I think you missed the point of the parent post - using free software enabled them to purchase hardware that allowed them to expand their business without any additional investment in their IT infrastructure (aside from the usual administration costs). By the time they outgrew their server, third-party hosting allowed them to move their business over easily and with no apparent significant cost.
8 years on a single server - that's an impressive ROI.
Why was modded insightful? At this point, most consumer camcorders do not have firewire interfaces. Most consumer external hard drives do not have firewire ports.
I'm surprised that it took this long to drop FW in the Macbook.
Find a tech support in the company that you want to work for, THEN when the engineering position in that company opens up, apply for it.
That way, you already have your foot in the door, plus you will already be familiar with the business processes in place, so that gives you an advantage over outsiders trying to get the job.
My girlfriend used to work for AppleCare (in the call center). Here's what she said about it (from IM, so excuse the grammar/typing):
well...your expected to check your company related email, stats, get your system booted, go aver any company alerts BEFORE you sign on. this requires most to come in early to do work related things. the catch is Apple doesn't pay you till you're signed on and your shift actually starts. Apple's argument is that you can do these other work related things between calls... but that's difficult because calls come in constantly... and time in "idle" counts against you.
That's actually the case with any call-center. It's not unique to Apple.
A little programming wouldn't be bad, but none would be preferred.
If you want to succeed in IT, you NEED programming. You may not be building enterprise-level programs - but when comes to pushing updates, creating a simple Intranet, building or troubleshooting a compiled/interpreted application or just plain keeping yourself sane*, having a programming background goes a very long way.
The funny thing is that the last link is not even related to obesity, but rather just smoking - and it was an article that disproves the parent's assertion that smoking cost the society less in the long run.
Slashdot Mirror
It goes to 11.
Obligatory obscure comic reference.
http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990517/
I think you missed the point of the parent post - using free software enabled them to purchase hardware that allowed them to expand their business without any additional investment in their IT infrastructure (aside from the usual administration costs). By the time they outgrew their server, third-party hosting allowed them to move their business over easily and with no apparent significant cost.
8 years on a single server - that's an impressive ROI.
Why was modded insightful? At this point, most consumer camcorders do not have firewire interfaces. Most consumer external hard drives do not have firewire ports.
I'm surprised that it took this long to drop FW in the Macbook.
Wow, I never seen so many whooshes all at once in my life.
Find a tech support in the company that you want to work for, THEN when the engineering position in that company opens up, apply for it.
That way, you already have your foot in the door, plus you will already be familiar with the business processes in place, so that gives you an advantage over outsiders trying to get the job.
ARGH!
If you run marathons 23 hours a day, you're definitely gonna die
Somebody never heard of Ultramarathons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon
. . . . . which means intelligence is necessary.
There. Fixed that for you. :D
. They usually run 35-50 bucks depending on topic and you'll want to page through one in a store before purchasing.
Or for 40 bucks a month, you can get the whole O'Reilly Library at:
http://safari.oreilly.com/
Well worth the money.
And yet, Thufir managed to get +5 insightful for this comment.
Not sure whether I want to laugh or cry.
I had to read the reply a couple of times before I realize that you are not talking about kitties.
My girlfriend used to work for AppleCare (in the call center). Here's what she said about it (from IM, so excuse the grammar/typing):
well...your expected to check your company related email, stats, get your system booted, go aver any company alerts BEFORE you sign on. this requires most to come in early to do work related things. the catch is Apple doesn't pay you till you're signed on and your shift actually starts. Apple's argument is that you can do these other work related things between calls ... but that's difficult because calls come in constantly... and time in "idle" counts against you.
That's actually the case with any call-center. It's not unique to Apple.
Doesn't make it fair, though, IMO.
Because that worked so well with Vista. Oh wait. . . . .
Emacs is never an option. SSH in from another machine and kill it from the command line.
And then nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
To be honest I'm more likely to "forget" my pass and then I have to go and temporary one from the lovely girls in premises (I'm not stupid you know).
I mis-read "pass" as "pants." Oddly enough, the sentence still makes sense.
This is slashdot.org. The correct term is "murse" :D
Please. That is certainly no ex
I set bait for ants so that they carry poison back to their nests and die. Am I a murderer?
I'm waiting for the web to mature, 3.11 for Workgroups
I read that as "manure". Same difference, methinks. :D
Marketing and Sales guys complained that the expected endless promotions but instead found a kind of invisible ceiling.
Which is curious, since Google's core strength is online marketing and generating sales leads.
A little programming wouldn't be bad, but none would be preferred.
If you want to succeed in IT, you NEED programming. You may not be building enterprise-level programs - but when comes to pushing updates, creating a simple Intranet, building or troubleshooting a compiled/interpreted application or just plain keeping yourself sane*, having a programming background goes a very long way.
Perhaps IT is not a best fit for you.
*For some of us, it may be too late. :D
Yeah, I wonder how that meme get started. Back in my DOS days, the expression was "DOS isn't done until Lotus 1-2-3 Runs."
The funny thing is that the last link is not even related to obesity, but rather just smoking - and it was an article that disproves the parent's assertion that smoking cost the society less in the long run.
I read the last sentence as "Use The Force."