Came here to say this. The Cuyahoga caught fire in 1969. How long will it take China to start taking their environment seriously? I can't believe that they would let this go on forever, but it isn't a democracy and money makes people blind to the effects of their actions.
I am holding off putting v6 in the network I manage because there is a severe lack of feature parity with v4. Sure, some of the stuff runs in software, but until the routers and switches actually start running the stuff in hardware and have all the features that are available with v4, then maybe we'll put it in.
Yes, we are putting in some workarounds to allow v6 only clients to get to our external resources. But even then, their ISP's are doing some 6to4 NAT to allow their customers to get to things like, I don't know, Slashdot.
I live in an area where all the IT people know each other. We all know which company is worth working for and which isn't, who pays well and who doesn't. The area is small enough where you speak ill of NO ONE, because tomorrow you may be interviewing with their cousin/sibling/friend.
Sucks. Since the corporation is sh*tty to work for. But I can't burn any bridges.
Remember that GS was on the smart side of the mortgage trade... even though they were copying what another trader was doing. They knew that the mortgage mess was going to blow up. They sold sh*t funds of mortgages while betting against them. Read William Cohen's "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world." for more info.
AIG were idiots for selling insurance on investments that the had no business in. GS bought boatloads of insurance against default of investments they didn't have. That is nothing more than gambling and should be taxed as such.
Sometimes you have to have a user ping something, telnet to something. I know it sucks and it is hard, but basic connectivity tests are what you need./Love using AppNeta's PathView so I don't have to do this much anymore.//Just need the company to get more testing equipment.
Not being snarky, but instead I would like to read about it. I remember the Asia/Russia currency collapses around that time, and surely it had to hit us in some way. I just always assumed we got lucky. Do you have any good links?
I wish that AppNeta had a home-user version of their PathView tool (www.appneta.com). I would be testing my cable service constantly.
I use this at work, and have seen the effects of bufferbloat on our MPLS network. I'm still fighting with our provider that, yes, I would actually like some packets dropped, please. The bloat is so bad that I'm seeing RTT's of over 2 seconds from North America to Central America. Not even close to acceptable.
I wish we could get the real BBC channels here in the States. BBC America runs too many re-runs of Star Trek NG and old American TV shows. Every once in a while they run some of the good British stuff. Heck, I would even pay a little more to get the BBC Channels.
I don't sign in to search (and started using DuckDuckGo a while ago), I run adblock and Ghostery. I remove google cookies all the time. What else should I be paranoid about?
IT is always portrayed in the media/culture/ads as somewhat of an outcast? Who amongst us remembers the rooster looking dude in the Ameritrade (I think that is what they were called) commercials to the "SWEET" idiot of the horrible CDW commercials. While many (if not most) of us were professional and CAN talk to an average user, we are portrayed as some weird punk-rock drummer.
This made us easy to demonize, and demote. We weren't 'leaders', professionals, or whatever.
"So far, every study done on the ribbon shows it as being significantly more efficient (i.e. fewer clicks to perform task, more discoverable, etc.) than the toolbar/menu mess in Office 2003" [CITATION NEEDED]
You want me to use a stopwatch in my office, but then cite 'every study'? Cite one that wasn't produced by or paid for by Microsoft.
At my place of employment, I HAVE to use Win7, IE, MS Office, etc. I have no choice. I hated XP and made it work like 2000. When Vista came along I figured I'd best learn how to use it as it was. I loved the Quick Launch buttons (put my most used applications there) and especially the "Show Desktop" button (I have a bad habit of putting a lot of files on my desktop so I can find them quickly, then remove them when they are no longer useful.) Win7 removed the Quick Launch (found a hack to put it back) and the "Show Desktop" moved, unlabeled to the right bottom of the screen. Took a while to find that.
Then came Office with the ribbon. No way to put the menus back that I had been using since Windows 95. Ugh. I hid the ribbon so I could get screen real estate back when using Word/Excel/Visio/Outlook. It still takes a while to find the things that I don't know the keyboard shortcuts for. Real productivity waster. It's not the minute or two that I am not doing my work that bugs me, but the break of my chain of thought that is most annoying.
We just upgraded to Sharepoint 2010-- Now with the RIBBON! What a waste. They took a good tool and made it tedious. More clicking just to find anything. I will get used to it, but I want my old Sharepoint back.
With the Sharepoint upgrade the URL's for some things I follow changed. I have documents that others may change, and it would email me when someone did that. Outlook couldn't connect to Sharepoint with the old URL, so I thought I would just go in and change it. After about 10 minutes I just deleted the damned.ost as I could not find where in the ribbon I could change it. Frustration won out.
I've had non-IT folks I know ask me how to do things in Office/Sharepoint/etc with the ribbon. My stock response is "I have no idea."
Do I hate GUI's? Heck no. Full disclosure: I own Macs at home and love Snow Leopard. I'm not sold on Lion, but some things are easier. But the machine that I spend nearly 10 hours a day working with I still stumble around trying to figure out why the heck Microsoft hid whatever function I was trying to use.
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Came here to say this. The Cuyahoga caught fire in 1969. How long will it take China to start taking their environment seriously? I can't believe that they would let this go on forever, but it isn't a democracy and money makes people blind to the effects of their actions.
Where do we find companies that have respect for user/consumer rights, because I would be happy to use their products and services.
And really, the storm is so far away, it could still hit well away from Tampa. It is a statistical guess at this point.
If I recall correctly, less than 50% of the total population knows the Romney is Mormon.
It doesn't disqualify him in my mind. I am against ALL religions equally.
And that is exactly what I wanted to say. I'm more worried about Google than anyone else.
Long live Adblock and Ghostery.
I would love to configure a DNS server on my router by hostname. Is there a way to do that?
I am holding off putting v6 in the network I manage because there is a severe lack of feature parity with v4. Sure, some of the stuff runs in software, but until the routers and switches actually start running the stuff in hardware and have all the features that are available with v4, then maybe we'll put it in.
Yes, we are putting in some workarounds to allow v6 only clients to get to our external resources. But even then, their ISP's are doing some 6to4 NAT to allow their customers to get to things like, I don't know, Slashdot.
I still can't get a v6 address capable circuit for my testlab at work from at&t, without buying their 'managed service' along with it.
I'd rather spoon out my own guts that let at&t manage any part of my network. So not happening yet.
Amen. I know IP addresses of many things across my network. Not going to happen when we go to v6.
I live in an area where all the IT people know each other. We all know which company is worth working for and which isn't, who pays well and who doesn't. The area is small enough where you speak ill of NO ONE, because tomorrow you may be interviewing with their cousin/sibling/friend.
Sucks. Since the corporation is sh*tty to work for. But I can't burn any bridges.
Remember that GS was on the smart side of the mortgage trade... even though they were copying what another trader was doing. They knew that the mortgage mess was going to blow up. They sold sh*t funds of mortgages while betting against them. Read William Cohen's "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world." for more info.
AIG were idiots for selling insurance on investments that the had no business in. GS bought boatloads of insurance against default of investments they didn't have. That is nothing more than gambling and should be taxed as such.
Sometimes you have to have a user ping something, telnet to something. I know it sucks and it is hard, but basic connectivity tests are what you need. /Love using AppNeta's PathView so I don't have to do this much anymore. //Just need the company to get more testing equipment.
Wow, the UK is becoming China, but for different reasons. I hate censorship in any form, and especially from a country I respect.
Too bad my mod points expired. Being MBAed is what is bringing down many good companies.
OPNET? BAH! Way over priced for what it is. Try PathView by AppNeta. Better tool, lower cost.
"The one in 98".. citation needed?
Not being snarky, but instead I would like to read about it. I remember the Asia/Russia currency collapses around that time, and surely it had to hit us in some way. I just always assumed we got lucky. Do you have any good links?
Didn't the creator of Babylon 5 lurk on usenet to check up on what those of us who watched the show thought of it? /yes, my lawn, get off of it.
I wish that AppNeta had a home-user version of their PathView tool (www.appneta.com). I would be testing my cable service constantly.
I use this at work, and have seen the effects of bufferbloat on our MPLS network. I'm still fighting with our provider that, yes, I would actually like some packets dropped, please. The bloat is so bad that I'm seeing RTT's of over 2 seconds from North America to Central America. Not even close to acceptable.
I wish we could get the real BBC channels here in the States. BBC America runs too many re-runs of Star Trek NG and old American TV shows. Every once in a while they run some of the good British stuff. Heck, I would even pay a little more to get the BBC Channels.
I don't sign in to search (and started using DuckDuckGo a while ago), I run adblock and Ghostery. I remove google cookies all the time. What else should I be paranoid about?
They are being evil. Big time.
IT is always portrayed in the media/culture/ads as somewhat of an outcast? Who amongst us remembers the rooster looking dude in the Ameritrade (I think that is what they were called) commercials to the "SWEET" idiot of the horrible CDW commercials. While many (if not most) of us were professional and CAN talk to an average user, we are portrayed as some weird punk-rock drummer.
This made us easy to demonize, and demote. We weren't 'leaders', professionals, or whatever.
Who came out on top on this trade? Or was is spread amongst many?
"So far, every study done on the ribbon shows it as being significantly more efficient (i.e. fewer clicks to perform task, more discoverable, etc.) than the toolbar/menu mess in Office 2003" [CITATION NEEDED]
You want me to use a stopwatch in my office, but then cite 'every study'? Cite one that wasn't produced by or paid for by Microsoft.
At my place of employment, I HAVE to use Win7, IE, MS Office, etc. I have no choice. I hated XP and made it work like 2000. When Vista came along I figured I'd best learn how to use it as it was. I loved the Quick Launch buttons (put my most used applications there) and especially the "Show Desktop" button (I have a bad habit of putting a lot of files on my desktop so I can find them quickly, then remove them when they are no longer useful.) Win7 removed the Quick Launch (found a hack to put it back) and the "Show Desktop" moved, unlabeled to the right bottom of the screen. Took a while to find that.
Then came Office with the ribbon. No way to put the menus back that I had been using since Windows 95. Ugh. I hid the ribbon so I could get screen real estate back when using Word/Excel/Visio/Outlook. It still takes a while to find the things that I don't know the keyboard shortcuts for. Real productivity waster. It's not the minute or two that I am not doing my work that bugs me, but the break of my chain of thought that is most annoying.
We just upgraded to Sharepoint 2010-- Now with the RIBBON! What a waste. They took a good tool and made it tedious. More clicking just to find anything. I will get used to it, but I want my old Sharepoint back.
With the Sharepoint upgrade the URL's for some things I follow changed. I have documents that others may change, and it would email me when someone did that. Outlook couldn't connect to Sharepoint with the old URL, so I thought I would just go in and change it. After about 10 minutes I just deleted the damned .ost as I could not find where in the ribbon I could change it. Frustration won out.
I've had non-IT folks I know ask me how to do things in Office/Sharepoint/etc with the ribbon. My stock response is "I have no idea."
Do I hate GUI's? Heck no. Full disclosure: I own Macs at home and love Snow Leopard. I'm not sold on Lion, but some things are easier. But the machine that I spend nearly 10 hours a day working with I still stumble around trying to figure out why the heck Microsoft hid whatever function I was trying to use.
That wants downtime and lost data in the EC2 cloud.