Well thats about it, thats why its entry level. If a PC technician doesn't have any interest of the craft, there is no way that they will be willing to learn and progress. We're not talking about high end networking skills here, its more about the willingness to try new things. Like the majority of us here, this type of learning starts at home.
I guess in interviews this isn't a tech question, but more of a social question. If a candidate doesn't have pride in their technical accomplishments, no matter how generic or simple it may seem to senior staff, they just aren't worth hiring.
Basic PC technology can be taught pretty easily, its finding the ones who are actually interested and have the willingness to get better.
On a side note, I hired a guy the other day who said this in an interview, "I've met MCSE's who couldn't swap a stick of ram, but they sure can pass a test." I'll be giving him a offer sheet shortly.
I was doing contract work for the Phoenix Foundation in Central America trying to rescue some Noble Prize Laureates from the evil clutches of HITT and I entered quite a jam. Murdock was on my tail and Jack was weighing down the hot air balloon with the money stole in yet another classic Jack Dalton "get rich scheme".
Lets just say that I made Jack leave the money, but alas, I couldn't get the hot air balloon (made out of my ego and Penny Parkers panties.) To take off. I needed a malleable object suitable to direct more hot air into the balloon to lift me off the ground and get back into the air space of a friendly country.
I remembered back to my childhood and something that Harry said. He said that when you are in a pinch, always carry your swiss army knife, and your network administrator's swiss army knife, Knoppix.
I snapped out of my halluiogenic state (from living on a houseboat) and melted down the KNOPPIX disc. It sealed the leaks in the tank, Thank God.
The balloon sailed away and the cancer researchers were safe, Jack was upset that he didn't get his pirate loot, and somehow I made some sort of Social commentary along the way.
All of this was possible thanks to Knoppix. Speaking for the Nobel Laureates, the Phoenix Foundation, I would like to personally thank Klaus and the members of the open source community for their help.
There are actually two flaws in my original statement.
The first flaw is exactly what you articulated above. I must applaud your abilities to augment your point using capitalization. You have swayed me to your side. You have changed my mind on this issue now, I'm petitioning the slash crew to include an 'retraction' button on the next revision of slash. Or maybe I can post a little white flag of surrender next to my nick in a given thread. Cliff, are you getting this?
Thank you Lord Dweomer for your insight.
Oh yeah, there's another flaw in my argument.
The second flaw is that I actually posted a joke in a slash forum expecting a normal response. Instead some karma whoring nutjob decided to take things way too seriously and posted some taking it the point far more seriously than I originally intended.
(This is a joke, its funny. Okay, at least its a little funny. Well, at least I think its funny.)
No idea that this comment would get marked 5 Insightful. 70/30 Insightful/Funny. I meant it as a joke. I like this comment the best thus far, so I'll respond to it. I know its illegal to jam cell signals. And thats probably a good idear, but anyone who answers their phone in a movie theater deserves a swift punch in the nads.
Anyways, here's what I do. I figure that my space is my space so I just join in on a conversation when someone is being overly obnoxious on a phone in a public place.
Obnoxious Cell phone luser: "Oh my God, Neve, I can't believe he did that to you, did you tell Aurora, Skylar, and Hunter about this?"
Me: "Yes, I did and after that he went and gave my hamster the clap."
This typically makes them stop.
My name is iago. And I wholeheartedly endorse this message. My dog is also a slut.
I'm too lazy to see if someone has linked to this article on Security Focus yet (I browse at 3.) I typically read Mossberg (he is syndicated in the Sun Times) This is a good response to an article he wrote a while back that is ummm insane. Thats the word.
Rather than listen to my commentary about it, luckily Tim Mullen states it better than I can. URL follows.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/236
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I am in pretty much the same boat, so I figure I'd give my two cents.
In my opinion, an all in one solution does not exist right now.
No one has mentioned a Blackberry yet. Ye Gods!
I use a Blackberry 7200 series cell phone that allows to me to e-mail people anywhere. There are also ssh clients available for it, but they are pricey (I believe www.xb.com) If you want to spend some money, I would purchase MS Exchange (or Lotus Notes) and the Blackberry Enterprise software. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know...Exchange. But the BES software is really good. Universal calendaring from anywhere and the ability to read mail where wifi and internet access isn't an option. The only place I haven't had a signal quite yet was in Northern Florida (Ocala).
The Blackberry works very, very well for what it does. But it doesn't allow for VNC Sessions and whatnot. I use what other folks here have mentioned, I picked up a Sharp Zaurus 5500 on EBay + a CF Wifi Card. I love it. Its unbelievable. It does pretty much everything I need. I'm not going to reinvent the wheel, read what other folks have to say about it. But the only thing I haven't been able to do with it is use Citrix ISA Client.
Hope this helps, good luck Don
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The commercial for Dateline advertising the interview with Princess Di's Butler, if you look in the upper right hand corner of the screen, you can see a Linux shutdown sequence.
It looked like RedHat but it was only shown for a few seconds.
Slashdot Mirror
Yay cloud!
I'm leaning towards wearing a kilt.
'Nuff said
At least my idea for a Dance, Dance, Revolution password authentication scheme is still intact.
Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending.
I'll be hiring, remind me not to post to slashdot before my coffee kicks in.
Well thats about it, thats why its entry level. If a PC technician doesn't have any interest of the craft, there is no way that they will be willing to learn and progress. We're not talking about high end networking skills here, its more about the willingness to try new things. Like the majority of us here, this type of learning starts at home.
I guess in interviews this isn't a tech question, but more of a social question. If a candidate doesn't have pride in their technical accomplishments, no matter how generic or simple it may seem to senior staff, they just aren't worth hiring.
Basic PC technology can be taught pretty easily, its finding the ones who are actually interested and have the willingness to get better.
On a side note, I hired a guy the other day who said this in an interview, "I've met MCSE's who couldn't swap a stick of ram, but they sure can pass a test." I'll be giving him a offer sheet shortly.
Please explain to me your home network.
If they don't light up and say something that they consider cool, do not hire.
I'm just happy Richard Reid wasn't the underwear bomber.
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0404.html#1
I'd throw in my opinion, but I'll defer to Bruce.
Google did hire a lead developer for firefox, ya know. Maybe Firefox should implement a degrees with google plugin (in this case...it equals 1 degree)
9 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050124-454
Ah, nothing like a good ole slashdot flame. I miss this place *sniffle*
WebDAV, smb, cifs, and all sorts of other nifty goodies (built in LVM) www.openfiler.org Its GPL'd and runs pretty well.
The sound that comes from it sounds like someone is pulling a hit out of a bong.
I was going to order a shirt and I forgot.
I was doing contract work for the Phoenix Foundation in Central America trying to rescue some Noble Prize Laureates from the evil clutches of HITT and I entered quite a jam. Murdock was on my tail and Jack was weighing down the hot air balloon with the money stole in yet another classic Jack Dalton "get rich scheme".
Lets just say that I made Jack leave the money, but alas, I couldn't get the hot air balloon (made out of my ego and Penny Parkers panties.) To take off. I needed a malleable object suitable to direct more hot air into the balloon to lift me off the ground and get back into the air space of a friendly country.
I remembered back to my childhood and something that Harry said. He said that when you are in a pinch, always carry your swiss army knife, and your network administrator's swiss army knife, Knoppix.
I snapped out of my halluiogenic state (from living on a houseboat) and melted down the KNOPPIX disc. It sealed the leaks in the tank, Thank God.
The balloon sailed away and the cancer researchers were safe, Jack was upset that he didn't get his pirate loot, and somehow I made some sort of Social commentary along the way.
All of this was possible thanks to Knoppix. Speaking for the Nobel Laureates, the Phoenix Foundation, I would like to personally thank Klaus and the members of the open source community for their help.
Sincerely,
Mac, er, iago.
Again LW, Cheers :)
There are actually two flaws in my original statement.
The first flaw is exactly what you articulated above. I must applaud your abilities to augment your point using capitalization. You have swayed me to your side. You have changed my mind on this issue now, I'm petitioning the slash crew to include an 'retraction' button on the next revision of slash. Or maybe I can post a little white flag of surrender next to my nick in a given thread. Cliff, are you getting this?
Thank you Lord Dweomer for your insight.
Oh yeah, there's another flaw in my argument.
The second flaw is that I actually posted a joke in a slash forum expecting a normal response. Instead some karma whoring nutjob decided to take things way too seriously and posted some taking it the point far more seriously than I originally intended.
(This is a joke, its funny. Okay, at least its a little funny. Well, at least I think its funny.)
Cheers LW,
Don
No idea that this comment would get marked 5 Insightful. 70/30 Insightful/Funny. I meant it as a joke. I like this comment the best thus far, so I'll respond to it. I know its illegal to jam cell signals. And thats probably a good idear, but anyone who answers their phone in a movie theater deserves a swift punch in the nads.
Anyways, here's what I do. I figure that my space is my space so I just join in on a conversation when someone is being overly obnoxious on a phone in a public place.
Obnoxious Cell phone luser: "Oh my God, Neve, I can't believe he did that to you, did you tell Aurora, Skylar, and Hunter about this?"
Me: "Yes, I did and after that he went and gave my hamster the clap."
This typically makes them stop.
My name is iago. And I wholeheartedly endorse this message. My dog is also a slut.
Universal Cell Phone off button.
Whoever creates a small consumer-oriented cell phone signal jammer should win the Nobel Prize.
I'm too lazy to see if someone has linked to this article on Security Focus yet (I browse at 3.) I typically read Mossberg (he is syndicated in the Sun Times) This is a good response to an article he wrote a while back that is ummm insane. Thats the word.
Rather than listen to my commentary about it, luckily Tim Mullen states it better than I can. URL follows.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/236
In the mighty words of Herb Zipper,
WHORE!
I am in pretty much the same boat, so I figure I'd give my two cents.
In my opinion, an all in one solution does not exist right now.
No one has mentioned a Blackberry yet. Ye Gods!
I use a Blackberry 7200 series cell phone that allows to me to e-mail people anywhere. There are also ssh clients available for it, but they are pricey (I believe www.xb.com) If you want to spend some money, I would purchase MS Exchange (or Lotus Notes) and the Blackberry Enterprise software. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know...Exchange. But the BES software is really good. Universal calendaring from anywhere and the ability to read mail where wifi and internet access isn't an option. The only place I haven't had a signal quite yet was in Northern Florida (Ocala).
The Blackberry works very, very well for what it does. But it doesn't allow for VNC Sessions and whatnot. I use what other folks here have mentioned, I picked up a Sharp Zaurus 5500 on EBay + a CF Wifi Card. I love it. Its unbelievable. It does pretty much everything I need. I'm not going to reinvent the wheel, read what other folks have to say about it. But the only thing I haven't been able to do with it is use Citrix ISA Client.
Hope this helps, good luck
Don
The commercial for Dateline advertising the interview with Princess Di's Butler, if you look in the upper right hand corner of the screen, you can see a Linux shutdown sequence.
It looked like RedHat but it was only shown for a few seconds.
Ah...Almost Live. They had one series of skits called the "High Fivin' White Guys"
Also dressed up as "Speed Walker", a superhero whose specialty was Speed Walking. (Pre-TheTick)
Comedy Central needs to start replaying Almost Live...put it after the Joel MST3K.
I'm done now.
I'm not worried about life in hell.
Because I got the biggest balls of them all.
Damn, sounds like an experience I had with a certain government contractor. You didn't work for TBE did you (huntsville, al).