Yeah, that's the best way to try to manage big organizations that anyone has found yet.
But I've worked for a few big organizations and they all suck, I personally don't think our current ways of managing people scale past a few hundred employees.
Not to defend this kind of bullshit, but you can't know all your employees in a behemoth the size of IBM or MS.
The bigger the organization, the harder it is to manage. Once you get above a certain point it's impossible to manage well, and MS and IBM are waaaaaaaay past the manageable point.
If there's a mistake or something in your docs are unclear, you want the guy using the docs to be able to fix it right on the spot. For that reason use a wiki, no-one is going to fire up Visio or whatever and diddle a flow char tin the middle of a call.
I assume the people using it are phone monkeys, make sure to track who makes improvements so that it doesn't penalize the guy who takes a minute to fix something but then their talk time suffers and they get bitched at.
In cold climates houses are insulated/sealed but an air exchanger is installed to mitigate those problems. This is a solved problem, talk to anyone building houses in Alaska, Canada, Sweden, etc.
I was thinking more about a narrow stretch where the oncoming lanes were really close, just across the jersey barrier kind of thing. You could drive around for a day and get within range of thousands of cars, maybe 10s of thousands.
Is his gear fast enough to sniff passports from cars moving at highway speeds? He could drive on public highways leading to the airport, or just sit in the parking lot of gas stations close to the airport.
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Yeah, that's the best way to try to manage big organizations that anyone has found yet.
But I've worked for a few big organizations and they all suck, I personally don't think our current ways of managing people scale past a few hundred employees.
So now the most important factor becomes a popularity contest among the managers? Is that so different from most companies do now?
If their managers are any good, they know it as well.
OK, so all we need is to have 100% good managers in every position in the company.
How hard could that be?
Not to defend this kind of bullshit, but you can't know all your employees in a behemoth the size of IBM or MS.
The bigger the organization, the harder it is to manage. Once you get above a certain point it's impossible to manage well, and MS and IBM are waaaaaaaay past the manageable point.
It's as likely to encourage people to cc everyone and their cousin, or other silly tactics to game the metrics.
Wow, NT will soon catch up to NetWare's SALVAGE.EXE from the late 80s.
The Volume Shadow Copies sounds a lot like rsnapshot on *nix, which is really rdiff + some wrapper scripts.
You think boot times were worse in the 386 + DOS + WordPerfect days?
Back in the day, ftp.cdrom.com served ~1TB a day from 1 box, a 200-MHz P6 Pentium Pro.
(yeah yeah, ftp.cdrom.com had industrial quality I/O, but 1.2GHz is a LOT of computer power for anything but graphics.)
I need X forwarding to view LaTeX documents compiled on another machine without scp'ing each time.
This won't solve your whole problem, but you could add the scp step to your makefile and have it happen automagically.
I'm guessing the administrator and his sniffer are fully aware of what's going on in his environments.
Northrop-Grumman (i.e. the company who runs the site, the guys who fucked up) is private sector.
Being in the private sector is not magic pixie dust that makes people smarter and systems more secure.
Meh.
It sounds like he's writing docs for first-line phone droids, and they have no useful docs at all right now, I don't imagine any lives are at stake.
Wikis track who made changes, if someone is actually making harmful changes it won't take long to find out who and have a chat with their boss.
There's a balance I suppose, but I lean hard towards "trust the guys doing the work to easily change the documentation".
The disadvantage is that you've generated read-only documents.
True, but the easiest way to get a raise/promotion is to change companies.
If there's a mistake or something in your docs are unclear, you want the guy using the docs to be able to fix it right on the spot. For that reason use a wiki, no-one is going to fire up Visio or whatever and diddle a flow char tin the middle of a call.
I assume the people using it are phone monkeys, make sure to track who makes improvements so that it doesn't penalize the guy who takes a minute to fix something but then their talk time suffers and they get bitched at.
Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer. (Peter da Silva)
In cold climates houses are insulated/sealed but an air exchanger is installed to mitigate those problems. This is a solved problem, talk to anyone building houses in Alaska, Canada, Sweden, etc.
Dunno about energy requirements, but fiberglass is melted sand so I think we're good for a while.
It's an investment. I'll get the money back on my heating bills over the next few years, and those windows should last 20-30 years.
I don't have to dick around with storm windows in the fall/spring.
I don't have to run around every damn autumn morning wiping off condensation.
I don't have entire windows frosted over in the morning after a cold night.
It's hard to put a dollar value on those things, but fewer boring house maintenance chores == win.
Copper prices have crashed in the last few months, http://www.infomine.com/investment/metalschart.asp?c=Copper&r=15y
My new windows reduced my heating bill, but don't detract from my standard of living.
I was thinking more about a narrow stretch where the oncoming lanes were really close, just across the jersey barrier kind of thing. You could drive around for a day and get within range of thousands of cars, maybe 10s of thousands.
Is his gear fast enough to sniff passports from cars moving at highway speeds? He could drive on public highways leading to the airport, or just sit in the parking lot of gas stations close to the airport.
What's the worst that could happen, they screw it up and you die?