Since the gov't isn't willing to provide secure communications, don't talk on the phone. Talk in person in a hotel room with loud music. Bagpipes and tapes of japanese people talking are particularly good.
You banked at a crappy bank. An 800% increase in fees to fund a capital project sounds like either your bank was either not very solvent or giving lame excuses.
ATMs are huge profit centers... a large ATM in a moderately busy area has about $400,000 in it and is empty in 3-4 days.
More advanced ATMs will allow you to check more accounts (ie link to your brokerage accounts, or whatever), buy checks and perform other financial transactions. They also use more sophisticed encryption.
While I cannot fathom why one would choose an embedded Windows platform, even the most hardened Linux zealot should recognize that a Windows ATM is better than a DOS one.
It's highly unprofessional for employees to be late constantly, but it's equally unprofessional to expect exempt employees to clock in.
When companies suddenly become Nazi-esque regarding things like time reporting, it usually means that they are targeting people for termination. At most places, the little rules only are enforced when management wants to get rid of someone of flex their muscle.
That being said, if you have flex time available to you, pick a start time that is compatible with your commute and try to be at work 15 minutes early.
I cannot function in my career without high speed internet access.
So why should I have to bear the entire burden of paying for DSL while my neighbors blissfully drive 50 miles to work on roads maintained & built by the taxpayers.
Now let's assume that your lines of business are humming (or struggling) along with the incompetently designed apps written by stupid programmers. The designers and programmers have moved along and you, the reasonably competent and intelligent replacement has to make the spaghetti junk work.
If your "solution" is to shut down the company for a few months and rebuild perfectly designed SOAP/XML web services with LDAP and relational database backends written in whatever sexy programming language strikes your fancy, you'll be the one searching the want ads.
Plenty of large and important applications are doing nasty things like combining the output of jobs written 30 years ago on some mainframe in some nasty proprietary programming language with some Windows batch file routine and the output of SQL queries to get it into a new accounting system....And sometimes the glue code is written in something nasty like C-shell scripts from an old Digital Unix box....Oh, yeah, the "documentation" of the new system was written by some H1-B project manager based on IM conversations with a code monkey in Banglarore.
The world looks alot prettier in CSI 101, doesn't it?
The current trend of blindly applying OS patches is basically flawed, and sheep like you bleating "incompetent admins should patch their shit" is fanning the flames.
If you work in a larger organization with alot of customized client/server apps which haven't been converted to web, you are going to have alot of issues if you patch ASAP.
The testing process required to ensure that a patch will not affect thousands or tens of thousands of clients running critical applications is not trivial and usually cannot be done quickly.
Alot of companies are stiffing the "vip" frequent users of their services. I'm a Hilton diamond member who probaly spent about a month in a couple of Hilton & Embassy suites hotels in the last 2 years.
I get a room with a non-functional toilet and a "rewards" coupon for a free continental breakfast... I'd have to pay for hot food and stuff. And no more free phone calls either... local calls from the room phone were $0.95+tax per call and long distance is $2.50/minute. (my cellphone didn't work at the hotel)
I think I'll skip the loyalty programs in the future.
The last plane I was flying coach the aircraft was a virtual cattle car. Most city busses have more room and are usually more comfortable than the vast majority of aircraft.
You could configure windows to boot into a command prompt if you were really hardcore about it. Also, one could purchase Win32 emulation products or Embedded windows to let run Win32 executables in a non-traditional environment.
You are talking about a specific development machine that performs a specific task. The average windows workstation is a general-purpose computer where users could be doing anything from playing games to editing photographs to typing something.
The RPC service is key to providing the OS services that applications need to function. Other graphical environments like KDE, Motif and GNOME provide a similar facility.
Why don't you post that again after disabling the various network services (Xwindows, Font services) and network object services (GNOME) on your linux box.
I'm from upstate NY myself and have a few friends from Western NY, so I can really identify. It's tough to know what to do when you live in a place like Rochester or Albany (GE, NYS) where there basically two or three places to work.
Keep your eyes open and take the first job that you think you'd enjoy, whether you get laid off or not. You have the good fortune to have a great family to go home to rather than an empty apartment or happy hour:)
Look at the bright side -- you are alive. You could have been installing trading systems in the WTC on 9/11.
If you work at Kodak I'm going to assume that you are living in Rochester. Again, look at the bright side. While it's not NYC, it's a pretty nice area with cheap living. Maybe you should focus on bettering yourself outside of work and then make a decision on your next career move.
The argument is ever easier than you present. People will always accumulate free shit. That's why college kids have 40gb hard drives full of mp3s, but tend to not have thousands of CDs.
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Strictly enforced standards, naming conventions, etc make Java the ideal language to force "developers" in India or Romania to use.
More structure == easier to figure out wtf is going on. Imagine the Perl code that would come from a $6/hr code monkey in Banglaore?
The worst part is, it doesn't qualify for free shipping!
Since the gov't isn't willing to provide secure communications, don't talk on the phone. Talk in person in a hotel room with loud music. Bagpipes and tapes of japanese people talking are particularly good.
You banked at a crappy bank. An 800% increase in fees to fund a capital project sounds like either your bank was either not very solvent or giving lame excuses.
ATMs are huge profit centers... a large ATM in a moderately busy area has about $400,000 in it and is empty in 3-4 days.
More advanced ATMs will allow you to check more accounts (ie link to your brokerage accounts, or whatever), buy checks and perform other financial transactions. They also use more sophisticed encryption.
Bank encryption is usually 3DES.
While I cannot fathom why one would choose an embedded Windows platform, even the most hardened Linux zealot should recognize that a Windows ATM is better than a DOS one.
5% djbdns, tinydns, etc.
15% Windows DNS
It's highly unprofessional for employees to be late constantly, but it's equally unprofessional to expect exempt employees to clock in.
When companies suddenly become Nazi-esque regarding things like time reporting, it usually means that they are targeting people for termination. At most places, the little rules only are enforced when management wants to get rid of someone of flex their muscle.
That being said, if you have flex time available to you, pick a start time that is compatible with your commute and try to be at work 15 minutes early.
I cannot function in my career without high speed internet access.
So why should I have to bear the entire burden of paying for DSL while my neighbors blissfully drive 50 miles to work on roads maintained & built by the taxpayers.
Thanks for the insight, oh great one.
...And sometimes the glue code is written in something nasty like C-shell scripts from an old Digital Unix box. ...Oh, yeah, the "documentation" of the new system was written by some H1-B project manager based on IM conversations with a code monkey in Banglarore.
Now let's assume that your lines of business are humming (or struggling) along with the incompetently designed apps written by stupid programmers. The designers and programmers have moved along and you, the reasonably competent and intelligent replacement has to make the spaghetti junk work.
If your "solution" is to shut down the company for a few months and rebuild perfectly designed SOAP/XML web services with LDAP and relational database backends written in whatever sexy programming language strikes your fancy, you'll be the one searching the want ads.
Plenty of large and important applications are doing nasty things like combining the output of jobs written 30 years ago on some mainframe in some nasty proprietary programming language with some Windows batch file routine and the output of SQL queries to get it into a new accounting system.
The world looks alot prettier in CSI 101, doesn't it?
The current trend of blindly applying OS patches is basically flawed, and sheep like you bleating "incompetent admins should patch their shit" is fanning the flames.
If you work in a larger organization with alot of customized client/server apps which haven't been converted to web, you are going to have alot of issues if you patch ASAP.
The testing process required to ensure that a patch will not affect thousands or tens of thousands of clients running critical applications is not trivial and usually cannot be done quickly.
Please shut up. Do you really think that publicly-known exploits are the only exploits out there?
Machines have been hacked with the MS RPC exploit for ages.
And even in the case of known exploits, the testing required to integrate many patches is signifigant even for vigilant sysadmins.
Don't most organizations do this sort of thing with LDAP already?
What manufacturing?
In case you've been asleep, the United States has outsourced small and midsized manufacturing to the Far East or Latin America.
Alot of companies are stiffing the "vip" frequent users of their services. I'm a Hilton diamond member who probaly spent about a month in a couple of Hilton & Embassy suites hotels in the last 2 years.
I get a room with a non-functional toilet and a "rewards" coupon for a free continental breakfast... I'd have to pay for hot food and stuff. And no more free phone calls either... local calls from the room phone were $0.95+tax per call and long distance is $2.50/minute. (my cellphone didn't work at the hotel)
I think I'll skip the loyalty programs in the future.
I don't think anyone was worried about flaky electronics when a bunch of arabs are in the process of crashing you into large buildings.
What airline to you fly?
The last plane I was flying coach the aircraft was a virtual cattle car. Most city busses have more room and are usually more comfortable than the vast majority of aircraft.
How about developing small Lego Mindstorms robots to repair teh network outage? Then you wouldn't need to page anyone!
I'm too lazy to implement LDAP, but still wish to shock & awe my boss with trendy acronyms.
Using a simple text file or database table with lists of people & email addresses is too easy, I must be able to use a crippled LDAP for some reason.
You could configure windows to boot into a command prompt if you were really hardcore about it. Also, one could purchase Win32 emulation products or Embedded windows to let run Win32 executables in a non-traditional environment.
You are talking about a specific development machine that performs a specific task. The average windows workstation is a general-purpose computer where users could be doing anything from playing games to editing photographs to typing something.
The RPC service is key to providing the OS services that applications need to function. Other graphical environments like KDE, Motif and GNOME provide a similar facility.
RPC is used for services like cut and paste.
You'll be trading alot of usability for security.
Why don't you post that again after disabling the various network services (Xwindows, Font services) and network object services (GNOME) on your linux box.
I'm from upstate NY myself and have a few friends from Western NY, so I can really identify. It's tough to know what to do when you live in a place like Rochester or Albany (GE, NYS) where there basically two or three places to work.
:)
Keep your eyes open and take the first job that you think you'd enjoy, whether you get laid off or not. You have the good fortune to have a great family to go home to rather than an empty apartment or happy hour
Best of luck.
Look at the bright side -- you are alive. You could have been installing trading systems in the WTC on 9/11.
If you work at Kodak I'm going to assume that you are living in Rochester. Again, look at the bright side. While it's not NYC, it's a pretty nice area with cheap living. Maybe you should focus on bettering yourself outside of work and then make a decision on your next career move.
The argument is ever easier than you present. People will always accumulate free shit. That's why college kids have 40gb hard drives full of mp3s, but tend to not have thousands of CDs.
There's no accurate way to say that music sales were lost due to downloading
Lets get real here.
If you have to choose between paying $15 for a CD or waiting 20 minutes to download from kazaa... what are you going to pick?
And no, collectors who want "album art" aren't in the majority.