Actually I went through the process of graphing our email usage earlier this year. We really only saw that Sunday was less than Saturday which was less than the weekdays. Monday to Friday were almost dead level. This is all external email for a very large international business.
This took into account both the number of emails and the total size.
This is an incredibly important skill in the IT industry.
The only good way I've ever found to do this is as a team. You have to know that your teammates and team leader will back you up. Your manager is not part of this as the request may come from them but hopefully they'll learn to trust your 'no' statements and start backing you up on these too.
If you are on your own then it's more difficult but generally that requires showing the requesting party why you are saying no. This may include asking them to seek approval from someone else to drop what you are doing, sign off on the risk, etc.
And if you are a contractor or similar then you need to supply your reasons and if they still insist then do what they want after making sure they are fully aware of the consequences (and you have a written communication to them including your objections).
Neo is a developer. Just like the rest of us. Don't you feel like it's not really reality when you're sitting there in front of your monitor all day work for the machine^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompany.
I spent a long time on the phone the other day to the ACCC and the Copyright Council only to discover that there is absolutely NO copies allowed under Austrlian law of music.
"Fair use" here does not allow for backup copies, copies to tape for (older) cars, creating mp3s for personal use, etc. In fact the term fair use when dealing with copyright of music recordings means don't do anything except listen to it yourself (no public broadcasts, but I didn't manage to find the definition of private/public).
As important as features and speed are they are nothing if you can't rely on the computer. And why ask about the differences between Linux distros when you could ask exactly the same thing about *nix flavours.
For example HP-UX is often quite feature poor compared to other *nixes but it is the most reliable (and therefore pleasant) *nix I've ever admined. As for the Linux distros, I wasn't going to give an opinion, but I have to say that I feel SuSE get's the award in this area.
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Actually I went through the process of graphing our email usage earlier this year. We really only saw that Sunday was less than Saturday which was less than the weekdays. Monday to Friday were almost dead level. This is all external email for a very large international business.
This took into account both the number of emails and the total size.
This is an incredibly important skill in the IT industry.
The only good way I've ever found to do this is as a team. You have to know that your teammates and team leader will back you up. Your manager is not part of this as the request may come from them but hopefully they'll learn to trust your 'no' statements and start backing you up on these too.
If you are on your own then it's more difficult but generally that requires showing the requesting party why you are saying no. This may include asking them to seek approval from someone else to drop what you are doing, sign off on the risk, etc.
And if you are a contractor or similar then you need to supply your reasons and if they still insist then do what they want after making sure they are fully aware of the consequences (and you have a written communication to them including your objections).
Neo is a developer. Just like the rest of us.
Don't you feel like it's not really reality when you're sitting there in front of your monitor all day work for the machine^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompany.
I spent a long time on the phone the other day to the ACCC and the Copyright Council only to discover that there is absolutely NO copies allowed under Austrlian law of music. "Fair use" here does not allow for backup copies, copies to tape for (older) cars, creating mp3s for personal use, etc. In fact the term fair use when dealing with copyright of music recordings means don't do anything except listen to it yourself (no public broadcasts, but I didn't manage to find the definition of private/public).
As important as features and speed are they are nothing if you can't rely on the computer. And why ask about the differences between Linux distros when you could ask exactly the same thing about *nix flavours.
For example HP-UX is often quite feature poor compared to other *nixes but it is the most reliable (and therefore pleasant) *nix I've ever admined. As for the Linux distros, I wasn't going to give an opinion, but I have to say that I feel SuSE get's the award in this area.