What about the well-hidden pinhole camera aimed over the keyboard? So, after you've mitigated the well hidden hardware keylogger, you still have to cover your hands with a hanky while you type.
After you get your first job it won't matter a whit where you went. The degree and university quickly sink to the bottom of your resume.
Go to a good 2 year college first, then finish your degree and get a master's in business or some other subject (law, education, business, whatever) in a school with a good post grad program.
Lots of techies can get that first job. Too many of them stay at that level because they didn't learn the business and communication part or didn't anything that expands their horizons.
Yeah, that set of lines made me stop and think. What would they certify? Why of course, applications that don't compete with CISCO's own applications and services, silly!
Precisely my reaction. I deny the premise of the whole article.
I'm making more than enough $ to support my family, have stashed away quite a bit in my 401(k), college funds for my kids, and other savings. Oh yeah, I work from home. So, comfortable, functional clothes are the uniform of the day. Of course, my management ALSO works from home.
So pleaes tell me again what getting to the boardroom going to buy me? Other than a headache inducing commute? The pay raise is only money. The cost in aggravation and time spent away from my family makes it not worth the money.
I'm an American and a user of CDMA phones and I'm asking you politely to stop defending our country and the use of the CDMA network at least until you learn basic geography or maybe math. Thank you.
A decent solution for Americans who occasionally travel to Europe is the Mobal $50 phone (the buy option, not the rent). I use it for short calls home and use Skype for longer calls. If I'm in my hotel room, where work picks up the tab for the internet, I spend the first $1.50 to call my kids and husband, then tell them to get to the computer where Skype is free for the rest of the call.
If nothing else, it's a good emergency phone for traveling abroad and there's no monthly charge if I don't use it.
Keep in mind that touch typists HATE to have to use the mouse. Be sure to design so that enter pages can be navigated logically using the keyboard. By logically, think left->right, top->bottom (at least for the North American English speaking audience, I can't speak for other cultures).
Also, make the system intelligent. If a lot of the data entry is repetitive, build in some typeahead and use intelligence (e.g. a bill-to address usually IS the same as the ship-to address so provide for that). Get yourself a zip-code lookup. There is nothing more annoying than having to enter the same data repeatedly.
Use the system yourself for a while. Really. Not for 2 or 3 record entries, use it for 100 or so REAL entries to find trouble spots you imagined and requirements that were never raised (Some surnames ARE longer than 15 characters, some names have accented characters, some people DO put capitalization in the middle of their names, Oops, what do we do with this order from Toronto? It seems to have a weird zip code that our numerical filter cannot handle...). And of course, find out what annoys you when you use it and FIX IT.
The Central Bank of Nigeria is now in possession of 500 "One Laptop Per Child" that is earmarked for our schools. Unfortunately, our minister of education recently died in a tragic car accident. You have been named as his beneficiary and will be responsible for their distribution. As one of the benefits, you will be able to keep one for your own child. To release those laptops, we will need your credit card number and personal details concerning your children so that we may chat with him on our Jabber server.
Please respond to 1-888-OLP-CCON with your information.
Regards, M'Bol Zarhari Esteemeed Grand Puba, Central Bank of NIgeria.
It's not that I'd gas cripples, but there should be coupons for reproduction. People who have genetic conditions widely-recognized as problems that don't allow them to live as well as others (e.g. missing legs, liver failures, etc.; NOT Asperger Syndrome and rare conditions which take some things but give or improve some other skills), ...which by amazing coincidence, would spare the author of the post having to beg for a coupon, I'd guess.
Second the cheap Linux idea. But I would nominate Ubuntu with sbackup if you're not a command line geek. Easy to set up for regularly scheduled backups and a lean, intuitive restore.
Well the King James Bible is sexist, racist and just about every other -ist you can imagine but no one has seen fit to stop publishing that yet.
Now, I'm not advocating that myself, just pointing out that people can read all sorts of nefarious intents into anything if they see it. Why not just view and teach children to view things like Song of the South, Sesame Street, and the Bible as what they are - books and stories that reflect the social attitudes and beliefs of the day. Burying them because we believe someone, somewhere will be offended is the worst kind of censorship.
Not sure that the smart guy with poor interview skills is always better.
Poor interview skills might be a red flag that the smart guy might be too gunshy to ask questions in an effort to get smarter. The dumb guy might be dumb about the one topic you've broached, but might ask an intelligent question back in an effort to forge an answer. In that case, I might prefer the dumb one. Of course if he's basically dumber than paint, well.......we can always use another usability tester!:-)
In any event, I say I'd rather have a person who can quickly obtain "just in time" intelligence because they have some social and research skills that makes them a quick study. That person is usually much more valuable in the long run.
J2EE - check SOAP - check XML - check SOA - check OMGWTFBBQ - (splashes lots of lighter fluid on the coals in the backyard, pulls out the butane lighter, flick, flick....more lighter fluid..flick, flick, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!) - check
They're "running" on whatever you're running on. Skype runs distributed across the network of PCs belonging to its users.
Skype's model is somewhat controversial. My own company does not allow employees to run Skype on company issued laptops because the closed code is running distributed and there is no way of knowing where company confidential conversations might be landing.
Hint: get a Bluetooth GPS, use one or the other of these apps, and don't waste the money with Verizon when and if they come out with a navigation "pay-per-trip"
Suggestions? Are there any Bluetooth GPS's out there worth their salt that don't cost almost as much as an 8830 ($199 with the current rebate).
Where does this leave EV1?
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EV1 (home of EV1Servers.net) was one of the foolish companies that actually purchased the Brooklyn Bridge rights that SCO was selling.
I would imagine they would want a place in line to get their money back, but would it be behind Novell? behind IBM's countersuits? What, if anything, could they realistically get back?
Maybe EV1 would have done better investing in Nigerian money brokering.
I heard just yesterday some tree hugger whining about all the single-use plastics that fast food places use. Whatta concept...put recycle bins in McD's making oil a renewable resource....Eat junk food, save the planet.
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Did anyone actually drill through the article to the fix?
The exploit is in BEA WebLogic server, not in the Oracle database. BEA is a web application server company that Oracle acquired about 2 months ago.
What about the well-hidden pinhole camera aimed over the keyboard? So, after you've mitigated the well hidden hardware keylogger, you still have to cover your hands with a hanky while you type.
After you get your first job it won't matter a whit where you went. The degree and university quickly sink to the bottom of your resume.
Go to a good 2 year college first, then finish your degree and get a master's in business or some other subject (law, education, business, whatever) in a school with a good post grad program.
Lots of techies can get that first job. Too many of them stay at that level because they didn't learn the business and communication part or didn't anything that expands their horizons.
Yeah, that set of lines made me stop and think. What would they certify? Why of course, applications that don't compete with CISCO's own applications and services, silly!
Precisely my reaction. I deny the premise of the whole article.
I'm making more than enough $ to support my family, have stashed away quite a bit in my 401(k), college funds for my kids, and other savings. Oh yeah, I work from home. So, comfortable, functional clothes are the uniform of the day. Of course, my management ALSO works from home.
So pleaes tell me again what getting to the boardroom going to buy me? Other than a headache inducing commute?
The pay raise is only money. The cost in aggravation and time spent away from my family makes it not worth the money.
If my husband or kids kept their cell phones powered on, yes. :-)
My calls tend to be to the land line for that reason.
Would ya believe.....
Two plastic cups strapped over your ears?
If you don't get the reference, you're too damned young.
I'm an American and a user of CDMA phones and I'm asking you politely to stop defending our country and the use of the CDMA network at least until you learn basic geography or maybe math. Thank you.
A decent solution for Americans who occasionally travel to Europe is the Mobal $50 phone (the buy option, not the rent). I use it for short calls home and use Skype for longer calls. If I'm in my hotel room, where work picks up the tab for the internet, I spend the first $1.50 to call my kids and husband, then tell them to get to the computer where Skype is free for the rest of the call.
If nothing else, it's a good emergency phone for traveling abroad and there's no monthly charge if I don't use it.
Keep in mind that touch typists HATE to have to use the mouse. Be sure to design so that enter pages can be navigated logically using the keyboard. By logically, think left->right, top->bottom (at least for the North American English speaking audience, I can't speak for other cultures).
Also, make the system intelligent. If a lot of the data entry is repetitive, build in some typeahead and use intelligence (e.g. a bill-to address usually IS the same as the ship-to address so provide for that). Get yourself a zip-code lookup. There is nothing more annoying than having to enter the same data repeatedly.
Use the system yourself for a while. Really. Not for 2 or 3 record entries, use it for 100 or so REAL entries to find trouble spots you imagined and requirements that were never raised (Some surnames ARE longer than 15 characters, some names have accented characters, some people DO put capitalization in the middle of their names, Oops, what do we do with this order from Toronto? It seems to have a weird zip code that our numerical filter cannot handle...). And of course, find out what annoys you when you use it and FIX IT.
Good luck!
Dear Sirs,
The Central Bank of Nigeria is now in possession of 500 "One Laptop Per Child" that is earmarked for our schools. Unfortunately, our minister of education recently died in a tragic car accident. You have been named as his beneficiary and will be responsible for their distribution. As one of the benefits, you will be able to keep one for your own child. To release those laptops, we will need your credit card number and personal details concerning your children so that we may chat with him on our Jabber server.
Please respond to 1-888-OLP-CCON with your information.
Regards,
M'Bol Zarhari
Esteemeed Grand Puba, Central Bank of NIgeria.
It's not that I'd gas cripples, but there should be coupons for reproduction. People who have genetic conditions widely-recognized as problems that don't allow them to live as well as others (e.g. missing legs, liver failures, etc.; NOT Asperger Syndrome and rare conditions which take some things but give or improve some other skills),
...which by amazing coincidence, would spare the author of the post having to beg for a coupon, I'd guess.
Right up until someone decides to write a Web 2.0 application. Then they use abominations in Javascript like....
yourWidgetFunction : function()
{
somebodyElsesWidget.somefunction = function() {
eval(someOtherVariableThatContainsJavascript);
}
}
I see that everyday now. Makes me long for Java. Good luck debugging this crap.
....and one person pulled a bunch of statistics out of his ass.
Second the cheap Linux idea. But I would nominate Ubuntu with sbackup if you're not a command line geek. Easy to set up for regularly scheduled backups and a lean, intuitive restore.
Well the King James Bible is sexist, racist and just about every other -ist you can imagine but no one has seen fit to stop publishing that yet.
Now, I'm not advocating that myself, just pointing out that people can read all sorts of nefarious intents into anything if they see it. Why not just view and teach children to view things like Song of the South, Sesame Street, and the Bible as what they are - books and stories that reflect the social attitudes and beliefs of the day.
Burying them because we believe someone, somewhere will be offended is the worst kind of censorship.
Then buy a used Thinkpad from someone in the US.
Not sure that the smart guy with poor interview skills is always better.
:-)
Poor interview skills might be a red flag that the smart guy might be too gunshy to ask questions in an effort to get smarter. The dumb guy might be dumb about the one topic you've broached, but might ask an intelligent question back in an effort to forge an answer. In that case, I might prefer the dumb one. Of course if he's basically dumber than paint, well.......we can always use another usability tester!
In any event, I say I'd rather have a person who can quickly obtain "just in time" intelligence because they have some social and research skills that makes them a quick study. That person is usually much more valuable in the long run.
J2EE - check
SOAP - check
XML - check
SOA - check
OMGWTFBBQ - (splashes lots of lighter fluid on the coals in the backyard, pulls out the butane lighter, flick, flick....more lighter fluid..flick, flick, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!) - check
Am I hired yet?
They're "running" on whatever you're running on. Skype runs distributed across the network of PCs belonging to its users.
Skype's model is somewhat controversial. My own company does not allow employees to run Skype on company issued laptops because the closed code is running distributed and there is no way of knowing where company confidential conversations might be landing.
Suggestions? Are there any Bluetooth GPS's out there worth their salt that don't cost almost as much as an 8830 ($199 with the current rebate).
EV1 (home of EV1Servers.net) was one of the foolish companies that actually purchased the Brooklyn Bridge rights that SCO was selling.
(See http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/ev1033004.cfm)
I would imagine they would want a place in line to get their money back, but would it be behind Novell? behind IBM's countersuits? What, if anything, could they realistically get back?
Maybe EV1 would have done better investing in Nigerian money brokering.
I heard just yesterday some tree hugger whining about all the single-use plastics that fast food places use. Whatta concept...put recycle bins in McD's making oil a renewable resource....Eat junk food, save the planet.
All set to four part close harmony Barbershop tunes.
The crappy one will be plain-ol' DVD. I suspect that the collector's edition will be Blu-Ray.