Sure you will. Things change when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. People make irrational decisions regardless of any critical thinking. Obviously you've had no experience in this type of thing.
I work at 55 Metcalfe st which is the corner of Queen and Metcalfe. I can see the parliament buildings from one of the corner offices. We are still locked down and cannot leave the premises. I think every police officer in the city is down here they are currently doing a grid search of buildings between Queen and Wellington streets.
We pay our ISP to provide 'queue service' in the event our connection/Exchange box goes down. When 'selling' this service to the bosses I put it this way - How much will it cost the firm to not only be without email during an outage, but to lose all emails sent to the firm during that time period?
I feel your frustration though... IT is often seen as a 'zero payback expense'.
Great post I agree completely. For those looking for similar FPS titles without the 'run-and-gun' theme, check out two Battlefield2 mods (you need BF2 to run them) - Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality.
For a real milsim-type game (you will need patience for this one) try Arma2. There is even a free version of Arma2 with non-HD graphics and some other limitations.. but it gives you a good idea of the depth of this 'game',
I wonder how well the hosts file can scale. Would it handle thousands of "blocked" domains without noticeably slowing down your browsing?
A large hosts file will cause issues but this can be mitigated with some DNS fiddling. Check out this site for more details (you can also d/l their updated hosts file):
I've been doing on-call support for years now and I've found the best way is a subscription service - basically a monthly amount so that I'm available when they call. I service primarily dental offices and base the amount on number of workstations and servers, what applications they are running, and also what type of response time they are looking for. Someone is physically onsite at least once a month regardless - this is what some other small IT shops miss with these types of arrangements. Clients don't like getting a bill and never seeing a warm body onsite.. no matter how good your remote support setup is.
Emergency onsite calls are charged extra at a fixed rate - most other stuff can be handled during the monthly visit and/or remotely. Very few clients want an 'all-inclusive' arrangement where they pay a fixed amount for 'unlimited' service.
We used to do break-fix but found that it was much harder to retain clients long-term. Billing is a pain and sometimes difficult to justify to the client. We also found that the key to staying afloat was to 'cull' your client list every year - drop the 10% that never pay on time, are a pain-in-the-ass, and so on. This frees up time to find clients that you do want to keep.
Keep in mind that my experience is limited to SMALL businesses - biggest client has 45 stations and 3 servers.
Simply put, NO one but lawyers or lawyer wannabes reads the terms of service because the average man on the street can't understand it
I agree and as someone who does support for law firms I would add that most lawyers don't read them either (20 pages of fine print = 0.25 non-billable time)
Bingo!! I've been driving for 18+ years and this is the ONLY way I've been able to deal with the sheer volume of idiots on the road. I was an aggressive driver in days long gone and perhaps it's just with age that I realized that the 2-3 minutes of time I might save getting to my destination is not worth the headaches and road rage.
FOR GOD'S SAKE ACCELERATE WHEN YOU'RE MERGING ON A HIGHWAY!!!
I wish you good luck with your company. I do a lot of work in dental and there is another market waiting for some decent software. Should you ever decide to branch out, please let me know:)
Perhaps you're referring to the Dorset peoples? They were supposedly establised before the ancestors of the Inuit (eskimo) arrived, the Thule.
Wiki says that the Thule referred to the Dorset as 'giants' although technically inferior to the Thule (they had no dogsleds, for example). The Thule had completely replaced the Dorset by the 15th century. It also goes on to say there were other pre-Dorset cultures but there is little information available.
IANAGNA (I am not a geneticist nor anthropologist)
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Thank God we have 2 connections from different providers!!
Sure you will. Things change when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. People make irrational decisions regardless of any critical thinking. Obviously you've had no experience in this type of thing.
After reading your post all I could think of was Warlords II :)
I work at 55 Metcalfe st which is the corner of Queen and Metcalfe. I can see the parliament buildings from one of the corner offices. We are still locked down and cannot leave the premises. I think every police officer in the city is down here they are currently doing a grid search of buildings between Queen and Wellington streets.
how this comment hasn't been down-modded to oblivion is a mystery to me
We pay our ISP to provide 'queue service' in the event our connection/Exchange box goes down. When 'selling' this service to the bosses I put it this way - How much will it cost the firm to not only be without email during an outage, but to lose all emails sent to the firm during that time period?
I feel your frustration though... IT is often seen as a 'zero payback expense'.
No by secure he means remote control over the device and it's data as well as the ability to push corporate IT policies to the device.
Great post I agree completely. For those looking for similar FPS titles without the 'run-and-gun' theme, check out two Battlefield2 mods (you need BF2 to run them) - Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality.
For a real milsim-type game (you will need patience for this one) try Arma2. There is even a free version of Arma2 with non-HD graphics and some other limitations.. but it gives you a good idea of the depth of this 'game',
Sorry I re-read your comment and realized you meant the linked ads in the story itself.... yes they are quite annoying.
Print version - man's best friend: http://www.itworld.com/print/168413
A large hosts file will cause issues but this can be mitigated with some DNS fiddling. Check out this site for more details (you can also d/l their updated hosts file):
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
"Fly him apart then!!"
That's OK.. he lost me when he said terrorism was a real and immediate risk.
Plan B: Twice as much explosives as Plan A
Grandpa always said those who live in glass houses should get dressed in the basement :)
..I thought this type of input was found to be tiring after using it for only 5 or 10 minutes? Or is that just for slashdot types? :)
I've been doing on-call support for years now and I've found the best way is a subscription service - basically a monthly amount so that I'm available when they call. I service primarily dental offices and base the amount on number of workstations and servers, what applications they are running, and also what type of response time they are looking for. Someone is physically onsite at least once a month regardless - this is what some other small IT shops miss with these types of arrangements. Clients don't like getting a bill and never seeing a warm body onsite.. no matter how good your remote support setup is.
Emergency onsite calls are charged extra at a fixed rate - most other stuff can be handled during the monthly visit and/or remotely. Very few clients want an 'all-inclusive' arrangement where they pay a fixed amount for 'unlimited' service.
We used to do break-fix but found that it was much harder to retain clients long-term. Billing is a pain and sometimes difficult to justify to the client. We also found that the key to staying afloat was to 'cull' your client list every year - drop the 10% that never pay on time, are a pain-in-the-ass, and so on. This frees up time to find clients that you do want to keep.
Keep in mind that my experience is limited to SMALL businesses - biggest client has 45 stations and 3 servers.
I agree and as someone who does support for law firms I would add that most lawyers don't read them either (20 pages of fine print = 0.25 non-billable time)
I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your assletter.
My Jesus fish says 'Darwin' and has feet :)
Bingo!! I've been driving for 18+ years and this is the ONLY way I've been able to deal with the sheer volume of idiots on the road. I was an aggressive driver in days long gone and perhaps it's just with age that I realized that the 2-3 minutes of time I might save getting to my destination is not worth the headaches and road rage.
FOR GOD'S SAKE ACCELERATE WHEN YOU'RE MERGING ON A HIGHWAY!!!
Sorry just had to get that off my chest.
I wish you good luck with your company. I do a lot of work in dental and there is another market waiting for some decent software. Should you ever decide to branch out, please let me know :)
Wiki says that the Thule referred to the Dorset as 'giants' although technically inferior to the Thule (they had no dogsleds, for example). The Thule had completely replaced the Dorset by the 15th century. It also goes on to say there were other pre-Dorset cultures but there is little information available.
IANAGNA (I am not a geneticist nor anthropologist)
Don't worry, the rest of us that support Windows systems in a business environment agree with you.
I can second that. Once you've meta-moderated a few times you get mod points far more frequently (every two weeks sounds aboot right).