The company owns all the equipment, and has the absolute right to search the mail. They provide your computer and email as a tool to do your job. You can't take a company car for a weekend in Vegas, and you can't use your email for porn, if the company doesn't want you to.
Having said that, it's really a matter of whether or not you want to work in a culture that goes on witch hunts like that. A culture like that is bound to be repressive in other ways also (I bet you wear a tie every day, even if you are going to be crawling on (or under) the floor!)
I have worked in that type of environment before, and would never go back. I now work at a company that doesn't give a damn what you look like, or what you do in your spare time, as long as you get your job done. I'm happier now than I've ever been.
Think about how many hours you spend working every day. Do you really want that kind of weight on your shoulders? I certainly don't.
Hard drive space is cheap... I was over at pricewatch today and a 17 gig ide is 180 bucks... just over 10 bucks a gig, or a buck per 100 meg... so if you have 128 meg of ram, it's gonna cost you 2 dollars and 50 cents for swap. Even if I don't use it, I aint gonna miss it... I spend more than that on lunch anywho...
Sure, but is it worth the performance? I specifically bought a bunch of RAM so that this machine would be fast. I'll probably get at least another 256 for this machine, just to boost performance. Besides, I'd rather use the 17G for DEVO mp3s;)
Heh, try browsing several different sites, most of which use java/javascript, and then see how fast your swap space fills up.
I've got 2xPII400 and 256M, with 246 now allocated: MemTotal: 257788 kB MemFree: 4872 kB MemShared: 61856 kB Buffers: 41004 kB Cached: 122304 kB SwapTotal: 120480 kB SwapFree: 120480 kB
I'm a little miffed at how much memory is hogged for buff/cache, since I'll start swapping out apps I'm using, in favor of the cache. Although, it seems to behave a little better if I let the swap go to 2/3 megs, then swapoff/swapon. What I'd like to see is a tunable parameter that allows me to say don't swap until X amount of memory is allocated to apps, instead of cacheing very large files that I'll only open once.
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The company owns all the equipment, and has the absolute right to search the mail. They provide your computer and email as a tool to do your job. You can't take a company car for a weekend in Vegas, and you can't use your email for porn, if the company doesn't want you to.
Having said that, it's really a matter of whether or not you want to work in a culture that goes on witch hunts like that. A culture like that is bound to be repressive in other ways also (I bet you wear a tie every day, even if you are going to be crawling on (or under) the floor!)
I have worked in that type of environment before, and would never go back. I now work at a company that doesn't give a damn what you look like, or what you do in your spare time, as long as you get your job done. I'm happier now than I've ever been.
Think about how many hours you spend working every day. Do you really want that kind of weight on your shoulders? I certainly don't.
Hard drive space is cheap... I was over at pricewatch today and a 17 gig ide is 180 bucks... just over 10 bucks a gig, or a buck per 100 meg... so if you have 128 meg of ram, it's gonna cost you 2 dollars and 50 cents for swap. Even if I don't use it, I aint gonna miss it... I spend more than that on lunch anywho...
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Sure, but is it worth the performance? I specifically bought a bunch of RAM so that this machine would be fast. I'll probably get at least another 256 for this machine, just to boost performance. Besides, I'd rather use the 17G for DEVO mp3s
Heh, try browsing several different sites, most of which use java/javascript, and then see how fast your swap space fills up.
I've got 2xPII400 and 256M, with 246 now allocated:
MemTotal: 257788 kB
MemFree: 4872 kB
MemShared: 61856 kB
Buffers: 41004 kB
Cached: 122304 kB
SwapTotal: 120480 kB
SwapFree: 120480 kB
I'm a little miffed at how much memory is hogged for buff/cache, since I'll start swapping out apps I'm using, in favor of the cache. Although, it seems to behave a little better if I let the swap go to 2/3 megs, then swapoff/swapon. What I'd like to see is a tunable parameter that allows me to say don't swap until X amount of memory is allocated to apps, instead of cacheing very large files that I'll only open once.