...I'd say the average salary of an IT 'professional' is somewhat (i.e. by a few factors) less than that of your average doctor or lawyer.
IT is such a varied and wide-ranging term that it can mean anything from a helpdesk analyst on minimum wage up to consultants with 40+ years experience. When you consider that at the bottom end of the scale that the wage is comparable to working selling double glazing, or flipping burgers, you can quite understand some people's attitude as they are paid like shit whilst having to deal with people who *expect* their hand to be held with everything.
Also, from my experience it's not 'ignorant' or 'stupid' people who come in for stick - it's more likely to be the arrogant I-need-this-fixing-yesterday-and-yes-you-will-do-i t-for-me-because-I-am-important people. And when you treat people like crap for long enough, they will hate you.
Scotland and Northern Ireland (not technically part of England), the Republic of Ireland (definitely not part of England)
Scotland and Northern Ireland are not England at all, there's no ambiguity about it whatsoever. However, Scotland and Northern Ireland *are* part of the UK, which also comprises Wales and England.
So, England is England, and nothing else. Scotland is Scotland, and Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland (not withstanding Unionist and Republican disagreements).
As for the Republic of Ireland, it's not only 'definitely not part of England', it's not even part of the UK. At all. In the slightest. It's about as British as France. The fact that it's in the same group of islands is academic.
"were all originated from the same small IP address range corresponding to the small ISP Genuity, BBN Planet, in Kenosha, Wisconsin -- an Earthlink reseller."
LOL
How many other 'small resellers' out there manage to bag a/8, not least 4.0.0.0/8?
The UK Government is planning to introduce a national identity card scheme, which is coupled with a database called the National Identity Register. What a lot of people don't know is that the cards themselves aren't the problem - the database is the problem.
It's been billed as the answer to terrorism/benefit fraud/identity theft/god knows what else at various points in its life, and at one point was even called an 'Entitlement Card'. They've more or less admitted that it won't make a blind bit of difference to any of those, but have still decided to press on.
They plan to start shortly by issuing identity cards to people who apply for a passport, at a combined (planned) cost of £93. The Government claimed that the scheme was voluntary, because, hey, you don't *need* to get a passport. Eventually they climbed down somewhat, and now you don't have to get an ID card with a passport. But - and it's a big but - you still get entered on the NIR and you still pay £93. So you're essentially paying for something and then not getting it.
Eventually the scheme will become compulsory, at which point a whole lot of fun ensues. The Government plans to summon every adult to a processing centre to they can be fingerprinted, photographed and iris scanned. Oh, and interviewed. Don't turn up? That's a £1,000 fine for you. For *every time* you don't turn up. Need to amend your details on your nice shiny new card? You pay the Government. Lose your card? You pay the Government. The list goes on.
Coupled with the fact that the UK Government never seems to get its IT systems quite right, we're heading for a nightmare. I certainly don't want somebody, possibly with a grudge or who could be bribed to have access to a multitude of information on me. There's no security from the perspective of the card either - the possibility of them cards using some sort of PKI certificates or such was ignored.
The UK Government constantly tries to remind us that the majority of the countries in the EU have an identity card scheme, but what they fail to mention is that most of these are just that - an identity card, in many cases without a central database. Indeed, the UK scheme would be illegal in Germany.
There's a non-partisan pressure group that was set up in the UK called No2ID (disclaimer: I'm a local co-ordinator). If you're in the UK, no matter what your views are on ID cards, I urge you to check them out and see what the scheme really means for you.
..need to learn that patching boxes isn't something that can be done when they feel like it.
I work for a northern-based ISP in the UK, and being on call on the weekend Slammer did the rounds, I was up at about 6am trying to find out what the fuck had happened. I still have graphs somewhere of the spikes on our border routers.
I find it amusing that customers think they shouldn't be billed for the extra bandwidth in situations like these. If it wasn't for those certain customers in the first place, the problem wouldn't have existed anyway.
They'll never learn, and in a few months it'll probably all kick off all over again.
/*
* Now, we have to map the power management section to write
* a bit which enables access to the GPIO registers.
* What lunatic came up with this shit?
*/
[root@nasa/root]# ping pioneer10.nasa.gov
PING pioneer10.nasa.gov (10.0.0.10) from 10.0.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq ttl=250 time=80640 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq ttl=250 time=80640 ms
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=3 Ping timeout
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=4 Ping timeout
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=5 Ping timeout
I agree totally. If you can't think of it this way, try to think of it as having to pay for your net access, then getting it free, then having to pay again.
This happened to me.. it's not good.
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...I'd say the average salary of an IT 'professional' is somewhat (i.e. by a few factors) less than that of your average doctor or lawyer.
i t-for-me-because-I-am-important people. And when you treat people like crap for long enough, they will hate you.
IT is such a varied and wide-ranging term that it can mean anything from a helpdesk analyst on minimum wage up to consultants with 40+ years experience. When you consider that at the bottom end of the scale that the wage is comparable to working selling double glazing, or flipping burgers, you can quite understand some people's attitude as they are paid like shit whilst having to deal with people who *expect* their hand to be held with everything.
Also, from my experience it's not 'ignorant' or 'stupid' people who come in for stick - it's more likely to be the arrogant I-need-this-fixing-yesterday-and-yes-you-will-do-
Pretty much all of the UK. And since it appears that the UK started forming fire brigades just after the Great Fire Of London, that's probably where the name originates.
;)
Besides, 'Fire Department'? What's that? 'Department of Fire'? Hey, sounds like a fantastic place to work! Legal arson!
Oh christ. Not NBU.
"All these backups have failed with error 150s!" "Would they be the ones you cancelled yesterday?" "Um..."
My personal pains in the arse^W^W^W^Wfavourites are the 54s. So many possibilities. *sigh*
Scotland and Northern Ireland are not England at all, there's no ambiguity about it whatsoever. However, Scotland and Northern Ireland *are* part of the UK, which also comprises Wales and England.
So, England is England, and nothing else. Scotland is Scotland, and Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland (not withstanding Unionist and Republican disagreements).
As for the Republic of Ireland, it's not only 'definitely not part of England', it's not even part of the UK. At all. In the slightest. It's about as British as France. The fact that it's in the same group of islands is academic.
LOL
How many other 'small resellers' out there manage to bag a /8, not least 4.0.0.0/8?
It's been billed as the answer to terrorism/benefit fraud/identity theft/god knows what else at various points in its life, and at one point was even called an 'Entitlement Card'. They've more or less admitted that it won't make a blind bit of difference to any of those, but have still decided to press on.
They plan to start shortly by issuing identity cards to people who apply for a passport, at a combined (planned) cost of £93. The Government claimed that the scheme was voluntary, because, hey, you don't *need* to get a passport. Eventually they climbed down somewhat, and now you don't have to get an ID card with a passport. But - and it's a big but - you still get entered on the NIR and you still pay £93. So you're essentially paying for something and then not getting it.
Eventually the scheme will become compulsory, at which point a whole lot of fun ensues. The Government plans to summon every adult to a processing centre to they can be fingerprinted, photographed and iris scanned. Oh, and interviewed. Don't turn up? That's a £1,000 fine for you. For *every time* you don't turn up. Need to amend your details on your nice shiny new card? You pay the Government. Lose your card? You pay the Government. The list goes on.
Coupled with the fact that the UK Government never seems to get its IT systems quite right, we're heading for a nightmare. I certainly don't want somebody, possibly with a grudge or who could be bribed to have access to a multitude of information on me. There's no security from the perspective of the card either - the possibility of them cards using some sort of PKI certificates or such was ignored.
The UK Government constantly tries to remind us that the majority of the countries in the EU have an identity card scheme, but what they fail to mention is that most of these are just that - an identity card, in many cases without a central database. Indeed, the UK scheme would be illegal in Germany.
There's a non-partisan pressure group that was set up in the UK called No2ID (disclaimer: I'm a local co-ordinator). If you're in the UK, no matter what your views are on ID cards, I urge you to check them out and see what the scheme really means for you.
I don't do drugs.
not to mention Blueyonder in 2002...
3D BSODs.
Just what I always wanted.
over here, in the UK, ntl have imposed a cap on customers.
:/
Seems daft, since the reason most people get cable or DSL, or pay for this type of service, is for P2P or for things that need the bandwidth
..need to learn that patching boxes isn't something that can be done when they feel like it.
I work for a northern-based ISP in the UK, and being on call on the weekend Slammer did the rounds, I was up at about 6am trying to find out what the fuck had happened. I still have graphs somewhere of the spikes on our border routers.
I find it amusing that customers think they shouldn't be billed for the extra bandwidth in situations like these. If it wasn't for those certain customers in the first place, the problem wouldn't have existed anyway.
They'll never learn, and in a few months it'll probably all kick off all over again.
..that's not even a Gigabit... ;)
/*
* Now, we have to map the power management section to write
* a bit which enables access to the GPIO registers.
* What lunatic came up with this shit?
*/
Yeah....
Can I interest you in a new handgun to protect your stock? Handprint included free....
More like "403 - Forbidden"
[root@nasa /root]# ping pioneer10.nasa.gov
PING pioneer10.nasa.gov (10.0.0.10) from 10.0.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq ttl=250 time=80640 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq ttl=250 time=80640 ms
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=3 Ping timeout
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=4 Ping timeout
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=5 Ping timeout
...that you can't send 500k JPEGs unannounced through the post AND make them have the same effect on his front door as spam does.
I agree totally. If you can't think of it this way, try to think of it as having to pay for your net access, then getting it free, then having to pay again. This happened to me.. it's not good.