First, my apologies for the childish and immature responses.
Second, congrats on the kid(s). They're way more fulfilling and rewarding than any paid jobs. If I could I'd quit now and be a SAHD.
I've met other parents at our local park with a similar dilemma. Many of the mothers had (prior to kids) better jobs than mine and are very driven and business savvy. They have signed up for various work-from-home/sell-from-home web franchises that sell all sorts of products and services - kids clothes, books, hair accessories, product reviewers, mommy-blogs (want to do a tech version of thepioneerwoman.com? ) etc.
Do you have a neighbor hood association? or local mothers/parents/schoolparents group? We recently got signed up to nextdoor.com and a lot of neighbors have listed their occupations/jobs/skills/workplaces. Almost every business needs someone to update their website with fresh content, articles, SEO changes, proof reading, link checking, promotions, groupon landing pages, facebook pages, tweet writing, social media etc. Or sales support work like searching for potential prospects to give to their sales people. It can be done anytime so you can work at night when the kid(s) are asleep. Either volunteer for (or try starting up) your neighborhood/association web site or get to know local people, then start asking around for anyone that needs help with their website. It's a lot less risky than finding leads on websites like elance, craigslist etc and you're more likely to be paid if you are local.
We have former employees that are SAHMs still working on an hourly basis on some tasks. They're reliable and can do work for which we can't justify a full time job.
Those new phones interfere with everything and it threw off the radar. Isn't that what happened?
No, all you have to do is clock one person at the beginning of the shift and don't reset it all day. Much easier than actually using it.
Tried renewing our partnership membership today. After jumping through several hoops (and wading through too many conditions, clauses, initiatives) finally was able to qualify to join. But wait, we would be better using this option in the same partner program! let's join that! it is more money but it's worth it. Click to join, more hoops, more agreements to click on, more questions and answers and finally we qualify for it. But wait! there is another membership!? you can't do that! Impossible! So go read the support forums, here is a list of 20 you can read to get help. Each link 'access denied'.
You want Google GWT? download it. Java? go download it? PHP? apache software? linux? click a link and you get it. Microsoft is stuck defending their huge government and corporate accounts and have a bureaucracy to match. And by eating their own dogfood (everything must use Active Directory/IIS/Sharepoint/Exchange) they have become a monoculture of technology. Maybe it's time for the Baby Bills model.
What would happen if a Microsoft Bing van were driven past every Google building and parking lot, photographing every person and car that arrived and departed? How many minutes before the police would be called or a lawsuit would be filed? Then we would know how much Google liked street photography.
Here we go again - 'lets computerize this mess and hope to improve it!' All you get is a computerized mess.
But seriously, what does the poster expect his/her bosses to do? Create a razzle dazzle multimedia presentation that highlights your new tasks and responsibilities? Not likely. 'Get this done, and get it done fast'. Clickers during a business meeting? I don't think so. You are there to work, not be entertained or play games.
I've seen 30+ years of technology in education and most of the time they prevent learning because there aren't enough computers, the server is down, it takes 15 mins to get everyone started (that is a huge chunk of time for a teacher/professor)
Or, being the cynic that I am, maybe colleges will embrace this to recruit more students and charge higher fees. All they care about is their revenue, not whether the students are employable.
But let's get serious folks, the politicians love that newspapers are failing. Less serious investigative journalism, less scrutiny, fewer FOI requests etc. but what about bloggers, you ask? Bloggers only write about what they find on the web, how many of them are pounding the pavement? eavesdropping in bars? cultivating the next 'Deep Throat' source?
You like your job and your pay check, journalists like their pay check too. Unless you are going to your boss on Monday and say 'all our products and services should be free and I'll work for free too' then be prepared to pay.
BTW: this announcement is no surprise. Last year he gave a speech on this topic. Then NY Times announced pay-only access would start in 2011. They allowed plenty of time for other competitors to also announce similar plans. If no-one else followed then they could drop the idea. Similar to how US airlines collude when they announce fee and increases.
So subscribe and support the press! or at least click the banner ads when you see something interesting.
Probably it will go through the same paranora that people had over cookies and eventually most people will give up and accept how much can be tracked about themselves and their web browsing.
A customer just run their $10k scanner on our software and only found 3 problems. But it turned out the vendor had grabbed every 'security vulnerability' ever reported on any discussion board/mailing list and listed it as a problem. e.g. 'I tried this URL and my computer slowed down a bit. I think it is a denial of service attack.' Took a few days to research and disprove their claims.
Meanwhile, how many other such claims is it making? To me, it is analogous to switching on 'Show all warnings' - I've worked with managers and developers that want to eliminate all the warnings in the source. Apart from just rock polishing, I think it distracts them from focusing on the real issues like security and performance.
Like any job, you need to have the right tools and know how to use them. We do use Java Findbugs and network scanners. But poor use of any tools only leads to cuts, bruises and visits to the emergency room.
WeirdStuff is selling UPS cases without batteries IIRC $60 for a 3000VA unit. Add new batteries and you'll save a ton of money. With any used UPS you will want to put new batteries in anyway. We have 6 UPS, all from craigslist. We replaced the batteries and have had no problems.
Which of the following is a better password: "v6@!Tt3#" or "The name of my dog is Spot." ? 8 chars vs 27 chars The *length* of the password is more important than the complexity of the password. And users are more likely remember (and not write down) a pass phrase.
If SPs can sniff the data to detect and block copyright material then they will also be able to detect malware, spam and all the other attacks going in and out of their networks.
Maybe it is just easier to blame end users (including grandma) for not installing fixes to crazy security bugs and to charge them for the bandwidth when they're attacked than cleaning up their networks
Forget the presentations and the tours with all the impressive blinking lights tapering off to the horizon.
It's all about what happens when things go wrong! We've had Alex answer the phone on a weekend and refuse to do anything with a windows server because he only likes Linux, wait for the Windows guys on Mondays. No help, no escalation. End of contract there. Failed mirrored disk? - don't be surprised if they replace the good one. Be aware that the fancy network status websites only include a sample of the actual errors, power outages and faults. Rebuild a simple server? three shifts to do it and the last guy left without leaving the root password.
Ignore the data center review sites. They insist you provide a URL that they can track back to the hosting company's network. A brilliant way to ensure happy reviews only because no current customer is going to let the world know their servers are at a horrible hosting site.
Make sure the escalation process works. Use fire drills on them to figure out if it really works.
Another great question to ask - is their phone system VOIP? If they get a DDOS attack then you can't call them because it takes out their phone system too.
The above mentioned analysis of power and cooling is wonderful but if the NOC manager decides not to pay overtime then maintenance gets done in business hours.
These are not bottom-feeder companies, these are mid-range or higher price ranges. Either you have to deal with these problems and set the right expectation in their minds, or be prepared to have plenty of backups and be able to move to another company when required.
There's plenty of unschooling in the area I live. My kid meets other kids in the park who are homeschooled but the parents don't teach. 'Go do a craftwork' is fun for small children but it's not going to amuse a 12 y.o. or help them get a job or prepare them for life. That said, very little that I learnt in school applies to my job but I learnt social skills, don't bite, don't fight, don't spit, how to make friends, how to lose friends, how to help friends with problems in their life, how to ask for help. I also learnt about responsibility, deadlines, homework and why you have to do things you don't like.
Around here the homeschooling is sometimes motivated by a parent's desire to isolate their children from people not like themselves. Life can't be like that. A school helps you meet different/strange/weird people and you learn they are just like you.
I agree with giving kids lots of extra experiences and challenges. If you can do that for your kids then be grateful that you have the time, money and ability to do it. There's lots of struggling parents that want to but can't
Nothing new. I recall reading a software review 10-15 years ago of a system that would review/simulate evacuations of large venues. One of the issues was crowd exits and pillars. Adding pillars to a wide door way created more edges, and more people can slip through on the edges of a doorway than those lined up in an orderly queue.
The other issues I recall were that people often wanted to exit the way they entered rather than using the closest exit, so signs had to be clear. And people would like to gather their family or group together first, then exit.
I think you're correct. Modified pages are written to the t-log and the database file is read-only. If a page read is requested the t-log file is checked for a copy otherwise it is read from the database file.
When a checkpoint occurs all processing halts and the t-log pages are written to the database file. The checkpoint occurs either at specified times or when a threshold of transactions is reached.
So the backup can be a sequential read of the database file plus a read of the t-log and checkpoints are prevented (or run as part of the backup job). The restore process will handle applying the t-log to the restored database.
HTH
Maybe they had the same problem we had with our former Tampa/Atlanta based hosting company. When a drive in the RAID 1 failed they jumped in to replace the drive. But they replaced the good drive, not the bad drive.
(And don't ask about their SAN where we had a backup and it went offline every few days. Excuse-of-the-minute included they had to replaced all the hard disks, or it cost $200,000 so it must be working, or they "replaced all the wires" because they might have cracked when they moved it from Tampa to Atlanta, even though it was still in Atlanta. Then it wasn't their problem any more because they couldn't do anything about it (except keep billing us $100 per month). Absolutely unbelievable what excuses they could pull out of the air. Thanks idrive.com for clean, reliable off-site backups. )
There is some computer usability study out there where they instructed sys admins in RAID 5 then put them in front of a test server and created various fault scenarios. All the data loss was caused by people pulling out the wrong drive or doing the wrong thing.
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First, my apologies for the childish and immature responses.
Second, congrats on the kid(s). They're way more fulfilling and rewarding than any paid jobs. If I could I'd quit now and be a SAHD.
I've met other parents at our local park with a similar dilemma. Many of the mothers had (prior to kids) better jobs than mine and are very driven and business savvy. They have signed up for various work-from-home/sell-from-home web franchises that sell all sorts of products and services - kids clothes, books, hair accessories, product reviewers, mommy-blogs (want to do a tech version of thepioneerwoman.com? ) etc.
Do you have a neighbor hood association? or local mothers/parents/schoolparents group? We recently got signed up to nextdoor.com and a lot of neighbors have listed their occupations/jobs/skills/workplaces. Almost every business needs someone to update their website with fresh content, articles, SEO changes, proof reading, link checking, promotions, groupon landing pages, facebook pages, tweet writing, social media etc. Or sales support work like searching for potential prospects to give to their sales people. It can be done anytime so you can work at night when the kid(s) are asleep. Either volunteer for (or try starting up) your neighborhood/association web site or get to know local people, then start asking around for anyone that needs help with their website. It's a lot less risky than finding leads on websites like elance, craigslist etc and you're more likely to be paid if you are local.
We have former employees that are SAHMs still working on an hourly basis on some tasks. They're reliable and can do work for which we can't justify a full time job.
I had to read the TFA to figure out I didn't have to send $4.19 to help a phone company from some remote country
Those new phones interfere with everything and it threw off the radar. Isn't that what happened? No, all you have to do is clock one person at the beginning of the shift and don't reset it all day. Much easier than actually using it.
Tried renewing our partnership membership today. After jumping through several hoops (and wading through too many conditions, clauses, initiatives) finally was able to qualify to join. But wait, we would be better using this option in the same partner program! let's join that! it is more money but it's worth it. Click to join, more hoops, more agreements to click on, more questions and answers and finally we qualify for it. But wait! there is another membership!? you can't do that! Impossible! So go read the support forums, here is a list of 20 you can read to get help. Each link 'access denied'. You want Google GWT? download it. Java? go download it? PHP? apache software? linux? click a link and you get it. Microsoft is stuck defending their huge government and corporate accounts and have a bureaucracy to match. And by eating their own dogfood (everything must use Active Directory/IIS/Sharepoint/Exchange) they have become a monoculture of technology. Maybe it's time for the Baby Bills model.
What would happen if a Microsoft Bing van were driven past every Google building and parking lot, photographing every person and car that arrived and departed? How many minutes before the police would be called or a lawsuit would be filed? Then we would know how much Google liked street photography.
Here we go again - 'lets computerize this mess and hope to improve it!' All you get is a computerized mess. But seriously, what does the poster expect his/her bosses to do? Create a razzle dazzle multimedia presentation that highlights your new tasks and responsibilities? Not likely. 'Get this done, and get it done fast'. Clickers during a business meeting? I don't think so. You are there to work, not be entertained or play games. I've seen 30+ years of technology in education and most of the time they prevent learning because there aren't enough computers, the server is down, it takes 15 mins to get everyone started (that is a huge chunk of time for a teacher/professor) Or, being the cynic that I am, maybe colleges will embrace this to recruit more students and charge higher fees. All they care about is their revenue, not whether the students are employable.
But let's get serious folks, the politicians love that newspapers are failing. Less serious investigative journalism, less scrutiny, fewer FOI requests etc. but what about bloggers, you ask? Bloggers only write about what they find on the web, how many of them are pounding the pavement? eavesdropping in bars? cultivating the next 'Deep Throat' source? You like your job and your pay check, journalists like their pay check too. Unless you are going to your boss on Monday and say 'all our products and services should be free and I'll work for free too' then be prepared to pay. BTW: this announcement is no surprise. Last year he gave a speech on this topic. Then NY Times announced pay-only access would start in 2011. They allowed plenty of time for other competitors to also announce similar plans. If no-one else followed then they could drop the idea. Similar to how US airlines collude when they announce fee and increases. So subscribe and support the press! or at least click the banner ads when you see something interesting.
Probably it will go through the same paranora that people had over cookies and eventually most people will give up and accept how much can be tracked about themselves and their web browsing.
A customer just run their $10k scanner on our software and only found 3 problems. But it turned out the vendor had grabbed every 'security vulnerability' ever reported on any discussion board/mailing list and listed it as a problem. e.g. 'I tried this URL and my computer slowed down a bit. I think it is a denial of service attack.' Took a few days to research and disprove their claims. Meanwhile, how many other such claims is it making? To me, it is analogous to switching on 'Show all warnings' - I've worked with managers and developers that want to eliminate all the warnings in the source. Apart from just rock polishing, I think it distracts them from focusing on the real issues like security and performance. Like any job, you need to have the right tools and know how to use them. We do use Java Findbugs and network scanners. But poor use of any tools only leads to cuts, bruises and visits to the emergency room.
WeirdStuff is selling UPS cases without batteries IIRC $60 for a 3000VA unit. Add new batteries and you'll save a ton of money. With any used UPS you will want to put new batteries in anyway. We have 6 UPS, all from craigslist. We replaced the batteries and have had no problems.
Which of the following is a better password: "v6@!Tt3#" or "The name of my dog is Spot." ? 8 chars vs 27 chars The *length* of the password is more important than the complexity of the password. And users are more likely remember (and not write down) a pass phrase.
If SPs can sniff the data to detect and block copyright material then they will also be able to detect malware, spam and all the other attacks going in and out of their networks. Maybe it is just easier to blame end users (including grandma) for not installing fixes to crazy security bugs and to charge them for the bandwidth when they're attacked than cleaning up their networks
Lies, damned lies and statistics. Us programmers are too busy dealing with the first two to ever reach the third..
Forget the presentations and the tours with all the impressive blinking lights tapering off to the horizon. It's all about what happens when things go wrong! We've had Alex answer the phone on a weekend and refuse to do anything with a windows server because he only likes Linux, wait for the Windows guys on Mondays. No help, no escalation. End of contract there. Failed mirrored disk? - don't be surprised if they replace the good one. Be aware that the fancy network status websites only include a sample of the actual errors, power outages and faults. Rebuild a simple server? three shifts to do it and the last guy left without leaving the root password. Ignore the data center review sites. They insist you provide a URL that they can track back to the hosting company's network. A brilliant way to ensure happy reviews only because no current customer is going to let the world know their servers are at a horrible hosting site. Make sure the escalation process works. Use fire drills on them to figure out if it really works. Another great question to ask - is their phone system VOIP? If they get a DDOS attack then you can't call them because it takes out their phone system too. The above mentioned analysis of power and cooling is wonderful but if the NOC manager decides not to pay overtime then maintenance gets done in business hours. These are not bottom-feeder companies, these are mid-range or higher price ranges. Either you have to deal with these problems and set the right expectation in their minds, or be prepared to have plenty of backups and be able to move to another company when required.
There's plenty of unschooling in the area I live. My kid meets other kids in the park who are homeschooled but the parents don't teach. 'Go do a craftwork' is fun for small children but it's not going to amuse a 12 y.o. or help them get a job or prepare them for life. That said, very little that I learnt in school applies to my job but I learnt social skills, don't bite, don't fight, don't spit, how to make friends, how to lose friends, how to help friends with problems in their life, how to ask for help. I also learnt about responsibility, deadlines, homework and why you have to do things you don't like. Around here the homeschooling is sometimes motivated by a parent's desire to isolate their children from people not like themselves. Life can't be like that. A school helps you meet different/strange/weird people and you learn they are just like you. I agree with giving kids lots of extra experiences and challenges. If you can do that for your kids then be grateful that you have the time, money and ability to do it. There's lots of struggling parents that want to but can't
Nothing new. I recall reading a software review 10-15 years ago of a system that would review/simulate evacuations of large venues. One of the issues was crowd exits and pillars. Adding pillars to a wide door way created more edges, and more people can slip through on the edges of a doorway than those lined up in an orderly queue. The other issues I recall were that people often wanted to exit the way they entered rather than using the closest exit, so signs had to be clear. And people would like to gather their family or group together first, then exit.
I think you're correct. Modified pages are written to the t-log and the database file is read-only. If a page read is requested the t-log file is checked for a copy otherwise it is read from the database file. When a checkpoint occurs all processing halts and the t-log pages are written to the database file. The checkpoint occurs either at specified times or when a threshold of transactions is reached. So the backup can be a sequential read of the database file plus a read of the t-log and checkpoints are prevented (or run as part of the backup job). The restore process will handle applying the t-log to the restored database. HTH
Maybe they had the same problem we had with our former Tampa/Atlanta based hosting company. When a drive in the RAID 1 failed they jumped in to replace the drive. But they replaced the good drive, not the bad drive. (And don't ask about their SAN where we had a backup and it went offline every few days. Excuse-of-the-minute included they had to replaced all the hard disks, or it cost $200,000 so it must be working, or they "replaced all the wires" because they might have cracked when they moved it from Tampa to Atlanta, even though it was still in Atlanta. Then it wasn't their problem any more because they couldn't do anything about it (except keep billing us $100 per month). Absolutely unbelievable what excuses they could pull out of the air. Thanks idrive.com for clean, reliable off-site backups. ) There is some computer usability study out there where they instructed sys admins in RAID 5 then put them in front of a test server and created various fault scenarios. All the data loss was caused by people pulling out the wrong drive or doing the wrong thing.