Share the link if it's good. That's the point, right? I like the idea of a cap mentioned earlier, though. Is there another way you could share the link if it's that good? I'd like to think I don't care who the poster is, but Beatles Beatles is funny. I don't know why, it just is. Do you think it's a coincidence that I'm replying to Taco-isimo himself? Probably not.
Share the link.
It certainly would be interesting to hear the employee's side of the story.
I understand that mores and values as well as business procedures are different in India than they are in the US. I was an IT manager and responsible for people both in the US and India for about three years. I've also been to India.
So, I can relate to "Cliff" and not wanting employees to steal from him. I realize there are differences in the way people in the US do business compared to India (or any other place not in the same city-- for that matter). I also understand there is usually more than one side to a story of theft like this.
It certainly doesn't excuse the theft, but why are your employees stealing from you if your working conditions are good? If those conditions aren't good, perhaps you should consider allocating your resources towards your employees' happiness and well-being as opposed to locking down your employees tighter and tighter.
Happy employees are much less likely to steal from you, and you're going to spend more money in the long run watching over them than you are going to spend being good to your employees.
boxen as the plural of box is worth mentioning again.
http://www.indymedia.org/ does a pretty good job,2
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These people do a great job of this already. There are places like:
southafrica.indymedia.org
-or-
portland.indymedia.org ...that give direct information about South Africa or Portland, respectively. Thanks for your time and take it easy.
It's about time we stood up as a unit. The spouse's story sounds all too familiar. For nearly three years, I worked seventy and eighty hours weeks-- several times per month at one position. I don't know if management realizes how badly this has become. I don't believe this is necessary to continue this way.
One thing not mentioned in the EA spouse's letter was how difficult it is to get another job while you're in the middle of an eighty hour work week. Your options seem much more limited than the reality of the situation.
Thanks again to the EA spouse and/. for getting this message out there.
I can't believe more people don't have more VoIP phones already... Something like Vonnage offers. I can have a local phone number, travel to Hong Kong, and still have a local number to my home town. Having a wireless option makes it that much better.
Telephony service costs too much already, and this may help more people switch to VoIP phones, too... thus making it even more inexpensive.
As timothy pointed out, this certainly does take wardriving to a whole new level. Sweet.
Thanks for the support. If I could get unemployment now, I would quit imediately. They also cut everyone's pay by 28%. Because I average about 10-15 hours per week in overtime, they also tried to get me to sign something to switch to salary.
It shouldn't surprise me this is happening, but it still does. When the executives looked me in the eye and said this wasn't going to happen for the past two years, I belived them.
The interesting part is that I still have a decent amount of leverage as the systems dept. manager. I'm a geek, and I've never had to be a hardass.
This is good news for someone whose job is moving to India over the next three months. As the systems department manager, I am in the position of having to train the people taking my job in India, too-- without meeting any of them.
To say our Indian colleagues' skills are sub-par, would be an understatement. I realize the skills of the people I am working with may be an anomaly; however it is still the case.
I had no warning, and I was told on a Friday this would start the next Monday. Some people at the US ofice were immediately let go. I was told I was lucky to still have my job.
Perhaps I should just quit and let them sort out the details?
From a sys admin point of view, I'd pick macs. They'll run the MS Office software (for a hefty price) that most people will crave, and they are *way* less prone to viruses. They're also easier to erase everything and reinstall from an image than a windows box-- which will come in handy when the students put god-knows-what on them. Apple's Remote Desktop is fairly inexpensive ($500), and it would make the sys admin's life much easier in conjuction with these macs. Tech support will also be much better with the macs.
However, a decent mac laptop with MS Office software is going to be about $1200. You might be able to get a Dell for about half of that with MS Office. 120,000 X $600 savings on each computer is a bunch of extra chalk and erasers. Maybe the Dell people could throw in a bunch of InFocus projectors, too...?
It's a tough choice, but from the sys admin point of view, I'd go with Apple. If I felt the money squeeze, I'd go with Windows.
I was a sys adin in Arizona for an EVIL school district, and we mostly used macs. The more I think about it, the kids could adapt to about anything. It was the teachers who had the most trouble. Re-training those teachers to use Windows could be a major pain in the tucus. Teachers stayed away from their computers when they were afriad of them. That was mre than 50% of them.
It would be nice for Apple, Dell, Bill Gates, or whomever to make sure that everyone gets enough training.
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
--Good thing you're getting rid of that 100K. That would hold one heckuva bunch of ed files.
After seeing my relatively cloaked existence unveiled, I realized this either won't work, or it wil be a good thing.
If it doesn't work, then I'll obviosly still be needed.
My sys admin responsibilities are linux servers and one xserve running OSX.2. If this works, then I'll still have a job consulting businesses how to run their networks for less using linux. Being able to function at a prompt will never go out of style, either. Pointing and clicking will only get you so far.
However, if Sun succeeds here, it could make my job way easier. Perhaps it will spur me into new and interesting avenues like... sleep, friends, or sunlight.
Testing the EULA in court would be great, but with Micro$oft giving much more money than Enron last year to political campaigns, I imagine they'll have some pull in political circles. Another example of their political power and influence is Micro$oft's passport ID being considered for a national ID. Then, of course, there is the anti-trust lawsuit debacle by the Department of Justice.
When I talk to Lusers about this, they don't understand all the great points people have made so far in this article. Moreover, I don't think they really care. This is the problem we need to overcome to make this work. The mainstream doesn't understand how much the BSA (M$, Adobe, et al.) bullies the heck out of them.
I live in a Qwest area, and I hate them for their abhorrent phone service and over-billing and blatant lying to cover it all up. I hate Micro$oft because I'm a sys admin in a small business without big bucks to spend on a gig on RAM for a freakin' exchange server (not that I'd spend the money on it if I could-- see/. article on terrabyte server for less than $5K).
Like the current U.S. national politiical situation, the decision we have is seemingly left to the lesser of two evils. But if we dig a little deeper, we can do something about it.
Neighborhood associations, Apartment complexes, and any other community aggregates should come together, get a T-1 or an 802.11b setup, and they'd save much of the hassle and money they will throw at either one of these two unscrupulous companies looking to fatten either Joe Nachio or Bill Gate's wallets.
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I can't believe I clicked on the link... to a banner ad!
Share the link if it's good. That's the point, right? I like the idea of a cap mentioned earlier, though. Is there another way you could share the link if it's that good? I'd like to think I don't care who the poster is, but Beatles Beatles is funny. I don't know why, it just is. Do you think it's a coincidence that I'm replying to Taco-isimo himself? Probably not. Share the link.
It certainly would be interesting to hear the employee's side of the story.
I understand that mores and values as well as business procedures are different in India than they are in the US. I was an IT manager and responsible for people both in the US and India for about three years. I've also been to India.
So, I can relate to "Cliff" and not wanting employees to steal from him. I realize there are differences in the way people in the US do business compared to India (or any other place not in the same city-- for that matter). I also understand there is usually more than one side to a story of theft like this.
It certainly doesn't excuse the theft, but why are your employees stealing from you if your working conditions are good? If those conditions aren't good, perhaps you should consider allocating your resources towards your employees' happiness and well-being as opposed to locking down your employees tighter and tighter. Happy employees are much less likely to steal from you, and you're going to spend more money in the long run watching over them than you are going to spend being good to your employees.
This is why I get up in the morning.
boxen as the plural of box is worth mentioning again.
http://www.indymedia.org These people do a great job of this already. There are places like:
...that give direct information about South Africa or Portland, respectively. Thanks for your time and take it easy.
southafrica.indymedia.org
-or-
portland.indymedia.org
...don't forget the contracting company gets paid about the same as the contractor.
It's about time we stood up as a unit. The spouse's story sounds all too familiar. For nearly three years, I worked seventy and eighty hours weeks-- several times per month at one position. I don't know if management realizes how badly this has become. I don't believe this is necessary to continue this way. One thing not mentioned in the EA spouse's letter was how difficult it is to get another job while you're in the middle of an eighty hour work week. Your options seem much more limited than the reality of the situation. Thanks again to the EA spouse and /. for getting this message out there.
I can't believe more people don't have more VoIP phones already... Something like Vonnage offers. I can have a local phone number, travel to Hong Kong, and still have a local number to my home town. Having a wireless option makes it that much better. Telephony service costs too much already, and this may help more people switch to VoIP phones, too... thus making it even more inexpensive. As timothy pointed out, this certainly does take wardriving to a whole new level. Sweet.
Troll!
fsck 'em
I like that advice the best. Thanks again for the support.
-me
Thanks for the support. If I could get unemployment now, I would quit imediately. They also cut everyone's pay by 28%. Because I average about 10-15 hours per week in overtime, they also tried to get me to sign something to switch to salary.
It shouldn't surprise me this is happening, but it still does. When the executives looked me in the eye and said this wasn't going to happen for the past two years, I belived them.
The interesting part is that I still have a decent amount of leverage as the systems dept. manager. I'm a geek, and I've never had to be a hardass.
Any suggestions?
This is good news for someone whose job is moving to India over the next three months. As the systems department manager, I am in the position of having to train the people taking my job in India, too-- without meeting any of them.
To say our Indian colleagues' skills are sub-par, would be an understatement. I realize the skills of the people I am working with may be an anomaly; however it is still the case.
I had no warning, and I was told on a Friday this would start the next Monday. Some people at the US ofice were immediately let go. I was told I was lucky to still have my job.
Perhaps I should just quit and let them sort out the details?
From a sys admin point of view, I'd pick macs. They'll run the MS Office software (for a hefty price) that most people will crave, and they are *way* less prone to viruses. They're also easier to erase everything and reinstall from an image than a windows box-- which will come in handy when the students put god-knows-what on them. Apple's Remote Desktop is fairly inexpensive ($500), and it would make the sys admin's life much easier in conjuction with these macs. Tech support will also be much better with the macs.
However, a decent mac laptop with MS Office software is going to be about $1200. You might be able to get a Dell for about half of that with MS Office. 120,000 X $600 savings on each computer is a bunch of extra chalk and erasers. Maybe the Dell people could throw in a bunch of InFocus projectors, too...?
It's a tough choice, but from the sys admin point of view, I'd go with Apple. If I felt the money squeeze, I'd go with Windows.
I was a sys adin in Arizona for an EVIL school district, and we mostly used macs. The more I think about it, the kids could adapt to about anything. It was the teachers who had the most trouble. Re-training those teachers to use Windows could be a major pain in the tucus. Teachers stayed away from their computers when they were afriad of them. That was mre than 50% of them.
It would be nice for Apple, Dell, Bill Gates, or whomever to make sure that everyone gets enough training.
Yep, I'd go with macs. You get what you pay for.
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is
symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell
script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level
LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
--Good thing you're getting rid of that 100K. That would hold one heckuva bunch of ed files.
Willie Nelson
I'm my own Grandpa.
After seeing my relatively cloaked existence unveiled, I realized this either won't work, or it wil be a good thing.
If it doesn't work, then I'll obviosly still be needed.
My sys admin responsibilities are linux servers and one xserve running OSX.2. If this works, then I'll still have a job consulting businesses how to run their networks for less using linux. Being able to function at a prompt will never go out of style, either. Pointing and clicking will only get you so far.
However, if Sun succeeds here, it could make my job way easier. Perhaps it will spur me into new and interesting avenues like... sleep, friends, or sunlight.
Maybe this is not such a bad thing...
Testing the EULA in court would be great, but with Micro$oft giving much more money than Enron last year to political campaigns, I imagine they'll have some pull in political circles. Another example of their political power and influence is Micro$oft's passport ID being considered for a national ID. Then, of course, there is the anti-trust lawsuit debacle by the Department of Justice.
When I talk to Lusers about this, they don't understand all the great points people have made so far in this article. Moreover, I don't think they really care. This is the problem we need to overcome to make this work. The mainstream doesn't understand how much the BSA (M$, Adobe, et al.) bullies the heck out of them.
To read more, insert quarter.
freegeek.org takes donations in Portland, Oregon. They also teach linux for free and give you a free computer if you complete the course!!!
I'm out like Elian.
S. ALan(TM)
I live in a Qwest area, and I hate them for their abhorrent phone service and over-billing and blatant lying to cover it all up. I hate Micro$oft because I'm a sys admin in a small business without big bucks to spend on a gig on RAM for a freakin' exchange server (not that I'd spend the money on it if I could-- see /. article on terrabyte server for less than $5K).
Like the current U.S. national politiical situation, the decision we have is seemingly left to the lesser of two evils. But if we dig a little deeper, we can do something about it. Neighborhood associations, Apartment complexes, and any other community aggregates should come together, get a T-1 or an 802.11b setup, and they'd save much of the hassle and money they will throw at either one of these two unscrupulous companies looking to fatten either Joe Nachio or Bill Gate's wallets.