So company X didn't hire you for postion Z. Do what I did. I went to their location, talked to their hiring manager and thanked them for allowing me to interview for the job. I said I was still interested in working for them in the future.
Two days later I had an email from them that an unexpected opening had come up and they wanted to talk to me. It turns out I was their #2 pick for the other job and I was the only person they were considering for this other position.
Show persistence! Some interviewing books say send a follow-up thank you note (which hardly anyone does). I say show in person to the hiring manager to say that. Then you become a face, not just a piece of paper. Sometimes the 2nd try is the charm.
You fool haven't you read any tech news lately? Apple Records (the company founded by the Beatles that publishes Beatles songs) have a current lawsuit against Apple Computers. You will never see a Beatles son on iTunes music store by the Beatles until that lawsuit is settled.
And it's not "Linking Park". Go back to your corner and put on the dunce cap.
You got that too? That was the predecessor to windows 3.0. It was a fully functioning 256 bit operating system. M$ dropped it because they were afraid Apple would sue them. Go find an old XT and give it a whirl. Tell them Linus sent you.
I've been doing tech support for 25 years and I am still having fun. I'm not unhappy at all. Hell, I'm damned good at my job and as a result only "work" 1 hour a day. The rest of my "work day" is spent surfing and exploring IT web sites (and having too many cigarette breaks).
Then again, I support 400 Mac OSX workstations, while my Windoze counterpart supports only 150 workstations but is slaving his ass off. I hope they don't catch on that I have an MCSE and actually expect me to work on that bastardized platform.
Simple answer dude: Creating a quick image of your drive/RAID. We will be replacing our RAID on our Mac G4 server soon. The EASIEST way is to use carbon copy cloner to create an image of the existing RAID to a 200GB firewire drive. Then use netrestore to throw the image onto the new RAID.
Don't underestimate what you can do with firewire ports. Boot inop machines from an external firewire drive, create disk images easily, etc.
No, he's smart. They sold LOTS of the current iPods for Christmas at high profit margins. Why kill your long-term profit for a few bucks in the short run?
Heed this person's advice! I CLEPd out of 27 semester hours of required classes for my major. How the heck I passed that stats CLEP I'll never know since I've never had a stats class.
You fool, have you even tried using a Mac lately? No? Just what I thought.
I'm a tech support (24+ years) who will have nothing but Macs in my house. Why? Because they work, don't crash, and my wife and son can't fuck them up.
After spending all day fixing other people's computer problems, the last thing I want to do at home is fix my own.
You post this stupid whine on every damned mac topic. Take your antiquated Mac, throw it out by the curb, and get yourself a new Mac.
Just shut the hell up for once and all, stop being a troll, and let those of us who actually want to read valid technology questions/issues see some actual content for a change.
When will the various mail server vendors get a clue? Allow honeypot checking to stop viruses. For example, in your company's global/LDAP/Exchange/Whatever address book put in random bogus (honeypot) addresses. One for every letter of the alphabet would be good.
Then have the mail server check every outgoing message to see if it is being sent to the honeypot addresses. If it is, the sender most likely has a virus. You have tried to send to a bogus account, so therefore I think you are infected with a virus. Automatically disable the account and send the account and email to contact IT ASAP because they probably have a virus. Worst case scenario is that 5% of your users get sent the virus before the honeypot was hit.
This would work on any virus, even new ones that the antivirus vendors haven't detected yet. Because now you are looking at behavior, not content.
You open source zealots our there listening? Put your talents where your mouth is and give us some good open source plugins for the various email daemons to do this! It's time for mail servers to start looking at behavior, not content.
Platforms and programs make no difference teachers! I have a hell of a time driving this point home with them. Why are you so concerned about teaching the latest version of Office? By the time they graduate they will see a different version in the work industry. What you should understand is that you should teach them concepts, not a program.
Some bitch because I have photoshop elements in the labs and they want photoshop. Let's see, $21 per license versus $150? Guess which wins folks? I tell them once the students learn the CONCEPTS of correctly adjusting color balance and brightness/contrast it doesn't make any difference what program they use in the industry. They would do just fine using an open source Linux graphics app.
I tried to sell our IT director on moving from office to openoffice to save lots of money. His response was that people want MS office and it's not worth the bitching we'll hear. Grrrr! I could really use that money we would save on licensing to buy a new RAID and a cluster.
I was one of those paper MCSEs (20 years in IT but no hands on NT) who was hired by my private college to do all their Mac support.
From the support side it is cheaper to use Macs. I maintain 400 Macs and I'm rarely needed for problems. My Windows counterpart maintains about 90 PCs and is constantly flooded with work. From the tech support side its obvious that Macs are cheaper than PCs
Integration? I'm not sure on that aspect. Our IT department went to a proprietary Mirapoint LDAP solution. The Macs play with LDAP beautiful, but it's been a headache to get the Win2K server's users to authenticate correctly with Mirapoint and thus get their shares mapped on the Mac RAID.
So the Apple engineer can't get decent answers from Mirapoint and is now trying to "hack" SAMBA to make up for Mirapoint's inadequate tech support and knowledge base.
I brought up using OSX's LDAP, but no! Got to have that Mirapoint. Oh hell, I give up. Someone get me a beer!
OSX will run on a beige G3 just fine. In fact, I was running 10.1 server on one. I did see a performance hit on running 10.2 since it wants more video memory. I'm sure throwing in a PCI video card with at least 32MB of video memory would resolve that issue.
I've bought 4 news albums from "classic rock"bands in the last year and all of them sucked. I have absolutely no interest in current top 40.
The reason they have suffered sales drops is because of a lack of new releases. Give me some decent music and I will gladly buy it as I have done from Apple's music store.
Don't want to do that RIAA? Then shut the hell up with your whining. Put up or shut up! I'm tired of crap music and will not pay $18 for a bullshit album when I can either buy the few good songs for a few bucks from Apple or steal them with P2P.
You are driving yourselves into a hole RIAA because, as always, you don't want to embrace new technologies or independent artists. You are screwing yourself, so don't blame the anal burn on us. You are responsible for your own rectal discomfort.
It's most likely new spamming software that does on the fly web spidering.
I was getting spam addressed to myself and others in IT until I asked our webmaster to take off my mailto link on the IT staff directory page. Since them I've had a big decline in spams at work.
What all the Mac and Linux zealots are overlooking in this argument is the actual bottom line in regards to productivity. Time for you and your customers has a cost that most overlook in the hardware and OS pricing.
I support 400 Macs and most of the time there's not much need for my help. My windows counterpart supports less than 100 PCs and he's always busy. So while his customers have a lot of downtime and frustration mine are happy campers and are not suffering from productivity loss.
Don't just look at the pricetag. In my experience the initial higher price of the Mac is more than offset by the labor saved. Plus there is the intangible aspect that I'm not constantly frustrated having to hack my system to get it to work
That's why I do one-on-one training with every professor when change them over from mac OS9 to OSX. Yes, it kills 30 minutes per user out of my day, but I have found that my tech support calls have plummeted. The phone is rining every 30 minutes. Now, if I get 3 calls per day it is a bad day.
Why is the author so ticked off about receiving training? If you give someone training they're better equipped to handle the new equipment/software and they don't need to call IT as often to have their hand held. Yes, software evolves. Get over it. Be glad that your employer thinks enough that they provide training, many don't.
I thik the author of the article needs to go to the clue line and get a clue.
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So company X didn't hire you for postion Z. Do what I did. I went to their location, talked to their hiring manager and thanked them for allowing me to interview for the job. I said I was still interested in working for them in the future.
Two days later I had an email from them that an unexpected opening had come up and they wanted to talk to me. It turns out I was their #2 pick for the other job and I was the only person they were considering for this other position.
Show persistence! Some interviewing books say send a follow-up thank you note (which hardly anyone does). I say show in person to the hiring manager to say that. Then you become a face, not just a piece of paper. Sometimes the 2nd try is the charm.
You fool haven't you read any tech news lately? Apple Records (the company founded by the Beatles that publishes Beatles songs) have a current lawsuit against Apple Computers. You will never see a Beatles son on iTunes music store by the Beatles until that lawsuit is settled.
And it's not "Linking Park". Go back to your corner and put on the dunce cap.
You're probably thinking of that whacky Jef Raskin. http://humane.sourceforge.net/home/
You got that too? That was the predecessor to windows 3.0. It was a fully functioning 256 bit operating system. M$ dropped it because they were afraid Apple would sue them. Go find an old XT and give it a whirl. Tell them Linus sent you.
I've been doing tech support for 25 years and I am still having fun. I'm not unhappy at all. Hell, I'm damned good at my job and as a result only "work" 1 hour a day. The rest of my "work day" is spent surfing and exploring IT web sites (and having too many cigarette breaks).
Then again, I support 400 Mac OSX workstations, while my Windoze counterpart supports only 150 workstations but is slaving his ass off. I hope they don't catch on that I have an MCSE and actually expect me to work on that bastardized platform.
A fake iPod to go along with a fake penis?
Simple answer dude: Creating a quick image of your drive/RAID. We will be replacing our RAID on our Mac G4 server soon. The EASIEST way is to use carbon copy cloner to create an image of the existing RAID to a 200GB firewire drive. Then use netrestore to throw the image onto the new RAID.
Don't underestimate what you can do with firewire ports. Boot inop machines from an external firewire drive, create disk images easily, etc.
No, he's smart. They sold LOTS of the current iPods for Christmas at high profit margins. Why kill your long-term profit for a few bucks in the short run?
Heed this person's advice! I CLEPd out of 27 semester hours of required classes for my major. How the heck I passed that stats CLEP I'll never know since I've never had a stats class.
Send it to the band and ask them for a real CD for one of their most loyal fans.
Quiet, damned quiet! I have a dual processor G5 in my office and if it wasn't for seeing it you wouldn't know it's there.
I too was skeptical when I heard the claims of them being quiet. But the claims are true.
You fool, have you even tried using a Mac lately? No? Just what I thought.
I'm a tech support (24+ years) who will have nothing but Macs in my house. Why? Because they work, don't crash, and my wife and son can't fuck them up.
After spending all day fixing other people's computer problems, the last thing I want to do at home is fix my own.
I'll stick with Macs.
You post this stupid whine on every damned mac topic. Take your antiquated Mac, throw it out by the curb, and get yourself a new Mac.
Just shut the hell up for once and all, stop being a troll, and let those of us who actually want to read valid technology questions/issues see some actual content for a change.
Go away little man, you are a pain here.
Core memory is making a comeback? I knew I should have kept that Honeywell H316 with 32KB of memory.
Will they also introduce a new form of paper tape made of stronger, more durable materials?
You stole my punchline! I was going to comment that I could send an attachment called "kill my computer.exe" and 10% would execute it.
When will the various mail server vendors get a clue? Allow honeypot checking to stop viruses. For example, in your company's global/LDAP/Exchange/Whatever address book put in random bogus (honeypot) addresses. One for every letter of the alphabet would be good.
Then have the mail server check every outgoing message to see if it is being sent to the honeypot addresses. If it is, the sender most likely has a virus. You have tried to send to a bogus account, so therefore I think you are infected with a virus. Automatically disable the account and send the account and email to contact IT ASAP because they probably have a virus. Worst case scenario is that 5% of your users get sent the virus before the honeypot was hit.
This would work on any virus, even new ones that the antivirus vendors haven't detected yet. Because now you are looking at behavior, not content.
You open source zealots our there listening? Put your talents where your mouth is and give us some good open source plugins for the various email daemons to do this! It's time for mail servers to start looking at behavior, not content.
One more comment before I leave for the day.
Platforms and programs make no difference teachers! I have a hell of a time driving this point home with them. Why are you so concerned about teaching the latest version of Office? By the time they graduate they will see a different version in the work industry. What you should understand is that you should teach them concepts, not a program.
Some bitch because I have photoshop elements in the labs and they want photoshop. Let's see, $21 per license versus $150? Guess which wins folks? I tell them once the students learn the CONCEPTS of correctly adjusting color balance and brightness/contrast it doesn't make any difference what program they use in the industry. They would do just fine using an open source Linux graphics app.
I tried to sell our IT director on moving from office to openoffice to save lots of money. His response was that people want MS office and it's not worth the bitching we'll hear. Grrrr! I could really use that money we would save on licensing to buy a new RAID and a cluster.
I was one of those paper MCSEs (20 years in IT but no hands on NT) who was hired by my private college to do all their Mac support.
From the support side it is cheaper to use Macs. I maintain 400 Macs and I'm rarely needed for problems. My Windows counterpart maintains about 90 PCs and is constantly flooded with work. From the tech support side its obvious that Macs are cheaper than PCs
Integration? I'm not sure on that aspect. Our IT department went to a proprietary Mirapoint LDAP solution. The Macs play with LDAP beautiful, but it's been a headache to get the Win2K server's users to authenticate correctly with Mirapoint and thus get their shares mapped on the Mac RAID.
So the Apple engineer can't get decent answers from Mirapoint and is now trying to "hack" SAMBA to make up for Mirapoint's inadequate tech support and knowledge base.
I brought up using OSX's LDAP, but no! Got to have that Mirapoint. Oh hell, I give up. Someone get me a beer!
OSX will run on a beige G3 just fine. In fact, I was running 10.1 server on one. I did see a performance hit on running 10.2 since it wants more video memory. I'm sure throwing in a PCI video card with at least 32MB of video memory would resolve that issue.
I've bought 4 news albums from "classic rock"bands in the last year and all of them sucked. I have absolutely no interest in current top 40.
The reason they have suffered sales drops is because of a lack of new releases. Give me some decent music and I will gladly buy it as I have done from Apple's music store.
Don't want to do that RIAA? Then shut the hell up with your whining. Put up or shut up! I'm tired of crap music and will not pay $18 for a bullshit album when I can either buy the few good songs for a few bucks from Apple or steal them with P2P.
You are driving yourselves into a hole RIAA because, as always, you don't want to embrace new technologies or independent artists. You are screwing yourself, so don't blame the anal burn on us. You are responsible for your own rectal discomfort.
It's most likely new spamming software that does on the fly web spidering.
I was getting spam addressed to myself and others in IT until I asked our webmaster to take off my mailto link on the IT staff directory page. Since them I've had a big decline in spams at work.
What all the Mac and Linux zealots are overlooking in this argument is the actual bottom line in regards to productivity. Time for you and your customers has a cost that most overlook in the hardware and OS pricing.
I support 400 Macs and most of the time there's not much need for my help. My windows counterpart supports less than 100 PCs and he's always busy. So while his customers have a lot of downtime and frustration mine are happy campers and are not suffering from productivity loss.
Don't just look at the pricetag. In my experience the initial higher price of the Mac is more than offset by the labor saved. Plus there is the intangible aspect that I'm not constantly frustrated having to hack my system to get it to work
I use safari exclusively. I haven't found a website yet that safari won't display. Plus, I can block popups and use tabs.
Who needs IE? Not me.
He's jerking your chain! Are you so blind?
That's why I do one-on-one training with every professor when change them over from mac OS9 to OSX. Yes, it kills 30 minutes per user out of my day, but I have found that my tech support calls have plummeted. The phone is rining every 30 minutes. Now, if I get 3 calls per day it is a bad day.
Why is the author so ticked off about receiving training? If you give someone training they're better equipped to handle the new equipment/software and they don't need to call IT as often to have their hand held. Yes, software evolves. Get over it. Be glad that your employer thinks enough that they provide training, many don't.
I thik the author of the article needs to go to the clue line and get a clue.