600 users 250 machines and printers, and I maintain the lot in 28 hours a week, 4 days at 7 hours a day. Including replacing 33% of machines each year.
And I spend more than half my day on Slashdot.
No network downtime in 5 years, all Windows XP/2003 server.
Space is big, really big, big than the biggest thing ever. You may think its a long way down the street to the the shop but thats just peanuts compared to space!
Glad you asked. Managers, like a lot of people, are Stack Brained - only more so. People, when confronted by a term they do not understand in conversation, PUSH the term onto their stack to ask about later. Too many terms and their Stack has a minor error and randomly throws away the new term and/or one or more of the Stack contents. Managers on the other hand have a poor stack implementation and a low number of items, which means technical conversations usually lose them quite early on. IMPORTANT NOTE: Stack Overflow results in data Corruption E.g:
Tecchy: "There seems to be a problem with the handshaking protocol of the modembank" Manager: Uh-huh
Notice: (a) the words "Uh-huh" are used to signal a successful stack operation, and (b) The Manager's stack is now full. We're in the danger zone. All it takes now is one unknown to enter the conversation, and it's all over...
Tecchy: "Your wife bears a striking resemblance to a member of the Babboonus Uglius Genus" Manager:
Manager's Stack: ***OVERFLOW***
***OVERFLOW*** ***OVERFLOW***
Notice how the successful stack operation signal was not generated. Notice the Stack Contents. This is a temporary stack, which is replaced almost instantaneously (in Manager Brain time scales - 1 or 2 seconds to you or me) with:
Manager's Stack: Babboon Filesystems Is it lunchtime yet? Locational Handshaking
Here concludes the lesson on Stack Based Managers. You now know the risks.
Special Note: Sometimes, in a particularly nasty overflow, the corruption will extend to the Run-Queue and the Manager's Brain will execute the Instruction BTE - that is, Branch To Elsewhere Extra Special Note: There is a known bug in the BTE Instruction in the Manager Chipset, in that it doesn't take an address parameter. Noone knows where it goes, but whereever it is, it stays there. The Manager will most likely have to be rebooted by kicking the "SEAT UP/DOWN" lever of his/her wheely chair.
I have to say that the recent generation GPS I have are much better at getting a lock. Newer units(IPAQ 312/Leadtek BT) can get a signal in my flat (Apartment for the USAians) where my Garmin 72 and others would not. They seem to get lock a lot faster too.
I use them quite a bit to drive PDA flight software for sailplanes. Using the excellent open source program XCSoar, is better than most commercial offerings!
The most economically sound upgrade path for me has been sell after 6 months, getting 95% of purchase price back-my people like buying my 6 month old systems, and I like buildiing new ones!
Quite so, for the non glider pilots out there an outlanding is a landing in a paddock or field away from an airfield.
Personally I have only outlanded twice in 300 flights, but it is a great confidence building exercise, that power pilots "Simulate" by flying over afield at 500ft, which is a waste of time.
The problem with your post is simply this, one can allow for all forseeable events. It is the unforeseeable ones that kill people. Then the skill of a real pilot is the only thing that will save you.
Frankly, engineers are the last people I would want trying to save my life in an emergency!
Sounds dangerous, reminds me of the joke about the inflatable kid who went to an inflatable school.
One day he had a tantrum, and took a compass and punctured his inflatable teacher, then his inflatable headmaster. On the way out he punctured the infaltable school. When he got home he punctured his inflatable parents, and then himself
The next day in the headmasters office.
"I am very disappointed in you, you know what you have done, you have let your me down, the school down, your parents down and most importantly yourself down"
Oh look so mouc hcourage that you post as AC virtually admitting that you know your post is bullshit, and are ashamed of it.
I can give you a citation, my opinion and that of most of the people I know of America has gone from 30 years of admiration to dislike in the last 10 years, as has the opinion of most of the rest of the world. I would no go as far as hate, but its getting there, particularly looking at the some of the crap in this thread.
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600 users 250 machines and printers, and I maintain the lot in 28 hours a week, 4 days at
7 hours a day. Including replacing 33% of machines each year.
And I spend more than half my day on Slashdot.
No network downtime in 5 years, all Windows XP/2003 server.
3 people for 250 users, luxury!
News flash for you;
Windows is the only platform worth writing virus for.
The others market share added together is not even 10%. Why would anyone write a virus that cannot effect 90% of potential targets.
There is no point in introducing facts to discussions dominated by people so incredibly juvenille they still believe in imaginary friends.
This thread disappoints me, in that I thought most slashdot posters were reasonably intelligent.
Then I find they believe in a god, based of course on evidence that has no credibility at all.
They would rather embryos go in the bin than be used to save lives-and then call themslves pro life.
Geezus people, try to act your age not your shoe size!
See Hitch hikers guide then, quote;
Space is big, really big, big than the biggest thing ever. You may think its a long way down the street to the the shop but thats just peanuts compared to space!
Quite so, Bose is the most overated manufacturer in its field.
Back when I was doing live sound, we occasionally had to use 802 speakers. Quite a combination, crap sound and hopelessly inefficient!
Efficiecy was the biggest issue though, they were nearly 10db less efficient than the usual speakers.
Oh and we have had to replace the surrounds on a lot of the bose rane too, including 402 etc, so I wouldnt be that excited about reliability.
http://xkcd.com/501/
See http://bofh.ntk.net/StackMode.html
Glad you asked. Managers, like a lot of people, are Stack Brained - only more so. People, when confronted by a term they do not understand in conversation, PUSH the term onto their stack to ask about later. Too many terms and their Stack has a minor error and randomly throws away the new term and/or one or more of the Stack contents.
Managers on the other hand have a poor stack implementation and a low number of items, which means technical conversations usually lose them quite early on.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Stack Overflow results in data Corruption E.g:
Tecchy: "There seems to be a problem with the handshaking protocol of the modembank"
Manager: Uh-huh
Manager's Stack:
Handshaking Protocol?
Nothing
Nothing
Tecchy: "Meantime we'll also need to look at Distributed Filesystems to provide Locational Obfuscation"
Manager: Uh-huh Uh-huh
Manager's Stack:
Locational Obfuscation?
Distributed Filesystem?
Handshaking Protocol?
Notice: (a) the words "Uh-huh" are used to signal a successful stack operation, and (b) The Manager's stack is now full. We're in the danger zone. All it takes now is one unknown to enter the conversation, and it's all over...
Tecchy: "Your wife bears a striking resemblance to a member of the Babboonus Uglius Genus"
Manager:
Manager's Stack:
***OVERFLOW***
***OVERFLOW***
***OVERFLOW***
Notice how the successful stack operation signal was not generated. Notice the Stack Contents. This is a temporary stack, which is replaced almost instantaneously (in Manager Brain time scales - 1 or 2 seconds to you or me) with:
Manager's Stack:
Babboon Filesystems
Is it lunchtime yet?
Locational Handshaking
Here concludes the lesson on Stack Based Managers. You now know the risks.
Special Note: Sometimes, in a particularly nasty overflow, the corruption will extend to the Run-Queue and the Manager's Brain will execute the Instruction BTE - that is, Branch To Elsewhere
Extra Special Note: There is a known bug in the BTE Instruction in the Manager Chipset, in that it doesn't take an address parameter. Noone knows where it goes, but whereever it is, it stays there. The Manager will most likely have to be rebooted by kicking the "SEAT UP/DOWN" lever of his/her wheely chair.
Bitch Operator From Hell would seem obvious.
BOFH is a gender neutral acronym!
Yep, and remember the power of the 3 p's placed on a recalcitrant users hard disk.
Porn
Piracy
Phising.
Even easier, just tell them its under consideration (Meaning:I have lost the job details).
If they ask again its under active consideration.(I have started looking for the job details).
I mean seriously they are users, they get what I damn well want to give them and nothing else.
At least I dont have to deal with programmers and developers. If I did I would invest in axe, lime and old carpet shares.
(-:
I dontship, I have a large enough friends/family/coworker group to easily find a sale locally.
My labour, meh, 1 hour to build and image the system.
In fact most of the time I get back more than I paid at wholesale level.
Love those XP patches that allow boot in any
new machine!
Yeh, but I would rather have GPS enabled socks.
At least then I would know where the buggers get to when they disappear.
I suspect there is a planet somewhere entirely populated by socks.
If i ever find it I could open a very successful second hand sock business.
Achme, some kind of Moslem version of ACME? (-:
I have to say that the recent generation GPS I have
are much better at getting a lock.
Newer units(IPAQ 312/Leadtek BT) can get a signal in my flat (Apartment for the USAians) where my Garmin 72 and others would not. They seem to get lock a lot faster too.
I use them quite a bit to drive PDA flight software
for sailplanes. Using the excellent open source program XCSoar, is better than most commercial offerings!
The most economically sound upgrade path for me has been sell after 6 months, getting 95% of purchase price back-my people like buying my 6 month old systems, and I like buildiing new ones!
I have had a glossy screen in my laptop for the last year, used every day for work.
It has never been a problem, in fact I find it much better than a matte screen.
Quite so, for the non glider pilots out there an outlanding is a landing in a paddock or field away from an airfield.
Personally I have only outlanded twice in 300 flights, but it is a great confidence building exercise, that power pilots "Simulate" by flying over afield at 500ft, which is a waste of time.
The problem with your post is simply this, one can allow for all forseeable events. It is the unforeseeable ones that kill people. Then the skill of a real pilot is the only thing that will save you.
Frankly, engineers are the last people I would want trying to save my life in an emergency!
I doubt a computer controlled system would be able to make a flawless landing in the Hudson.
Quite so, but your average pilot couldnt either.
Sully was a very experienced glider pilot( Including a CFI instrutor rating, as was the captain of the Gimli glider.
When the engines stop, just hope the pilot is experienced in flying without power
Sounds dangerous, reminds me of the joke about the inflatable kid who went to an inflatable school.
One day he had a tantrum, and took a compass and
punctured his inflatable teacher, then his inflatable headmaster. On the way out he punctured the infaltable school. When he got home he punctured his inflatable parents, and then himself
The next day in the headmasters office.
"I am very disappointed in you, you know what you have done, you have let your me down, the school down, your parents down and most importantly yourself down"
(-:
Oh look so mouc hcourage that you post as AC virtually admitting that you know your post is bullshit, and are ashamed of it.
I can give you a citation, my opinion and that of most of the people I know of America has gone from 30 years of admiration to dislike in the last 10 years, as has the opinion of most of the rest of the world. I would no go as far as hate, but its getting there, particularly looking at the some of the crap in this thread.
Ever hear of refugees? Is it strange that persecuted people from a brutal dictatorship would head to a country that practices their religion?
In Australia they use Sydney harbours as a measure of volume.(Usually relating to water)
It seems one modern invention slipped by you.
We call it a "Paragraph"
"t'll be a bastardized, crappy version of flying cars that will just get you under more government control and give you less freedom'
Got this already too, in Australia we call it CASA, I bellieve the US calls it FAA.
Their motto:
"We are not happy until you are not happy."