We gave up on having a decent long distance provider attached to our phone. We have the flavor of the month. If someone sends us a check to switch, we cash it. If someone calls us to ask us to switch, they get to explain it to the table. We do maybe $5 in long distance a month and we just do it on a calling card.
It's not what you're looking for, but maybe other readers could use this.
I saw an ad for one of these and they sound neat. HP has a box that sounds perfect for small offices and workgroups. It's kind of like a backup appliance. The desktops and laptops install client software and backup to this server. No magic there. But when it's time to recover a machine, the box can burn a bootable CD that will restore the machine to the last backup. Pretty nifty.
When did GCC become a steaming heap of crap? This is about the fifth time in the past two weeks I've seen someone complain about a limitation of GCC or bugs.
We used to be proud to use gcc instead of the expensive piece of crap cc that came with the machine. What happened? To much technology to keep up with? Too much attention to other pieces of software?
If you don't do it now, you'll never do it (unless the IPO market picks back up).
I stayed in graduate school for about 3 years after seeing Mosaic, checking out yahoo.stanford.edu and lycos.cs.cmu.edu, and laughing at this stupid kid that was going to start a company called Netscape and build a better browser.
If I could recover from that, you could do 2 years in Ghana or wherever and make it.
Try to avoid smaller companies. They're the ones most likely to "abuse" a worker that they know can't leave. The bigger companies give you more places to move inside the company if there are problems.
Seriously consider working for a contracting/consulting company. If you work overtime, you get paid. If the gig you're on sucks, you should be able to move without loosing the visa, since you're still employed by the same company.
Everyone's already recommended the books I would have.
If you have a training budget, a good series of classes is Zenger-Miller's/achieveglobal's Core Interpersonel Skills. It's the one the American Red Cross and I see that the next winter olympics are using them too.
One piece of advice I would give you is to always, from your first day, be looking for someone to replace you. In almost any ladder-climbing situation (welcome to management), it's much easier to move up if you have a replacement already lined up. If you can't be replaced, you're more likely to be stuck where you are because you're too critical.
Why, in Diehard II, didn't someone walk out to any of the hundred or so planes on the ground and get on one of their radios? Or use one of their aircraft-band hand-helds or mobile radios in the offical airport SUVs? Incredibly weak plot-point, especially since the first two Die Hard movies made use of magical radios that can talk to anyone else with a radio.
This brings back memories of when I was at Tech in the late 80's and early 90's. I still have my long-ass serial cable from when we'd play some of the few head-to-head ("deathmatch" for you young punks) games available. In one apartment we had three 8086/8088 class PCs, including one PCjr. We were styling, especially when Simcity came out on the PC.
If you are a student at all, check out the Beta Theta Pi house on campus. They're right behind the Rich building (computer center). When I was there, they always had some scheme going where they got ethernet out to their house. And now that the frats are all remodelled (thanks to the Olympics), you won't get shocked by all the bare electrical wires or have the house burn down.
This strikes me as kind of scary that this is an "Ask Slashdot." It sounds to me like the first thing you need to do is go hire a good security guy from a financial institution (bank, credit card, etc.). I worked with a guy that did security at Citibank and I'm amazed at all the things they did to minimize their exposure to threats like this. Check those references real good.
So what if AIM has 90% of the market. There are plenty of good competitors available if people really wanted to use them. It's not like AOL is now going to crank up the price of AIM and milk all their customers.
The only valid argument I could see is if they gave away AIM just to drive a competitor out of business. Maybe my memory is going, but I don't recall anyone charging for instant messaging software, even ICQ.
One thing I think AOL should do is offer clients for other OSs, just to finally cut off that criticism. Heck, they could even just agree to distribute one of the open ones.
I used to use a couple extension cables, especially one for the serial port, so I didn't have to dig around on the back of the PC to swap devices. You could put a couple of these together with shrink-wrap or something and terminate them in a plastic or metal box that you stuck on top of your case or next to the monitor.
But personally I gave up and put my tower cases on wire shelving like a rack, so I can get to the back of the boxes almost as easy as the front.
Any time I have to plug or unplug something on my wife's computer, though, I use a mirror so I don't have to move the case to see the back. It helps that her ports are well-labelled. I used to keep a post-it note on the side of one case that showed the layout of the ports, especially those 3 identical-looking jacks on the sound card.
I've seen a company outsource work overseas and it's been sort of a disaster for them. The outsourcing shop wants to just turn over the code to the original company, no support or anything. Unless it's real simple code, the support will cost more than originally writing it.
If it were my company, I wouldn't bother outsourcing (overseas or with a U.S. shop, even one of the "big five"). It'll cost more in the long run, if the company survives.
Get some decent coders and keep them. It's not that hard. Just listen to them.
Personally, standing in the shower is where I think through most of the tough issues with a design.
If it's more involved, I get away from the computers and sit down with a good old pad of paper and sketch it out.
Explaining it to someone else also usually leads you into all sorts of things you didn't consider and helps you stop looking at the one hurdle immediately in front of you.
This is a very typical strategy from M$: mirror an existing technology, add enough "features" that it's not compatible, then use their market clout to shove it down everyone's throat.
MSMQ is the result of this strategy applied to IBM MQSeries
I wondered this too. The video is already digital. Why can't I download it at 19.2kbps if I wanted to? I suspect that the DV tape just can't be run at a slow speed (or rather, the playback deck wasn't designed to slow down).
I'm still waiting to buy one of these, but from the research I've done, I think that Canopus has the best 1394 solution now. They have an explanation of why their card works "perfectly" that sounds good to me.
I remember back at Georgia Tech, around 1989, seeing some AT&T boxes (I thought they were 3B2's, but I'm not sure now) that had green portrait displays. I remember hearing the rumor that someone had hacked up an X server to run on them.
I also remember working with big ugly green-screen Control Data terminals (CDC 721's?) that had graphical modes and touch screens. Anyone remember learning FORTRAN with the Plato system?
Slashdot Mirror
We gave up on having a decent long distance provider attached to our phone. We have the flavor of the month. If someone sends us a check to switch, we cash it. If someone calls us to ask us to switch, they get to explain it to the table. We do maybe $5 in long distance a month and we just do it on a calling card.
It's not what you're looking for, but maybe other readers could use this.
I saw an ad for one of these and they sound neat. HP has a box that sounds perfect for small offices and workgroups. It's kind of like a backup appliance. The desktops and laptops install client software and backup to this server. No magic there. But when it's time to recover a machine, the box can burn a bootable CD that will restore the machine to the last backup. Pretty nifty.
When did GCC become a steaming heap of crap? This is about the fifth time in the past two weeks I've seen someone complain about a limitation of GCC or bugs.
We used to be proud to use gcc instead of the expensive piece of crap cc that came with the machine. What happened? To much technology to keep up with? Too much attention to other pieces of software?
If you don't do it now, you'll never do it (unless the IPO market picks back up).
I stayed in graduate school for about 3 years after seeing Mosaic, checking out yahoo.stanford.edu and lycos.cs.cmu.edu, and laughing at this stupid kid that was going to start a company called Netscape and build a better browser.
If I could recover from that, you could do 2 years in Ghana or wherever and make it.
Try to avoid smaller companies. They're the ones most likely to "abuse" a worker that they know can't leave. The bigger companies give you more places to move inside the company if there are problems.
Seriously consider working for a contracting/consulting company. If you work overtime, you get paid. If the gig you're on sucks, you should be able to move without loosing the visa, since you're still employed by the same company.
Anyone else remember the Mac TV? How much progress have we made in 7 years?
So, when are the t-shirts printed with NTFS code coming out?
Everyone's already recommended the books I would have.
If you have a training budget, a good series of classes is Zenger-Miller's/achieveglobal's Core Interpersonel Skills. It's the one the American Red Cross and I see that the next winter olympics are using them too.
One piece of advice I would give you is to always, from your first day, be looking for someone to replace you. In almost any ladder-climbing situation (welcome to management), it's much easier to move up if you have a replacement already lined up. If you can't be replaced, you're more likely to be stuck where you are because you're too critical.
Why, in Diehard II, didn't someone walk out to any of the hundred or so planes on the ground and get on one of their radios? Or use one of their aircraft-band hand-helds or mobile radios in the offical airport SUVs? Incredibly weak plot-point, especially since the first two Die Hard movies made use of magical radios that can talk to anyone else with a radio.
This brings back memories of when I was at Tech in the late 80's and early 90's. I still have my long-ass serial cable from when we'd play some of the few head-to-head ("deathmatch" for you young punks) games available. In one apartment we had three 8086/8088 class PCs, including one PCjr. We were styling, especially when Simcity came out on the PC.
If you are a student at all, check out the Beta Theta Pi house on campus. They're right behind the Rich building (computer center). When I was there, they always had some scheme going where they got ethernet out to their house. And now that the frats are all remodelled (thanks to the Olympics), you won't get shocked by all the bare electrical wires or have the house burn down.
I heard Mercury was looking for some Mercury.
Try "quit.tampabay.rr.com". It maps to an IP of 0.0.0.0. That's a fun name to use for pranks too.
This strikes me as kind of scary that this is an "Ask Slashdot." It sounds to me like the first thing you need to do is go hire a good security guy from a financial institution (bank, credit card, etc.). I worked with a guy that did security at Citibank and I'm amazed at all the things they did to minimize their exposure to threats like this. Check those references real good.
I could see some of the tech-heavy commuter legs turning into airborne Quake LAN parties.
So what if AIM has 90% of the market. There are plenty of good competitors available if people really wanted to use them. It's not like AOL is now going to crank up the price of AIM and milk all their customers.
The only valid argument I could see is if they gave away AIM just to drive a competitor out of business. Maybe my memory is going, but I don't recall anyone charging for instant messaging software, even ICQ.
One thing I think AOL should do is offer clients for other OSs, just to finally cut off that criticism. Heck, they could even just agree to distribute one of the open ones.
I used to use a couple extension cables, especially one for the serial port, so I didn't have to dig around on the back of the PC to swap devices. You could put a couple of these together with shrink-wrap or something and terminate them in a plastic or metal box that you stuck on top of your case or next to the monitor.
But personally I gave up and put my tower cases on wire shelving like a rack, so I can get to the back of the boxes almost as easy as the front.
Any time I have to plug or unplug something on my wife's computer, though, I use a mirror so I don't have to move the case to see the back. It helps that her ports are well-labelled. I used to keep a post-it note on the side of one case that showed the layout of the ports, especially those 3 identical-looking jacks on the sound card.
I've seen a company outsource work overseas and it's been sort of a disaster for them. The outsourcing shop wants to just turn over the code to the original company, no support or anything. Unless it's real simple code, the support will cost more than originally writing it.
If it were my company, I wouldn't bother outsourcing (overseas or with a U.S. shop, even one of the "big five"). It'll cost more in the long run, if the company survives.
Get some decent coders and keep them. It's not that hard. Just listen to them.
Well, it helps that his name was David Smith.
Personally, standing in the shower is where I think through most of the tough issues with a design.
If it's more involved, I get away from the computers and sit down with a good old pad of paper and sketch it out.
Explaining it to someone else also usually leads you into all sorts of things you didn't consider and helps you stop looking at the one hurdle immediately in front of you.
A lot of places use it. They just call it Delphi...
Be honest. When was the last time most of us went for a jog?
To counter that, if you ever catch a kiddie on your system (logged in), don't just boot him off. 'talk' him
I would at least do a quick "mv /bin/rm /bin/rm\ " first
MSMQ is the result of this strategy applied to IBM MQSeries
I wondered this too. The video is already digital. Why can't I download it at 19.2kbps if I wanted to? I suspect that the DV tape just can't be run at a slow speed (or rather, the playback deck wasn't designed to slow down).
I'm still waiting to buy one of these, but from the research I've done, I think that Canopus has the best 1394 solution now. They have an explanation of why their card works "perfectly" that sounds good to me.
I remember back at Georgia Tech, around 1989, seeing some AT&T boxes (I thought they were 3B2's, but I'm not sure now) that had green portrait displays. I remember hearing the rumor that someone had hacked up an X server to run on them.
I also remember working with big ugly green-screen Control Data terminals (CDC 721's?) that had graphical modes and touch screens. Anyone remember learning FORTRAN with the Plato system?