Asking for a progress update is not micromanagement.
Having a manager tell you exactly what classes to use, what patterns to do, audit all your code, etc. is micromanagement. Is the employee so unskilled that is necessary? Then the manager is guilty of hiring the wrong person for the job, and/or being unwilling to fire the person.
A technical person can manage very well. But they have to learn how to manage. You should not be able to be promoted to a manager with no further training, anymore than you should be able to be promoted to a doctor. It is a totally different job.
When I became manager I was lucky to be at a company that recognized this and provided additional training. There are also a ton of great (and not so great) books on the subject.
I've found bosses that are good at tech, or think they are, to sometimes be guilty of micro-management. If they were good at tech, fine. But if they are spending all their time keeping up with technical stuff, then they aren't spending that time learning how to do their management job. Usually those people micro-manage and are good at neither tech nor management.
Management and programming/system administration are two totally different things. If you are a manager, do you job and manage.
Those heatsinks can get hot. I recently build two fanless systems using Zalman Reserator 1's. The CPU is really cool because of Zalman's water cooling. But the thermal take fanless power supply and geforce 7600 video card are real hot. They are well within parameters, but you don't want to hold your hand on it. I wish I'd had the water cooler pick up the heat from those too.
A fanless system will remind you how much noise those hard drive make though.
Send robots first. Don't start sending people until you get a space elevator and/or have the robots set up an environment the long term stay. Otherwise we'll spend way too much on resources.
Of course, since UAV communications are though an open standard, you could always try to hook in yourself. Then you can see what 'big brother' is looking at.
Well, not really. But early on, we could name one of her books and she could pull it off the shelf. She recognized by colors and patterns or something. You could also recite part of the book and she'd pull the right one.
We could get some gullible people to think she was reading the book title to pick them out. Great party trick.
I was told by a local computer forensics guy that 5th ammendment has always worked here to protect people from having to divulge passwords. But if they can search the house and find it, or stick a keylogger and trick you into giving it, then you are SOL.
I'm in charge of a company wide software package at a large financial institution. I occasionally get passed up to me really screwy things that come from representatives or customer service reps that are, shall we say, sub-par. Is the web site not performing a calculation the way you expect? Try reimaging your computer they say.
99.9% of the time people do the right thing. But with a zillion transactions you get some people that don't want to do the job and make up an excuse. So before I'd blame the government, I'd want to see some kind of proof that a.) the people really were told this, b.) that the customer rep really did get told this, c.) that the people in charge of the system really did think that they had to do this, d.) that someone in the government thought they should do this, and e.) that the government really did want them to do this.
It is a long chain. Don't just question the authority of the government, question the authenticity of the article. Then when you've proved that out, you have more weight questioning the government.
Restart from scratch? Are you insane? Do you think new code will have fewer vulnerabilities? Solid code it code that has been out there a long time and has had many people hitting against it again and again. Code doesn't 'rust' when it gets old.
You just couldn't recreate Windows from scratch. It took a long time to get to where it is. Projects that large fail 100% of the time. It has to be done in smaller iterations.
Joel wrote a really good article on how restarting from scratch is the single worst IT mistake you can make. I refer people to this article a lot. The 'ugly' part of windows is one of the reasons why it works so well, because the ugly parts are bug and security fixes.
1.) Versioning. Project A wants to add a feature to the service. Now we have to coordinate and test with projects B, C, D, and E. Two of which have no funding. The other is run by a moron. 2.) Reliability. I have 10 services on different machines run by different groups. All have to be up for my app to work. If they all have 99% uptime, mine is significantly less than that. 3.) Speed. Serializing data and calling across the network is slower than local. Period. 4.) Interacting with a 3rd party. If you are on a project and dependent on another group with different priorities and management, you are in for a few headaches and delays.
I could go on. I work at a large financial institution, so we have a lot of architects that prefer SOA. It has its place, but I hate to see people push it, when they don't back it up by detailing how they will mitigate the drawbacks that come with it.
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Too slow.
Use a phrase, like: SlashDot Keeps Posting The Same Thing Over And Over Use the first letters: sdkptstoao Modify it a bit: SDkptst0a0
You just remember the phrase and you are good to go!
Speaking of stars, what is the source of the heavier elements? I thought most came from star fusion, but I don't think that can account for all the elements. Plus planets seem to have a higher distribution than hydrogen-rich stars.
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If you want eye candy on windows, use stardock's stuff. (No, I don't work for them.) They have had their stuff out for several years.
Windowblinds allows you to skin your apps. FX allows you to do transparency and 3-D effects for min/max. And you can use their icon program to change all the icons.
It is a lot of fun, although I still use windows classic most of the time.
Too bad my php install is broken. Never figured it out:
[root@server2 ~]# pear clear-cache/usr/local/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libldap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm not sure why it doesn't like my ldap library. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, etc. Running FC3.
I'd like to try this on Slashdot. I can collect money for articles that I think are a complete waste of my time. Then this money can be used to post messages like this, which are a complete waste of other people's time.
I tried scarab about 8 months back. I found more bugs with scarab in the first 48 hours of using it, than I had bugs in my project. I spent too much time 'dinking' with Bugzilla. So I bought FogBugz, and it just worked without extra work.
My worst bug with scarab was that it started its 'index' numbers over again. So I had multiple bugs with the same bug number.
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Asking for a progress update is not micromanagement.
Having a manager tell you exactly what classes to use, what patterns to do, audit all your code, etc. is micromanagement. Is the employee so unskilled that is necessary? Then the manager is guilty of hiring the wrong person for the job, and/or being unwilling to fire the person.
A technical person can manage very well. But they have to learn how to manage. You should not be able to be promoted to a manager with no further training, anymore than you should be able to be promoted to a doctor. It is a totally different job.
When I became manager I was lucky to be at a company that recognized this and provided additional training. There are also a ton of great (and not so great) books on the subject.
I've found bosses that are good at tech, or think they are, to sometimes be guilty of micro-management. If they were good at tech, fine. But if they are spending all their time keeping up with technical stuff, then they aren't spending that time learning how to do their management job. Usually those people micro-manage and are good at neither tech nor management.
Management and programming/system administration are two totally different things. If you are a manager, do you job and manage.
Those heatsinks can get hot. I recently build two fanless systems using Zalman Reserator 1's. The CPU is really cool because of Zalman's water cooling. But the thermal take fanless power supply and geforce 7600 video card are real hot. They are well within parameters, but you don't want to hold your hand on it. I wish I'd had the water cooler pick up the heat from those too.
A fanless system will remind you how much noise those hard drive make though.
>It's only a few (very difficult and expensive) steps from there
>to crafting customized fully-functional organisms that can, say, reproduce.
Tribbles?
Send robots first. Don't start sending people until you get a space elevator and/or have the robots set up an environment the long term stay. Otherwise we'll spend way too much on resources.
Of course, since UAV communications are though an open standard, you could always try to hook in yourself. Then you can see what 'big brother' is looking at.
This is the TCS specification. Used in the U.S.
This is the NATO standard, a bit newer.
Of course, people should use VPN or similar, but it isn't required.
Well, not really. But early on, we could name one of her books and she could pull it off the shelf. She recognized by colors and patterns or something. You could also recite part of the book and she'd pull the right one.
We could get some gullible people to think she was reading the book title to pick them out. Great party trick.
I was told by a local computer forensics guy that 5th ammendment has always worked here to protect people from having to divulge passwords. But if they can search the house and find it, or stick a keylogger and trick you into giving it, then you are SOL.
I think you were talking about Flo-Watch:
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http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Watch/flo_watch
It recognizes if the cat is bringing in something that it caught from outside.
I'm in charge of a company wide software package at a large financial institution. I occasionally get passed up to me really screwy things that come from representatives or customer service reps that are, shall we say, sub-par. Is the web site not performing a calculation the way you expect? Try reimaging your computer they say.
99.9% of the time people do the right thing. But with a zillion transactions you get some people that don't want to do the job and make up an excuse. So before I'd blame the government, I'd want to see some kind of proof that
a.) the people really were told this,
b.) that the customer rep really did get told this,
c.) that the people in charge of the system really did think that they had to do this,
d.) that someone in the government thought they should do this, and
e.) that the government really did want them to do this.
It is a long chain. Don't just question the authority of the government, question the authenticity of the article. Then when you've proved that out, you have more weight questioning the government.
That was a great flash-back. A real trip down memory lane.
> Further, his companion, Rose, is not a ditz (don't let the peroxided hair
> fool you), but a very capable and driven person in her own right.
To heck with that, she's hot! That's why I watch the show. BSG is a pretty good show too in that line of things.
I've had a terrible time downloading them. Either someone is poisoning the torrents or I've just had really bad luck.
It is being legislated because the spectrum is legislated. It would open up a lot of money's worth of spectrum, more than 1.5 billion worth.
You don't have to junk the TV, just get a digital receiver and then plug it into your current TV.
That transition was so jarring, I got whiplash. A nice sentimental/humor moment, then WHAM. Only part of the movie I didn't like.
Restart from scratch? Are you insane? Do you think new code will have fewer vulnerabilities? Solid code it code that has been out there a long time and has had many people hitting against it again and again. Code doesn't 'rust' when it gets old.
You just couldn't recreate Windows from scratch. It took a long time to get to where it is. Projects that large fail 100% of the time. It has to be done in smaller iterations.
Joel wrote a really good article on how restarting from scratch is the single worst IT mistake you can make. I refer people to this article a lot. The 'ugly' part of windows is one of the reasons why it works so well, because the ugly parts are bug and security fixes.
Better yet, don't talk to the authorities until you talk with your lawyer.
My opinion, the greatest drawbacks are:
1.) Versioning. Project A wants to add a feature to the service. Now we have to coordinate and test with projects B, C, D, and E. Two of which have no funding. The other is run by a moron.
2.) Reliability. I have 10 services on different machines run by different groups. All have to be up for my app to work. If they all have 99% uptime, mine is significantly less than that.
3.) Speed. Serializing data and calling across the network is slower than local. Period.
4.) Interacting with a 3rd party. If you are on a project and dependent on another group with different priorities and management, you are in for a few headaches and delays.
I could go on. I work at a large financial institution, so we have a lot of architects that prefer SOA. It has its place, but I hate to see people push it, when they don't back it up by detailing how they will mitigate the drawbacks that come with it.
Too slow.
Use a phrase, like: SlashDot Keeps Posting The Same Thing Over And Over
Use the first letters: sdkptstoao
Modify it a bit: SDkptst0a0
You just remember the phrase and you are good to go!
Once the star gets to iron, doesn't it stop? I didn't think you could sustain fusion with iron.
Speaking of stars, what is the source of the heavier elements? I thought most came from star fusion, but I don't think that can account for all the elements. Plus planets seem to have a higher distribution than hydrogen-rich stars.
If you want eye candy on windows, use stardock's stuff. (No, I don't work for them.) They have had their stuff out for several years.
Windowblinds allows you to skin your apps. FX allows you to do transparency and 3-D effects for min/max. And you can use their icon program to change all the icons.
It is a lot of fun, although I still use windows classic most of the time.
Too bad my php install is broken. Never figured it out:
/usr/local/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libldap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@server2 ~]# pear clear-cache
I'm not sure why it doesn't like my ldap library. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, etc. Running FC3.
I actually have PHP pages though.
I'd like to try this on Slashdot. I can collect money for articles that I think are a complete waste of my time. Then this money can be used to post messages like this, which are a complete waste of other people's time.
I tried scarab about 8 months back. I found more bugs with scarab in the first 48 hours of using it, than I had bugs in my project. I spent too much time 'dinking' with Bugzilla. So I bought FogBugz, and it just worked without extra work.
My worst bug with scarab was that it started its 'index' numbers over again. So I had multiple bugs with the same bug number.
...it generally says that the IT industry is loosing the new graduates
I'd recommend you take an English course instead.