I don't know about anyone else but I still get people coming into the IT room asking questions.
What phone should I get?
Do you know a good laptop I can buy for my kid?
I think my personal PC got infected, can you fix it?
Can you synch my Itunes playlists with all these devices?
I try to stay educated on all the new smart phones, decent laptop deals, repair of older PCs:), All this while we try to do more and more with less and less IT money. I think they will still need the tech who can keep everything running smooth and all the various devices talking to each other. Security, configuration, maintenance and repair will be with us for awhile.
Of course, if you're one of those dark IT dudes who still thinks you are in charge of the main frame and all users are idiots, your future is limited.
Embrace the change, we are in the middle of a Technological Revolution. Just like the Agricultural and the Industrial Revolutions.
Almost everything I know today will probably be worthless in a year.
I used to joke with my profs way back in school. I told them that by the end of my career I expect to have to talk the computer system into doing it's job today. Because they would become so complex that they basically had a personalty and we would need some psych courses to make it in IT.
Yep, just like us and the middle east. We really don't want those folks having nukes. That's why we spend more on the military than NASA. If we gain interstellar travel at our current political level,,, I think someone may come calling. I fear the conversation would go something like this.
Fully enlightened cosmic species/collective to us Earthers.
Hey guys, you seem to have discovered the secret to the warp drive. Good for you. Small problem is you really don't have this whole political thing under control and you did come from those nasty little omnivores and all. So, we are gonna need you to sort of restrict yourself to your neck of the woods as it were. Let's say, nothing beyond a couple hundred AUs.
Our reply, or more particularly the Aussies and the Americans, "We'll do whatever we damn well please."
Boom, Boom, Australia and half the Us gone.
Rest of the world, I for one welcome our new,...
Good one, I do the occasional hike with the woman. I usually get the back pack ready in the living room. I lay out all the stuff and think to myself, you know that towel takes up a lot of room. Then I pause, look at the book shelf, let my eyes flow across the leather bound copy of The Hitchhikers Guide that was given to me as a b-day present and put that towel right in the pack. Then happily trounce around in the deep woods for a day without a care in the world.
Ouch, guess you told him. OTH here is a nice little quote from the Space X career page, SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization. Notice the back handed insult? The clever use of the word complacent? I assume they are talking about NASA.
I do not like Bing because it is from Microsoft. They might be doing OK in this search market if you pick your metrics carefully. However, I dont like them simply because Bing is from Microsoft. I do make my living dealing with their software all day long. I am not a Unix bigot. Dont even know how to use Unix.
I went back to Yahoo a few weeks ago for my main searches. Cant say why, still bounce stuff off Google occasionally. Just don't seem to like it anymore. If I could say one thing to the Google search algorithm pgmers it would be, Please just return the data. Stop trying to guess what you think I want.
Someone at NASA been watching too many Terminator and or Alien movies.
It truly breaks my heart to say this but it looks like this one just might crash and burn.
Just reboot it at then end of the day and when you come in tomorrow it has probably finished rebooting and the user can use the damn thing. I say "probably" cause it is Windows we are probably talking about here. Been patiently waiting for over 15 years for the Winblows PCs to die off but nothing out there I can replace them with. At least not here and not with this IT budget.:)
If user does not wish to reboot at the end of the day Altiris Deployment server has a nice little reasonably efficient client app that will allow you comms with the momma server and you can run a scheduled reboot sometime during the night.
Why you need to know? You got some plans this weekend we are not aware of? Like maybe sneaking off to the alpha quadrant and beginning the construction process? Again? You know we cant get any reliable student help and on this budget that's the only labor option we got. I mean after those cloning vats blew up,...
Hey, I inherited the PC for free in like 2002. I'll run XP Home if it's free. I ran that system in a Dell chassis for years, then circa 2006 the mother board died. Ran down to the CompUSA, yes they used to exist, bought a decent Emachine and put the hard drive out of the Dell into the Emachine chassis. Called Microsoft got them to move the license so I'd be legal. Then got back into remote control of the medical dictation system I was fixing that evening. Which is why I bought the Emachine. CompUSA was actually staying open late that night and selling everything in the store because they were going out of business. I simply had to have a computer that night. I was on call and had to remotely fix a Right Fax install from the home office. Then ran it like that for more years and it finally came up with a dirty ntfs structure (like Tuesday of this week). This blew out enough sectors on the hard drive to take out the system hive of the registry and all it would do was blue screen and bitch about Bad_System_Config_Info. So, I got me a used SATA HD for 35 bucks. Slapped that in the Emachine and reinstalled XP Home. Connected the dying drive up to it and ran KeyFinder to pull out the Windows key. Used that same old Key to make this new incarnation of XP legal and am running that same PC at the house right now. It has VLC, Win Amp, Spotify, Netflix, You Tube, Chrome for browsing and Norton Internet Security. Oh, did I mention the XFX Radeon 5570 with pure 1080P on HDMI which just happens to run a decent Samsung 37 inch flat? That old free XP Home is pretty much our living room entertainment. No TV or cable, so when it died and the woman could not watch Hoarders all hell broke loose. Fixing that system became my priority real fast. Nuff said, I'll keep my geek card if you please.:) Now back to work before they catch me goofing off.
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Ever see Logans Run? The older children aren't welcome anymore. They usually don't make it long out in the country side.
Have your buddy pop those annoying balloons at the fair. You know the ones where the balloon is tougher than the blunted dart tip?
I don't know about anyone else but I still get people coming into the IT room asking questions.
:), All this while we try to do more and more with less and less IT money. I think they will still need the tech who can keep everything running smooth and all the various devices talking to each other. Security, configuration, maintenance and repair will be with us for awhile.
What phone should I get?
Do you know a good laptop I can buy for my kid?
I think my personal PC got infected, can you fix it?
Can you synch my Itunes playlists with all these devices?
I try to stay educated on all the new smart phones, decent laptop deals, repair of older PCs
Of course, if you're one of those dark IT dudes who still thinks you are in charge of the main frame and all users are idiots, your future is limited.
Embrace the change, we are in the middle of a Technological Revolution. Just like the Agricultural and the Industrial Revolutions.
Almost everything I know today will probably be worthless in a year.
I used to joke with my profs way back in school. I told them that by the end of my career I expect to have to talk the computer system into doing it's job today. Because they would become so complex that they basically had a personalty and we would need some psych courses to make it in IT.
Yeah, what he said!
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Golf Cart my ass. I use a laser.
No seriously, I am luck enough to have a partner, she is a woman, I do hike with her. No a euphemism about masturbation at all.
Yep, just like us and the middle east. We really don't want those folks having nukes. That's why we spend more on the military than NASA. If we gain interstellar travel at our current political level,,, I think someone may come calling. I fear the conversation would go something like this.
Fully enlightened cosmic species/collective to us Earthers.
Hey guys, you seem to have discovered the secret to the warp drive. Good for you. Small problem is you really don't have this whole political thing under control and you did come from those nasty little omnivores and all. So, we are gonna need you to sort of restrict yourself to your neck of the woods as it were. Let's say, nothing beyond a couple hundred AUs.
Our reply, or more particularly the Aussies and the Americans, "We'll do whatever we damn well please."
Boom, Boom, Australia and half the Us gone.
Rest of the world, I for one welcome our new,...
Good one, I do the occasional hike with the woman. I usually get the back pack ready in the living room. I lay out all the stuff and think to myself, you know that towel takes up a lot of room. Then I pause, look at the book shelf, let my eyes flow across the leather bound copy of The Hitchhikers Guide that was given to me as a b-day present and put that towel right in the pack. Then happily trounce around in the deep woods for a day without a care in the world.
Ouch, guess you told him. OTH here is a nice little quote from the Space X career page,
SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization.
Notice the back handed insult? The clever use of the word complacent? I assume they are talking about NASA.
Seriously, this kind of stuff in /.? Is this a joke? Surely no one reading this page is dumb enough to fall for SPAM.
I do not like Bing because it is from Microsoft. They might be doing OK in this search market if you pick your metrics carefully. However, I dont like them simply because Bing is from Microsoft. I do make my living dealing with their software all day long. I am not a Unix bigot. Dont even know how to use Unix.
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Try searching for Mars Explorer from inside the grade school system network. ;)
I went back to Yahoo a few weeks ago for my main searches. Cant say why, still bounce stuff off Google occasionally. Just don't seem to like it anymore. If I could say one thing to the Google search algorithm pgmers it would be, Please just return the data. Stop trying to guess what you think I want.
The Integral Trees.
Ok, I am SO using DuckDuckGo from now on. Google and Bing be dammed.
Someone at NASA been watching too many Terminator and or Alien movies. It truly breaks my heart to say this but it looks like this one just might crash and burn.
Just reboot it at then end of the day and when you come in tomorrow it has probably finished rebooting and the user can use the damn thing. I say "probably" cause it is Windows we are probably talking about here. Been patiently waiting for over 15 years for the Winblows PCs to die off but nothing out there I can replace them with. At least not here and not with this IT budget. :)
If user does not wish to reboot at the end of the day Altiris Deployment server has a nice little reasonably efficient client app that will allow you comms with the momma server and you can run a scheduled reboot sometime during the night.
Why you need to know? You got some plans this weekend we are not aware of? Like maybe sneaking off to the alpha quadrant and beginning the construction process? Again? You know we cant get any reliable student help and on this budget that's the only labor option we got. I mean after those cloning vats blew up,...
Hey, I inherited the PC for free in like 2002. I'll run XP Home if it's free. I ran that system in a Dell chassis for years, then circa 2006 the mother board died. Ran down to the CompUSA, yes they used to exist, bought a decent Emachine and put the hard drive out of the Dell into the Emachine chassis. Called Microsoft got them to move the license so I'd be legal. Then got back into remote control of the medical dictation system I was fixing that evening. Which is why I bought the Emachine. CompUSA was actually staying open late that night and selling everything in the store because they were going out of business. I simply had to have a computer that night. I was on call and had to remotely fix a Right Fax install from the home office. Then ran it like that for more years and it finally came up with a dirty ntfs structure (like Tuesday of this week). This blew out enough sectors on the hard drive to take out the system hive of the registry and all it would do was blue screen and bitch about Bad_System_Config_Info. So, I got me a used SATA HD for 35 bucks. Slapped that in the Emachine and reinstalled XP Home. Connected the dying drive up to it and ran KeyFinder to pull out the Windows key. Used that same old Key to make this new incarnation of XP legal and am running that same PC at the house right now. It has VLC, Win Amp, Spotify, Netflix, You Tube, Chrome for browsing and Norton Internet Security. Oh, did I mention the XFX Radeon 5570 with pure 1080P on HDMI which just happens to run a decent Samsung 37 inch flat? That old free XP Home is pretty much our living room entertainment. No TV or cable, so when it died and the woman could not watch Hoarders all hell broke loose. Fixing that system became my priority real fast. Nuff said, I'll keep my geek card if you please. :) Now back to work before they catch me goofing off.
Rocky was an insurgent spy.
Bullwinkle was a collaborator.
Yeah or they might even go directly to the source and attack the spice factory. Now that would make a nice beginning for the next Austin Powers movie.
Imagine the Headlines, Squirrel goes nuts over spicy toppings. Disaster looms as massive army of rodents take over local pepper plant. News at 5.
We might nip this conversation in the bud before we get branned from posting.