The reason I gave up and my exwife gave up on LibreOffice was when we were applying for jobs.
Monster and various HR departments REQUIRE.DOC files. You write them in LibreOffice and they look sharp and great. They open it in Word 2003 and it is a garbled mess and assume you're retarded and don't know even how to use a basic word processor and filter you out.:-(
She still uses LibreOffice for her lesson plans but I added her to my Office 365 pack so she could be accepted by HR departments for other school districts. It is so frustrating but it is the same reason IE 6 stayed on as the defacto standard from 1999 - 2012 for web development. Sites won't render right and people will assume you suck... not their browser if it doesn't' look right.
Things today in 2018 are improving with modern job sites like Dice and LinkedIN letting you take out formatting now compared to 5 or 10 years ago, but many HR departments will trash your resume in a heartbeat if it has any grammatical or formatting errors.
For this reason the business world is stuck on Office whether we like it or not. It has nothing to do with consumer project or not.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but if you have any office suite on your resume and you have ever had a relevant job it is not a good sign. You might as well list your gym membership under professional licenses.
... Wait? You think geeks screen the resumes out?? Ha. The clueless HR girl fresh out of school who is 22 years old decides whether you know your own job or not. Not you. Professional using Office and project for colloboration bla bla under job requirements is what she puts in Taleo.
Taleo filters you out as unqualified and some retard who puts it in gets a higher score in Taleo HR and the 22 selects the dufus for resumes to send to the higher up.
Basically, you have to cut and paste the job description in your experience to get through is the secret
The trustworthiness of an ISPs DNS is not really significant, if you canâ(TM)t trust their DNS server your canâ(TM)t trust their routers either, and if thats true no IP address you use is safe from redirection. Only an an external authenticated connection is safe and DNS doesnt work like that. If Mozilla is using a public key encryption mechanism between the browser and their name resolution server it will be far more secure than current DNS servers, whether you use your own, an know external, or your ISPs.
A lot of websites now are going HTTPS with Google banning HTTP already in canary releases in Chrome. This will make it harder with transport layer security. FOr example your ISP will know you went to Amazon but not much else.
However, true pornhub will still be a record if they track each ISP unless you do a proxy with a securre connection.
If you're grandma or a hipster yes this is a good thing and it offers better performance too. Cloudflare is a company that offers protection from DDOS attacks, CDN, as well as networking security. Cloudflare's DNS guarantees privacy as well.
If you are the slashdotter nerd then you will go into about:config and turn it off so what is the big deal.
I suppose you prefer to do yoru forwarding requests to your ISP DNS who sells your browsing information instead hu?
FYI cloudflare's business model is to help business customers secure their connections. You can read it here which is a plus for grandma. But if you're technical like most of us then I am sure you can disable it.
First off your ISP guarantees they sell your browser history to advertisers and some EVEN INSERT ads into your browsing experience. Cloudflare who is behind 1.1.1.1 guarantees your privacy as well as gives you the lowest latency if you read the agreement at www.1111.com.
Cloudflare is used for companies that have been hacked for security as well as CDN services. Experia consulted with them after the scandal.
Brandname matters. Intel/Nvidia is the best gaming combo. It just works and games are tested and optimized for both as they own 90% of the CPU/GPU market. Corporations buy whatever HP and Dell throw at them. THey like their Intel contracts and want to stay good with Intel for cheap pricing.
Intel means reliability to corporate buyers. It works well and everyone else uses it so they need to use it too. Brand name again and last drivers and issues are less with Nvidia and Intel. Always have. AMD is playing catch up but when you buy Intel or Nvidia the drivers are optimized on day one historically.
Nope. Apple wins by vertical integration in this day and age. Apple needs something it controls rather than relying on a vendor. Unlike the PC Mac users are happy to fork over money to repurchase software again and doesn't have the kind of whiners that business and legacy Windows users have.
Look at PowerPC to Intel as an example? Meanwhile we all remember the XP loyalists furious after a mere 13 years of support here on Slashdot back in 5 years ago lol.
ARM cortex is their IP basically. The only thing missing is their own foundary. Also IOS compability can be achieved by going ARM and would have the advantage of no legacy shit for superior power management and developer tools that wintel PCs can not achieve.
It is amazing to see and a sign the PC is the new mainframe and not as cutting edge.
10nm has been out for cell phones for years. By the time Intel has finally got it right AMD will be having 7nm Ryzen2 CPUs on the market. Samsung and global foundaries have risen to take over blindsiding Intel. I am glad I don't own any Intel stock.
Intel did release some i3 10nm. The reason why is the cores had so many defects. On Arstechnica a guy who owned a shop seen a huge failure rate as well after a few months with the chips. I don't blame Intel for halting production and trying again next year.
Hey I am a non techie CFO and need an Excel file with 50,000 rows in 25 columns which pull data from an Oracle database and uses thingie called SmartView Excel add-on. Can you help me?
Oh I forget to mention the German department of revenue is serving a file on a corporate Windows based share internally that I need to access. Their documentation mentioned about a trust relationship between something called a domain and ADFS SSO single sign on MFA authentication needs to be set so we can access material whatever that is?!?
Oh and I am trying to use Free/Busy on Mozilla Thunderbird to set a Skype meeting invite with their tech department and I don't see it! 101010101 HELP?!
A sane UI meant for desktops not phones complete with a start menu and controls to Maximize and resize Windows familiar to the user, Active Directory and group policy, Organization units, Oracle software, legacy stuff, activeX aka COM Excel and IE add-ons, printer drivers, wifi connectivity with EAP and all devices, Endpoint Security Protection software, Outlook for Free/Busy meeting & invites, system restore and chkdisk that mere techs can use(not senior admins), bitlocker,.pac files proxy, ADFS single sign on, federations and trusts with other entities that use Windows for access, Excel, and the list goes on and on.
Gnome 3 and current KDE is shit and that doesn't even address the list above.
We paid alot of money for our sites and even internet sites not working will give us call volume and makes us look incompetent if their internets are broken on a site we don't control
I'm failing to see how an unobtrusive warning that the webpage you're looking at wasn't served securely is "breaking the Internet".
Dude I work corporate IT. Holy Crap will my phone ring off the phone tomorrow with HEEELLLP my intranet site is saying it is compromised! I probably will be working 16 hours a day without lunch telling everyone to use IE. Ugh.
Yes it does brink corporate apps and remember business use is part of the internet as well and is HUGE. This is unacceptable as no where in the IEEE standards does it say WWW must be encrypted by default.
If your job is competing with people who only can read a script and reset a password then fuck man you don't deserve to be paid anything.
True some may be paper MCSEs or A+ maybe, but most who have real skills tend to move up quickly and get asked for interviews more than those who just reset passwords.
I have and will never work in that industry again. First as an agent, then running their IT.
They don't give a shit about you! They don't give a shit about the customer! Your job is to take screaming abusive with a smile for $10 - $15 an hour and if you don't like they will find someone else who will.
I realized when I worked for an AOL company long ago. It was that the CEO doesn't give a shit. My job was to take the hits so he can sit back in his office and play golf after verbal assaults and threats as we would not cancel their accounts and provide bad service.
If customers had to stop by the office and speak in person to staff and send snail mails you bet AOL would still be around today. But they are isolated.
At the end of the day NO ONE WANTS to hear screaming angry customers. This includes the CEO and people making decisions. You are a contractor out to take the abusive for them as a cost to do business as it is better you than them etc. It is all low bottom work and I have seen call center companies screw customers (as in the companies not users) over big time too.
It is a screwed up industry that i advise to avoid second to fast food.
WHo cares. 90 days is this quarter THAT STOCK PRICE MUST go up now! That bonus is very important to the CEO and the beancounters and if you make a crap product that means higher margins for the shareholders as well.
Not according to the guys with MBAs. Only managers have talent of course and each employee is a black box with fixed production output measurable by Excel and MS Project. Just ask any of them? If they don't add value then go cheap and cash in
If you are not sales, then you are overhead.
Let's not forget about these amazing thought leaders and CEOs? I mean Marissa at Yahoo put in an adjacent office as a daycare for her kid so she can sit back and day dream with meetings and have these amazing thoughts that turn into code and cash. She can't be bothered as thoughts and big offices create sales and deserve insane bonuses without having to produce anything.
The only exception I have seen is in oil companies where they had insane layoffs. All the managers kept their job and shafted the oil workers. Now we have hundreds of managers with 1 to 2 employees each and still wondering why they can't make money will all these idea creators around?
Someone just did that at where I worked. A cheap Indian intern and we caught her. Her response was I needed to get this done today and do not have time to setup an authentication system in hte code.
She was eventually fired though but employers love cheap programmers more than good code.
Yep. That is how to do it. Another thing is C Suite folks love working with architects from consulting companies and ignoring their own staff for projects. So what Microsoft and Cisco do is have a gold level partnership. Want to keep it? Then hire CCIE and MCSE on your staff and sell a certain quota of their products etc.
So when they reach out it is a Microsoft and Cisco solution by default to keep their gold level certification.
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The reason I gave up and my exwife gave up on LibreOffice was when we were applying for jobs.
Monster and various HR departments REQUIRE .DOC files. You write them in LibreOffice and they look sharp and great. They open it in Word 2003 and it is a garbled mess and assume you're retarded and don't know even how to use a basic word processor and filter you out. :-(
She still uses LibreOffice for her lesson plans but I added her to my Office 365 pack so she could be accepted by HR departments for other school districts. It is so frustrating but it is the same reason IE 6 stayed on as the defacto standard from 1999 - 2012 for web development. Sites won't render right and people will assume you suck ... not their browser if it doesn't' look right.
Things today in 2018 are improving with modern job sites like Dice and LinkedIN letting you take out formatting now compared to 5 or 10 years ago, but many HR departments will trash your resume in a heartbeat if it has any grammatical or formatting errors.
For this reason the business world is stuck on Office whether we like it or not. It has nothing to do with consumer project or not.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but if you have any office suite on your resume and you have ever had a relevant job it is not a good sign. You might as well list your gym membership under professional licenses.
... Wait? You think geeks screen the resumes out?? Ha. The clueless HR girl fresh out of school who is 22 years old decides whether you know your own job or not. Not you. Professional using Office and project for colloboration bla bla under job requirements is what she puts in Taleo.
Taleo filters you out as unqualified and some retard who puts it in gets a higher score in Taleo HR and the 22 selects the dufus for resumes to send to the higher up.
Basically, you have to cut and paste the job description in your experience to get through is the secret
And loudflare answers to US law enforcement. See any problem with sovereignty issues? I do.
They all answer to US authorities. I thought CLoudflare was European but I could be wrong. Your American service provider is no exception.
The trustworthiness of an ISPs DNS is not really significant, if you canâ(TM)t trust their DNS server your canâ(TM)t trust their routers either, and if thats true no IP address you use is safe from redirection. Only an an external authenticated connection is safe and DNS doesnt work like that. If Mozilla is using a public key encryption mechanism between the browser and their name resolution server it will be far more secure than current DNS servers, whether you use your own, an know external, or your ISPs.
A lot of websites now are going HTTPS with Google banning HTTP already in canary releases in Chrome. This will make it harder with transport layer security. FOr example your ISP will know you went to Amazon but not much else.
However, true pornhub will still be a record if they track each ISP unless you do a proxy with a securre connection.
If you're grandma or a hipster yes this is a good thing and it offers better performance too. Cloudflare is a company that offers protection from DDOS attacks, CDN, as well as networking security. Cloudflare's DNS guarantees privacy as well.
If you are the slashdotter nerd then you will go into about:config and turn it off so what is the big deal.
I suppose you prefer to do yoru forwarding requests to your ISP DNS who sells your browsing information instead hu?
FYI cloudflare's business model is to help business customers secure their connections. You can read it here which is a plus for grandma. But if you're technical like most of us then I am sure you can disable it.
Yep so the answer is to use your ISP who tells you in the agreement they will sell your information and history to advertisers instead
First off your ISP guarantees they sell your browser history to advertisers and some EVEN INSERT ads into your browsing experience. Cloudflare who is behind 1.1.1.1 guarantees your privacy as well as gives you the lowest latency if you read the agreement at www.1111.com.
Cloudflare is used for companies that have been hacked for security as well as CDN services. Experia consulted with them after the scandal.
Can you use this without Jetbrains?
Brandname matters. Intel/Nvidia is the best gaming combo. It just works and games are tested and optimized for both as they own 90% of the CPU/GPU market. Corporations buy whatever HP and Dell throw at them. THey like their Intel contracts and want to stay good with Intel for cheap pricing.
Intel means reliability to corporate buyers. It works well and everyone else uses it so they need to use it too. Brand name again and last drivers and issues are less with Nvidia and Intel. Always have. AMD is playing catch up but when you buy Intel or Nvidia the drivers are optimized on day one historically.
AMD for these reasons are a tiny tiny player
Nope. Apple wins by vertical integration in this day and age. Apple needs something it controls rather than relying on a vendor. Unlike the PC Mac users are happy to fork over money to repurchase software again and doesn't have the kind of whiners that business and legacy Windows users have.
Look at PowerPC to Intel as an example? Meanwhile we all remember the XP loyalists furious after a mere 13 years of support here on Slashdot back in 5 years ago lol.
ARM cortex is their IP basically. The only thing missing is their own foundary. Also IOS compability can be achieved by going ARM and would have the advantage of no legacy shit for superior power management and developer tools that wintel PCs can not achieve.
A 16 hour charge would be an Apple only feature
It is amazing to see and a sign the PC is the new mainframe and not as cutting edge.
10nm has been out for cell phones for years. By the time Intel has finally got it right AMD will be having 7nm Ryzen2 CPUs on the market. Samsung and global foundaries have risen to take over blindsiding Intel. I am glad I don't own any Intel stock.
Intel did release some i3 10nm. The reason why is the cores had so many defects. On Arstechnica a guy who owned a shop seen a huge failure rate as well after a few months with the chips. I don't blame Intel for halting production and trying again next year.
No one would have believed this 15 years ago.
Hey I am a non techie CFO and need an Excel file with 50,000 rows in 25 columns which pull data from an Oracle database and uses thingie called SmartView Excel add-on. Can you help me?
Oh I forget to mention the German department of revenue is serving a file on a corporate Windows based share internally that I need to access. Their documentation mentioned about a trust relationship between something called a domain and ADFS SSO single sign on MFA authentication needs to be set so we can access material whatever that is?!?
Oh and I am trying to use Free/Busy on Mozilla Thunderbird to set a Skype meeting invite with their tech department and I don't see it! 101010101 HELP?!
A sane UI meant for desktops not phones complete with a start menu and controls to Maximize and resize Windows familiar to the user, Active Directory and group policy, Organization units, Oracle software, legacy stuff, activeX aka COM Excel and IE add-ons, printer drivers, wifi connectivity with EAP and all devices, Endpoint Security Protection software, Outlook for Free/Busy meeting & invites, system restore and chkdisk that mere techs can use(not senior admins), bitlocker, .pac files proxy, ADFS single sign on, federations and trusts with other entities that use Windows for access, Excel, and the list goes on and on.
Gnome 3 and current KDE is shit and that doesn't even address the list above.
I assume your Linux distro isn't SystemD yet is it?
We paid alot of money for our sites and even internet sites not working will give us call volume and makes us look incompetent if their internets are broken on a site we don't control
Yes they can. With the DNS cache they can track you and sell it to marketers and ads
I'm failing to see how an unobtrusive warning that the webpage you're looking at wasn't served securely is "breaking the Internet".
Dude I work corporate IT. Holy Crap will my phone ring off the phone tomorrow with HEEELLLP my intranet site is saying it is compromised! I probably will be working 16 hours a day without lunch telling everyone to use IE. Ugh.
Yes it does brink corporate apps and remember business use is part of the internet as well and is HUGE. This is unacceptable as no where in the IEEE standards does it say WWW must be encrypted by default.
If your job is competing with people who only can read a script and reset a password then fuck man you don't deserve to be paid anything.
True some may be paper MCSEs or A+ maybe, but most who have real skills tend to move up quickly and get asked for interviews more than those who just reset passwords.
I have and will never work in that industry again. First as an agent, then running their IT.
They don't give a shit about you! They don't give a shit about the customer! Your job is to take screaming abusive with a smile for $10 - $15 an hour and if you don't like they will find someone else who will.
I realized when I worked for an AOL company long ago. It was that the CEO doesn't give a shit. My job was to take the hits so he can sit back in his office and play golf after verbal assaults and threats as we would not cancel their accounts and provide bad service.
If customers had to stop by the office and speak in person to staff and send snail mails you bet AOL would still be around today. But they are isolated.
At the end of the day NO ONE WANTS to hear screaming angry customers. This includes the CEO and people making decisions. You are a contractor out to take the abusive for them as a cost to do business as it is better you than them etc. It is all low bottom work and I have seen call center companies screw customers (as in the companies not users) over big time too.
It is a screwed up industry that i advise to avoid second to fast food.
WHo cares. 90 days is this quarter THAT STOCK PRICE MUST go up now! That bonus is very important to the CEO and the beancounters and if you make a crap product that means higher margins for the shareholders as well.
Marisa got rid of work at home if you remember then created the daycare just for her.
Talk about a morale killer right there.
There is no such thing as "cheap talent."
Not according to the guys with MBAs. Only managers have talent of course and each employee is a black box with fixed production output measurable by Excel and MS Project. Just ask any of them? If they don't add value then go cheap and cash in
If you are not sales, then you are overhead.
Let's not forget about these amazing thought leaders and CEOs? I mean Marissa at Yahoo put in an adjacent office as a daycare for her kid so she can sit back and day dream with meetings and have these amazing thoughts that turn into code and cash. She can't be bothered as thoughts and big offices create sales and deserve insane bonuses without having to produce anything.
The only exception I have seen is in oil companies where they had insane layoffs. All the managers kept their job and shafted the oil workers. Now we have hundreds of managers with 1 to 2 employees each and still wondering why they can't make money will all these idea creators around?
Someone just did that at where I worked. A cheap Indian intern and we caught her. Her response was I needed to get this done today and do not have time to setup an authentication system in hte code.
She was eventually fired though but employers love cheap programmers more than good code.
Yep. That is how to do it. Another thing is C Suite folks love working with architects from consulting companies and ignoring their own staff for projects. So what Microsoft and Cisco do is have a gold level partnership. Want to keep it? Then hire CCIE and MCSE on your staff and sell a certain quota of their products etc.
So when they reach out it is a Microsoft and Cisco solution by default to keep their gold level certification.