Our central IT staff is still hoping the the Macs will just "go away." We won't even talk about any for of UNIX or UNIX-like systems. I'm the PIA for them b/c my shop has been using System V and its spawn since 1986.
They figure if you are not paying big money for the software, then it is useless - gotta' have a vendor to "stand behind" the products. Must be why they still like Lotus Notes so much.
The "Giant Eagle" chain in Cleveland tried this a couple years back. All the carts with their scanner holders are long gone. Never learned why it didn't work out - perhaps no one in the midwest was interested in scanning as they shopped, I know I wasn't.
I remember having a 5620 DMD at work, I still have a 730 MTG in service as a console for several Sun systems. Wish I had held onto the 5620 and more of the 730 terminals.
The old AT&T was also *responsible* for the operation of the phone network, up to and including the device in your house - which may have had something to do with why they were so picky about what was connected to *their* network. If your phone was broken, Ma Bell sent someone out to fix or replace it, and you didn't wait weeks for that to happen.
I still have Western Electric phones in use in my house today - it is not as if any phone made in the last 20 years will last nearly as long and sound as good. I think I've been though at least five cordless phones in that time.
Except for the abuse, or potential for it, today's at*t is NOT the AT&T of old - they are not that smart anymore.
"PARC has often been criticized for its past failures to capitalize on some of its greatest inventions" How is that PARC's fault? More likely the short-sighted Xerox management that failed to see what they had?
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Agreed. I found the endings to both to be a disappointment. I remember being a bit happier with the ending of Babylon 5 back in the day - but found much of its last season weak due to the story compression they did in season 4 when they thought they would not get a season five.
At least the story in Lost was (to me) interesting for most of the run. But I wanted some of the mysteries solved, damn it!
I've been hanging onto an AT&T 9-track tape drive (and a few 3B2/600s) for more than a decade now. At least the 9-track cabinet is big enough to store all the other crap inside.
If nothing else it is fun to mount a 9-track tape and scare the kiddies with the spinning wheels and whoosh of the blowers.
I might use the tape enclosure as a garden shed someday.
That is a shame to hear. I used Sophos for our Windows/Mac/Solaris/Linux machines for almost ten years. (the two later b/c the hosted windows files via Samba) And found it to be quick and light weight. NEVER had a virus issue on a machine running Sophos. The the edict came down from on high that we MUST use McAfee like the rest of the university. What utter crap. It rendered older machines unusable, would claim that it was updating when it wasn't, and had the feature that it kept missing viruses.
I must admit that toward the end I was getting annoyed with Sophos - needing an MS Windows machine to act as the "Manager" for the enterprise install of Sophos. At the time we didn't *have* any windows servers, nor did we want them.
I call bullsh*t. Union membership has been going down for years.
Starting a company does not automatically create a union - the people working there must vote one in. As the labor relations folks here have said - a company gets the union it deserves. Treat the workers decently and they will NOT want to form a union as there will be no need.
If it was all unions, why have so many jobs left the so called "right to work" states where one doesn't have those pesky union issues?
Manufacturing left the US chasing cheap/slave labor as well as lax or no labor safety laws. People move this along buying cheap/disposable rather that looking for quality.
I am sure it is possible to build decent quality items in China - but that is NOT the reason anybody makes things there.
True dat. State gig - worse pay, better hours, better benefits to help make up for the poor pay. Recent years we've been told as our benefits have gotten worse that ours need to match more closely what goes on in the "real world" So I asked if our pay would be reflecting the "real world" as well - 'cause that would mean a hefty raise for most of us...you can guess the response to that.
...Unions aren't necessarily bad, it's forced union shops that take management decisions out of the hands of the owners and management that really drive a company into the ground.
Ever read a union contract? I've helped negotiate three of them where I work. There are entire sections on "Management Rights" which covers area of actually managing the outfit. If a company gives away its ability to manage operation to the union, they have bigger problems than their union and they are already doing a fine job of running the company into the ground all on their own.
I never wanted to be in a union, but as stated above, when management continued to treat the workforce like crap the workforce unionized in order to fight back.
Did not want to work where there was a union, didn't want to join a union.
I am now chief steward of the union where I work. If you are not happy about the way your union is being run (if you have one) then run for a leadership position - DO something rather that just bitch about it. The union leadership is elected by the employees from the pool of employees - not run from some outside group.
If a workplace is bad enough that a union forms, then that company deserves to have to deal with a union. If workers are well and fairly treated then a union will not form. I worked for a retail chain while in college *many* years ago. We received decent wages, annual performace reviews and salary adjustments, vacation pay, and sick pay that was paid out to us once a year if we didn't use it. Wal-mart it was NOT! No chance of a union going in there: we knew we had it pretty good,
Years later I'm working at a university where we were constantly screwed over, rarely reviewed, "merit increases" were for the pet employees and any performance bonuses were kept by managers. Not too difficult for the union to form there, and yes, it is a better place to work now. (and in the land of pre-existing health problems one cannot always just find a new job.)
The current union election system is broken - it offers employers too much opportunity to intimidate workers. If they put half the effort into addressing workplace issues as they do in fighting unions there wouldn't need to be any unions.
And no, a union does NOT have to mean automatic protection for poor workers. There are always procedures for am employer to get rid of unproductive workers - but they have to follow the procedure and document what they are doing - which means there has to be a valid reason to fire someone, not just because the employee is not sucking-up enough.
This is also my issue with ZFS. I've played with it a little but find the available methods for back-up restore to be VERY cumbersome. I am not interested in creating "file systems" for each and every user and trying to manage them all.
So I too am staying with UFS (and VxFS) for the time being.
If GM lasts long enough to build it there is real innovation in the Chevrolet Volt.
Tesla is interesting in its way, but it is not a car that many could hope to afford. Perhaps the best thing Tesla Motors has done is convince Bob Lutz that GM could/should make a real effort at at practical electric car.
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That may be so, bit *I* wasn't the one that thought it would be a good idea to lay-off EVERYONE else that was part of my team except me.
Our central IT staff is still hoping the the Macs will just "go away." We won't even talk about any for of UNIX or UNIX-like systems. I'm the PIA for them b/c my shop has been using System V and its spawn since 1986. They figure if you are not paying big money for the software, then it is useless - gotta' have a vendor to "stand behind" the products. Must be why they still like Lotus Notes so much.
That explains technology support around here!
The "Giant Eagle" chain in Cleveland tried this a couple years back. All the carts with their scanner holders are long gone. Never learned why it didn't work out - perhaps no one in the midwest was interested in scanning as they shopped, I know I wasn't.
Amen.
I remember having a 5620 DMD at work, I still have a 730 MTG in service as a console for several Sun systems. Wish I had held onto the 5620 and more of the 730 terminals.
The old AT&T was also *responsible* for the operation of the phone network, up to and including the device in your house - which may have had something to do with why they were so picky about what was connected to *their* network. If your phone was broken, Ma Bell sent someone out to fix or replace it, and you didn't wait weeks for that to happen.
I still have Western Electric phones in use in my house today - it is not as if any phone made in the last 20 years will last nearly as long and sound as good. I think I've been though at least five cordless phones in that time.
Except for the abuse, or potential for it, today's at*t is NOT the AT&T of old - they are not that smart anymore.
"PARC has often been criticized for its past failures to capitalize on some of its greatest inventions" How is that PARC's fault? More likely the short-sighted Xerox management that failed to see what they had?
Agreed. I found the endings to both to be a disappointment. I remember being a bit happier with the ending of Babylon 5 back in the day - but found much of its last season weak due to the story compression they did in season 4 when they thought they would not get a season five.
At least the story in Lost was (to me) interesting for most of the run. But I wanted some of the mysteries solved, damn it!
...and often are.
I've been hanging onto an AT&T 9-track tape drive (and a few 3B2/600s) for more than a decade now. At least the 9-track cabinet is big enough to store all the other crap inside.
If nothing else it is fun to mount a 9-track tape and scare the kiddies with the spinning wheels and whoosh of the blowers.
I might use the tape enclosure as a garden shed someday.
That is a shame to hear. I used Sophos for our Windows/Mac/Solaris/Linux machines for almost ten years. (the two later b/c the hosted windows files via Samba) And found it to be quick and light weight. NEVER had a virus issue on a machine running Sophos. The the edict came down from on high that we MUST use McAfee like the rest of the university. What utter crap. It rendered older machines unusable, would claim that it was updating when it wasn't, and had the feature that it kept missing viruses.
I must admit that toward the end I was getting annoyed with Sophos - needing an MS Windows machine to act as the "Manager" for the enterprise install of Sophos. At the time we didn't *have* any windows servers, nor did we want them.
I call bullsh*t. Union membership has been going down for years.
Starting a company does not automatically create a union - the people working there must vote one in. As the labor relations folks here have said - a company gets the union it deserves. Treat the workers decently and they will NOT want to form a union as there will be no need.
If it was all unions, why have so many jobs left the so called "right to work" states where one doesn't have those pesky union issues?
Manufacturing left the US chasing cheap/slave labor as well as lax or no labor safety laws. People move this along buying cheap/disposable rather that looking for quality.
I am sure it is possible to build decent quality items in China - but that is NOT the reason anybody makes things there.
True dat. State gig - worse pay, better hours, better benefits to help make up for the poor pay. Recent years we've been told as our benefits have gotten worse that ours need to match more closely what goes on in the "real world" So I asked if our pay would be reflecting the "real world" as well - 'cause that would mean a hefty raise for most of us...you can guess the response to that.
Hmm, up here on the Great Lakes we operate 1000ft ships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_freighter#List_of_1000-footers_on_the_Lakes
"Threshold" from 1981 - I remembered it, too.
...Unions aren't necessarily bad, it's forced union shops that take management decisions out of the hands of the owners and management that really drive a company into the ground.
Ever read a union contract? I've helped negotiate three of them where I work. There are entire sections on "Management Rights" which covers area of actually managing the outfit. If a company gives away its ability to manage operation to the union, they have bigger problems than their union and they are already doing a fine job of running the company into the ground all on their own.
I never wanted to be in a union, but as stated above, when management continued to treat the workforce like crap the workforce unionized in order to fight back.
Any time I am looking to buy QUALITY tools, yes. I'll *always* pay more for a quality product...when one can be found in this day and age.
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Also, congrats on the new addition. It gets easier after about 10 weeks, I swear. :0)
Really? I can't say I *remember* the first 10 weeks!
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Unions were great when dangerous jobs were causing people to get injured and killed. But now that this problem is taken care of...
Tell that to the families of the people that once worked for Genwal Resources, Inc. and Murray Energy Corporation
Period. They had a purpose in the era of "wild" capitalism, but those times are over...
Have you seen the news, lately? "Wild" capitalism is what has gotten us into the economic mess we are in!
Did not want to work where there was a union, didn't want to join a union.
I am now chief steward of the union where I work. If you are not happy about the way your union is being run (if you have one) then run for a leadership position - DO something rather that just bitch about it. The union leadership is elected by the employees from the pool of employees - not run from some outside group.
If a workplace is bad enough that a union forms, then that company deserves to have to deal with a union. If workers are well and fairly treated then a union will not form. I worked for a retail chain while in college *many* years ago. We received decent wages, annual performace reviews and salary adjustments, vacation pay, and sick pay that was paid out to us once a year if we didn't use it. Wal-mart it was NOT! No chance of a union going in there: we knew we had it pretty good,
Years later I'm working at a university where we were constantly screwed over, rarely reviewed, "merit increases" were for the pet employees and any performance bonuses were kept by managers. Not too difficult for the union to form there, and yes, it is a better place to work now. (and in the land of pre-existing health problems one cannot always just find a new job.)
The current union election system is broken - it offers employers too much opportunity to intimidate workers. If they put half the effort into addressing workplace issues as they do in fighting unions there wouldn't need to be any unions.
And no, a union does NOT have to mean automatic protection for poor workers. There are always procedures for am employer to get rid of unproductive workers - but they have to follow the procedure and document what they are doing - which means there has to be a valid reason to fire someone, not just because the employee is not sucking-up enough.
This is also my issue with ZFS. I've played with it a little but find the available methods for back-up restore to be VERY cumbersome. I am not interested in creating "file systems" for each and every user and trying to manage them all.
So I too am staying with UFS (and VxFS) for the time being.
Um, SAC still existed in 1968. I am also pretty sure Clinton wasn't in the white house at that time.
Strategic Air Command - Peace is our profession - war is just a hobby
If GM lasts long enough to build it there is real innovation in the Chevrolet Volt.
Tesla is interesting in its way, but it is not a car that many could hope to afford. Perhaps the best thing Tesla Motors has done is convince Bob Lutz that GM could/should make a real effort at at practical electric car.
Additional Volt information from a fan of the project.