First of all - with that...wicca... part of your domain - I am sure you have more issues than just the noise that his machine was making.
Second - I dont blame him for leaving if you're constantly harping on him about things like the flipping key-stroke noise that kept you from getting all the rest you needed for your oh-so-difficult receptionist job.
Third - your not used to a lot of noise because your from scotland? but now all of a sudden your OK with it all because you have a computer job? I assume you have a much larger paycheck now - so it would seem that you didnt really care about the noise, you jsut cared about the money that you weren't getting. Now that you have a job making a larger wage you can suddenly forget about the fact that you're "from a rural area in Scotland, [and] not used at all to roaring cars and noise and humming computers"
Now you miss him because you could really use his computer?
JEEEBBUUSS!!
Give me that guys email address - I would like to congradulate him for leaving you!!
Seriously this back me cringe with anger at the slimy bastards that do shit like this.
I want to hit these people in the face with a shovel, and then tell them that they never specifically signed anything that said i couldnt hit them in the face with a shovel.
It means that we learned a lot about the network we had - a lot about how to properly wire it - and a lot about budgets, planning, roll out schedules etc....
Sure - people make mistakes, but anytime anyone says they learned a lot it does not always translate to "I fucked up a lot"
well in the terms of a contract you would be correct. I should have been more clear.
Although I do think that if you inherit a network - and then become the true owner of the responsibility of said network, and you own it for some period of time without cleaning it up then you are lazy. That was more clearly what i was saying.
If you are a contractor - it is not always in your contract or in your interest to clean it up. If you are a company it is *always* in your interest to have a clean logical and well maintained network. *Especially* when some guy leaves and your next temp network contractor inherits the previous admins leavings.
"...But doing stuff on aesthetic grounds is a harder sell..."
This is not always true!
If you have a company that you are trying to get new customers and investors to come on board - and you need to show them your technology, often times they like to come over and take tours of your datacenter - HQ - IT Dept or office in general.
Believe me - the asthetics of the cables that make your network have a very large impact on how people can view your company.
For example, this picture shows that this particular setup went up in flames at some point (look at the burn marks on the door and melted cables). now you think that if this closet was setup properly (which would include asthetics) that it would have gone up in flames so easily. And do you think that any client/partner/investor would think you had your priorities straight if they saw a closet like this?
Yeah - what if the high priced cisco equipment happens to be connected to your arm as you leave for the night?
Seriously though - doing network surveys I have found many beefy cisco switches in closets with no or as little as one cable connected with no live link.
We call those devices "Superfluous Equipment" or "Re-allocating dead assets"
I have always thought that how organized a companies wiring is - is a direct reflection of the staff that works there.
I know that when i moved into one company in Redwood City - the network wsa a nightmare. We had rooms that looke like that - but over the next 2 years we replaced almost every wire on that network - and demanded budget for proper closet setups - and got it.
We eliminated all those closets that looked like that, and learned one hell of a lot in the process.
I think that if your closets look like that - you are asking for fire - and it shows just how lazy you really are. No arguments of "I'm too busy" allowed - it just means your a lazy slob period.
When I read the Slashdot posting I thought - how lame. The least they could do to add to this one sentance story is to add another sentance giving a description of what the hell it was talking about.
I think it was most likely not added to make people feel that they are not 1337 enough if they dont know what it is by default. Whatever.
not on my new salary in the post dot com era. although i am thankful for my job - and my 21" crt that I was able to buy when work and money was plentiful.
well i know that the specs claim for many many more rewrites that 30 or 40.
but I am also amazed that you have even actually used any of your discs that much. I would expect that if your using the CDs that much - they'd get scratched up and ruined long before you killed them via to much burning.
I know that all my CDs are treated as a trash commodity that i just toss out when it starts getting bad. or I pre-emptively burn another copy of anything that is getting a lot of use - and throw out the other when its scratched up enough.
How much watching do you do to get 30 or 40 burns on a single RW?
Probably going out of business for the cost of all the pianos, other insturments, sports equipment and other things that they dropped from cranes in their commercials.
"How cool would this be with support for a wireless protocol"
Would it be called the BlueInk protocol.
WEll - if they did have one with Wireless capability I am sure the CIA would love a few thousand to give to visiting diplomats and anyone else in general.
All MS bashing aside I find it very odd that people, with all their supposed privacy concerns, would even consider a company such as Microsoft or any other software vendor for that matter, trusted enough to hold a lot of personal information.
I understand the appeal of having an account that floats to any terminal that you log into - but having someone else in charge of that makes me nervous.
I mean - think of credit companies on steriods here.
For example - having a bank have some ability to control your money is one thing - but here you would have an account that could have much more information that you "own" but dont have full control over.
In your profile in the next 5 years will be such info as:
bank info documents, both personal and professional that are kept or written by you habits file, browsing, shopping, reading, viewing etc. personal machine preferences owned/installed programs you use regularly. plus more
Now I cant understand why I would want to give anyone control over any aspect of this. Banking is a necesity in todays world - but that's as far as it should go. I dont wnat my bank to handle any information other than exactly how much money is in my account and when I access it. I wouldnt trust them with my personal documents etc... so why would I trust MS.
One argument against this could be the handling of hotmail accounts.
What about how hotmail handles information as simple as your email address - and how much spam you get. What levels of access will "affiliates" and "advertising partners" have to all the info in your.net or palladium account?
There is already a proven track record to show why you would not want this info placed outside your control.
As they should be is not a racist, sexist, or any other -ist statement.
As they should be, means how the body was meant to grow - you know, two arms, two legs, two eyes, ears, a nose mouth and brain.
This means that we should not design the world around the guy with one leg. If every human were born with one leg - then the world would reflect that.
You disgust me - as you are the one whom will too quickly associate someone with Hitler. Hitler?! of all things - you should not try to attach such buzzwords to your un-informed comments for attention and effect.
A very poor attempt at making yourself look more morally evolved.
or there could be RFCs written up by "disabled" people specing what would be tolerable and or useable by them and these RFCs could be used by programmers and companies to produce products that adhere to this standard.
I just think that Congress and Courts have a very negative track record when it comes to actually implementing things that make the most sense.
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kinda like how austin powers and doctor evil went to school together?
I HEAR YA THERE!
Is this post for real?
...wicca... part of your domain - I am sure you have more issues than just the noise that his machine was making.
First of all - with that
Second - I dont blame him for leaving if you're constantly harping on him about things like the flipping key-stroke noise that kept you from getting all the rest you needed for your oh-so-difficult receptionist job.
Third - your not used to a lot of noise because your from scotland? but now all of a sudden your OK with it all because you have a computer job? I assume you have a much larger paycheck now - so it would seem that you didnt really care about the noise, you jsut cared about the money that you weren't getting. Now that you have a job making a larger wage you can suddenly forget about the fact that you're "from a rural area in Scotland, [and] not used at all to roaring cars and noise and humming computers"
Now you miss him because you could really use his computer?
JEEEBBUUSS!!
Give me that guys email address - I would like to congradulate him for leaving you!!
doesn't their website have a return policy if you arnt happy with all of the undocumented features of your new wife?
sorry.
er... makes me cringe......
Ma - get me my gun! We a goin' huntin'!
Seriously this back me cringe with anger at the slimy bastards that do shit like this.
I want to hit these people in the face with a shovel, and then tell them that they never specifically signed anything that said i couldnt hit them in the face with a shovel.
BLECH!
um - no.
It means that we learned a lot about the network we had - a lot about how to properly wire it - and a lot about budgets, planning, roll out schedules etc....
Sure - people make mistakes, but anytime anyone says they learned a lot it does not always translate to "I fucked up a lot"
well in the terms of a contract you would be correct. I should have been more clear.
Although I do think that if you inherit a network - and then become the true owner of the responsibility of said network, and you own it for some period of time without cleaning it up then you are lazy. That was more clearly what i was saying.
If you are a contractor - it is not always in your contract or in your interest to clean it up. If you are a company it is *always* in your interest to have a clean logical and well maintained network. *Especially* when some guy leaves and your next temp network contractor inherits the previous admins leavings.
You forgot the punch line - which comes on the bill:
Air service...............1.5 minutes.......$3.99
How loud can spiders actually get?
"...But doing stuff on aesthetic grounds is a harder sell..."
This is not always true!
If you have a company that you are trying to get new customers and investors to come on board - and you need to show them your technology, often times they like to come over and take tours of your datacenter - HQ - IT Dept or office in general.
Believe me - the asthetics of the cables that make your network have a very large impact on how people can view your company.
For example, this picture shows that this particular setup went up in flames at some point (look at the burn marks on the door and melted cables). now you think that if this closet was setup properly (which would include asthetics) that it would have gone up in flames so easily. And do you think that any client/partner/investor would think you had your priorities straight if they saw a closet like this?
Yeah - what if the high priced cisco equipment happens to be connected to your arm as you leave for the night?
Seriously though - doing network surveys I have found many beefy cisco switches in closets with no or as little as one cable connected with no live link.
We call those devices "Superfluous Equipment" or "Re-allocating dead assets"
I have always thought that how organized a companies wiring is - is a direct reflection of the staff that works there.
I know that when i moved into one company in Redwood City - the network wsa a nightmare. We had rooms that looke like that - but over the next 2 years we replaced almost every wire on that network - and demanded budget for proper closet setups - and got it.
We eliminated all those closets that looked like that, and learned one hell of a lot in the process.
I think that if your closets look like that - you are asking for fire - and it shows just how lazy you really are. No arguments of "I'm too busy" allowed - it just means your a lazy slob period.
How is this off topic? I totally agree here...
When I read the Slashdot posting I thought - how lame. The least they could do to add to this one sentance story is to add another sentance giving a description of what the hell it was talking about.
I think it was most likely not added to make people feel that they are not 1337 enough if they dont know what it is by default. Whatever.
not on my new salary in the post dot com era. although i am thankful for my job - and my 21" crt that I was able to buy when work and money was plentiful.
well i know that the specs claim for many many more rewrites that 30 or 40.
but I am also amazed that you have even actually used any of your discs that much. I would expect that if your using the CDs that much - they'd get scratched up and ruined long before you killed them via to much burning.
I know that all my CDs are treated as a trash commodity that i just toss out when it starts getting bad. or I pre-emptively burn another copy of anything that is getting a lot of use - and throw out the other when its scratched up enough.
How much watching do you do to get 30 or 40 burns on a single RW?
Probably going out of business for the cost of all the pianos, other insturments, sports equipment and other things that they dropped from cranes in their commercials.
well it my be kludgy now - but at least its being worked on and that they managed to get it into a small package.
Give it a while - someone will come up with a non-proprietary-paper-requiring version with wireless - then all geeks can rejoice.
"How cool would this be with support for a wireless protocol"
Would it be called the BlueInk protocol.
WEll - if they did have one with Wireless capability I am sure the CIA would love a few thousand to give to visiting diplomats and anyone else in general.
All MS bashing aside I find it very odd that people, with all their supposed privacy concerns, would even consider a company such as Microsoft or any other software vendor for that matter, trusted enough to hold a lot of personal information.
.net or palladium account?
I understand the appeal of having an account that floats to any terminal that you log into - but having someone else in charge of that makes me nervous.
I mean - think of credit companies on steriods here.
For example - having a bank have some ability to control your money is one thing - but here you would have an account that could have much more information that you "own" but dont have full control over.
In your profile in the next 5 years will be such info as:
bank info
documents, both personal and professional that are kept or written by you
habits file, browsing, shopping, reading, viewing etc.
personal machine preferences
owned/installed programs you use regularly.
plus more
Now I cant understand why I would want to give anyone control over any aspect of this. Banking is a necesity in todays world - but that's as far as it should go. I dont wnat my bank to handle any information other than exactly how much money is in my account and when I access it. I wouldnt trust them with my personal documents etc... so why would I trust MS.
One argument against this could be the handling of hotmail accounts.
If you think MS is responsible enough with all you info then you have never been one of hundreds of thousands of whom who had their hotmail accounts "misplaced" with not so much as a sorry. (cant find a very good article on it - but I remember it when it happened)
What about how hotmail handles information as simple as your email address - and how much spam you get. What levels of access will "affiliates" and "advertising partners" have to all the info in your
There is already a proven track record to show why you would not want this info placed outside your control.
You are clearly a fool.
As they should be is not a racist, sexist, or any other -ist statement.
As they should be, means how the body was meant to grow - you know, two arms, two legs, two eyes, ears, a nose mouth and brain.
This means that we should not design the world around the guy with one leg. If every human were born with one leg - then the world would reflect that.
You disgust me - as you are the one whom will too quickly associate someone with Hitler. Hitler?! of all things - you should not try to attach such buzzwords to your un-informed comments for attention and effect.
A very poor attempt at making yourself look more morally evolved.
or there could be RFCs written up by "disabled" people specing what would be tolerable and or useable by them and these RFCs could be used by programmers and companies to produce products that adhere to this standard.
I just think that Congress and Courts have a very negative track record when it comes to actually implementing things that make the most sense.
"A line has to be drawn, and Congress has drawn it."
I think this is the fundamental issue with the whole topic. Congress shouldnt be required to draw this line - it should be common sense.
We shouldn't have to rely on Congress to govern and write down every single little minutiae of existance.
Funny here is the QOTD from the bottom of the Slashdot page:
"Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie