just interested in making enough to live comfortably on, without the politics and problems of the corporate America workplace.
Just a bit of advice . . . you can't get away from politics, ever. If you ignore office politics, you'll get ambushed by those that pay attention, every time. You don't have to be evil, just aware.
And another freebie . . . the problems of the corporate America(n) workplace are automatically the same as yours, trebeled. Sorry.
I require a non-refundable advance of $1,000, my billing rate is $150 per hour. As soon as you fax the binding contract agreement, I'll get to work on your problem . . .
Hundreds, thousands of man hours go into writing a commercial software product - at least the only ones I care about, CAD tools for circuit design.
It's just not cost-effective for every piddly design bureau who doesn't like Allegro to write their own. Grow up and get an informed opinion.
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> Why not spend $50,000,000,000 on solar panels for use on Earth.
Because the Sierra Club and Earth Firsters don't LIKE people building solar panels (or much else) on the land that is suitable for solar power. Never mind that solar can (help) replace the bad nuclear and coal plants, it's all Bad.
No one (yet) cares much about messing up the surface of the moon.
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I've heard it both ways. Sometimes it's easier to have the electrician do it, sometimes to have the lan wiring specialist do the job.
I've both types screw up the wiring.
In my case, due to the odd-ball factor of my new office, it was easier to have the electrican do the job, and cheaper. Odd-ball? No false/drop ceilings in the suite - all hard plaster. No pre-existing wiring, save for two drops that looked like they were punched with a screwdriver. The suite's existing walls were being taken out anyway, and conduit laid in, so Joe Electrician ran them, and did a good job.
Heck, you should see the suite on the other side of the building.. garden tub in the courtyard, murphy bed, dance floor...
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The electrician is already running wire.. in many/most cases the wire is going to terminate close to the electrical drops *anyway* so he can do the CAT5 while he's doing the electric and phone. Hell, he's probably better at it than you are anyway. If you take into account how valuable your time is.. it's probably cheaper and easier to let him do his damn job.
I haven't done a house this way - but I DID wire a 20 person office this way. The electrician did a competant job of running CAT5 to where I wanted it, and I had the network guys come in and fix up the punchdown and patch panel to spec, then test the pairs. Worked fine.
You *might* consider (since you're still a-building) putting some kind of ductwork for future expansion.
I LIKE Unix. I like Linux. Some of my stuff is Linux, some NT, some Solaris.
1. We must use three CAD tools - we're a service bureau, and our customers drive the software we use. None of the vendors are contemplating porting to Linux.
2. I get paid to maintain a stable network, not to add new stuff. I don't have a financial incentive to push a drive for Linux if my company wants to PAY me break the network and add new stuff, that would be cool . . .
NONE of the publishers of the CAD tools that we use (Cadence, Mentor) are porting to Linux. Mentor ported one of their product lines (not the one we use) and stopped, Cadence never tried, both cite a 'lack of customer demand'.
When I pointed out to the AE that it's hard to have a demand for a product that doesn't exist, and that WE'D jump to it if offered, he just shrugged. Must be nice to publish a product that you just can't get anywhere else....
FWIW. I worked for the part of World Com that used to be Wiltel. My time there was just AS they were merging.
Cut throat. Management by politics. But that was just my little piece of the pie, other people have better stories, some worse.
My contract was terminated early due to 'i couldn't do the job I said I could do' read: I was too naive to play the bosses political games.
My replacement lasted not quite two weeks - he was paged to call the boss at her desk after hours. He called her from a phone booth in the rain, she put him on hold fro 15 minutes. He hung up, went home (mind you, this was a 20 minute drive at most) and had a call on HIS machine from the contracting company - don't come in, we'll send you your stuff and whatinthehell happened?
BEFORE they moved to the Cherokee site, it was a ruthless cut-throat place to work. I'm sure the fact that I was f***ed on a contract there as nothing to do with my opinion, I'm sure .
Tulsa is.. a fine place to live. I grew up there. The drawback is.. if a large employer craters (say, AA or Worldcom) you'll have to move elsewhere to find work. It's that kind of a (small town) place.
Too old? Nonsense. I've worked with several people in advanced middle age who chucked their old careers for IT. In each case, what ever they lacked in technical knowledge they made up with people and business smarts.
How did I get here? I was enlisted in the Marine Corps as a rifleman and decided that I wasn't quite done being a Marine, but I sure didn't want to be a bullet stopper no more.
I reenlisted on the condition that I become a computer programmer. After taking the quickie 3 month COBOL course (the last taught in the USMC!) they found they didn't NEED COBOL programmers and made me a small computer specialist. Which is (or was then) a catch all position dealing with lan, PCs, sysadmin, datacom. I just kept doing that when I EASed.
I just don't see how you could take the shuttle fleet and make a profit off of them.
For just one problem, the number of people required (required, they're not fluff) to run the program amounts to thousands per shuttle. Possibly more, this is off the top of my head.
A commercial aviation carrier gets by with maybe 40 people per bird, and they just barely break even.
The shuttle just was not designed to be profitable. The design is a political one, designed like all such.. to do many things, none of them at all well.
If anyone is interested, you'd be better off building an efficient space fleet of your own.
NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical). If you REALLY think that any combination of the three would NOT have been used by Nato/Warsaw pact if the European Cival War had gone to round III I have some prime ocean front property to sell you.
It's not for nothing that I learned how to decontaminate vehicles/people from nasty chemicals in the 80s in the Marines.
Don't know about *your* shop but where I work we have a place for Solaris AND Linux AND MS Windows. Our Holy Grail is 'unix' stability/performance on 'intel' (read cheap) hardware.
What's standing in my way are the developers of our CAD tools. Cadence isn't going there (we don't see any evidence that 'you' want it) and Mentor STARTED to port to Linux, but stopped short of porting the bits that WE use (lack of market demand).
All the "power users" who think CLIs are more efficient because it seems like it takes less time would do well to try making some objective speed measurements with a stopwatch. It might come as a surprise that GUIs are actually faster, even though it seems like they are slower.
In the UNIX world it's not simply that CLI is (perceived) to be faster... the GUI element is optional, and many times the ONLY way to restore your box is to connect via serial line and use.. the CLI.
If you don't *know* CLI, you're dead meat at that point.
The crashing usually results from overheating caused by the machines running 24/7, in small enclosures with poor, if any ventilation.
Dude. My kids have their Nintendo in a hot, dusty un-airconditioned room (and Texas gets HOT in the summer) which used to be a screened in porch. It's crammed over a VCR and under a T.V.
Demo unit hardware problems or not, I can't imagine that the enclosure at Toys-R-Us is more hostile to equipment than my 'rec' room. 3 years it's been there, with out a hitch.
"The Making of the Xbox"
The Xbox is here. Manufacturing is history.
It's really about contract electronics manufacturers. Flextronics picked up the contract to make the boxes, and has supposedly built more capacity to handle the expected demand.
um. Nuclear missles don't destroy cities, but they DO knock off x number of the population, zap all of the units in the target and all adjacent cells... how destructive do you think a nuclear warhead IS?
Just please educate me. What is so wrong about the card?
You first - what is so RIGHT about having a national ID card? I don't WANT anyone able to track me. I don't WANT to have to register my address. It's up to the Man to prove this is a good idea - they have not sold me yet.
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Just what the stereotypical tech needs - less socializing with real people and more with the same kind of poeple you see at work . . .
Just a bit of advice . . . you can't get away from politics, ever. If you ignore office politics, you'll get ambushed by those that pay attention, every time. You don't have to be evil, just aware.
And another freebie . . . the problems of the corporate America(n) workplace are automatically the same as yours, trebeled. Sorry.
You want advice on contract billing options?
I require a non-refundable advance of $1,000, my billing rate is $150 per hour. As soon as you fax the binding contract agreement, I'll get to work on your problem . . .
There are indeed - but I have not tried it yet - if I recall right Bynari sells a version of the client, and open sourced an older version ..
http://www.bynari.net
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Hundreds, thousands of man hours go into writing a commercial software product - at least the only ones I care about, CAD tools for circuit design.
It's just not cost-effective for every piddly design bureau who doesn't like Allegro to write their own. Grow up and get an informed opinion.
> Why not spend $50,000,000,000 on solar panels for use on Earth.
Because the Sierra Club and Earth Firsters don't LIKE people building solar panels (or much else) on the land that is suitable for solar power. Never mind that solar can (help) replace the bad nuclear and coal plants, it's all Bad.
No one (yet) cares much about messing up the surface of the moon.
I've heard it both ways. Sometimes it's easier to have the electrician do it, sometimes to have the lan wiring specialist do the job.
.. garden tub in the courtyard, murphy bed, dance floor ...
I've both types screw up the wiring.
In my case, due to the odd-ball factor of my new office, it was easier to have the electrican do the job, and cheaper. Odd-ball? No false/drop ceilings in the suite - all hard plaster. No pre-existing wiring, save for two drops that looked like they were punched with a screwdriver. The suite's existing walls were being taken out anyway, and conduit laid in, so Joe Electrician ran them, and did a good job.
Heck, you should see the suite on the other side of the building
The electrician is already running wire .. in many/most cases the wire is going to terminate close to the electrical drops *anyway* so he can do the CAT5 while he's doing the electric and phone. Hell, he's probably better at it than you are anyway. If you take into account how valuable your time is .. it's probably cheaper and easier to let him do his damn job.
I haven't done a house this way - but I DID wire a 20 person office this way. The electrician did a competant job of running CAT5 to where I wanted it, and I had the network guys come in and fix up the punchdown and patch panel to spec, then test the pairs. Worked fine.
You *might* consider (since you're still a-building) putting some kind of ductwork for future expansion.
I LIKE Unix. I like Linux. Some of my stuff is Linux, some NT, some Solaris.
1. We must use three CAD tools - we're a service bureau, and our customers drive the software we use. None of the vendors are contemplating porting to Linux.
2. I get paid to maintain a stable network, not to add new stuff. I don't have a financial incentive to push a drive for Linux if my company wants to PAY me break the network and add new stuff, that would be cool . . .
but not mine. Not on the desktop, at least.
NONE of the publishers of the CAD tools that we use (Cadence, Mentor) are porting to Linux. Mentor ported one of their product lines (not the one we use) and stopped, Cadence never tried, both cite a 'lack of customer demand'.
When I pointed out to the AE that it's hard to have a demand for a product that doesn't exist, and that WE'D jump to it if offered, he just shrugged. Must be nice to publish a product that you just can't get anywhere else....
seriously. Email me.
Brian
FWIW. I worked for the part of World Com that used to be Wiltel. My time there was just AS they were merging.
Cut throat. Management by politics. But that was just my little piece of the pie, other people have better stories, some worse.
My contract was terminated early due to 'i couldn't do the job I said I could do' read: I was too naive to play the bosses political games.
My replacement lasted not quite two weeks - he was paged to call the boss at her desk after hours. He called her from a phone booth in the rain, she put him on hold fro 15 minutes. He hung up, went home (mind you, this was a 20 minute drive at most) and had a call on HIS machine from the contracting company - don't come in, we'll send you your stuff and whatinthehell happened?
It must have changed . . . or maybe not.
.. a fine place to live. I grew up there. The drawback is .. if a large employer craters (say, AA or Worldcom) you'll have to move elsewhere to find work. It's that kind of a (small town) place.
BEFORE they moved to the Cherokee site, it was a ruthless cut-throat place to work. I'm sure the fact that I was f***ed on a contract there as nothing to do with my opinion, I'm sure .
Tulsa is
no hills or trees? you're not from there, are you? It's far from pool table flat.
Too old? Nonsense. I've worked with several people in advanced middle age who chucked their old careers for IT. In each case, what ever they lacked in technical knowledge they made up with people and business smarts.
How did I get here? I was enlisted in the Marine Corps as a rifleman and decided that I wasn't quite done being a Marine, but I sure didn't want to be a bullet stopper no more.
I reenlisted on the condition that I become a computer programmer. After taking the quickie 3 month COBOL course (the last taught in the USMC!) they found they didn't NEED COBOL programmers and made me a small computer specialist. Which is (or was then) a catch all position dealing with lan, PCs, sysadmin, datacom. I just kept doing that when I EASed.
I just don't see how you could take the shuttle fleet and make a profit off of them.
.. to do many things, none of them at all well.
For just one problem, the number of people required (required, they're not fluff) to run the program amounts to thousands per shuttle. Possibly more, this is off the top of my head.
A commercial aviation carrier gets by with maybe 40 people per bird, and they just barely break even.
The shuttle just was not designed to be profitable. The design is a political one, designed like all such
If anyone is interested, you'd be better off building an efficient space fleet of your own.
Surprised no one has mentioned him.
Not a ton of output but what there is is pretty damn good.
http://www.sff.net/people/Waldrop/
NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical). If you REALLY think that any combination of the three would NOT have been used by Nato/Warsaw pact if the European Cival War had gone to round III I have some prime ocean front property to sell you.
It's not for nothing that I learned how to decontaminate vehicles/people from nasty chemicals in the 80s in the Marines.
Don't know about *your* shop but where I work we have a place for Solaris AND Linux AND MS Windows. Our Holy Grail is 'unix' stability/performance on 'intel' (read cheap) hardware.
What's standing in my way are the developers of our CAD tools. Cadence isn't going there (we don't see any evidence that 'you' want it) and Mentor STARTED to port to Linux, but stopped short of porting the bits that WE use (lack of market demand).
All the "power users" who think CLIs are more efficient because it seems like it takes less time would do well to try making some objective speed measurements with a stopwatch. It might come as a surprise that GUIs are actually faster, even though it seems like they are slower.
... the GUI element is optional, and many times the ONLY way to restore your box is to connect via serial line and use .. the CLI.
In the UNIX world it's not simply that CLI is (perceived) to be faster
If you don't *know* CLI, you're dead meat at that point.
The crashing usually results from overheating caused by the machines running 24/7, in small enclosures with poor, if any ventilation.
Dude. My kids have their Nintendo in a hot, dusty un-airconditioned room (and Texas gets HOT in the summer) which used to be a screened in porch. It's crammed over a VCR and under a T.V.
Demo unit hardware problems or not, I can't imagine that the enclosure at Toys-R-Us is more hostile to equipment than my 'rec' room. 3 years it's been there, with out a hitch.
"The Making of the Xbox"
The Xbox is here. Manufacturing is history.
It's really about contract electronics manufacturers. Flextronics picked up the contract to make the boxes, and has supposedly built more capacity to handle the expected demand.
um. Nuclear missles don't destroy cities, but they DO knock off x number of the population, zap all of the units in the target and all adjacent cells ... how destructive do you think a nuclear warhead IS?
Just please educate me. What is so wrong about the card?
You first - what is so RIGHT about having a national ID card? I don't WANT anyone able to track me. I don't WANT to have to register my address. It's up to the Man to prove this is a good idea - they have not sold me yet.
Here you are. Now, put your money where your mouth is.
http://www.footmouse.com/