Thanks KDE developers and team! My girl friend recently had tons of troubles with her windows box. I put linux on it and without KDE and OpenOffice she would be wanting to switch back! I know the new version will make her even happier!
If there was an attached.doc file the email was immediatly deleted. Sorry, my wording on the above comment was a bit off.:)
The ITLab and resumes. Something different.
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Joel Rants About Resumes
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Last time the goverment allowed us to hire or replace someone, we tried something new.
First, there were horrible resumes sent in and the only thing that stopped us from deleting them was if they sent a word document. We read most of them no matter what.
Second, we only cared what the persons experience was, an opensource project was a definite PLUS! A resume was only crappy if they had nothing real to show. We then selected about half for the interview process.
Third, we had two interview levels. The first was IRC, we would send an email telling the person to meet us on irc and then have a chat with them. This let us know if the person was for real or not. Whether they wrote a bad resume or not. It was great to do this, everyone on the team was involved in the interview and it was logged. Also, it was completly unbiased with relation to sex or race. Then after we had about 3 canidates we interviewed them in "real life". It was a quick and fun experience. And we hired someone that kicks ass!!
We use sluice to handle various IT requests. Firewall rules for example. People submit requests, it goes to the certain person via a sluice or jabber message and then the request gets acted upon.
Well, where I work we have the dress code of "clothes required" and that is it. Some guys wear business casual and some where t-shirts and tennis shoes. You can check us out here. Anyway, my thought it is this, most computer guys (programmers,scientists, etc.) are problem solvers.That is their job. To solve problems with the tools they are given or to give users the appropriate tools to solve their problems.I think it does not matter what they are wearing. As long as they solve those problems. And if you are all jazzed up in a suit then you (in my opinion) give the impression you are trying to sell something and not solve my problems. So, until they give me a cool 'computer scientist lab coat' I am going to wear what I am comfortable in and be the problem solver I am supposed to be.:)
Here at the ITLAB at the Medical Univeristy of South Carolina we all are very sociable. We have
partys with co-workers and friends. We help each other move. We got out drinking or to
concerts together. We play LOTS of video games together. We have X-File marathons.
And POTA marathons.
"The power of UNIX is in connecting small, fleet-footed tools. What we need now is to create an environment, where users can easily create customized tools for the way they work, and developers can easily add new functionality."
Here at MUSC, the IT Lab is trying to do exactly that. We are trying to use the web as a way to string together tools and make it as easy as possible for the user. Check out the toolbox for some of the attempts. We are just a small group and any ideas to better our tools would be great!
I agree completly! So many IT problems are solved making decisions based on what is "used" or what is "popular" and not on what will solve the problem. Haphazrad solutions like this increase the problems complexity time and time again.
I am glad they cancelled the show. It was stupid. Badly written and badly acted. Just like most of this seasons X-Files. I wish they would cancel that. I know most of this is redundant but I feel I have say something. The X-Files needs to be stopped. Check out http://www.paddlecreek.net/ for more.
I work at the IT Lab at the medical university in Charleston, South Carolina. My work schedule is very sporadic. One week I may work 50 hours and then next I may work 30. It just depends on what I am doing. My boss is great becuase all he cares about is if we get the job done and if we are happy. I am sure lots of you have similar bosses. Or I hope so. I have not read most of the comments yet.:) Anyway, I say on average I probably work 40 hours a week.
I tend to agree that a lower budget helps popularity in free software. Where I work we have
had plenty of budget cuts and other money problems. Because of these money problems people have looked to open source alternatives. We have come up with many open source solutions to problems for the Univeristy. Without the money problems, and other reasons, people would not have considered using our lab or the solutions we came up with. Departments and people are now using open source software and now realize that free software is just as good, if not better, than other closed source software. They now are armed with cheap solutions to their problems. They also have more options. If an open source solution does not work they can either adapt the code or use closed software. And before they just had to settle for the closed software that they purchased. Anyway, the point is alot more people were I work have opened up to open source solutions/software because of money problems and now realize that not only is it cheap, but open source software, most of the time, is really good software.
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Ha! If that box ran windows I would not date her! :)
Thanks KDE developers and team! My girl friend recently had tons of troubles with her windows box. I put linux on it and without KDE and OpenOffice she would be wanting to switch back! I know the new version will make her even happier!
If there was an attached .doc file the email was immediatly deleted. Sorry, my wording on the above comment was a bit off. :)
Last time the goverment allowed us to hire or replace someone, we tried something new.
First, there were horrible resumes sent in and the only thing that stopped us from deleting them was if they sent a word document. We read most of them no matter what.
Second, we only cared what the persons experience was, an opensource project was a definite PLUS!
A resume was only crappy if they had nothing real
to show. We then selected about half for the interview process.
Third, we had two interview levels. The first was IRC, we would send an email telling the person to meet us on irc and then have a chat with them. This let us know if the person was for real or not. Whether they wrote a bad resume or not. It was great to do this, everyone on the team was involved in the interview and it was logged. Also, it was completly unbiased with relation to sex or race. Then after we had about 3 canidates we interviewed them in "real life". It was a quick and fun experience. And we hired someone that kicks ass!!
We use sluice to handle various IT requests. Firewall rules for example. People submit requests, it goes to the certain person via a sluice or jabber message and then the request gets acted upon.
Well, where I work we have the dress code of "clothes required" and that is it. Some guys wear business casual and some where t-shirts and tennis shoes. You can check us out here. Anyway, my thought it is this, most computer guys (programmers,scientists, etc.) are problem solvers.That is their job. To solve problems with the tools they are given or to give users the appropriate tools to solve their problems.I think it does not matter what they are wearing. As long as they solve those problems. And if you are all jazzed up in a suit then you (in my opinion) give the impression you are trying to sell something and not solve my problems. So, until they give me a cool 'computer scientist lab coat' I am going to wear what I am comfortable in and be the problem solver I am supposed to be. :)
The ITLAB rocks! :)
Not Candy! Bambi!! That was such a great episode! :)
.... but wait, I guess it is only tribes 2 because that is the only game that came out in 2001. Oh well.
Yes!! me too! :) No one understands that the gift of tofu is the greatest gift of all!!!
Here at the ITLAB at the Medical Univeristy of South Carolina we all are very sociable. We have
partys with co-workers and friends. We help each other move. We got out drinking or to
concerts together. We play LOTS of video games together. We have X-File marathons.
And POTA marathons.
I hope they dont take away espn.com from me. :(
This reminds me of an old project called freedows or something. What ever happened to that project?
Being an identical twin it scares me that I may someday be :)
harassed for something my brother may do or has done!
"The power of UNIX is in connecting small, fleet-footed tools. What we need now is to create an environment, where users can easily create customized tools for the way they work, and developers can easily add new functionality."
Here at MUSC, the IT Lab is trying to do exactly that. We are trying to use the web as a way to string together tools and make it as easy as possible for the user. Check out the toolbox for some of the attempts. We are just a small group and any ideas to better our tools would be great!
It seems that foxtrot is catching on. :)
:) haha.
I just thougt it was funny that I read this story and the comic at the same time.
Sorry,
s/Haphazrad/Haphazard
I agree completly! So many IT problems are solved making decisions based on what is "used" or what is "popular" and not on what will solve the problem. Haphazrad solutions like this increase the problems complexity time and time again.
Moderators should have moderated this as redundant. ;)
You are right!! The first four years were GREAT!! But you are right. After season 5 and some of season 5 it has sucked.
I am glad they cancelled the show. It was stupid. Badly written and badly acted. Just like most of this seasons X-Files. I wish they would cancel that. I know most of this is redundant but I feel I have say something. The X-Files needs to be stopped. Check out http://www.paddlecreek.net/ for more.
I work at the IT Lab at the medical university in Charleston, South Carolina. My work schedule is very sporadic. One week I may work 50 hours and then next I may work 30. It just depends on what I am doing. My boss is great becuase all he cares about is if we get the job done and if we are happy. I am sure lots of you have similar bosses. Or I hope so. I have not read most of the comments yet. :) Anyway, I say on average I probably work 40 hours a week.
I tend to agree that a lower budget helps popularity in free software. Where I work we have
had plenty of budget cuts and other money problems. Because of these money problems people have looked to open source alternatives. We have come up with many open source solutions to problems for the Univeristy. Without the money problems, and other reasons, people would not have considered using our lab or the solutions we came up with. Departments and people are now using open source software and now realize that free software is just as good, if not better, than other closed source software. They now are armed with cheap solutions to their problems. They also have more options. If an open source solution does not work they can either adapt the code or use closed software. And before they just had to settle for the closed software that they purchased. Anyway, the point is alot more people were I work have opened up to open source solutions/software because of money problems and now realize that not only is it cheap, but open source software, most of the time, is really good software.
You are right. I feel silly now that I did not read your post before I made a similar comment. :)
I thought the song went "riff-raff , street rat"? :)