In college, I once watched a girl come into my lab full of Mac SEs. She sat down at a Mac. Out came her WordPerfect book and a 5.25" floppy. She looked at the tiny slot in front of the computer for a while, then started looking around the sides and back. I figured in about 30 seconds she'd be asking me a run-of-the-mill dumb support question. But no. She topped it. She confidently shoves her 5.25" floppy under the Mac. The Mac that's securely locked to the table. I did manage to get it out for her with a couple folded sheets of paper, but it was one of the dumber incidents. Maybe not as dumb as the woman that lost months of work on her master's thesis because she had one copy of it on a grungy old 3.5" floppy. No folded pieces of paper could fix that.
you should be using XCOPY in preference to windows explorer
We used to run a Windows to Windows performance lab to collect file transfer statistics. FTP beat the pants off of any Windows networking thing, even XCOPY.
Focus on the base salary. For my last two jobs, I waived my "right" to any bonuses in exchange for getting the base salary that I wanted. Haven't regretted it one bit. I've gotten options, but I never considered those any sort of compensation. The free sodas were worth more.
Yeah, he left just a few people off of the list:
Alexandre Anriot is from Marseille, France.
Marc Balmer lives in Basel, Switzerland.
Todd Fries is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the US.
David Gwynne lives in Brisbane, Australia...
Matthieu Herrb lives in Toulouse, France...
Hans Hoexer lives near Nuremberg in Germany.
Mark Kettenis lives in Assen in the Netherlands.
Ray Lai lives in New York City in the US.
Chad Loder lives in California in the US.
Jolan Luff lives in Chicago, Illinois in the US.
Anil Madhavapeddy lives in Cambridge, UK...
Pedro Martelletto lives in Rio, Brazil.
Uwe Stuehler is from Berlin in Germany.
Joris Vink lives in Dominica, a tropical island in the Caribbean.
Jason Wright lives in Chantilly, Virginia in the US.
Can Acar lives in Ankara, Turkey.
Thordur Bjornson lives in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.
Henning Brauer lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Reyk Floeter is from Hannover, Germany.
Mats Jansson lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Claudio Jeker lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
Moritz Jodeit lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Michael Knudsen lives in Aalborg, Denmark.
Felix Kronlage is from Oldenburg, Germany.
Robert Nagy is from Debrecen, Hungary.
Esben Norby lives in Ringkobing, Denmark.
Niall O'Higgins is from Dublin, Ireland.
Chris Pascoe lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Dale Rahn is living in St. Joseph, Illinois, in the US.
Martin Reindl lives in Vienna, Austria.
Nikolay Sturm is from Munich, Germany.
Christian "Naddy" Weisgerber lives in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
I used to travel about 25% of the time, usually for the entire week. It was one of the things that almost destroyed my marriage. That much separation just doesn't work out well. Now that I have young kids, I've threatened to quit when they've tried to force me on the road for multiple weeks at a time. I'll still take the occasional trip, but that's it.
I work with a number of consultants that travel 90% of the time and almost all of them want to get off the road. The only ones that don't are older and their kids are out of the house. They all expect plenty of extra money to make up for travelling, and those of us that don't travel don't blame or envy them.
Every few weeks I'll see one of the high school kids I know at church and say, "I was looking at your MySpace and..." It's fun watching the blood drain out of their face.
No in that I don't really care to chat on VHF/UHF repeaters or 80 meter nets. When I go to a hamfest, I'd say that 80% of the hams there are people I really am not interested in knowing or being associated with. I'm not a big fan of the ARRL and hate the way that so many hams insist that "the league" is the hobby.
Yes in that I really enjoy some aspects. I have a great local ham club where I can go to a meeting and see 20+ people that I'm proud to associate with. The whole room isn't filled with olfactory challenging old white men. I used to regularly participate in public service events, from walks and bike rides to large scale disaster exercises, which was a thrill to do at the time and as the years pass I'm amazed how many people never do anything like that. I enjoy the technical side too, building kits and the occasional homebrew item. I think portable QRP and HFPack is exciting and if I had the time to get back into backpacking, I'd certainly be hauling some sort of radio along. Today I only really get on the air for disaster work (drills or real events) and some HF DX work on PSK.
I often get people that tell me that they could easily just get online and talk to someone in Brazil or Austria. I always answer with "well, have you?" Of course not. When is the last time your neighbor took his Nextel and participated in a mock airliner crash? Does your cousin take his CB with him when he goes backpacking?
I don't ever expect the hobby to be what it once was in the U.S. All the OM hams that got into the hobby after WW2 are leaving us. The excitement of just talking on a radio is almost completely gone. But there's plenty of excitement left.
Reading between the lines, I think he doesn't want to do his side development on his employer's machine. Do what I do: get a second hard drive for your laptop. I swap hard drives and I'm in my own private environment. Then I can work on whatever I want. Or boot Knoppix and use a flash disk or external USB/Firewire drive for storage.
At my old company, nobody ever used vacation time until they were forced to. Since the company would pay it out if you were laid off, it was the only severance package most people had.
I've been everywhere, man. Emacs, Notepad, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Qedit, MultiEdit, ISPF, DREDIX, Wordstar, Turbo Pascal, etc. Vi is still my first choice. I'm sure Emacs would be great if I worked on one machine all day every day, or a small set of them, but in a given week I can easily end up on a dozen systems including some exotic platforms and customer-owned machines, where the closest thing to a common editor is vi.
At work about every week or two I'll be working with someone working on some remote posix box and they'll have to hunt and peck their way through doing something using vi, like cursoring over to the end of the line. "Hey, just press $". "What? I've been cursoring to the end of lines for years." If I could just take an hour a week for a few weeks I could really improve everyone's editing productivity.
I can find a dozen C/C++ unix guys before I can find a modern mainframe developer. Every CS grad in the last 20 years knows C/Unix. Sure, I can find guys that did COBOL and VSAM on MVS in 1983, but to find someone that understands current WebSphere, DB2, USS, or especially C/C++ on the mainframe, it takes months and a lot more money. Crap. I think I need a raise.
The SAS compiler is a Windows / unix hosted cross-compiler for the mainframe. It's not cheap, and we still won't buy it at work, but it's supposed to do a significantly better job than the IBM compiler / LE.
I normally drink several diet sodas a day, probably about 2 liters on an average workday. At times I've switched to just water and after a "detox" period, I can really tell the difference. The caffeine junkie cycle wrecks your sleep and alertness, the dehydration wrecks your brain function and overall health, the carmel color is staining your teeth and insides, and the aspartame could be wrecking your memory, other mental functions, and your metabolism.
So why do I do it? I'm a junkie. I used to love regular sodas, especially Mountain Dew, before they all made the switch from sugar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which I can't stand. So now I drink diet drinks, mostly Diet Mountain Dew. It's the scrubbing bubbles that keep bringing me back, not so much the caffeine.
You need a wingman to take that annoying "customer" away. Find a friend that's PC literate and introduce them. Bring up some problem they were having and watch your friend get involved. Make sure they swap contact information and then run away.
There are recipies for no-cook play dough:
* 3 cups flour
* 3 cups salt
* 3 tablespoons alum
Combine ingredients and slowly add water, a little at a time. Mix well with spoon. As mixture thickens, continue mixing with your hands until it has the feel of clay. If it feels too dry, add more water. If it is too sticky, add equal parts of flour and salt.
Their primary reason for being on the brink appears to be embezzlement, or some related crime. Their real business isn't enough to overcome the loss incurred due to that legal trouble.
It appears that they were just the victim of theft of some inventory and a lot of collectables, like someone robbed a warehouse or their offices. Insurance? I guess not.
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In college, I once watched a girl come into my lab full of Mac SEs. She sat down at a Mac. Out came her WordPerfect book and a 5.25" floppy. She looked at the tiny slot in front of the computer for a while, then started looking around the sides and back. I figured in about 30 seconds she'd be asking me a run-of-the-mill dumb support question. But no. She topped it. She confidently shoves her 5.25" floppy under the Mac. The Mac that's securely locked to the table. I did manage to get it out for her with a couple folded sheets of paper, but it was one of the dumber incidents. Maybe not as dumb as the woman that lost months of work on her master's thesis because she had one copy of it on a grungy old 3.5" floppy. No folded pieces of paper could fix that.
We used to run a Windows to Windows performance lab to collect file transfer statistics. FTP beat the pants off of any Windows networking thing, even XCOPY.
Alcohol 120%
Focus on the base salary. For my last two jobs, I waived my "right" to any bonuses in exchange for getting the base salary that I wanted. Haven't regretted it one bit. I've gotten options, but I never considered those any sort of compensation. The free sodas were worth more.
Yeah, he left just a few people off of the list:
Alexandre Anriot is from Marseille, France.
Marc Balmer lives in Basel, Switzerland.
Todd Fries is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the US.
David Gwynne lives in Brisbane, Australia...
Matthieu Herrb lives in Toulouse, France...
Hans Hoexer lives near Nuremberg in Germany.
Mark Kettenis lives in Assen in the Netherlands.
Ray Lai lives in New York City in the US.
Chad Loder lives in California in the US.
Jolan Luff lives in Chicago, Illinois in the US.
Anil Madhavapeddy lives in Cambridge, UK...
Pedro Martelletto lives in Rio, Brazil.
Uwe Stuehler is from Berlin in Germany.
Joris Vink lives in Dominica, a tropical island in the Caribbean.
Jason Wright lives in Chantilly, Virginia in the US.
Can Acar lives in Ankara, Turkey.
Thordur Bjornson lives in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.
Henning Brauer lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Reyk Floeter is from Hannover, Germany.
Mats Jansson lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Claudio Jeker lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
Moritz Jodeit lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Michael Knudsen lives in Aalborg, Denmark.
Felix Kronlage is from Oldenburg, Germany.
Robert Nagy is from Debrecen, Hungary.
Esben Norby lives in Ringkobing, Denmark.
Niall O'Higgins is from Dublin, Ireland.
Chris Pascoe lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Dale Rahn is living in St. Joseph, Illinois, in the US.
Martin Reindl lives in Vienna, Austria.
Nikolay Sturm is from Munich, Germany.
Christian "Naddy" Weisgerber lives in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
I used to travel about 25% of the time, usually for the entire week. It was one of the things that almost destroyed my marriage. That much separation just doesn't work out well. Now that I have young kids, I've threatened to quit when they've tried to force me on the road for multiple weeks at a time. I'll still take the occasional trip, but that's it.
I work with a number of consultants that travel 90% of the time and almost all of them want to get off the road. The only ones that don't are older and their kids are out of the house. They all expect plenty of extra money to make up for travelling, and those of us that don't travel don't blame or envy them.
I went to a pseudonym when Dejanews became popular. Ugh.
Every few weeks I'll see one of the high school kids I know at church and say, "I was looking at your MySpace and ..." It's fun watching the blood drain out of their face.
Yes and no.
No in that I don't really care to chat on VHF/UHF repeaters or 80 meter nets. When I go to a hamfest, I'd say that 80% of the hams there are people I really am not interested in knowing or being associated with. I'm not a big fan of the ARRL and hate the way that so many hams insist that "the league" is the hobby.
Yes in that I really enjoy some aspects. I have a great local ham club where I can go to a meeting and see 20+ people that I'm proud to associate with. The whole room isn't filled with olfactory challenging old white men. I used to regularly participate in public service events, from walks and bike rides to large scale disaster exercises, which was a thrill to do at the time and as the years pass I'm amazed how many people never do anything like that. I enjoy the technical side too, building kits and the occasional homebrew item. I think portable QRP and HFPack is exciting and if I had the time to get back into backpacking, I'd certainly be hauling some sort of radio along. Today I only really get on the air for disaster work (drills or real events) and some HF DX work on PSK.
I often get people that tell me that they could easily just get online and talk to someone in Brazil or Austria. I always answer with "well, have you?" Of course not. When is the last time your neighbor took his Nextel and participated in a mock airliner crash? Does your cousin take his CB with him when he goes backpacking?
I don't ever expect the hobby to be what it once was in the U.S. All the OM hams that got into the hobby after WW2 are leaving us. The excitement of just talking on a radio is almost completely gone. But there's plenty of excitement left.
Reading between the lines, I think he doesn't want to do his side development on his employer's machine. Do what I do: get a second hard drive for your laptop. I swap hard drives and I'm in my own private environment. Then I can work on whatever I want. Or boot Knoppix and use a flash disk or external USB/Firewire drive for storage.
At my old company, nobody ever used vacation time until they were forced to. Since the company would pay it out if you were laid off, it was the only severance package most people had.
I've been everywhere, man. Emacs, Notepad, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Qedit, MultiEdit, ISPF, DREDIX, Wordstar, Turbo Pascal, etc. Vi is still my first choice. I'm sure Emacs would be great if I worked on one machine all day every day, or a small set of them, but in a given week I can easily end up on a dozen systems including some exotic platforms and customer-owned machines, where the closest thing to a common editor is vi.
At work about every week or two I'll be working with someone working on some remote posix box and they'll have to hunt and peck their way through doing something using vi, like cursoring over to the end of the line. "Hey, just press $". "What? I've been cursoring to the end of lines for years." If I could just take an hour a week for a few weeks I could really improve everyone's editing productivity.
I can find a dozen C/C++ unix guys before I can find a modern mainframe developer. Every CS grad in the last 20 years knows C/Unix. Sure, I can find guys that did COBOL and VSAM on MVS in 1983, but to find someone that understands current WebSphere, DB2, USS, or especially C/C++ on the mainframe, it takes months and a lot more money. Crap. I think I need a raise.
What's his name / email?
Every morning: L TSO,LOGMODE=D4B32XX3
The SAS compiler is a Windows / unix hosted cross-compiler for the mainframe. It's not cheap, and we still won't buy it at work, but it's supposed to do a significantly better job than the IBM compiler / LE.
I normally drink several diet sodas a day, probably about 2 liters on an average workday. At times I've switched to just water and after a "detox" period, I can really tell the difference. The caffeine junkie cycle wrecks your sleep and alertness, the dehydration wrecks your brain function and overall health, the carmel color is staining your teeth and insides, and the aspartame could be wrecking your memory, other mental functions, and your metabolism.
So why do I do it? I'm a junkie. I used to love regular sodas, especially Mountain Dew, before they all made the switch from sugar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which I can't stand. So now I drink diet drinks, mostly Diet Mountain Dew. It's the scrubbing bubbles that keep bringing me back, not so much the caffeine.
You need a wingman to take that annoying "customer" away. Find a friend that's PC literate and introduce them. Bring up some problem they were having and watch your friend get involved. Make sure they swap contact information and then run away.
There are recipies for no-cook play dough:
* 3 cups flour
* 3 cups salt
* 3 tablespoons alum
Combine ingredients and slowly add water, a little at a time. Mix well with spoon. As mixture thickens, continue mixing with your hands until it has the feel of clay. If it feels too dry, add more water. If it is too sticky, add equal parts of flour and salt.
If they wanted self-deprecation, they should have booked Jon Stewart, not the truthiest man on television.
He didn't play all those years of Dungeons and Dragons without learning something about courage.
It appears that they were just the victim of theft of some inventory and a lot of collectables, like someone robbed a warehouse or their offices. Insurance? I guess not.
They didn't put all their eggs in one basket. There's a possible movie deal out there and it'll be exclusively available on PSP UMD.
I play Lego Star Wars with my daughter. It's a little easy for adults, but it's still a lot of fun. Easy to jump in and out of the game too.
Top secure OS, not top hacker OS.
Microsoft's been doing Unix since Linus an elementary school kid playing with his Vic-20. It was the first Unix I used, running on Tandy hardware.