all the time. But then again, I'm sitting at a rack most days building various arrangements of server clusters and making cables to fit is so much easier for me. I just bring my crimp tool, cable certifier, a small garbage bin, a spool of Cat 5e or 6 and a bag of RJ-45 plugs. I don't have to worry about "stretching" cables or having way too much cable to apply cable management to take up the extra slack. I do it a lot and I'm good at it. We fully certify every cable we make before it goes into the customer's rack/cluster.
More importantly, how long is the run? Is it going to be a PITA to run from the 20 mbps demarc to your server room? Just curious, why isn't it in the server room to begin with?
From this day forth, text-only websites will not be tolerated! These die hard dial up users are slowing the progression of high speed connectivity options by voting with their dollars for slow technology instead of voting with their dollars for a faster technology!
I'm going to make all of my webpages have 1000+ images... we'll see how much those dialup users stick around! MUWAHWAHWAH!
I'm honestly hoping that mine is defective, because everyone else speaks so highly of these units, although the community around them appears to be small, relatively speaking.
It's not rack-mountable and it has that USB throttling issue.
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I'm having hiccup problems with my Buffalo Pro II Rackmount... VMWare doesn't like accessing VMDK's off of the NAS because it apparently hiccups every 1 to 5 hours, which dumps VMWare to the floor. That and the speed degrades over the course of several weeks and I have to bounce the box. And thirdly, Apache on another box won't even start if a path to a share on the buffalo is referenced in the.conf file... and the apache box has full rights to the share and the NAS... I triple checked and had 3 buddies do the same.
Your current company just issued you a license to slack off. If they complain that you aren't getting any work done, you can easily fire back and tell them that you don't have access to do any work. Of course, I'm not aware of what type of work you do and how removal of such access would affect your ability to meet your job requirements.
Basically, do the work that you can. If you have to find a workaround to complete the task at hand, don't bother. Delegate where you can. Enjoy it. Consider it "At work vacation".
I think that someone needs to develop some sort of standardized platform to launch PC games from besides windows or other alternatives. Something that is JUST for gaming. Something like the OS that is loaded onto the consoles.
Anyway, I'm eager to see what AMD has in store. Perhaps it'll make upgrading and building gaming capable PCs easier for the not-so-tech-savvy. That is what keeps most gamers from entering the PC gaming market.
I have a couple of the Antec 4U rackmount ATX cases that I use as "glorified servers" at home and they function great! You can get the cases for under $200, more like around $150 maybe less online. Then just buy whatever ATX-based components that you need and you are set.
Lawsuit could work maybe once, but then they would just change their contract.
Story for you:
Several years ago, I lived in a small town. So small that when my house of 5 power users got the only broadband service available in the town run by a small "mom and pop" type company... after the first month we got a letter stating that we went over some bandwidth limit that they had apparently imposed out of thin air. I reviewed the contract I had signed, the latest version of their contract... there was absolutely nothing about it in the contract.
The letter was nice enough that they asked me to cut back on usage. I immediately set up my internet gateway to monitor and track all bandwidth usage on the WAN NIC. Next month rolls by and we get another letter from the ISP stating that if we continued to use as much bandwidth as we did that they'd be forced to cancel our residential account or have us upgrade to a business account. I went to the gateway and checked the bandwidth usage. It was roughly 30 GB of usage. Not too much in the grand scheme of things.
So I called the ISP's manager. I talked to him. I told him that we were paying for unlimited usage and asked why we were receiving the letters. He told us they had a "fuzzy limit" that was "at the descretion of their network admin". After some more heated discussion, he hung up on me.
Next month rolls around and we get a letter stating that because we violated the contract they have cancelled our account. So I took the company to court.
What was so interesting was that in court the company brought some interesting data in. Apparently, because the company serviced such a small area and that area was something you could consider "not very tech savy"... their grounds on the cancellation of our contract was based on one piece of data. Apparently, of the total bandwidth usage by their customers, my house was responsible for 80% of that usage.
Luckily, the judge was tech savy enough to understand what was happening. He read through the contract I had signed and the latest version that the company is having customers sign. No where in either of them did he see that there was any "limit" or notion of a "fuzzy limit". The only thing that could come close was the clause stating "activities that disrupt or degrade service are prohibitted". Looking at the rest of the data that the company brought in showed that the total bandwidth consumption by their customers was rouhly 65% of the total available bandwidth across the course of the month, and since my house was 80% of that 65%, we weren't coming anywhere close to saturating the network. Furthermore with the caps in place, there was no way that my house could possibly disrupt or degrade service to anyone but ourselves.
So that ISP shot themselves in the foot. My service resumed the next day and I didn't hear a peep out of the company until I moved.
The little guy wins over the not-so-big company.
You don't sound like a troll at all. We'll call it you are playing the role of Devil's advocate to make it sound professional.
It's not so much that the requirements of the open position are that challenging. The problem is actually the people that shouldn't have squeezed past the interview process in the first place. People that we have to tell them the name of the mail server 10x over... each time they write it on a page in a notepad... and each subsequent time they flip from the page they wrote it on previously to a new page to write it again. Or the kid who instead of realizing that corporate IT is running a spam filter and actively keeping it up to date on the various filters... when a customer calls about receiving a spam email, instead of forwarding it to the email group to update the filter, he instead installs some warez download that he had on his USB drive on his keychain for some hacked up version of [enter name here] spam filter to do all the filtering on the email client itself.
Luckily I don't do the interviewing, so I'm not to blame, but these guys must come off as being capable during the interview. (mentally and technically) So it's either they look really good on paper and know how to interview for jobs that they know they can't handle or something is in the water. I'm not sure.
I completely agree with you. Great example follows:
The company I work for has had an IT Help Desk Position open for nearly 3 years. We can't seem to find someone who has half a brain enough to perform the job. I don't understand what is so hard about it!
I picked up the job, the network and desktop infrastructure, and all policies in about 2 weeks. Of the 14 people that have been in and out of the position that has been open for the past 3 years, I think the one that learned it the fastest took 5 weeks and that was just barely grasping what was going on.
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I'm not sure what your workout routine looked like before you started this job but here is what worked for me when I was working 60+ hours a week and getting physically prepared to join the United States Army.
I did these three programs, all three, three days a week. (Mon, Weds, Fri)
http://twohundredsitups.com/
http://www.hundredpushups.com/
http://twentypullups.com/
Then, I did this program coupled with a 2-mile run three days a week (Tues, Thurs, Sat)
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/
I found it worked quite well. If you are already partially in shape you should be able to run the 2 miles in less than 16 minutes. The squat program takes another 15 minutes. The upper body workout took me about 30 minutes to perform all three phases.
It had me sweating and working out each morning and left me feeling like I had done a thorough workout (I was getting up at 0500). It helped me build and tone muscle and take the weight off. Additionally, the only thing I needed to buy was a decent pair of running shoes and a pull-up bar, the rest of the exercises used my body weight as resistance.
While it's not that hard to make cables... making cables that will last and perform well is a whole nother ball game. If it takes you longer than 30 seconds to pair the wires properly and crimp it... just buy some prefab.
In my industry as a data telecom technical consultant... I make my own cables all the time. But then again, I'm sitting at a rack most days building various arrangements of server clusters and making cables to fit is so much easier for me. I just bring my crimp tool, cable certifier, a small garbage bin, a spool of Cat 5e or 6 and a bag of RJ-45 plugs. I don't have to worry about "stretching" cables or having way too much cable to apply cable management to take up the extra slack. I do it a lot and I'm good at it. We fully certify every cable we make before it goes into the customer's rack/cluster.
More importantly, how long is the run? Is it going to be a PITA to run from the 20 mbps demarc to your server room? Just curious, why isn't it in the server room to begin with?
From this day forth, text-only websites will not be tolerated! These die hard dial up users are slowing the progression of high speed connectivity options by voting with their dollars for slow technology instead of voting with their dollars for a faster technology!
I'm going to make all of my webpages have 1000+ images... we'll see how much those dialup users stick around! MUWAHWAHWAH!
Thanks! I'll check that out.
I'm honestly hoping that mine is defective, because everyone else speaks so highly of these units, although the community around them appears to be small, relatively speaking.
It's not rack-mountable and it has that USB throttling issue.
I'm having hiccup problems with my Buffalo Pro II Rackmount... VMWare doesn't like accessing VMDK's off of the NAS because it apparently hiccups every 1 to 5 hours, which dumps VMWare to the floor. That and the speed degrades over the course of several weeks and I have to bounce the box. And thirdly, Apache on another box won't even start if a path to a share on the buffalo is referenced in the .conf file... and the apache box has full rights to the share and the NAS... I triple checked and had 3 buddies do the same.
"If you are fighting fair you are doing something horribly wrong."
Perhaps he transferred the money to another account before the institutions could withdraw it?
Totally stole my idea. That jerk!
Your current company just issued you a license to slack off. If they complain that you aren't getting any work done, you can easily fire back and tell them that you don't have access to do any work. Of course, I'm not aware of what type of work you do and how removal of such access would affect your ability to meet your job requirements. Basically, do the work that you can. If you have to find a workaround to complete the task at hand, don't bother. Delegate where you can. Enjoy it. Consider it "At work vacation".
I think that someone needs to develop some sort of standardized platform to launch PC games from besides windows or other alternatives. Something that is JUST for gaming. Something like the OS that is loaded onto the consoles. Anyway, I'm eager to see what AMD has in store. Perhaps it'll make upgrading and building gaming capable PCs easier for the not-so-tech-savvy. That is what keeps most gamers from entering the PC gaming market.
+1
I have a couple of the Antec 4U rackmount ATX cases that I use as "glorified servers" at home and they function great! You can get the cases for under $200, more like around $150 maybe less online. Then just buy whatever ATX-based components that you need and you are set.
Lawsuit could work maybe once, but then they would just change their contract. Story for you: Several years ago, I lived in a small town. So small that when my house of 5 power users got the only broadband service available in the town run by a small "mom and pop" type company... after the first month we got a letter stating that we went over some bandwidth limit that they had apparently imposed out of thin air. I reviewed the contract I had signed, the latest version of their contract... there was absolutely nothing about it in the contract. The letter was nice enough that they asked me to cut back on usage. I immediately set up my internet gateway to monitor and track all bandwidth usage on the WAN NIC. Next month rolls by and we get another letter from the ISP stating that if we continued to use as much bandwidth as we did that they'd be forced to cancel our residential account or have us upgrade to a business account. I went to the gateway and checked the bandwidth usage. It was roughly 30 GB of usage. Not too much in the grand scheme of things. So I called the ISP's manager. I talked to him. I told him that we were paying for unlimited usage and asked why we were receiving the letters. He told us they had a "fuzzy limit" that was "at the descretion of their network admin". After some more heated discussion, he hung up on me. Next month rolls around and we get a letter stating that because we violated the contract they have cancelled our account. So I took the company to court. What was so interesting was that in court the company brought some interesting data in. Apparently, because the company serviced such a small area and that area was something you could consider "not very tech savy"... their grounds on the cancellation of our contract was based on one piece of data. Apparently, of the total bandwidth usage by their customers, my house was responsible for 80% of that usage. Luckily, the judge was tech savy enough to understand what was happening. He read through the contract I had signed and the latest version that the company is having customers sign. No where in either of them did he see that there was any "limit" or notion of a "fuzzy limit". The only thing that could come close was the clause stating "activities that disrupt or degrade service are prohibitted". Looking at the rest of the data that the company brought in showed that the total bandwidth consumption by their customers was rouhly 65% of the total available bandwidth across the course of the month, and since my house was 80% of that 65%, we weren't coming anywhere close to saturating the network. Furthermore with the caps in place, there was no way that my house could possibly disrupt or degrade service to anyone but ourselves. So that ISP shot themselves in the foot. My service resumed the next day and I didn't hear a peep out of the company until I moved. The little guy wins over the not-so-big company.
Seriously, who comes up with ideas like this? And more importantly, why are those people allowed to have internet access?
You don't sound like a troll at all. We'll call it you are playing the role of Devil's advocate to make it sound professional. It's not so much that the requirements of the open position are that challenging. The problem is actually the people that shouldn't have squeezed past the interview process in the first place. People that we have to tell them the name of the mail server 10x over... each time they write it on a page in a notepad... and each subsequent time they flip from the page they wrote it on previously to a new page to write it again. Or the kid who instead of realizing that corporate IT is running a spam filter and actively keeping it up to date on the various filters... when a customer calls about receiving a spam email, instead of forwarding it to the email group to update the filter, he instead installs some warez download that he had on his USB drive on his keychain for some hacked up version of [enter name here] spam filter to do all the filtering on the email client itself. Luckily I don't do the interviewing, so I'm not to blame, but these guys must come off as being capable during the interview. (mentally and technically) So it's either they look really good on paper and know how to interview for jobs that they know they can't handle or something is in the water. I'm not sure.
I completely agree with you. Great example follows: The company I work for has had an IT Help Desk Position open for nearly 3 years. We can't seem to find someone who has half a brain enough to perform the job. I don't understand what is so hard about it! I picked up the job, the network and desktop infrastructure, and all policies in about 2 weeks. Of the 14 people that have been in and out of the position that has been open for the past 3 years, I think the one that learned it the fastest took 5 weeks and that was just barely grasping what was going on.