What do you think represents the biggest threat to the credibility of science in the eyes of the layman?:
- The media, and the way they report results of scientific (and sometimes pseudo-scientific) research. - The models used to fund science that sometimes leads to a quest for funding over a quest for scientific rigor. - Political and governmental ignorance.
So it seems that the public and some elected representatives still have an enthusiasm for Space and NASA, even if legislators at the federal level don't.
I work in an Aussie school, and we've just recently wrangled with the idea of how to best outfit our students with PC's. It's funny, no matter what way we looked at the problem, just about every affordable idea we came up with was really only a workaround way of sharing the machines. For technology to be fully integrated into the curriculum and highly available at the point of learning, there's only one solution. Give every student a laptop. It's expensive, and we can't afford to do it, so I imagine you may not be able to either, but it really needs to be said that it is the best solution.
I remember when we handed laptops to all of our teaching staff, we had theories that it was the best way of giving them access, but nothing like the actual reality. After the deployment the increase in the use of technology (actively encouraged by the schools policy makers) was incredible. I don't think that it would be any different with students. Don't listen to any of the nay-sayers who will tell you they'll be too distracting in class, or the kids will lose them or break them, these are all things that can be worked around.
That's if you can afford it. If not, beware of those who want to cut corners. Schools are notoriously underfunded and there's a temptation to penny-pinch, but the students will suffer as a result. Thin clients for example, suffer badly from not coping with a lot of video/sound/CAD software, and while you can get away with them in certain areas, teachers favour a homogeneous environment throughout.
Anyway, I can bang on about this forever. I guess I'm trying to say that nothing good can come from cutting corners. It's a big responsiblity you've got there, and I hope it works out for you.
Take two eggs, break them into a bowl, add two tablespoons of milk per egg, and salt and pepper to taste. Then, add half a teaspoon of curry powder and half a teaspoon of chilli powder or chilli flakes (more or less depending on the strength of the powder). Grate a cup of cheese in the bowl with the eggs etc. At this point you can also throw in (as some friends of mine did) either tomato sauce/ketchup, worstershire sauce or soy sauce as well if you want.
Grab a frying pan, coat the bottom lightly with olive oil and throw in half a teaspoon of crushed garlic (more or less to taste) and half a small onion (diced). Fry them both, stirring briskly, until the onion has gone clear. Then throw in the mixture from the bowl all at once, and fry until all the egg is cooked through (note, it wont ever cook as hard and clumpy as normal scrambled eggs due to the oil and fat from the cheese).
Stick it on a plate and return to the computer. you should be able to eat it one handed if you need to. If you're a stereotypical nerd, who gets no exercise, has poor personal hygene and no friends this is perfect. The curry/chilli will make you sweat and the garlic will make you smell and noone will want to come near you!;)
And it's not just that either. Government jobs are usually free of the corporate whore mindset of big business. That is, you don't have to be the 'company man'. You can just go to work, do your job and come home. You don't have to attend stupid 'bonding' weekends in the mountains or similar nonsense. Morover, government has a better sense of respect for their employees wellbeing. I've generally observed more consideration given to workplace health and safety, and just generally valuing people. Whether you're working for the gov, or for the company, either way you're working for "the man". Just, in gov, the man is often nicer to you.
Sure, it generally doesn't pay as well. I'm slightly disturbed to think that this is what us geeks have sunk to though. Has the IT "boom" of previous years got us so used to thinking of ourselves as the new elite. Sure, we all deserve to be paid well. But I think what we're talking about here is the difference between being paid well, and very well, or obscenely well. I think it's time to stop trying to prove something and look at things realistically. There is more to life than work, and how much you earn. But we're all smart people right (trolls excluded)? We should know that already!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've got no desire to end up an old man with acute RSI, no friends or family, a caffiene addiction and a lot of money/toys.
That was kinda kewl, 'cos I can sorta pick any of a variety of objects out of the sky to name things after. So, one class of servers can be stars, another planets, another moons. Comets are also an option. As are man-made objects. Was gonna name one nasty NT server Mir there for a while, for very obvious reliability-related reasons.
Yup, I too have been giving IPCop a spin over the last few weeks on an old machine I've got on the floor at home. IPCop is about to take over serving the dialup of our office at work, and I know of a local business that's been plugging it to some of his clients who want to securely share a connection.
IPCop is a nice piece of work. And, as stated elsewhere, is sans the problems associated with Smoothwall's co-creator.
Shame, because Smoothwall is also a good product, and Lawrence Manning (the nicer co-creator) is a really nice and damn smart guy.
I can't remember where I read it (it might have been slashdot) but somebody recently was comparing Microsoft currently to IBM in it's last years of domination in the industry.
There are a lot of things in this article that support that theory too. Particularly Microsoft's concentration on proprietary protocols. Like the IBM of old Microsoft are trying to suck everything into their evil empire and proprietize (if that's a word) everything they can... including the internet.
Now, if I said to any Slashdot readers (and some preschool picture book readers) that I thought somebody could control the internet for their own benefit, and be truly successful at it you'd probably just point at me and laugh. And that would be quite fair I think. But not Microsoft. They're still trying to tame this internet thing.
You'd think after the success [sarcasm] of Push internet technology (remember active channels) and the microsoft network in it's original incarnation (now reduced to virtually an MS owned webring and AOL ripoff) and, speak of the devil; AOL's attempts to make the internet branded with AOL for anyone that uses it.
After all this has anyone ever come out on top of the internet? No. Of course there have been plenty of successes, but the internet still remains a global brand-name-independant network.
As the internet grows more it's that very size and reach that prevents it from becoming the MICROSOFT-InterNETWORK.
IMHO, this quest for making everything proprietary is just Microsoft going out of their way to piss people off. And much like the IBM keeping everything IBM attitude of past decades they risk screwing themselves royally because of it.
I wonder if the name "Pod" is in any way based on the old BBC computer game. The game (Pod) was about emotions and general human behaviour. It was aimed at little kids. You got the prompt "Pod can..." and you typed what pod could to... either cry, sing, laugh, whistle etc.
A lot of people who grew up in Australia or the UK around the BBC micro computer will remember Pod.
Damn, it was early 80's 8 bit programming at it's very finest!;)
Aaah.... I think I'm about to have a second childhood!;)
I know that ping times are a little crappy, and if you want to do any hosting you'd best forget about it and all, but it's not too bad a solution.
Down here in Australia, we've got a real problem with rural schools. 45 miles is nothing, some face distances of hundereds of miles to the nearest populus. Telstra, our major carrier tend to pitch the satellite option to our rural users quite heavily.
I work for a regional school, and although we aren't far from a small population, we still don't have access to DSL or anything similar, so we use a Sat. connection. It isn't perfect, but it does the job where the kids are concerned. It serves 150 desktops without any real difficulty, and with very little downtime due to the satellite itself (some due to the people running it though).
I'm sure there must be some Sat. options available in other countries (after all our uplink is in the U.S.). You might want to give it a try!
I personally have never been impressed by Farscape.
It's kind of like a "the muppets in space on crack" or something. The whole puppet alien thing really gets to me too. This was fine for the time of the first three Star Wars, or TOS. Moreover, it's way heavy on the fiction and light on the science too. Couple all that with some shoddy acting worthy of the first season ST:TNG and some uninspired plotlines (not that other scifis can't do that as well), and it's all very ho-hum.
Again, I don't like it. But I think maybe ever since B5 left my television nothing else really compares... I guess I've been spoiled!
I sit here, a world away from this most disgusting and disheartening tragedy, just wondering what to say.
Last night Australian time, somebody told me that two planes had crashed into the WTC. I could barely believe it, but on the radio in my car it was confirmed.
I returned home in time to watch the ABC (US) coverage, and was shocked by just how unprepared and shocked the reporters were.
Almost everybody that spoke (both in the US and in Australia) had very shaky voices. I even had to get myself a 'stiff drink' because I was so shaken by what I could barely believe was happening.
It's hard to express anything without resorting to cliches, but I just hope, maybe against hope that the estimates of casualities aren't as bad as we all think, because it would be the only silver lining to this cloud that will hang over the US, and (trust me), the rest of the world for a very long time.
Did anyone ever wonder whether M$ do this deliberately?
Recently they've had some holes (much like this) that you'd have to be out of your head smoking crack to miss.
Quality assurance at Microsoft is better than this when it comes to other areas. Could it just be that it's easier and cheaper to have somebody else find the holes and then, as the mega-funded publicity department goes into top gear issue a patch (where appropriate)?
Last I checked most teachers I work with were using their summer holidays to do professional development at the beach, or overseas, or similar holiday destinations.
That is so wonderfully naive...
The school that I work at has a huge PD budget (private school) to pay for teachers to retrain. They get time away from school with paid accomodation and travel where appropriate, and nearly every year that budget is left largely untouched, in fact the administration have started forcing people to use it.
If indeed there are some who retrain at their own expense, the rest give them a bad name!
I work with teachers every day... they are an interesting breed.
I'd like a show of hands from all the people who work in IT who have to continually retrain...... Ah, I see that's most, if not all of you.
IMHO This article touches on a a bigger issue. In my experience with teachers, probably the worst thing you can suggest is some 'professional development'. Goodstein may be somewhat hard on teachers, however he is just raising the age-old point that teacher generally have it too easy compared to the rest of us.
So, why not a little retraining? Teachers need to be made perform more continual training to teach in their respective field, once they've accepted the job, and then regularly from then on.
He does also make a point about hostility of people and students, and this may be something to do with the way science is presented by school teachers (however, wouldn't people then have a problem with other school subjects?). But more likely this is just a reaction that society has to the social elites, those with the brains so to speak. Call them nerd, geeks, boffins or whatever, people don't like to see others with so much control.
But maybe this does throw the ball back in the teachers court so to speak. If people had a greater appreciation of the sciences maybe then they'd have a greater respect for the people involved? It's a worthwhile theory, however I really think it's more human nature than anything else. Much in the same way other minority social groups (religions, women, gays, etc.) are disliked through a complete fear bred by misunderstanding.
So maybe we should hold nerd-pride marches? Burn our labcoats?... Maybe, but isn't it all a little trivial?
Companies like RedHat/Mandrake/Debian, for example seem to survive without charging a visible amount for their software, yet Caldera seem to think they need to charge a per-seat license.
And they probably do. The big difference between RedHat, and Caldera is that I actually know people who use RedHat (no, really I do).
This just seems to me to be the last grasp at some Linux-distro $$$ by a company on it's way down the toilet.
After all, plenty of other companies have survived long enough by seemingly giving Linux distros away. But they have a strong user-base.
What's so special about Caldera then, that they think we'll pay per-seat to use it?
Nothing... and I wonder whether they're going to find that out the hard way?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
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Microsoft are petrified... totally.
The thing that has them scared the most, is that they've got no way of measuring exactly 'how' scared they should be.
Open Source is a juggernaut that has built up and started moving at an incredible speed over many years. It has it's roots in the origins of computing itself (ie. academia).
The problem for Microsoft is, how do you judge the threat from free software? You can't simply look at the financial performance of it to judge whether it's a threat like you can any other company.
It's the fact it's an intangible threat that's got Microsoft so scared and paranoid they'll resort to shit like this.
The Open Source juggernaut has changed the rules of the game.
Monopoly is a bit harder for the traditionalists to play when you can win by sitting on 'Free Parking' the whole game!;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I work for a private (years 7-12) College (as tech support, not a teacher). There's a lot of work to do, but noone minds if I don't work overtime to get it done. Generally I'm not expected to do any more than the hours I'm payed for, and there have been times when I've told them I'm not coming to work on a Saturday. It pays poorly compared to other jobs. But the upside is this:
I'm forced to take 6 weeks holiday a year (4 weeks annual leave and 10 rostered days off). I'd like to move on and get payed more, but you have no idea how hard it is to leave those lovely holidays behind!:)
I also just HAVE to say this. One of the most under apreciated people are those who support their oranisation well in IT, and put up with school kids every day too!;)
L8r.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Slashdot Mirror
Hi,
What do you think represents the biggest threat to the credibility of science in the eyes of the layman?:
- The media, and the way they report results of scientific (and sometimes pseudo-scientific) research.
- The models used to fund science that sometimes leads to a quest for funding over a quest for scientific rigor.
- Political and governmental ignorance.
So it seems that the public and some elected representatives still have an enthusiasm for Space and NASA, even if legislators at the federal level don't.
L8r.
Yeah nice one, how about adding a couple of hunderd more characters to your messages? 140 characters was fine when SMS messaging was big in 1998!
Is Miller talking about Aliens, or is he talking about us? Becuase if he's right, the prognosis for humanity isn't that bright!
L8r.
I work in an Aussie school, and we've just recently wrangled with the idea of how to best outfit our students with PC's. It's funny, no matter what way we looked at the problem, just about every affordable idea we came up with was really only a workaround way of sharing the machines. For technology to be fully integrated into the curriculum and highly available at the point of learning, there's only one solution. Give every student a laptop. It's expensive, and we can't afford to do it, so I imagine you may not be able to either, but it really needs to be said that it is the best solution.
I remember when we handed laptops to all of our teaching staff, we had theories that it was the best way of giving them access, but nothing like the actual reality. After the deployment the increase in the use of technology (actively encouraged by the schools policy makers) was incredible. I don't think that it would be any different with students. Don't listen to any of the nay-sayers who will tell you they'll be too distracting in class, or the kids will lose them or break them, these are all things that can be worked around.
That's if you can afford it. If not, beware of those who want to cut corners. Schools are notoriously underfunded and there's a temptation to penny-pinch, but the students will suffer as a result. Thin clients for example, suffer badly from not coping with a lot of video/sound/CAD software, and while you can get away with them in certain areas, teachers favour a homogeneous environment throughout.
Anyway, I can bang on about this forever. I guess I'm trying to say that nothing good can come from cutting corners. It's a big responsiblity you've got there, and I hope it works out for you.
L8r.
I hope they sent something in return... maybe this! ;)
And yet while running enterprise class systems...
;)
I'm sick of running enterprise class systems. I never liked the damn LCARS system from the first time I used it.
I've had enough. I'm trading my Galaxy class for a Warbird!
Okay,
;)
Take two eggs, break them into a bowl, add two tablespoons of milk per egg, and salt and pepper to taste.
Then, add half a teaspoon of curry powder and half a teaspoon of chilli powder or chilli flakes (more or less depending on the strength of the powder). Grate a cup of cheese in the bowl with the eggs etc.
At this point you can also throw in (as some friends of mine did) either tomato sauce/ketchup, worstershire sauce or soy sauce as well if you want.
Grab a frying pan, coat the bottom lightly with olive oil and throw in half a teaspoon of crushed garlic (more or less to taste) and half a small onion (diced). Fry them both, stirring briskly, until the onion has gone clear.
Then throw in the mixture from the bowl all at once, and fry until all the egg is cooked through (note, it wont ever cook as hard and clumpy as normal scrambled eggs due to the oil and fat from the cheese).
Stick it on a plate and return to the computer. you should be able to eat it one handed if you need to.
If you're a stereotypical nerd, who gets no exercise, has poor personal hygene and no friends this is perfect. The curry/chilli will make you sweat and the garlic will make you smell and noone will want to come near you!
L8r.
Precisely.
And it's not just that either. Government jobs are usually free of the corporate whore mindset of big business. That is, you don't have to be the 'company man'. You can just go to work, do your job and come home. You don't have to attend stupid 'bonding' weekends in the mountains or similar nonsense.
Morover, government has a better sense of respect for their employees wellbeing. I've generally observed more consideration given to workplace health and safety, and just generally valuing people. Whether you're working for the gov, or for the company, either way you're working for "the man". Just, in gov, the man is often nicer to you.
Sure, it generally doesn't pay as well. I'm slightly disturbed to think that this is what us geeks have sunk to though.
Has the IT "boom" of previous years got us so used to thinking of ourselves as the new elite. Sure, we all deserve to be paid well. But I think what we're talking about here is the difference between being paid well, and very well, or obscenely well.
I think it's time to stop trying to prove something and look at things realistically. There is more to life than work, and how much you earn. But we're all smart people right (trolls excluded)? We should know that already!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've got no desire to end up an old man with acute RSI, no friends or family, a caffiene addiction and a lot of money/toys.
We run a domain called "cosmos".
That was kinda kewl, 'cos I can sorta pick any of a variety of objects out of the sky to name things after. So, one class of servers can be stars, another planets, another moons.
Comets are also an option. As are man-made objects.
Was gonna name one nasty NT server Mir there for a while, for very obvious reliability-related reasons.
Yup, I too have been giving IPCop a spin over the last few weeks on an old machine I've got on the floor at home. IPCop is about to take over serving the dialup of our office at work, and I know of a local business that's been plugging it to some of his clients who want to securely share a connection.
IPCop is a nice piece of work. And, as stated elsewhere, is sans the problems associated with Smoothwall's co-creator.
Shame, because Smoothwall is also a good product, and Lawrence Manning (the nicer co-creator) is a really nice and damn smart guy.
I can't remember where I read it (it might have been slashdot) but somebody recently was comparing Microsoft currently to IBM in it's last years of domination in the industry.
There are a lot of things in this article that support that theory too. Particularly Microsoft's concentration on proprietary protocols. Like the IBM of old Microsoft are trying to suck everything into their evil empire and proprietize (if that's a word) everything they can... including the internet.
Now, if I said to any Slashdot readers (and some preschool picture book readers) that I thought somebody could control the internet for their own benefit, and be truly successful at it you'd probably just point at me and laugh. And that would be quite fair I think. But not Microsoft. They're still trying to tame this internet thing.
You'd think after the success [sarcasm] of Push internet technology (remember active channels) and the microsoft network in it's original incarnation (now reduced to virtually an MS owned webring and AOL ripoff) and, speak of the devil; AOL's attempts to make the internet branded with AOL for anyone that uses it.
After all this has anyone ever come out on top of the internet? No. Of course there have been plenty of successes, but the internet still remains a global brand-name-independant network.
As the internet grows more it's that very size and reach that prevents it from becoming the MICROSOFT-InterNETWORK.
IMHO, this quest for making everything proprietary is just Microsoft going out of their way to piss people off. And much like the IBM keeping everything IBM attitude of past decades they risk screwing themselves royally because of it.
Heyyy...
;)
;)
I wonder if the name "Pod" is in any way based on the old BBC computer game. The game (Pod) was about emotions and general human behaviour. It was aimed at little kids. You got the prompt "Pod can..." and you typed what pod could to... either cry, sing, laugh, whistle etc.
A lot of people who grew up in Australia or the UK around the BBC micro computer will remember Pod.
Damn, it was early 80's 8 bit programming at it's very finest!
Aaah.... I think I'm about to have a second childhood!
How about satellite?
I know that ping times are a little crappy, and if you want to do any hosting you'd best forget about it and all, but it's not too bad a solution.
Down here in Australia, we've got a real problem with rural schools. 45 miles is nothing, some face distances of hundereds of miles to the nearest populus. Telstra, our major carrier tend to pitch the satellite option to our rural users quite heavily.
I work for a regional school, and although we aren't far from a small population, we still don't have access to DSL or anything similar, so we use a Sat. connection. It isn't perfect, but it does the job where the kids are concerned. It serves 150 desktops without any real difficulty, and with very little downtime due to the satellite itself (some due to the people running it though).
I'm sure there must be some Sat. options available in other countries (after all our uplink is in the U.S.). You might want to give it a try!
No, you're not.
I personally have never been impressed by Farscape.
It's kind of like a "the muppets in space on crack" or something. The whole puppet alien thing really gets to me too. This was fine for the time of the first three Star Wars, or TOS. Moreover, it's way heavy on the fiction and light on the science too. Couple all that with some shoddy acting worthy of the first season ST:TNG and some uninspired plotlines (not that other scifis can't do that as well), and it's all very ho-hum.
Again, I don't like it. But I think maybe ever since B5 left my television nothing else really compares... I guess I've been spoiled!
I sit here, a world away from this most disgusting and disheartening tragedy, just wondering what to say.
Last night Australian time, somebody told me that two planes had crashed into the WTC. I could barely believe it, but on the radio in my car it was confirmed.
I returned home in time to watch the ABC (US) coverage, and was shocked by just how unprepared and shocked the reporters were.
Almost everybody that spoke (both in the US and in Australia) had very shaky voices. I even had to get myself a 'stiff drink' because I was so shaken by what I could barely believe was happening.
It's hard to express anything without resorting to cliches, but I just hope, maybe against hope that the estimates of casualities aren't as bad as we all think, because it would be the only silver lining to this cloud that will hang over the US, and (trust me), the rest of the world for a very long time.
Did anyone ever wonder whether M$ do this deliberately?
;)
Recently they've had some holes (much like this) that you'd have to be out of your head smoking crack to miss.
Quality assurance at Microsoft is better than this when it comes to other areas. Could it just be that it's easier and cheaper to have somebody else find the holes and then, as the mega-funded publicity department goes into top gear issue a patch (where appropriate)?
Either that or Microsoft buys a lot of crack!
hahahahaha... hahahaha..... hahaha.... *choke*... hahahahahahahaha....
Last I checked most teachers I work with were using their summer holidays to do professional development at the beach, or overseas, or similar holiday destinations.
That is so wonderfully naive...
The school that I work at has a huge PD budget (private school) to pay for teachers to retrain. They get time away from school with paid accomodation and travel where appropriate, and nearly every year that budget is left largely untouched, in fact the administration have started forcing people to use it.
If indeed there are some who retrain at their own expense, the rest give them a bad name!
I work with teachers every day... they are an interesting breed.
I'd like a show of hands from all the people who work in IT who have to continually retrain...... Ah, I see that's most, if not all of you.
IMHO This article touches on a a bigger issue. In my experience with teachers, probably the worst thing you can suggest is some 'professional development'. Goodstein may be somewhat hard on teachers, however he is just raising the age-old point that teacher generally have it too easy compared to the rest of us.
So, why not a little retraining? Teachers need to be made perform more continual training to teach in their respective field, once they've accepted the job, and then regularly from then on.
He does also make a point about hostility of people and students, and this may be something to do with the way science is presented by school teachers (however, wouldn't people then have a problem with other school subjects?). But more likely this is just a reaction that society has to the social elites, those with the brains so to speak. Call them nerd, geeks, boffins or whatever, people don't like to see others with so much control.
But maybe this does throw the ball back in the teachers court so to speak. If people had a greater appreciation of the sciences maybe then they'd have a greater respect for the people involved? It's a worthwhile theory, however I really think it's more human nature than anything else. Much in the same way other minority social groups (religions, women, gays, etc.) are disliked through a complete fear bred by misunderstanding.
So maybe we should hold nerd-pride marches? Burn our labcoats?... Maybe, but isn't it all a little trivial?
Taken from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
One entry found for BYO.
Main Entry: BYO
Function: abbreviation
bring your own
If only you'd BYO dictionary.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
"Bring Your Own" Battlebot? Shouldn't this read D.I.Y. or something, instead of inventing an acronym?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Companies like RedHat/Mandrake/Debian, for example seem to survive without charging a visible amount for their software, yet Caldera seem to think they need to charge a per-seat license.
And they probably do. The big difference between RedHat, and Caldera is that I actually know people who use RedHat (no, really I do).
This just seems to me to be the last grasp at some Linux-distro $$$ by a company on it's way down the toilet.
After all, plenty of other companies have survived long enough by seemingly giving Linux distros away. But they have a strong user-base.
What's so special about Caldera then, that they think we'll pay per-seat to use it?
Nothing... and I wonder whether they're going to find that out the hard way?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Microsoft are petrified... totally.
;)
The thing that has them scared the most, is that they've got no way of measuring exactly 'how' scared they should be.
Open Source is a juggernaut that has built up and started moving at an incredible speed over many years. It has it's roots in the origins of computing itself (ie. academia).
The problem for Microsoft is, how do you judge the threat from free software? You can't simply look at the financial performance of it to judge whether it's a threat like you can any other company.
It's the fact it's an intangible threat that's got Microsoft so scared and paranoid they'll resort to shit like this.
The Open Source juggernaut has changed the rules of the game.
Monopoly is a bit harder for the traditionalists to play when you can win by sitting on 'Free Parking' the whole game!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I work for a private (years 7-12) College (as tech support, not a teacher). There's a lot of work to do, but noone minds if I don't work overtime to get it done. Generally I'm not expected to do any more than the hours I'm payed for, and there have been times when I've told them I'm not coming to work on a Saturday. It pays poorly compared to other jobs. But the upside is this:
I'm forced to take 6 weeks holiday a year (4 weeks annual leave and 10 rostered days off). I'd like to move on and get payed more, but you have no idea how hard it is to leave those lovely holidays behind!
I also just HAVE to say this. One of the most under apreciated people are those who support their oranisation well in IT, and put up with school kids every day too!
L8r.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
All your drywalled drywalled servers are belong to Novell.
4 years is a long time to go unnoticed. What was the server doing? Whatever it was it can't have been much.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47