If all your systems have not been validated to use, you should scold your quality systems administrator for not properly doing his job. Every piece of software that is used within a medical establishment has to be validated to use or your company is out of part 11 compliance.
(Note that it must be validated TO USE - this does not mean you have to test all of Windows, but the functionality of what you DO use needs to have validation documentation generated for it to meet compliance standards.)
It might be a good idea to suggest to your company to hire an outside consultant to perform an audit - I think you will be surprised at what level of documentation is required. And possibly about some of the documentation that is not required.
An intelligent user would have inserted a step between 1 and 2 - namely -
1.5 Go to Control Panel > Network Connections, go to the advanced tab for the network connection being used, and turn on the Internet connection firewall.
Then steps 3-7 would change to:
3. Install patch
4. Install a REAL firewall (Internet Connection Firewall is fine for getting your system patched up, but it sure can cause problems if you want to do anything other than basic surfing)
5....blah blah blah
I have come to the conclusion, however, that XP should have shipped with the firewall turned on and with explicit instructions on how to turn it on and off. (Given that I really like Microsoft, it will come as a surprise to some people that I think they screwed the pooch on this one, but I do)
Monitoring slashdot...I need to remember that phrase if I ever get reprimanded for excessive internet activity...
seriously, though, I, for one, thank you on the behalf of all us little peon users for testing before patching. I swear, the next time the sysadmin comes around an installs something on my computer that means I have to spend hours fixing my computer before I can do any more of my real work, I'm gonna kick him in the shins...
Well, by Oklahoma (and the rest of the Midwest) standards, McVeigh wasn't really a redneck. He came across as fairly mainstream, from what I understand.
And yes, there is a difference in Oklahoma between mainstream and redneck.
If this is anything like how other school systems have developed this (and no, contrary to what the article says, this is NOT a one-of-a-kind system), it's not going to 'raise red flags' and automatically un-enroll you from classes, it will simply let teachers know that there is a trend with a student - and probably only then if the teacher actually puts the effort into looking at the data.
I would like to think that 95%+ of teachers are not the type to just blindly shuffle off a student because their test scores are low.
Sorry guys, but this is not Big Brother, it's not going to be a case where the computer runs the school, it's not going to be automatically doing anything to the students. It's a tool. Just like your hammer doesn't jump up and hit you in the head all on its own.
They're not creating any data that's not already there, they're just centralizing it so the teachers can spend more time on helping the students that might be heading toward problems instead of spending all their time trying to figure out which ones those students are. Trust me, the school already has all of this information on you, and no, they probably don't erase it.
Most anything that makes it easier for a teacher to do their job is OK in my book. (yeah, yeah, someone is going to take this to some extreme and say I'm advocating guns in classrooms or something. piss off in advance.)
I think if you try hard enough, you can find SOMETHING you are good at and enjoy too. For instance, I am bitchy, highly critical, and get easily upset when things don't work right. Therefore, I am a software tester/proofreader (and damned good at it!).
If you REALLY like what you do, you will be more interested in doing it than surfing, you won't procrastinate, etc. If you're not excited about what you're doing (and I mean so excited that you can't WAIT to jump on your latest project) you might wanna consider choosing another field.
So can someone reconcile the findings in this article with the findings referenced in the article on/. yesterday? I am not much for the odds of "It's highly unlikely using your cell phone will take the plane down."
And this really isn't meant to be a troll, I just wanna know...
Does anyone here actually use Netscape as their default browser?
If you do, why? Is it solely for political/moral/whatever reasons, or does it offer some technical feature that you have not found in another browser?
How many people here have Netscape as a browser on their computer NOT as a primary browser, and why did you install it? WHy is it not the primary browser?
This is a delayed April Fools joke, right? Someone forgot to check a date on a submission or something? When would the director of MS security actually admit something like "Microsoft has bunches of bugs"?
Ya know, I have to wonder about that too...our company's junior developer came to me the other day asking me about how you make sure your processor, motherboard, and RAM all will work together. I'm not saying I'm a hardware goddess, but I have to wonder about someone who supposedly tinkers with computers all the time in his spare time (that is one of the things that was said about him when discussing his hiring) but doesn't know the first thing about how to build a computer. Didn't even know the difference between SIMMs and DIMMs...
Not as bad as the software tester who asked me "What's a desktop?", though...
It kinda comes down to the same thing...the parent who is not watching whether their kid is pirating software probably is the same kind of parent who would buy a game for a kid without making sure it is age-appropriate (to a lesser degree, granted, but I think it all comes down to how much supervision you give your kid. One is passive non-supervision, one is active non-supervision.).
And this post is turning into a punctuation nightmare, so I'll stop now until I have my coffee....
He probably would have had better luck hiring programmers from a high school class - they generally are not as closed-minded.
We get much better results from the young programmers that don't know it can't be done, instead of the older guys that say it can't be done because they don't know how. The younger guys generally just figure they haven't learned how to do it yet, and that they need to learn how, instead of saying it can't be done.
(i work as a software tester on compiled BASIC medical apps. they keep trying to make it do more and more fancy stuff, all I need now is for someone to suggest slapping a TiVo into the pulmonary function testing software so that the subjects don't get bored during long serial testing days and I might just go postal...)
And, if you read the article, you would have noticed that the song that was sampled was only 21 years old in 2001. Hardly expired since the copyright time period was extended.
And ya know, sometimes it's more fun to have an actual discussion about stuff than to just surf websites about a topic.
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If all your systems have not been validated to use, you should scold your quality systems administrator for not properly doing his job. Every piece of software that is used within a medical establishment has to be validated to use or your company is out of part 11 compliance.
(Note that it must be validated TO USE - this does not mean you have to test all of Windows, but the functionality of what you DO use needs to have validation documentation generated for it to meet compliance standards.)
It might be a good idea to suggest to your company to hire an outside consultant to perform an audit - I think you will be surprised at what level of documentation is required. And possibly about some of the documentation that is not required.
An intelligent user would have inserted a step between 1 and 2 - namely -
1.5 Go to Control Panel > Network Connections, go to the advanced tab for the network connection being used, and turn on the Internet connection firewall.
Then steps 3-7 would change to:
3. Install patch
4. Install a REAL firewall (Internet Connection Firewall is fine for getting your system patched up, but it sure can cause problems if you want to do anything other than basic surfing)
5....blah blah blah
I have come to the conclusion, however, that XP should have shipped with the firewall turned on and with explicit instructions on how to turn it on and off. (Given that I really like Microsoft, it will come as a surprise to some people that I think they screwed the pooch on this one, but I do)
To get a 'free' credit report, apply for a credit card you know you won't get. When you get turned down for the credit, you get a free report.
Course, then you've got the black mark on your credit that you were turned down...TANSTAAFL.
Monitoring slashdot...I need to remember that phrase if I ever get reprimanded for excessive internet activity...
seriously, though, I, for one, thank you on the behalf of all us little peon users for testing before patching. I swear, the next time the sysadmin comes around an installs something on my computer that means I have to spend hours fixing my computer before I can do any more of my real work, I'm gonna kick him in the shins...
Well, by Oklahoma (and the rest of the Midwest) standards, McVeigh wasn't really a redneck. He came across as fairly mainstream, from what I understand.
And yes, there is a difference in Oklahoma between mainstream and redneck.
If this is anything like how other school systems have developed this (and no, contrary to what the article says, this is NOT a one-of-a-kind system), it's not going to 'raise red flags' and automatically un-enroll you from classes, it will simply let teachers know that there is a trend with a student - and probably only then if the teacher actually puts the effort into looking at the data.
I would like to think that 95%+ of teachers are not the type to just blindly shuffle off a student because their test scores are low.
Sorry guys, but this is not Big Brother, it's not going to be a case where the computer runs the school, it's not going to be automatically doing anything to the students. It's a tool. Just like your hammer doesn't jump up and hit you in the head all on its own.
Oh, like ANYONE ever took a "This is going on your PERMANENT RECORD!!!!" threat seriously.
Nothing new is being collected, and nothing will be any more available than it already is.
They're not creating any data that's not already there, they're just centralizing it so the teachers can spend more time on helping the students that might be heading toward problems instead of spending all their time trying to figure out which ones those students are. Trust me, the school already has all of this information on you, and no, they probably don't erase it.
Most anything that makes it easier for a teacher to do their job is OK in my book. (yeah, yeah, someone is going to take this to some extreme and say I'm advocating guns in classrooms or something. piss off in advance.)
I think if you try hard enough, you can find SOMETHING you are good at and enjoy too. For instance, I am bitchy, highly critical, and get easily upset when things don't work right. Therefore, I am a software tester/proofreader (and damned good at it!).
If you REALLY like what you do, you will be more interested in doing it than surfing, you won't procrastinate, etc. If you're not excited about what you're doing (and I mean so excited that you can't WAIT to jump on your latest project) you might wanna consider choosing another field.
Oh, so you only have ONE pirated song on your hard drive?
Pirate one album, you're gonna be doing about eight times the sentence for agg sexual assault.
(I am not an electrical engineer)
/. yesterday? I am not much for the odds of "It's highly unlikely using your cell phone will take the plane down."
So can someone reconcile the findings in this article with the findings referenced in the article on
And this really isn't meant to be a troll, I just wanna know...
Does anyone here actually use Netscape as their default browser?
If you do, why? Is it solely for political/moral/whatever reasons, or does it offer some technical feature that you have not found in another browser?
How many people here have Netscape as a browser on their computer NOT as a primary browser, and why did you install it? WHy is it not the primary browser?
This is a delayed April Fools joke, right? Someone forgot to check a date on a submission or something? When would the director of MS security actually admit something like "Microsoft has bunches of bugs"?
The question was in response to "Would you like a shortcut placed on your desktop for this app I am installing on your computer?"
Ya know, I have to wonder about that too...our company's junior developer came to me the other day asking me about how you make sure your processor, motherboard, and RAM all will work together. I'm not saying I'm a hardware goddess, but I have to wonder about someone who supposedly tinkers with computers all the time in his spare time (that is one of the things that was said about him when discussing his hiring) but doesn't know the first thing about how to build a computer. Didn't even know the difference between SIMMs and DIMMs...
Not as bad as the software tester who asked me "What's a desktop?", though...
It kinda comes down to the same thing...the parent who is not watching whether their kid is pirating software probably is the same kind of parent who would buy a game for a kid without making sure it is age-appropriate (to a lesser degree, granted, but I think it all comes down to how much supervision you give your kid. One is passive non-supervision, one is active non-supervision.).
And this post is turning into a punctuation nightmare, so I'll stop now until I have my coffee....
He probably would have had better luck hiring programmers from a high school class - they generally are not as closed-minded.
We get much better results from the young programmers that don't know it can't be done, instead of the older guys that say it can't be done because they don't know how. The younger guys generally just figure they haven't learned how to do it yet, and that they need to learn how, instead of saying it can't be done.
That's for the software testers to fix...
If you weren't getting FIRST dates, the problem would lie in a lack of action in game programming.
Since you're not getting SECOND dates, the problem lies in...(completion is left as an exercise for the reader).
don't give anyone any ideas...
(i work as a software tester on compiled BASIC medical apps. they keep trying to make it do more and more fancy stuff, all I need now is for someone to suggest slapping a TiVo into the pulmonary function testing software so that the subjects don't get bored during long serial testing days and I might just go postal...)
And now I feel really REALLY stupid, cause that's not the same thing either. I am too tired to be trying to think about stuff, let alone posting... :/
Ok, I REALLY feel stupid now, we have two disks-on-key, one of which I bought my husband last week....
but what is a CF slot? (Sorry I am not a hardware person). Is this a slot for a floppy or CD-RW/DVDR-W drive?
And, if you read the article, you would have noticed that the song that was sampled was only 21 years old in 2001. Hardly expired since the copyright time period was extended.
And ya know, sometimes it's more fun to have an actual discussion about stuff than to just surf websites about a topic.