I've made the switch to Ubuntu. I tried Vista for about 10 min and found that a lot of my software would have required me to purchase upgrades and it was hogging my resources. I'm a consultant and I use Ubuntu almost exclusively at work now. Since my clients all use Windows, I do need to run it for a few things. I just installed VirtualBox and am planning to axe my Windows partition and only run Windows in Virtual Machines.
I think when these things came out they were supposed to be phones. Since they haven't got that part yet, I think they should keep working on the whole "dropped calls" problem. My cell phone doesn't need to be a toaster, it just needs to be a reliable cell phone.
I was a systems admin for about 5 years and was laid off twice.
So rather than trying to find another job and having to deal with the corporate bureaucracies again, and risk being laid off again, I went and got a real estate brokers license.
I'm wondering if anyone has been laid off from the IT industry and switched careers also. I love real estate,I make my own hours, I don't have a boss breathing down my neck and my income is directly related to how hard I work.
I've recently taken up a second career in the hopes of having more time to myself, making my own schedule and making lots more money. I got my real estate license! Now I'm working for a broker part time while I sys admin full time. It's great when you sell a house (and it doesn't require much more than a few hours work) and bring home a commission check that's twice your monthy salary!
This is what I'm talking about! Vice City simulator would be the best game ever. Let's get working on this one. Smash a guys head and watch blood spurt all over the screen.:)
"Michael Howard, the Microsoft security expert who prepared the training material for the company's security retraining and led the security classes."
This sentence got me. If this guy is on MS staff and MS security has been so bad, why is HE writing the training material and instructing the security classes? I would think that he would have been advising the MS programmers all along. Maybe he was looking over their shoulders and laughing.
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I've made the switch to Ubuntu. I tried Vista for about 10 min and found that a lot of my software would have required me to purchase upgrades and it was hogging my resources. I'm a consultant and I use Ubuntu almost exclusively at work now. Since my clients all use Windows, I do need to run it for a few things. I just installed VirtualBox and am planning to axe my Windows partition and only run Windows in Virtual Machines.
I hate Vista!
Install one of these...
www.control4.com
I think when these things came out they were supposed to be phones. Since they haven't got that part yet, I think they should keep working on the whole "dropped calls" problem. My cell phone doesn't need to be a toaster, it just needs to be a reliable cell phone.
I'm a Realtor as well.
I was a systems admin for about 5 years and was laid off twice.
So rather than trying to find another job and having to deal with the corporate bureaucracies again, and risk being laid off again, I went and got a real estate brokers license.
I'm wondering if anyone has been laid off from the IT industry and switched careers also. I love real estate,I make my own hours, I don't have a boss breathing down my neck and my income is directly related to how hard I work.
How about we just walk.
I've recently taken up a second career in the hopes of having more time to myself, making my own schedule and making lots more money. I got my real estate license! Now I'm working for a broker part time while I sys admin full time. It's great when you sell a house (and it doesn't require much more than a few hours work) and bring home a commission check that's twice your monthy salary!
Oh wow! I know you're all techies, as I am myself, but you need to get out more.
24x7x365 = 24 hours/day - 7 days/week - 365 days/year.
You can write code but not figure that out? Blows my mind!
"as well as file views that showed snapshots of documents, rather than just file names."
Doesn't seem like a mentionable feature to me.
This is what I'm talking about! Vice City simulator would be the best game ever. Let's get working on this one. Smash a guys head and watch blood spurt all over the screen. :)
All I have to say is no girlfriend and no life!
Lets all go back to developing our sites using hyperlinks and text! Then we'll not have any compatibilty problems.
I really liked the mod up until it was attached to the chair. He couldn't leave good enough alone!
If you are using Windows ME, you can't come to slashdot.org anymore!
"Michael Howard, the Microsoft security expert who prepared the training material for the company's security retraining and led the security classes."
This sentence got me. If this guy is on MS staff and MS security has been so bad, why is HE writing the training material and instructing the security classes? I would think that he would have been advising the MS programmers all along. Maybe he was looking over their shoulders and laughing.