They kicked us all out and hired "contract" people.
The people in Dallas walked across the street to Kodak.
I got an email from my replacement(s) asking me questions like the password for this and that and asking how the spaghetti code tied the mainframe into the local area networks tying Beaumont, Dallas, and Reston together via a T1 with Unix boxes (ca. 1996).
I had the complete list of email addresses at the time and I replied with.cc to the big players, including Fairfax, that, "Mobil Oil has made certain business "rightsizing" decisions and I fully support the corporation's new direction and we should all begin, immediately, to trust the expertise of the "best of breed" new players that were selected to work within the new paradigm."
I got some calls from my former managers and had lots of fun with that.
I appreciate the view from your wheelhouse. It's an experience in which I am totally naive, and yet grok.
I'm a retired IT guy.
From my perspective, I question the forensics required to support termination of my connection.
I can actually be downloading material illegally and not know it, even with my level of expertise. Pity the lay person.
- I can be infected with malware that makes me a download relay. - Typically, people don't secure their WiFi. "Drive-by" hijack downloading is very popular. - A visitor to my home may have my permission to use WiFi and do evil things. - My kid(s) may be doing things behind my back. - I do know, for a fact, that employees routinely use business resources to pirate IP on a very large scale.
Disconnecting the Internet is totally against the interests of the ISP, be they wired or wireless. Those that gain a Grinch reputation will suffer from avoidance.
The IP hoarders should be forced to go directly after violators, using current law, and their own resources instead of enlisting the help of governments and common carriers.
... because the Internet should be classified as a utility similar to electricity.
No one's advocating termination of house power for a third offender.
The music industry, in its current form, is a dying business model and knows full well these broad-reaching attempts to stop digital hemorrhages are just not going to work.
I've done all of the Windows OS, as part of my job. I'm retired, now.
I've never had any issues with a single version of the desktop after 3.1.
1.0 was a bad joke.
3.0 had a fatal flaw in that File Manager refreshed the entire folder structure on the drive (called "directory" back then") when opening different folders.
They fixed that with 3.1 so that File Manager just re-swept the current folder.
That was when I rolled it out at Mobil Oil Corporation.
I never had issues with Windows ME, Vista, or 8 because I banned them from the workplace and never had them at home.
I liked 95, 98 (ran that one into the ground) LOVED XP and still use it. There's a registry hack that makes XP think it's a legacy OS embedded into ATM machines so it still gets security updates to this day.
I like, and still run, Windows 7, 8.1 (not 8 SP1).
I like 10 except for that goddam auto-restart. Any information on how to stop that and still get updates would be greatly appreciated.
For servers, there's a legacy app still running on a Windows NT Dell box where I retired. The backup tape died long ago and the USB ports are 1.0, so we do over-the-wire backup to another server via batch copy.
All the servers up to, and including 2008 were nice; no problems at all. I never rode a 2010 or higher.
I had to pre-approve updates because every now and then Microsoft would give me one for something I didn't have.
--
Interestingly, and pre-Windows servers, Novell (up to 3.2) would bail and "server down" was a common phrase. The users were used to it and it was just a way of life.
The Novell 4.1 I had was not Y2K compliant and that's when I switched to Windows servers.
... renewable energy is the future and Apple has more cash than God.
It's a sound investment and a way for Apple to diversify.
However, it's also a red flag.
Apple is not investing in R&D and cannot buy a Steve Jobs replacement.
When companies step away from their core competency, it forms a bubble that pops down the road.
As they implode, they sell off all the non-core assets and concentrate on the original business model -- often too late to save itself.
I give you Mobil Oil Corporation.
I worked for them back in the mid-late 80s and they went into real estate, insurance; bought Montgomery Ward, built Reston, Va. from scratch, and all kinds of other non-petrochemical endeavors.
By the very late 90s, they kicked us all out of the IT departments, world-wide, and went super nova, casting off all the extra bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
... nothing of substance here.
This isn't fucking R&D..
The iPhone maker struck a deal this week to buy a 30% stake in three subsidiaries of Goldwind, China's biggest wind-turbine manufacturer.
You do get what happened, right?
Ten years before, they were not the power player they were post-iPhone.
Now they are speeding forward in a backwards direction.
Buying non-core shit is not R&D.
Your idea should only apply to you.
I'm guessing ...
Why?
... why are we talking about professionals?
LEO wants to ban encryption period
No.
You're trolling, but I have something to contribute.
"You have the right to bear arms, but you don't have the right to use them." ~ © 32016 CaptainDork
RTFS where it says nothing about banning computers in California.
This.
Recall the discovery of the Higgs boson?
Cern is THE gathering place for a major scientific population and supporting roles for related workers.
That could have been the USA.
Trump is déjà vu all over again.
It used to be, "You must be gay!"
That button broke when I responded with, "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is."
Anyway, as a rebuttal to your position, I offer, "Hitler!"
POTUS didn't harm coal.
Coal is inherently harmful as in, "There's no 'clean' coal."
I was involved with Great Tobacco litigation and the story went like this:
Scientists: Tobacco kills
Tobacco: Jobs
Lawyers: Tobacco kills
Tobacco: Jobs
Same shit with coal.
It's not POTUS.
It's coal.
... because this is a preemptive strike before the ass-chewing when he calls in the blue chips.
The answer is blowing in the wind. ~ Bob Dylan
I was a suit at Mobil Oil in the IT department.
They kicked us all out and hired "contract" people.
The people in Dallas walked across the street to Kodak.
I got an email from my replacement(s) asking me questions like the password for this and that and asking how the spaghetti code tied the mainframe into the local area networks tying Beaumont, Dallas, and Reston together via a T1 with Unix boxes (ca. 1996).
I had the complete list of email addresses at the time and I replied with .cc to the big players, including Fairfax, that, "Mobil Oil has made certain business "rightsizing" decisions and I fully support the corporation's new direction and we should all begin, immediately, to trust the expertise of the "best of breed" new players that were selected to work within the new paradigm."
I got some calls from my former managers and had lots of fun with that.
I found a new job in four days.
it's
contraction
pronoun: it's
it is.
"it's my fault"
it has.
"it's been a hot day"
FTFY
Bazinga ~ Sheldon Cooper
The R&D starvation is pandemic in the US.
CEOs and shareholders are shortsighted greedy bastards or bitches, as applies.
... are people going to stop using email?
God
Damn
I appreciate the view from your wheelhouse. It's an experience in which I am totally naive, and yet grok.
I'm a retired IT guy.
From my perspective, I question the forensics required to support termination of my connection.
I can actually be downloading material illegally and not know it, even with my level of expertise. Pity the lay person.
- I can be infected with malware that makes me a download relay.
- Typically, people don't secure their WiFi. "Drive-by" hijack downloading is very popular.
- A visitor to my home may have my permission to use WiFi and do evil things.
- My kid(s) may be doing things behind my back.
- I do know, for a fact, that employees routinely use business resources to pirate IP on a very large scale.
Disconnecting the Internet is totally against the interests of the ISP, be they wired or wireless. Those that gain a Grinch reputation will suffer from avoidance.
The IP hoarders should be forced to go directly after violators, using current law, and their own resources instead of enlisting the help of governments and common carriers.
Agree.
The "massive amount of money" is the smoking gun.
Music is a great source of revenue for the IP protection industry.
Artists and labels need to rework their business architects to bypass the leeches.
It will happen that way, too.
For reference, we can scrutinize the rapid decline of the analog camera industry.
Digitization has empowered the pedestrian photographer and that whole antiquated film camera landscape is pretty much scorched.
I was a suit at Mobil Oil Corporation.
I asked an intern, "What does Mobil Oil sell?"
He said, "Petrochemicals?"
I said, "Stocks."
... because the Internet should be classified as a utility similar to electricity.
No one's advocating termination of house power for a third offender.
The music industry, in its current form, is a dying business model and knows full well these broad-reaching attempts to stop digital hemorrhages are just not going to work.
Facebook?
I've done all of the Windows OS, as part of my job. I'm retired, now.
I've never had any issues with a single version of the desktop after 3.1.
1.0 was a bad joke.
3.0 had a fatal flaw in that File Manager refreshed the entire folder structure on the drive (called "directory" back then") when opening different folders.
They fixed that with 3.1 so that File Manager just re-swept the current folder.
That was when I rolled it out at Mobil Oil Corporation.
I never had issues with Windows ME, Vista, or 8 because I banned them from the workplace and never had them at home.
I liked 95, 98 (ran that one into the ground) LOVED XP and still use it. There's a registry hack that makes XP think it's a legacy OS embedded into ATM machines so it still gets security updates to this day.
I like, and still run, Windows 7, 8.1 (not 8 SP1).
I like 10 except for that goddam auto-restart. Any information on how to stop that and still get updates would be greatly appreciated.
For servers, there's a legacy app still running on a Windows NT Dell box where I retired. The backup tape died long ago and the USB ports are 1.0, so we do over-the-wire backup to another server via batch copy.
All the servers up to, and including 2008 were nice; no problems at all. I never rode a 2010 or higher.
I had to pre-approve updates because every now and then Microsoft would give me one for something I didn't have.
--
Interestingly, and pre-Windows servers, Novell (up to 3.2) would bail and "server down" was a common phrase. The users were used to it and it was just a way of life.
The Novell 4.1 I had was not Y2K compliant and that's when I switched to Windows servers.
--
So, all-in-all, I've had good luck with Windows.
... renewable energy is the future and Apple has more cash than God.
It's a sound investment and a way for Apple to diversify.
However, it's also a red flag.
Apple is not investing in R&D and cannot buy a Steve Jobs replacement.
When companies step away from their core competency, it forms a bubble that pops down the road.
As they implode, they sell off all the non-core assets and concentrate on the original business model -- often too late to save itself.
I give you Mobil Oil Corporation.
I worked for them back in the mid-late 80s and they went into real estate, insurance; bought Montgomery Ward, built Reston, Va. from scratch, and all kinds of other non-petrochemical endeavors.
By the very late 90s, they kicked us all out of the IT departments, world-wide, and went super nova, casting off all the extra bullshit.
Exxon picked them up for a song.
Others: HP, Yahoo!, provide examples, as well.
Whatever.
Your ranting is vacuous.
... CEOs and shareholders who want instant asymptotic revenue growth.
Morals, ethics, decency, and humanity are for non-profits.
In the US, SCOTUS says Amazon is a person.
They didn't specify what kind.