So, basically the report says that over-restrictive parents are to blame for social media addiction? Don't think so. I've travelled quite a bit, the biggest complaint I've heard in the past decades is that parents were less involved in their kids lives than they were before WWII. Rebelling youth has been a chronic theme in Hollywood movies for the past 40 years. My favorite line in True Lies is when Tom Arnold explains that today's kids' parents are Axle Rose and Madonna and that parents can't compete with that kind of exposure. Social media is addictive because it's designed to be alluring and parents buy smartphones for their kids (pretty sure the kids aren't coming up with the coin themselves). Not sure how this report was researched.
Tools are not all the same. I don't know how you can say that, except that I suspect that you've not used a cli effectvely before so you can't really know. I recommend learning how to do some involved tasks and compare both methods.
I wonder how much of his advice actually works? People who like using CLI seem to be cut from a different cloth than people who fawn over glitsy GUI interfaces. That's been my observation, anyway. Some newbies just gravitate toward the alluring green-text-on-black-background cli that seems to hold the promise of a deeper computing experience. They tend to find it.:)
Nah, plain and simple, this is a case of a ninny saying something really stupid, being overexposed, and then being harassed by people who have nothing better to do. In ten years, we'll look back at these times and call this period The Golden Age of the Simpleton. This should have never been a story, no one should have reported on it, no one should have cared.
IT is a pretty big field. Which positions are affected by this? HelpDesk? Desktop? Server? Windows Administration? Is this happening in Large orgs? There's really no substantial information in the article to help the reader draw any kind of conclusion for themselves.
This is really a./ post? Really? This isn't an issue of someone tweeting stupidity and being harassed by people who are just like her? What a waste of energy.
I'm lucky, my org has a very cool education policy in IT and we can learn pretty much anything that makes us better at our jobs. It helps that I'm a self-taught kind of person and don't want classroom training, though:)
I wish I were exagerating, but Windows PC builds that don't allow installs last a lot longer than those that do. Install the basics like Flash and Java (although, don't install Java unless she really needs it. Avoid if you can). After that, lock it down so that her account can't install anything. Also, hide the Internet Explorer Icon and have her use Firefox.
As a 40 year old, I remember life was pretty aweful until I discovered caffeine and got my first shell account in college. Everything's been fine ever since. I was 22, I think. That said, I don't think all technology is bad and maybe they're going a little too far. There ARE some pretty awesome techie advances that happened between 1986 and when the iPad/iPhone was invented that no one should miss out on. However, as for tablets and smartphones, I think these devices will definitely make a kid dumber. There's nothing intellectual about them, nothing that expands the mind, and it's depressing to walk around the mall and see 50 percent of people staring at their phones or talking on them. These devices just strike me as taking advantage of the average non-techie with seductive content and presentation. These parents are right to take a hard stand against them and I wish them the best of luck.
The article's author uses the "we" a lot, which strikes me as awkward that he's including himself in the group of "Network Admin" when he writes things like;
Veteran network admin trait No. 1: We already know it's down
Veteran network admin trait No. 3: We will ping and test several times before digging into the problem
Veteran network admin trait No. 5: During an outage, we're not just staring at the screen -- we're following a path in our heads
Veteran network admin trait No. 6: We calculate subnet masks and CIDR as easily as breathing
I guess the term "veteran" is subjective. He should add a new trait;
Veteran network admin trait No. 10: We write articles like we're fulfilling a quota
They don't think that maybe email should be retired and replaced with a secure technology? Maybe they can get started legislature that will mandate more memory for the Atari 2600.
You know, true story - this problem can totally be avoided by using a shell account and text-based browser. Doing it right now. Bam. No malware. No GRAPHICS, but no malware. Thank you, goodnight. Glad to be of help.
"It points out that: 'Asian governments and businesses are now moving their employees and systems off Google's Gmail and other U.S.-based systems, according to Asian news reports."
The biggest concern any agency in this situation would have would probably be all of the adjusting that happens by the public when an operation like this is brought to the public's attention. European governments already seem to embrace open source solutions because the software is open to public scrutiny - this is a total watershed event for the open source movement around the world. I'm just shocked that people outside of the US ever used gmail, hotmail, or Facebook at all.
Next up - SMTP is going to be replaced with an encrypted platform. Count on it. Thirty year old, insecure technology being used to secure bank accounts? It's over. I give it about 2 years before someone comes out with something better.
And, yeah, before you say it - encryption is still a sore spot for spy agencies. The UK complained that their riots were fueled by Blackberry encryption when hooligans cordinated their destruction, and there have been enough cases showing defendants could/couldn't invoke the fifth ammendment when trying to deny access to their own encrypted storage (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/appeals-court-fifth-amendment-protections-can-apply-to-encrypted-hard-drives/).
Open source, encrypted platforms are going to be the most popular ones for the next five years. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to pass a bill this year outlawing or regulating encryption in the US.
It's a proprietary service, so you don't know if they're doing what they say they are. Forget it. Absolutely rediculous - it's the same problem we have now in that few people really know what's going on. Let the project drown.
. . . should take a moment to pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves on their intellectual laziness. He made a valid technical point, it's worth knowing that the first gen iPads are being phased out and that, if this is Apple's game, the consumer should at least be aware of it.
It's mind-boggling how many robots jumped on this post for trolling and flamebait.
I'll be using the summer expanding my knowledge with Debian, an Os that won me over on its own as well as with with some awesome variants in the micro-computing scene. Will hopefully spend some time building a Cubieboard cluster and will also be trying out Asterisk.
I must chuckle, a fair number of people I know and even in this thread have mentioned that they use Google numbers as a cover number for recruiters. I do, too. So, I'm grateful that Google provides this service, but just how it translates to dollars is slightly baffling. Using Google's service as they're intended is a really bad idea, but using them cautiously (i.e; not using your real identity) doesn't exacly help Google pay for these services either.
No important at all. Not sure where the idea came from, maybe some professions are so easy for anyone to get into that having an online persona is needed for some differentiation? Who knows. If you're a technical person, you're capacity to accomplish tasks and your personality are what's important. Here's a very recent article on what Google looks for, and even they're forced to admit that their infamous brain-teaser questions are pretty worthless. Everyone gets it now. It's your ability that counts. Read this http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/5-surprising-facts-how-google-hires.html.
If anything, companies are starting to get super picky about who they're hiring because no one can afford to hire lazy, shiftless, indifferent, talentless people any more (and these folks outnumber the stars considerably.) In an interview at a smart company, if the interviewer gets any hint from an applicant that they're unreliable, unintelligent, or difficult to work with - they're toast before the interview is done. A quick email from the interviewers to the decision makers during the interview settles everything quickly so that no more time is wasted and they can move on to the next person.
Forget online personas and social networking. Want to be treated right? Bring your A-Game every day to the office and when you're interviewing.
Also, by the way, if you don't have an "online presence", you're lucky. I would start a smoking habit before having an online presence. Don't use your real name online and always behave like your real name is stamped on everything you post.
Every publicly held company loses it, eventually. It's difficult to argue that, next to the invention of the internet, Google search is one of the most important technologies in history. First we created content, then Google made it totally accessible.
So, what's left after for you to do after that? Well, if you're a publicly held company and investors are yelling at you to find a way to get the stock price up, you really start coming up with stupid ideas. Google Glass is a face-mounted camera. Google+ takes FB's nonsensicle model and warps it even more so that no matter what Google product you use, it's tied into this garbage (nevermind that Google got it right the first time when they create advertising that was relevant to your INTERESTS, not who your friends and relatives are.)
Google's made enough of an impact on history, to the point where if they didn't come up with anything new or novel ever again, it'd be fine. I'm not sure if their self-driving car will make any progress - god knows we need it, most people can't drive to begin with and should just leave robots to do it. I just don't think they're going to accomplish it.
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So, basically the report says that over-restrictive parents are to blame for social media addiction? Don't think so. I've travelled quite a bit, the biggest complaint I've heard in the past decades is that parents were less involved in their kids lives than they were before WWII. Rebelling youth has been a chronic theme in Hollywood movies for the past 40 years. My favorite line in True Lies is when Tom Arnold explains that today's kids' parents are Axle Rose and Madonna and that parents can't compete with that kind of exposure. Social media is addictive because it's designed to be alluring and parents buy smartphones for their kids (pretty sure the kids aren't coming up with the coin themselves). Not sure how this report was researched.
Tools are not all the same. I don't know how you can say that, except that I suspect that you've not used a cli effectvely before so you can't really know. I recommend learning how to do some involved tasks and compare both methods.
I wonder how much of his advice actually works? People who like using CLI seem to be cut from a different cloth than people who fawn over glitsy GUI interfaces. That's been my observation, anyway. Some newbies just gravitate toward the alluring green-text-on-black-background cli that seems to hold the promise of a deeper computing experience. They tend to find it. :)
Nah, plain and simple, this is a case of a ninny saying something really stupid, being overexposed, and then being harassed by people who have nothing better to do. In ten years, we'll look back at these times and call this period The Golden Age of the Simpleton. This should have never been a story, no one should have reported on it, no one should have cared.
Yeah, there's no edit button. I'm sure you understood what I meant, you seem like a witty fellow :)
IT is a pretty big field. Which positions are affected by this? HelpDesk? Desktop? Server? Windows Administration? Is this happening in Large orgs? There's really no substantial information in the article to help the reader draw any kind of conclusion for themselves.
This is really a ./ post? Really? This isn't an issue of someone tweeting stupidity and being harassed by people who are just like her? What a waste of energy.
Yeah, some places can be like that. Pretty much all of my gigs early in my career were, but eventually you find an org that gets it.
I'm lucky, my org has a very cool education policy in IT and we can learn pretty much anything that makes us better at our jobs. It helps that I'm a self-taught kind of person and don't want classroom training, though :)
I wish I were exagerating, but Windows PC builds that don't allow installs last a lot longer than those that do. Install the basics like Flash and Java (although, don't install Java unless she really needs it. Avoid if you can). After that, lock it down so that her account can't install anything. Also, hide the Internet Explorer Icon and have her use Firefox.
I don't suppose anyone remembers this? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83818.html .
I think finally Facebook has introduced a USEFUL change for their platform.
As a 40 year old, I remember life was pretty aweful until I discovered caffeine and got my first shell account in college. Everything's been fine ever since. I was 22, I think. That said, I don't think all technology is bad and maybe they're going a little too far. There ARE some pretty awesome techie advances that happened between 1986 and when the iPad/iPhone was invented that no one should miss out on. However, as for tablets and smartphones, I think these devices will definitely make a kid dumber. There's nothing intellectual about them, nothing that expands the mind, and it's depressing to walk around the mall and see 50 percent of people staring at their phones or talking on them. These devices just strike me as taking advantage of the average non-techie with seductive content and presentation. These parents are right to take a hard stand against them and I wish them the best of luck.
The article's author uses the "we" a lot, which strikes me as awkward that he's including himself in the group of "Network Admin" when he writes things like;
Veteran network admin trait No. 1: We already know it's down
Veteran network admin trait No. 3: We will ping and test several times before digging into the problem
Veteran network admin trait No. 5: During an outage, we're not just staring at the screen -- we're following a path in our heads
Veteran network admin trait No. 6: We calculate subnet masks and CIDR as easily as breathing
I guess the term "veteran" is subjective. He should add a new trait;
Veteran network admin trait No. 10: We write articles like we're fulfilling a quota
SNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE.
They don't think that maybe email should be retired and replaced with a secure technology? Maybe they can get started legislature that will mandate more memory for the Atari 2600.
You know, true story - this problem can totally be avoided by using a shell account and text-based browser. Doing it right now. Bam. No malware. No GRAPHICS, but no malware. Thank you, goodnight. Glad to be of help.
"It points out that: 'Asian governments and businesses are now moving their employees and systems off Google's Gmail and other U.S.-based systems, according to Asian news reports."
The biggest concern any agency in this situation would have would probably be all of the adjusting that happens by the public when an operation like this is brought to the public's attention. European governments already seem to embrace open source solutions because the software is open to public scrutiny - this is a total watershed event for the open source movement around the world. I'm just shocked that people outside of the US ever used gmail, hotmail, or Facebook at all.
Next up - SMTP is going to be replaced with an encrypted platform. Count on it. Thirty year old, insecure technology being used to secure bank accounts? It's over. I give it about 2 years before someone comes out with something better.
And, yeah, before you say it - encryption is still a sore spot for spy agencies. The UK complained that their riots were fueled by Blackberry encryption when hooligans cordinated their destruction, and there have been enough cases showing defendants could/couldn't invoke the fifth ammendment when trying to deny access to their own encrypted storage (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/appeals-court-fifth-amendment-protections-can-apply-to-encrypted-hard-drives/).
Open source, encrypted platforms are going to be the most popular ones for the next five years. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to pass a bill this year outlawing or regulating encryption in the US.
It's a proprietary service, so you don't know if they're doing what they say they are. Forget it. Absolutely rediculous - it's the same problem we have now in that few people really know what's going on. Let the project drown.
. . . should take a moment to pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves on their intellectual laziness. He made a valid technical point, it's worth knowing that the first gen iPads are being phased out and that, if this is Apple's game, the consumer should at least be aware of it.
It's mind-boggling how many robots jumped on this post for trolling and flamebait.
I'll be using the summer expanding my knowledge with Debian, an Os that won me over on its own as well as with with some awesome variants in the micro-computing scene. Will hopefully spend some time building a Cubieboard cluster and will also be trying out Asterisk.
I must chuckle, a fair number of people I know and even in this thread have mentioned that they use Google numbers as a cover number for recruiters. I do, too. So, I'm grateful that Google provides this service, but just how it translates to dollars is slightly baffling. Using Google's service as they're intended is a really bad idea, but using them cautiously (i.e; not using your real identity) doesn't exacly help Google pay for these services either.
No important at all. Not sure where the idea came from, maybe some professions are so easy for anyone to get into that having an online persona is needed for some differentiation? Who knows. If you're a technical person, you're capacity to accomplish tasks and your personality are what's important. Here's a very recent article on what Google looks for, and even they're forced to admit that their infamous brain-teaser questions are pretty worthless. Everyone gets it now. It's your ability that counts. Read this http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/5-surprising-facts-how-google-hires.html .
If anything, companies are starting to get super picky about who they're hiring because no one can afford to hire lazy, shiftless, indifferent, talentless people any more (and these folks outnumber the stars considerably.) In an interview at a smart company, if the interviewer gets any hint from an applicant that they're unreliable, unintelligent, or difficult to work with - they're toast before the interview is done. A quick email from the interviewers to the decision makers during the interview settles everything quickly so that no more time is wasted and they can move on to the next person.
Forget online personas and social networking. Want to be treated right? Bring your A-Game every day to the office and when you're interviewing.
Also, by the way, if you don't have an "online presence", you're lucky. I would start a smoking habit before having an online presence. Don't use your real name online and always behave like your real name is stamped on everything you post.
Every publicly held company loses it, eventually. It's difficult to argue that, next to the invention of the internet, Google search is one of the most important technologies in history. First we created content, then Google made it totally accessible.
So, what's left after for you to do after that? Well, if you're a publicly held company and investors are yelling at you to find a way to get the stock price up, you really start coming up with stupid ideas. Google Glass is a face-mounted camera. Google+ takes FB's nonsensicle model and warps it even more so that no matter what Google product you use, it's tied into this garbage (nevermind that Google got it right the first time when they create advertising that was relevant to your INTERESTS, not who your friends and relatives are.)
Google's made enough of an impact on history, to the point where if they didn't come up with anything new or novel ever again, it'd be fine. I'm not sure if their self-driving car will make any progress - god knows we need it, most people can't drive to begin with and should just leave robots to do it. I just don't think they're going to accomplish it.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had NO idea Microsoft makes any network hardware, AND I WORK IN THE INDUSTRY!!!!! OMG MY SIDES HURT!!!!!!
Yeah, just . . . that. Overpriced.