I've been running into this since I started working for IBM in 1973, let me see if I can make it clear, we have many ways of approaching a problem, we have, the easy straightforward way, we have the bass-ackwards way, and we have the bloated, convoluted, redundant way. Now the Gummermint usually chooses the latter as it makes it easier to get more money next year if you overspend this year! Very large companies have a different motive entirely, you see in BIG companies every manager is responsible for looking as important as possible so as to protect and perhaps even expand their little empire, and if you can convince the under vice presedent of brass plated widget manufacturing that your little project is really a big project then you have both increased your status and his status at the same time! So in the context of BIG companies the concept of simple and easy just don't make sense.
All the interviewers I've had the misfortune to interview with these last five months have had one thing in common, they are very uncomfortable interviewing older workers, they seem to want animated snappy youthful answers to their question, I even went to a workshop on inview tecniques, I thought the video examples they showed us were just plain stupid, the actors in the little vignettetts heads were bobbing around like some crack addicted bird, I was told by the instructor that I "had no body language" and that I should "project enthusiasm", what a bunch of BS!. It would seem that answering tecnicial questions correctly isn't enough, you have to look like you are a member of the interviewer's peer group, you know someone to have as a playmate, I didn't get a job as sysadmin at WalMart.com because the head System Administrator (a twenty year old kid) didn't like the fact that I prefer RedHat over Debian, your should have seen the look on his face when he saw me! even his Micky Mouse T-shirt got mad.
I'm sort of familiar with this subject so here goes..
To get (a good) deal on a piece of retail jewellry, you HAVE to be willing to haggle! You must know that large chain jewellers and mass marketers cannot and will not haggle. Little mom and pop jewellers buy ALL their stuff on credit, (for about.12c on the $1.00) and if they don't sell it rather quickly the interest adds up even more quickly.
For my wife (22 years ago) I bought a ring that appraised at $600.00 for $149.00 after two hours of haggle, the asking price was an even $1,000.00, I doubt that they (the jeweller) paid more than $100.00.
I've supported Windows (God help me) since it's introduction as a viable commercial product in version 3.0, and since the introduction of Win32 as Windows95 I have yet to see any indication that Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP will last more than eighteen months (on avarage) between rebuilds.
I've seen Novell 3.12 go 9 years with no sign of failure, and various flavors of Unix show no signs of decay (ever). It's beginning to look like FreeBSD and Linux will shape up the same.
Every time these sh*t sucking bastards do ANYTHING, it takes away someones rights and puts more people in prison, I think our new national anthem should be the "Darth Vader theme" from the original Star Wars, a good match for the Facist dictatorship we now live in!
Yes, definatly, the branch that's the most important to us, our branch!
I think that in the fullness of time we will find that (most of) these african hominids will be found to have culminated in Homo-Neanderthalensis NOT Homo-Sapiens, that is, a lighter more gracile skull and smaller dentition/longer canines will indicate our lineage.
Actually whenever I see the picture of "Bill of Borg" I hear an endless loop playback of the "Darth Vader Theme" from the original Star Wars and envision the vast armies of the shock troops of evil goose-stepping in unison with lines of standards bearing the M$ Wingoze logo.
Firstly, the easiest (non techie) way, IMac/USB Scanner/CDROM burner, the Mac has all the software built already installed.
Secondly, A very good inkjet printer and good quality paper plus a three hole punch/Binder.
Thirdly, scan-em/burn-em (on CD's), punch/print-em, make binders out of them send copies to your family, put the original photos in a bank safe deposit box, and use the binder for your living room conversation piece.
Note: by doing it this way you can easily add captions and page headers to your photo album.
Form factor like HP 620Lx, True color display, stereo sound, Cruso processor, 1 Gig IBM microdrive, 128 Megs of RAM, I compact flash and 1 type 2 PCMCIA slots, USB, v.90 modem (upgradable) and (if possible) Linux OS in ROM (Or at least a bundled compatible distro included with device).
Look, if it ain't got a keyboard it ain't worth a crap! I went from an Atari Protfolio to an HP200LX and now have an HP 620LX, I can do without my laptop. I've installed software that let's me do just about everything! FTP, Telnet, Vnc, PC Anywhere, Mail, WWW, Portscanning, even X86 Dos emulation! I've edited books on the thing, Now, if only they'd make it with it's own version of Mandrake or RedHat, I could die happy.
If your running RedHat 7.2, set it to start in run level 3 and instead of startx do "xinit/usr/bin/wmaker" (withuot quotes and your snappy performance will be restored.
KDE is bloated and to a lesser extent so is gnome.
You homophobic sperm swallower, how dare you impune the veracity of the noble and Godlike Katz! May 10,000 pregnant cockroaches give birth in your nostrils!
Recipe for sucess: Take one part blonde bimbo (talent optional), one part impressive sound mixing technology, and nine parts slick marketing, and what do you get?... Brittny Spears!
Yes! and the cute Japanese lady in the stewardess outfit with the brandy sniffter full of (gag) will choke to death if I can't get the picture of her waterfalling it out of her mouth!
My all time favorite office is the server room!
It's cold, and all the roar seems to me like a "white noise" drowning out all the distractions, while the cold keeps out all the nosey little peckerwoods that want to know what your doing.
They don't need to know that almost everything is scripted, and that you spend most of the day entertaining yourself! Telecommuting would be fine if broadband would ever be available in my area.
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I've been running into this since I started working for IBM in 1973, let me see if I can make it clear, we have many ways of approaching a problem, we have, the easy straightforward way, we have the bass-ackwards way, and we have the bloated, convoluted, redundant way. Now the Gummermint usually chooses the latter as it makes it easier to get more money next year if you overspend this year! Very large companies have a different motive entirely, you see in BIG companies every manager is responsible for looking as important as possible so as to protect and perhaps even expand their little empire, and if you can convince the under vice presedent of brass plated widget manufacturing that your little project is really a big project then you have both increased your status and his status at the same time! So in the context of BIG companies the concept of simple and easy just don't make sense.
Not just a programmer, anyone technicial!
All the interviewers I've had the misfortune to interview with these last five months have had one thing in common, they are very uncomfortable interviewing older workers, they seem to want animated snappy youthful answers to their question, I even went to a workshop on inview tecniques, I thought the video examples they showed us were just plain stupid, the actors in the little vignettetts heads were bobbing around like some crack addicted bird, I was told by the instructor that I "had no body language" and that I should "project enthusiasm", what a bunch of BS!. It would seem that answering tecnicial questions correctly isn't enough, you have to look like you are a member of the interviewer's peer group, you know someone to have as a playmate, I didn't get a job as sysadmin at WalMart.com because the head System Administrator (a twenty year old kid) didn't like the fact that I prefer RedHat over Debian, your should have seen the look on his face when he saw me! even his Micky Mouse T-shirt got mad.
I'm sort of familiar with this subject so here goes..
.12c on the $1.00) and if they don't sell it rather quickly the interest adds up even more quickly.
To get (a good) deal on a piece of retail jewellry, you HAVE to be willing to haggle! You must know that large chain jewellers and mass marketers cannot and will not haggle. Little mom and pop jewellers buy ALL their stuff on credit, (for about
For my wife (22 years ago) I bought a ring that appraised at $600.00 for $149.00 after two hours of haggle, the asking price was an even $1,000.00, I doubt that they (the jeweller) paid more than $100.00.
I never buy PC's anyway, (I build mine from Fry's)
Just boycott Dell, and anybody else that caves in to the worlds richest crook!
Remember, WalMart sells machines with Mandrake Pre-installed!
I've supported Windows (God help me) since it's introduction as a viable commercial product in version 3.0, and since the introduction of Win32 as Windows95 I have yet to see any indication that Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP will last more than eighteen months (on avarage) between rebuilds.
I've seen Novell 3.12 go 9 years with no sign of failure, and various flavors of Unix show no signs of decay (ever). It's beginning to look like FreeBSD and Linux will shape up the same.
Amen, we need to STOP buying ANY! products or services that we deem to be supporting or condoning unjust legislation or corrupt governments!
Duh yah fink dat if I wer to smell good det pepple wood reed dis?
HeeeeeHeeeeeheeee!
Go ping yourself you mother pinger!
Death to all pingers!
The Gummermint needs to regulate pings!
Do you seriosly think that they have'nt been doing it all along?
Every time these sh*t sucking bastards do ANYTHING, it takes away someones rights and puts more people in prison, I think our new national anthem should be the "Darth Vader theme" from the original Star Wars, a good match for the Facist dictatorship we now live in!
Yes, definatly, the branch that's the most important to us, our branch!
I think that in the fullness of time we will find that (most of) these african hominids will be found to have culminated in
Homo-Neanderthalensis NOT Homo-Sapiens, that is, a lighter more gracile skull and smaller dentition/longer canines will indicate our lineage.
Actually whenever I see the picture of "Bill of Borg" I hear an endless loop playback of the "Darth Vader Theme" from the original Star Wars and envision the vast armies of the shock troops of evil goose-stepping in unison with lines of standards bearing the M$ Wingoze logo.
Rah!
I'm an old fart, and since I can't stand anything I can find in record stores, I download everything.
Anonimizer, proxyhost, blah, blah, blah
Who's got the ip that minute? why sombody in St. Petersburg Russia or Paraguay, or Sarawak!
Go after em you greedy crooked bastards, WHAT! you mean they're out of reach of your slimy shysters?
Firstly, the easiest (non techie) way, IMac/USB Scanner/CDROM burner, the Mac has all the software built already installed.
Secondly, A very good inkjet printer and good quality paper plus a three hole punch/Binder.
Thirdly, scan-em/burn-em (on CD's), punch/print-em, make binders out of them send copies to your family, put the original photos in a bank safe deposit box, and use the binder for your living room conversation piece.
Note: by doing it this way you can easily add captions and page headers to your photo album.
Form factor like HP 620Lx, True color display, stereo sound, Cruso processor, 1 Gig IBM microdrive, 128 Megs of RAM, I compact flash and 1 type 2 PCMCIA slots, USB, v.90 modem (upgradable) and (if possible) Linux OS in ROM (Or at least a bundled compatible distro included with device).
Look, if it ain't got a keyboard it ain't worth a crap! I went from an Atari Protfolio to an HP200LX and now have an HP 620LX, I can do without my laptop. I've installed software that let's me do just about everything! FTP, Telnet, Vnc, PC Anywhere, Mail, WWW, Portscanning, even X86 Dos emulation! I've edited books on the thing, Now, if only they'd make it with it's own version of Mandrake or RedHat, I could die happy.
I wuz layin there an sure n begorra duh bed started shakin, thought I had gas!
nmap the fucking thing!
it looks like they are mapping ports though a W2K advanced server.
I'd paste the dump here but it would be too long.
If your running RedHat 7.2, set it to start in run level 3 and instead of startx do "xinit /usr/bin/wmaker" (withuot quotes and your snappy performance will be restored.
KDE is bloated and to a lesser extent so is gnome.
And oh yes, all my comments are IMHO.
Name em as per function/location
example NIS master in room 421
YPM421
Example Name server 2 in bldg 20 room 11
NS2-20-11.blah.blah.com
Samba server for marketing #5
smb5mktg
You homophobic sperm swallower, how dare you impune the veracity of the noble and Godlike Katz! May 10,000 pregnant cockroaches give birth in your nostrils!
Recipe for sucess:
Take one part blonde bimbo (talent optional), one part impressive sound mixing technology, and nine parts slick marketing, and what do you get?... Brittny Spears!
Yes! and the cute Japanese lady in the stewardess outfit with the brandy sniffter full of (gag) will choke to death if I can't get the picture of her waterfalling it out of her mouth!
My all time favorite office is the server room!
It's cold, and all the roar seems to me like a "white noise" drowning out all the distractions, while the cold keeps out all the nosey little peckerwoods that want to know what your doing.
They don't need to know that almost everything is scripted, and that you spend most of the day entertaining yourself! Telecommuting would be fine if broadband would ever be available in my area.