Not when you've got less than 4 hours to get those boxen up again so the DP people can input data. You can't be too picky then. -sigh- Of course, a previous propsal to get some spare workstations for such emergency got shot down by the head beancounter. Maybe she'll listen now.
Long story made short...
We had some electrical wiring problems with the outlets going into this one office with 10 K6 workstations just yesterday, and all boxen in that office took a dirtnap (i.e. the motherboard fried on all of them, and the CPU fried on 2).
I called up our local PC vendor who had sold us the PCs just 7 months ago. The vendor said that AMD stopped making the CPUs and to get (original make) replacement boards and CPUs will take at least 4-6 weeks!
That meant I had to buy either
some more expensive motherboards, or
the only motherboards the vendor had
(Is he bluffing? Vendor poker, anyone?)
Makes me wonder if motherboard manufacturers have followed suit in this one.
You do have a point about dealing with multitudes of teens, but teens having angst and knowing more about technology than a lot of adults is nothing new. And with every technological wonder comes it's new set of problems. To be honest, I worry more about the influence of TV shows, commercials, and corporate radio on teens than I would FPS games, internet content, and Marilyn Manson.
I don't really consider writing a book, some articles, and exchanging e-mails as experience with 15 y.o.s. Raising children and spending a lot of time with them (i.e. 24/7/365 of dealing with the good and bad) will make you more of an authority on that one, but that's just MHO. It's a real distant view that you're talking from, Jon.
I think it should be known that 15 y.o.s who:
Think they know everything.
Can be arrogant
Are unprepared for leadership
Surprise everyone with their creativity
Need to learn from adults
...is nothing new and has been going on for generations. The current 15 y.o.s are growing up with the new technology of the internet, I grew up with the technology of BBSs (& Usenet, Fidonet, etc.), my parents grew up with radio (ham & commercial) & television, and so on. Technology changes, but kids generally haven't really changed that much. They still eat food, need acceptance, feel awkward, take out the trash, want cool toys, need care, want to drive, sneak a beer, think that school sucks, want a weird haircut, etc.
I do mung up my alt tags. I figure that if someone's checking out a webpage with Lynx, they should be clued enough to figure that youKEINE@SPAMMENthere.com or spam_you@spam_there.com would == you@there.com. If not, then I don't want email from them.:)
Even if you do fight, you're going to lose everything you own to lawyers. So, the muzak and movie companies can hurt anyone pretty bad even if they don't have a case.
Funny, but if I were to start peeking around the RIAA's file shares and started sniffing traffic, content, etc., I'd get busted and become the media-piss boy for evil hacker conspiracies. But if the RIAA starts poking around uninvited on my boxen, well, it's alright.
Arrgh! NO! The world is being run down by lawyers and marketeers! At this point, let's just destroy civilization and let the cockroaches have a go.
Of course the best way to prevent some spammer from getting your email address off of a webpage is to just make an image of your email address instead of putting a "mailto:you@there.com" which is one of the many ways spammers do their harvesting.
Here's some of the nefarious companies and their creations...know your enemy:) This company has an
"Atomic Harvester" that fishes for email addressen and if that's not annoying enough, they also have a program that automatically spams
newsgroups.
And for the spammer that's too lazy or too cheap to pay for the software, then
This company will harvest email addressen for a fee.
To thwart the above methods, check here for ways of protecting against those harvesters.
$DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY will send out "bounty hunters" to insure that their hi-jacked^Wcopyrighted material is not used unless they are paid off. And if you don't have proof that you paid for the content of your HD or if you are simply sharing with friends (likened to listening to a CD in a car with your pal), then $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY will silence and punish you by removing your 'net connection.
$DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY are now working on getting the authority to search your HD for content without a warrant through ISPs. This is simply an abuse and $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY should have no right or proper authority to do so. By even concieving this frame of thought, IMHO, makes $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY even more criminal than all of the dirtbags selling pirated CDs on the street corner.
What's next? Are they going to break down your door in the middle of the night because you set up a share at home to listen to your CDs at work?
Sure, $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY has the right to protect their property, but not at this grave expense. This has to be stopped.
It's like "First Post", "goatse.cx", "AYB", "Natalie Portman", etc. JonKatz bashing is pretty tired, but for some strange reason, it never seems to go away.
he's in jail, charged with "trafficking" in software -- criminal felony liability has been imposed by the government at the complaint of a corporation for behavior that may not even qualify technically as copyright infringement,
My Ghod!!! We must stop this software trafficking menace before rival gangs of software companies start doing drive-bys in Silly-con Valley with nerf-guns!
It's going to a pain to keep the program constantly updated. How is this going to handle site specific information? Well, besides the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the program, you're gonna have to spend more on programmers to make it specific for your site and that kind of makes eLiza a white elephant.
Then there's the time factor that makes it worth keeping a well numbered army of Bobs. The people who go on about these "Virtual Help Desks" constantly talk about saving money by cutting back on help-desk staff, but they fail to see the time and money wasted by $HIGHLY_PAID_EXECUTIVE who could be doing better things than poking around for a 1/2 hour on a poxy help-desk program. A live Bob can usually figure out what the user needs and get it sorted quickly.
Then there's the "jargon" reality, of when a user doesn't know what a specific thing is called or leaves vague descriptions. (i.e. "My internet is b0rken" which could mean a network connection, browser, website down, etc.)
And then the big thing that I'm amazed no one at IBM has pondered: If you're computer is buggered up, then how are you going to run a fscking help-desk program!?!
It might create some redundancy because you'll probably need a help desk for eLiza.:)
IT recruiters are unescapeable. If you have your CV on the net somewhere, they find it and start bothering you.
Not saying your company, but there are a lot of recruiting companies that are, more or less, trying to fill boxes with more concern about getting those boxes filled than what is actually placed in them.
I've seen quite a few of these types of stories milling around for a while. When are they going to do one in a tech magazine or website on how to deal with arrogant, clueless managers and IT recruiters?
I can go on for days about IT recruiters who try to put me into positions that I don't want or know anything about. It's more than obvious they don't know what they're selling (Hey, A Unix Admin & C programmer. Heck, if he can do Unix, C and Perl, we can put him in the ADA programmer job we've been trying to fill. C? ADA? What's the difference?).
I'll spare the manager rant, but you know that a lot of these boneheads will read that article and, like any other IT management article, take it for gospel without placing any thought into their actions.
the Gates Foundation set aside $350 million for schools, particularly small, rural districts. (Technology giveaways are not part of the program, says a Gates Foundation spokesperson, but grant winners often use the money to buy Microsoft products.)
I find that mildly disturbing. I'll bet the bastard gets a huge tax write-off for it too.
I think that the engineers at Kodak should apply a little LART. Have their software work great with Win98 & Win2K, but have the program bugger-up at random times when used on WinXP.:P
Though it might change, the current subscription price is US$25 per release according to Daemonnews.org.
BSD subscriptions in a nutshell: They send you the DVD or CDs when the latest version is released and bill you instead of having to order it every time there's a new release.
Since it's cheaper to ship 1 DVD as opposed to 10 or so CDs, I can't imagine it getting any more expensive.
Get a 2 of them, cover in fur, paint some little dots on them, and you'll be the 1st on your block to have fuzzy dice webservers hanging off your rear-view mirror.:)
This is no surprise but it's a real pisser that MS was so blatant about it in
here and here as well as all over the place. No one in their right mind is going to be that cocky with the DoJ and dis-obey a direct court order unless they have something in the works. No wonder MS never bothered setting up a plan for breakup because they knew that with the right palms greased, they'd get away with anything.
Jello Biafra sums it up best with, "...liberty and Ju$tice for all who can afford it."
I took a class at $TRAINING_COMPANY last year and noticed that there were 20 or so US Marines taking a class too. I asked which class they were taking and it was NT Administration. I also found out that they were flying in a whole bunch more Marines for that course.
The only thing the Hague convention will do is cause a bunch of international pissing matches. I'm sure they'll come to some sort of agreement around the time that RMS uses a Microsoft product.
Just MHO, but a country that has laws against internet content should enforce them locally (blocks, filtres, etc.) and not expect the world to change for them.
If that means cutting off all traffic from.nl or.us, then fine, that's the price of censorship. This will effect businesses who might transact/trade with.nl &.us. Businesses will get annoyed with this and move somewhere where they can have free access to.nl or.us. Said country will lose out on some income that could've been had if they weren't so fussy about censorship.
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\(^_^)/ high on stress!!!!
But I will keep an eye on that place. Thanks.
We had some electrical wiring problems with the outlets going into this one office with 10 K6 workstations just yesterday, and all boxen in that office took a dirtnap (i.e. the motherboard fried on all of them, and the CPU fried on 2).
I called up our local PC vendor who had sold us the PCs just 7 months ago. The vendor said that AMD stopped making the CPUs and to get (original make) replacement boards and CPUs will take at least 4-6 weeks!
That meant I had to buy either
some more expensive motherboards, or
the only motherboards the vendor had
(Is he bluffing? Vendor poker, anyone?)
Makes me wonder if motherboard manufacturers have followed suit in this one.
I don't really consider writing a book, some articles, and exchanging e-mails as experience with 15 y.o.s. Raising children and spending a lot of time with them (i.e. 24/7/365 of dealing with the good and bad) will make you more of an authority on that one, but that's just MHO. It's a real distant view that you're talking from, Jon.
I think it should be known that 15 y.o.s who:
Think they know everything.
Can be arrogant
Are unprepared for leadership
Surprise everyone with their creativity
Need to learn from adults
I do mung up my alt tags. I figure that if someone's checking out a webpage with Lynx, they should be clued enough to figure that youKEINE@SPAMMENthere.com or spam_you@spam_there.com would == you@there.com. If not, then I don't want email from them. :)
Funny, but if I were to start peeking around the RIAA's file shares and started sniffing traffic, content, etc., I'd get busted and become the media-piss boy for evil hacker conspiracies. But if the RIAA starts poking around uninvited on my boxen, well, it's alright.
Arrgh! NO! The world is being run down by lawyers and marketeers! At this point, let's just destroy civilization and let the cockroaches have a go.
Here's some of the nefarious companies and their creations...know your enemy :)
This company has an "Atomic Harvester" that fishes for email addressen and if that's not annoying enough, they also have a program that automatically spams newsgroups. And for the spammer that's too lazy or too cheap to pay for the software, then This company will harvest email addressen for a fee.
To thwart the above methods, check here for ways of protecting against those harvesters.
$DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY will send out "bounty hunters" to insure that their hi-jacked^Wcopyrighted material is not used unless they are paid off. And if you don't have proof that you paid for the content of your HD or if you are simply sharing with friends (likened to listening to a CD in a car with your pal), then $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY will silence and punish you by removing your 'net connection.
$DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY are now working on getting the authority to search your HD for content without a warrant through ISPs. This is simply an abuse and $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY should have no right or proper authority to do so. By even concieving this frame of thought, IMHO,
makes $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY even more criminal than all of the dirtbags selling pirated CDs on the street corner.
What's next? Are they going to break down your door in the middle of the night because you set up a share at home to listen to your CDs at work?
Sure, $DAS_RECORD_OR_MOVIE_COMPANY has the right to protect their property, but not at this grave expense. This has to be stopped.
It's like "First Post", "goatse.cx", "AYB", "Natalie Portman", etc. JonKatz bashing is pretty tired, but for some strange reason, it never seems to go away.
My Ghod!!! We must stop this software trafficking menace before rival gangs of software companies start doing drive-bys in Silly-con Valley with nerf-guns!
Society MUST be protected!!!
It's going to a pain to keep the program constantly updated. How is this going to handle site specific information? Well, besides the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the program, you're gonna have to spend more on programmers to make it specific for your site and that kind of makes eLiza a white elephant.
Then there's the time factor that makes it worth keeping a well numbered army of Bobs. The people who go on about these "Virtual Help Desks" constantly talk about saving money by cutting back on help-desk staff, but they fail to see the time and money wasted by $HIGHLY_PAID_EXECUTIVE who could be doing better things than poking around for a 1/2 hour on a poxy help-desk program. A live Bob can usually figure out what the user needs and get it sorted quickly.
Then there's the "jargon" reality, of when a user doesn't know what a specific thing is called or leaves vague descriptions. (i.e. "My internet is b0rken" which could mean a network connection, browser, website down, etc.)
And then the big thing that I'm amazed no one at IBM has pondered: If you're computer is buggered up, then how are you going to run a fscking help-desk program!?!
It might create some redundancy because you'll probably need a help desk for eLiza. :)
Just MHO and experience with help-desk programs.
Not saying your company, but there are a lot of recruiting companies that are, more or less, trying to fill boxes with more concern about getting those boxes filled than what is actually placed in them.
And, no, I don't need a job. :)
I can go on for days about IT recruiters who try to put me into positions that I don't want or know anything about. It's more than obvious they don't know what they're selling (Hey, A Unix Admin & C programmer. Heck, if he can do Unix, C and Perl, we can put him in the ADA programmer job we've been trying to fill. C? ADA? What's the difference?).
I'll spare the manager rant, but you know that a lot of these boneheads will read that article and, like any other IT management article, take it for gospel without placing any thought into their actions.
I find that mildly disturbing. I'll bet the bastard gets a huge tax write-off for it too.
I think that the engineers at Kodak should apply a little LART. Have their software work great with Win98 & Win2K, but have the program bugger-up at random times when used on WinXP. :P
BSD subscriptions in a nutshell: They send you the DVD or CDs when the latest version is released and bill you instead of having to order it every time there's a new release.
Since it's cheaper to ship 1 DVD as opposed to 10 or so CDs, I can't imagine it getting any more expensive.
Get a 2 of them, cover in fur, paint some little dots on them, and you'll be the 1st on your block to have fuzzy dice webservers hanging off your rear-view mirror. :)
Jello Biafra sums it up best with, "...liberty and Ju$tice for all who can afford it."
How much trouble/fines did the Tux Stencil campaign give IBM? :)
http://www.elexp.com/computer/45cg26m.gif
8^)
Wish I had moderation points to give you on that one.
I took a class at $TRAINING_COMPANY last year and noticed that there were 20 or so US Marines taking a class too. I asked which class they were taking and it was NT Administration. I also found out that they were flying in a whole bunch more Marines for that course.
That's because Intel is still trying to figure out how to make a 64-bit processor. :)
Go-go gadget boots!
Just MHO, but a country that has laws against internet content should enforce them locally (blocks, filtres, etc.) and not expect the world to change for them.
If that means cutting off all traffic from .nl or .us, then fine, that's the price of censorship. This will effect businesses who might transact/trade with .nl & .us. Businesses will get annoyed with this and move somewhere where they can have free access to .nl or .us. Said country will lose out on some income that could've been had if they weren't so fussy about censorship.