You never know the full story when reading a press article like this.
There could have been a pre-existing conflict between the terminated employee and his management, or it's possible that unauthorized software installation was a sensitive issue in the organization as a whole.
Or maybe management was just under pressure to reduce staffing anyway, and this guy's activities handed them a golden opportunity.
There's a useful term when you need to refer to Canada and the USA together: "North America".
Canadians use this more than Americans do, and there can be confusion about whether you intend to include Mexico and the Caribbean Basin, but all in all Americans underuse the term.
I use a nifty Sony Ericsson P800. It has a very usable (for a phone) handwriting recognition system.
My friends ask why I use mixed case and punctuation in my text messages. The truth is it's just the most natural and easy way to enter them on the P800. You never even use the number keys.
I sent about two dozen queries to Google SMS today, trying everything out. This is not a chore with such a nice text-entry system.
This story's headline fills me with a faint form of Schadenfreude:
IP telephony is the technology I pitched to my company's management, when they saddled me with thankless chore of upgrading our decrepit digital key system.
It seems to be working for some Slashdot users, but not others:
When registered, logged-in users check the
Light box, to apply the minimalist skin to Slashdot, there's no RSS link. (Workaround: revert to standard skin.)
That's why I thought Slashdot wasn't supporting it. Here's hoping it's added to the Light skin soon.
I use mobile communications to implement responsiveness rather than hypertasking. It's great to be able to check work email and get back to people quickly, either with an answer or at least a courtesy response.
Just yesterday I handled two minor issues while waiting at the automobile dealership service department. Two people got answers within minutes rather than waiting over a (USA) holiday weekend, and I cleared two tasks from next week's to-do list. Abosuletly joyful.
So I use the task-switching capability of mobile communications rather than the hypertasking capability, to the benefit of my coworkers and hopefully my career.
Surely Google can address issue with technology. Their search interfaces have options to restrict results by language and nationality; can't orkut do the same?
I've worked for a series of companies owned by a single individual, the founder. This is neither good nor bad in itself, but does mean that the company's culture bears the imprint of the boss' personality.
I like to ask candidates, at any level, if they've ever worked for a company owned by a single individual. This question is mostly for their own benefit, to gauge how they might fit in.
This point can be generalized to any kind of organizational culture: have they every worked in one like ours? Or will this be a new experience for them?
This affects WiFi phones as well, based on the AusCERT description of the problem as targeting the physical layer. Good to know before deploying an IP telephony solutions that include a WiFi component.
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You never know the full story when reading a press article like this.
There could have been a pre-existing conflict between the terminated employee and his management, or it's possible that unauthorized software installation was a sensitive issue in the organization as a whole.
Or maybe management was just under pressure to reduce staffing anyway, and this guy's activities handed them a golden opportunity.
We'll never know.
There's a useful term when you need to refer to Canada and the USA together: "North America".
Canadians use this more than Americans do, and there can be confusion about whether you intend to include Mexico and the Caribbean Basin, but all in all Americans underuse the term.
Didn't know about Froogle via WML, will have to check it out. Thanks for pointing it out.
Froogle via Google SMS is admittedly a bit limited because it only returns the first search result; WML Froogle looks very interesting.
I use a nifty Sony Ericsson P800. It has a very usable (for a phone) handwriting recognition system.
My friends ask why I use mixed case and punctuation in my text messages. The truth is it's just the most natural and easy way to enter them on the P800. You never even use the number keys.
I sent about two dozen queries to Google SMS today, trying everything out. This is not a chore with such a nice text-entry system.
Froogle price checks are the killer app here.
Standing in the middle of a retail store, you can gauge pricing versus online retailers.
Somewhere, Alan Greenspan is smiling.
This story's headline fills me with a faint form of Schadenfreude:
IP telephony is the technology I pitched to my company's management, when they saddled me with thankless chore of upgrading our decrepit digital key system.
PBX is what they ended up buying.
That's strange:
I just ran Mac OS X Software Update and it's not there.
I'll try again in the morning.
Unless they're in "ascii art" format.
Anybody used this with a wireless LAN, either with soft phones or Wi-Fi handsets?
How well did it work?
Even the news.com article talks about Firefox, as if to say,
Time for a t-shirt. :-)
I routinely block cookies from this domain, using the excellent tools built into Mozilla.
If the statistics depend on cookie acceptance, then I and other cookie-averse users won't be counted.
I use mobile communications to implement responsiveness rather than hypertasking. It's great to be able to check work email and get back to people quickly, either with an answer or at least a courtesy response.
Just yesterday I handled two minor issues while waiting at the automobile dealership service department. Two people got answers within minutes rather than waiting over a (USA) holiday weekend, and I cleared two tasks from next week's to-do list. Abosuletly joyful.
So I use the task-switching capability of mobile communications rather than the hypertasking capability, to the benefit of my coworkers and hopefully my career.
Maybe the UN should sponsor their own Linux distribution. They could call it "UN-ix".
Oh, wait a minute...
You've got to love that phrase "no intention".
Hearing makes me want to reply
I understand why it's used: the person talking cannot speak authoritatively for the organization.
Still annoying, though.
Surely Google can address issue with technology. Their search interfaces have options to restrict results by language and nationality; can't orkut do the same?
Getting certified and travelling to client sites is not something you would do with your own money.
Getting broadband and a mobile phone are things a lot of people do on their own.
Heck, I would rather pay for these things on my own, so I can choose when and whether to use them for work purposes.
I've worked for a series of companies owned by a single individual, the founder. This is neither good nor bad in itself, but does mean that the company's culture bears the imprint of the boss' personality.
I like to ask candidates, at any level, if they've ever worked for a company owned by a single individual. This question is mostly for their own benefit, to gauge how they might fit in.
This point can be generalized to any kind of organizational culture: have they every worked in one like ours? Or will this be a new experience for them?
FreeBSD is a "stealthy" open source project in the same way the Brooklyn Bridge is a "stealthy" public works project:
It's been there forever, doing its job, fully appreciated only by an informed minority.
PS: Neither are for sale. :-)
"Would you like source with that?!"
Even if they can tell how long you had it open, they can't tell whether your attention was focused on it during that time.
If I open the message, then take a caffeine break, then close it upon return, my time away shows up in the sender's report.
Or add it to your web proxy server configuration. One line in squid.conf means I can watch this develop from the sidelines. ;-)
I still don't understand what the semantic web's "killer app" is. I don't know how I would sell it to management, or to a client.
This affects WiFi phones as well, based on the AusCERT description of the problem as targeting the physical layer. Good to know before deploying an IP telephony solutions that include a WiFi component.