...until your workstation goes splat. Then you'll be over at the help desk, begging them to get your laptop back up. Therein lies the problem with over-specialization.;)
(...meanwhile, a real sysadmin will have will have told you which router you screwed up the configs on, and would you please either fix the damned thing, or at least cough up the supe password so that he can do it and get on with the day.)
2) Until someone can make a replacement for RAC that doesn't suck, isn't Microsoft**, won't cost a fortune, and doesn't require a degree in Cryptology to run? They'll (unfortunately) be around for a long, long time.
*sigh*... I wish Postgres was better...
** SQL Server is cute and all, but tends to buckle under very heavy loads, and the clustering tech leaves way too much to be desired.
Fuck the UN, and why not have ICANN and suchlike be it's own independent NGO? Each country pays into it to keep it going.
It would only take a few nations to support it, and it can stay independent. I can see a few housekeeping items that would have to be addressed, but at least this way the UN can keep their grubby paws off it, yet no one can bitch about the US owning it anymore (in spite of the whole shebang originating as a US gov't project, etc...)
I've had lots of dogs but never saw one watch TV. Cats, however, like nature shows.
Same story here. The dogs don't give a damn what's on TV, even if I'm playing a FPS on the thing with the screen refresh cranked to maximum (~120 Hz, I think).
Now the cat? She goes apeshit when she sees a bird on the thing.
I think that'll be the new dog pr0n channel, but it'd likely flop (dogs are driven by smell in that department, not sight. Also, a neutered dog isn't likely to care at all.)
I'm just curious as to what they consider "eye level" for the typical dog, though - the eyes on my Dachshunds (aka the 'low-rider dobermans') are a helluva lot closer to the ground than those of a Great Dane.
I agree, but if you do find a CxO with that kind of integrity, well, you really found a rare bird.
Meanwhile, I'm watching Ms. Corey spew out excuses for having just lost the case. Seems the jury proclaimed Mr. Zimmerman Not Guilty.
So not only will she have to put up with pissed-off constituents (both for Mr. Zimmerman because she pulled these hijinks, and again because she lost), now she'll likely have to put up with the potential lawsuit from the former IT dude in TFA.
I find it extremely interesting that she's *still* trying to press her case for locking the guy up, in spite of having just lost. It tends to support the allegations about her in TFA more than ever, truth be told.
Considering the Florida AG initiated this whole trial because the Obama's office specifically egged them on into doing it (in spite of clearing the guy initially), I suspect that the US government gets to take on a piece of the blame for anything having to do with this trial, albeit indirectly, since they pretty much started it.
(...mind the flames and impending down-mods, campers!)
Thing is, if you fire someone and state a specific reason (e.g. "incompetence"), you have to back it up with proof, or risk being slammed with a lawsuit for slander and/or libel.
Now if they said "you;re fired because I hate your tie", then they would be in the clear. It's when they tried to make shit up that they stumbled (seriously - firing a guy for "incompetence" after just giving him a raise for "meritorious" reasons? Lots of 'splaining to do on that one...)
Florida is a Right to Fire... erm, Hire state. I always confuse the two words because whenever I hear the phrase, it's always used in the context of firing people. Anyway, incompetence is a Florida-based employer's way of firing you simply because they don't like you. If you don't cross enough T's and dot enough I's it is grounds for incompetence.
Problem is, if you state "incompetence" as the reason for firing someone, but there's no solid evidence of such, it's grounds for a lawsuit - it may not be a "wrongful termination" suit, but "slander", "libel", and suchlike are more than adequate terms, among others that Florida may have in place specifically for their government employees (remember, this ain't a private company...)
Maybe - he'd have to find a lawyer that will do it on a contingency basis, and it would have to have some potential for a really big cash settlement/judgement before one will touch it. OTOH, maybe there's a lawyer who figures it'd be good for a little publicity - who knows?
Either way, it would take months, if not years, before the guy saw any justice/money/compensation/etc. Unfortunately, no CxO in his/her right mind would even think of hiring the guy in the interim, given the toxicity of the events and who is backing the potential defendants (seriously, would you want to catch the attention of the AG's office, potentially exposing your company to "extra scrutiny" if they felt like playing dirty pool against the guy? Didn't think so.)
Chilling effects all around, truth be told - he'll ahve to move out of the reach of that office before he could even hope to find a job, let alone pursue a lawsuit. Unless the state governor gets involved and (IMHO rightfully) fucks over the AG execs who did this to him, the dude is kinda fucked.
IMHO, it stands as a very good reason why you'll never get me to work for any law firm, government (let alone prosecutor's) office, or suchlike. Unless you find a lot of good juicy skeletons in their closets early on (and keep the evidence secure), the boss(es) there would pretty much own your ass, ethics be damned.
Yes, that sort of thing is only true because it's enforced by the legal system and government, but once you start throwing that out the window you're talking about a revolt of the industrial proletariat.
Actually, it's also enforced by logistics (if you don't have the raw materials, you can't make the stuff), economics (no credit/cash, no new tools, BoM, payroll, etc), competition (if someone makes a better widget than you do, you lose sales, etc), talent (no talented employees, no product/sales/management/etc) and a shitload of other external factors that the owner often has no control over.
Problem that Marx had is that he never took any of this into account, simply assuming that the proletariat would magically smooth over these troubles. The result? Google for "Bread lines".
Indeed - but you have to remember that he was a victim of his time, when most folks figured that human culture (and ability to discharge their vices/failings/etc) would progress at the same pace as science was moving at the time. It was, to put to charitably, an overly-optimistic era. It also spawned a lot of other naive-but-useless things ranging from harmless (phrenology) to damnably dangerous (eugenics).
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As for TFA? I pulled the D-ring on the EE field back in the early 1990's. Funny thing is, back then the cheaper employers tried to combine the EE and ME fields as well (I designed, built, and ran industrial control systems for a large poultry company - I lost track of the amount of instances they tried to get me to design equipment mods right along with new controls for them). Fortunately, they needed a sysadmin in a hurry (the last one flunked his drug test), so I got pressed into that, fell in love with it, and stuck with it ever since. Haven't so much as drawn a circuit or touched a soldering iron even semi-professionally in at least a decade.
I guess the biggest reason for leaving the field was that I didn't see all that much of a future in it. It only came in handy when I did a stint at a certain large semiconductor firm, where I got semi-shoved into a liaison role between the EEs and developers (it's what I got for settling a fight between the two groups during my first week there).
Actually, given the plethora of eBook reader apps for other formats (even Amazon has an iOS app FFS), even that argument pretty much falls flat. You can still buy your eBooks cheaper elsewhere (or get them for free). Or, you can read PDF files. Or.txt files. Or.doc files.
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Note: #2 requires systems access to the email server (or spam filters) as well as fileshares - something a pure network admin wouldn't have.
Sometimes that IS the answer
A lot of times, it's the only way to clear up an ill-considered typo + "write mem".
They are defensive as hell, maybe their jobs make them that way.
I got in some nasty arguments with them over innocent jokes that Unix or Windows admins would have just laughed off.
Defensive is a good description. After all, there are only so many commands in IOS, and -- oh, look, the Cisco Nexus switches use Linux now! :)
I'll save you. I'll save you all.
...until your workstation goes splat. Then you'll be over at the help desk, begging them to get your laptop back up. Therein lies the problem with over-specialization. ;)
(...meanwhile, a real sysadmin will have will have told you which router you screwed up the configs on, and would you please either fix the damned thing, or at least cough up the supe password so that he can do it and get on with the day.)
1) Please, stop that.
2) Until someone can make a replacement for RAC that doesn't suck, isn't Microsoft**, won't cost a fortune, and doesn't require a degree in Cryptology to run? They'll (unfortunately) be around for a long, long time.
*sigh*... I wish Postgres was better...
** SQL Server is cute and all, but tends to buckle under very heavy loads, and the clustering tech leaves way too much to be desired.
Oracle had a business strategy beyond "turn everything we touch into shit"?
They do: "Turn everything we touch into shit and charge a friggin' ransom for it"
Fuck the UN, and why not have ICANN and suchlike be it's own independent NGO? Each country pays into it to keep it going.
It would only take a few nations to support it, and it can stay independent. I can see a few housekeeping items that would have to be addressed, but at least this way the UN can keep their grubby paws off it, yet no one can bitch about the US owning it anymore (in spite of the whole shebang originating as a US gov't project, etc...)
I've had lots of dogs but never saw one watch TV. Cats, however, like nature shows.
Same story here. The dogs don't give a damn what's on TV, even if I'm playing a FPS on the thing with the screen refresh cranked to maximum (~120 Hz, I think).
Now the cat? She goes apeshit when she sees a bird on the thing.
I think that'll be the new dog pr0n channel, but it'd likely flop (dogs are driven by smell in that department, not sight. Also, a neutered dog isn't likely to care at all.)
I'm just curious as to what they consider "eye level" for the typical dog, though - the eyes on my Dachshunds (aka the 'low-rider dobermans') are a helluva lot closer to the ground than those of a Great Dane.
I agree, but if you do find a CxO with that kind of integrity, well, you really found a rare bird.
Meanwhile, I'm watching Ms. Corey spew out excuses for having just lost the case. Seems the jury proclaimed Mr. Zimmerman Not Guilty.
So not only will she have to put up with pissed-off constituents (both for Mr. Zimmerman because she pulled these hijinks, and again because she lost), now she'll likely have to put up with the potential lawsuit from the former IT dude in TFA.
I find it extremely interesting that she's *still* trying to press her case for locking the guy up, in spite of having just lost. It tends to support the allegations about her in TFA more than ever, truth be told.
Considering the Florida AG initiated this whole trial because the Obama's office specifically egged them on into doing it (in spite of clearing the guy initially), I suspect that the US government gets to take on a piece of the blame for anything having to do with this trial, albeit indirectly, since they pretty much started it.
(...mind the flames and impending down-mods, campers!)
Thing is, if you fire someone and state a specific reason (e.g. "incompetence"), you have to back it up with proof, or risk being slammed with a lawsuit for slander and/or libel.
Now if they said "you;re fired because I hate your tie", then they would be in the clear. It's when they tried to make shit up that they stumbled (seriously - firing a guy for "incompetence" after just giving him a raise for "meritorious" reasons? Lots of 'splaining to do on that one...)
Florida is a Right to Fire... erm, Hire state. I always confuse the two words because whenever I hear the phrase, it's always used in the context of firing people. Anyway, incompetence is a Florida-based employer's way of firing you simply because they don't like you. If you don't cross enough T's and dot enough I's it is grounds for incompetence.
Problem is, if you state "incompetence" as the reason for firing someone, but there's no solid evidence of such, it's grounds for a lawsuit - it may not be a "wrongful termination" suit, but "slander", "libel", and suchlike are more than adequate terms, among others that Florida may have in place specifically for their government employees (remember, this ain't a private company...)
Get 'em
Maybe - he'd have to find a lawyer that will do it on a contingency basis, and it would have to have some potential for a really big cash settlement/judgement before one will touch it. OTOH, maybe there's a lawyer who figures it'd be good for a little publicity - who knows?
Either way, it would take months, if not years, before the guy saw any justice/money/compensation/etc. Unfortunately, no CxO in his/her right mind would even think of hiring the guy in the interim, given the toxicity of the events and who is backing the potential defendants (seriously, would you want to catch the attention of the AG's office, potentially exposing your company to "extra scrutiny" if they felt like playing dirty pool against the guy? Didn't think so.)
Chilling effects all around, truth be told - he'll ahve to move out of the reach of that office before he could even hope to find a job, let alone pursue a lawsuit. Unless the state governor gets involved and (IMHO rightfully) fucks over the AG execs who did this to him, the dude is kinda fucked.
IMHO, it stands as a very good reason why you'll never get me to work for any law firm, government (let alone prosecutor's) office, or suchlike. Unless you find a lot of good juicy skeletons in their closets early on (and keep the evidence secure), the boss(es) there would pretty much own your ass, ethics be damned.
Fun question: What did UC get in the exchange? We know what the quid is, but what's the quo?
This, right here. ...and note that it doesn't just apply to EE's.
His criticisms were still pretty solid - just that he had a bad habit of extrapolation to the point of absurdity, then worked from that absurd point.
Yes, that sort of thing is only true because it's enforced by the legal system and government, but once you start throwing that out the window you're talking about a revolt of the industrial proletariat.
Actually, it's also enforced by logistics (if you don't have the raw materials, you can't make the stuff), economics (no credit/cash, no new tools, BoM, payroll, etc), competition (if someone makes a better widget than you do, you lose sales, etc), talent (no talented employees, no product/sales/management/etc) and a shitload of other external factors that the owner often has no control over.
Problem that Marx had is that he never took any of this into account, simply assuming that the proletariat would magically smooth over these troubles. The result? Google for "Bread lines".
Indeed - but you have to remember that he was a victim of his time, when most folks figured that human culture (and ability to discharge their vices/failings/etc) would progress at the same pace as science was moving at the time. It was, to put to charitably, an overly-optimistic era. It also spawned a lot of other naive-but-useless things ranging from harmless (phrenology) to damnably dangerous (eugenics).
--
As for TFA? I pulled the D-ring on the EE field back in the early 1990's. Funny thing is, back then the cheaper employers tried to combine the EE and ME fields as well (I designed, built, and ran industrial control systems for a large poultry company - I lost track of the amount of instances they tried to get me to design equipment mods right along with new controls for them). Fortunately, they needed a sysadmin in a hurry (the last one flunked his drug test), so I got pressed into that, fell in love with it, and stuck with it ever since. Haven't so much as drawn a circuit or touched a soldering iron even semi-professionally in at least a decade.
I guess the biggest reason for leaving the field was that I didn't see all that much of a future in it. It only came in handy when I did a stint at a certain large semiconductor firm, where I got semi-shoved into a liaison role between the EEs and developers (it's what I got for settling a fight between the two groups during my first week there).
Vellem tantum habere me puncta Mod ;)
Who's this "we" you're referring to?
Dude. Invader Zim. No further explanation needed or necessary.
protip: patent infringement != libel/slander ;)
Actually, given the plethora of eBook reader apps for other formats (even Amazon has an iOS app FFS), even that argument pretty much falls flat. You can still buy your eBooks cheaper elsewhere (or get them for free). Or, you can read PDF files. Or .txt files. Or .doc files.
1) Oregon is a right-to-work state... good luck with that.
2) You sign paperwork at each open enrollment period stating that you agree to those terms if you claim to not use tobacco.
3) Good luck claiming that you have a typical 1/2-pack-a-day smoker's level of nicotine in your blood w/o a note from your doctor.
*should clarify - United Healthcare was the insurance carrier, not the employer.