Spoken just like someone who hasn't finished a Bachelor's degree and entered the professional working world.
Oh that's right, you haven't.
For some (including me), going to class can suck ass. But when you're being considered for a job against someone else, and you both have the same experience level, the one with the higher degree wins in many cases. Some people would realize real quick that buckling down and pushing aside the suckiness of going back to school might give them a little more job security during hard times.
I used to have to wear a tie. Then one day, after pulling a few late-night shifts as a SysAdmin, I was working on the innards of a printer and, while the gears were churning away, my tie slipped into the printer. It nearly strangled me, plus I lost a good tie.
The next day I came to work sans tie. I slung the tattered tie over the wall of my cubicle with a note, "this is why I don't wear ties here anymore". I've never worn once to work since, and that tie is all the explanation I need.
Then one day, after pulling a few late-night shifts as a SysAdmin, I was working on the innards of a printer and, while the gears were churning away, my tie slipped into the printer. It nearly strangled me, plus I lost a good tie.
The next day I came to work sans tie. I slung the tattered tie over the wall of my cubicle with a note, "this is why I don't wear ties here anymore". I've never worn once to work since, and that tie is all the explanation I need.
However, I use the Chimmy Yahoo client, a console based client that runs on Linux, and run it through some expect scripts. I sometimes use this so that I appear to always be online and receive and reply to messages via email on my cellphone. I send an email message from my phone to an address on my linux box, which interprets the commands and sends them through to the appropriate places, and vice-versa. So far it works great.
Have you considered outsourcing backups? Granted, I have absolutely no experience in utilizing such services, but it might have a better ring to it than "new hire" to your boss.
Also, how often do you find you're restoring files? If it's more often than normal, and you have the money to spend (as you say), then what about using a snapshot solution? Keep hourly (up to, say, 8 hours) and daily (3 days?) of snapshots on your volumes and the users can go retrieve their lost file very easily on their own.
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I agree on the wireless point. In fact, you might be able to make a few bucks on the deal if you went and bought 5 cheap cards and sold them at the bar to people for a little profit. You can probably get these cards even cheaper from Ebay.
It sounds like it's going all 3D, which judging by the screenshots I saw of Full Throttle in PC Gamer, is a real shame. The developer interviewed in the mag was trying to brush off the notion that the game could be considered a "hybrid" (i.e., a lot more action sequences than the previous version, like fighting sequences, etc.). Personally I wish they'd stick to the cartoon 2D graphics and beef it up with more pure adventure aspects instead of trying to make these games geared more towards consoles.
I've seen screenshots in the latest PC Gamer, and I'm a bit disappointed. Judging by the screenshots, they're switching from the cartoon-esque look and feel of the old Full Throttle to 3D models and "more action". The developer(?) interviewed tried to brush off the notion that this was going to be a hybrid game instead of pure adventure, but the description sure shouted HYBRID to me.
I guess you never saw those other commercials for Saturn, where all the dealers surrond the customer and publicly applaud when they buy a new car from them. That was enough for me to say, "um....no thanks."
And I was told by a friend that they do do that. Is that still the case?
*shiver*
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"Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games."
Well, he is doing something with rocketry now. Who knows -- if he's such the genious you make him out to be (I'm not saying he isn't), then maybe his project will take off (pun intended) and he'll be responsible for affordable trips to space.
When I was a sysadmin at BU, I used to bike along the Charles River from Newton to Kenmore Square.
Boston has some of the worst, one-way, no-block streets in the country, and because of that and the normal traffic, it can actually be pretty safe to ride your bike around the streets. At least that's been my experience.
First I will say that I do sometimes have the same feelings you do. I often feel like taking off from my life of computers/TV/cars/electronics/processed meat/etc. and move out to the mountains, where I grow and eat my own food, create waste in my own 300-acres of land, and generally don't bother much of anyone by myself...
However, I think that's all you do, too -- you think about it, but aren't really bursting at the seams to go out and do it, are you? Saying you can't do it is a huge cop out. Saying that you don't feel like it or are afraid to do those things are more accurate statements I think.
Nobody's holding a gun to your head. Nobody's making you do the things you feel so guildy about. So go out and do something about it if it bothers you so much. I'll admit I'm more afraid than anything else to enter into that venture.
Ugh, I know just what they're talking about. I used to work for my dad recycling this junk for scraps of precious metals years ago. There was this certain smell that permeated from the tons of piles of scrap circuit boards, and after a while you'd start to get dry mouth and eventually get headaches.
And that other picture of the kids sorting computer chips -- I know that as well. I used to kid with my dad that he was running a sweat shop with the hours I put in -- now I have proof dammit!;-)
He did pay well, though. *cough*...Ugh...brb, need some asprin again.
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Oh that's right, you haven't.
For some (including me), going to class can suck ass. But when you're being considered for a job against someone else, and you both have the same experience level, the one with the higher degree wins in many cases. Some people would realize real quick that buckling down and pushing aside the suckiness of going back to school might give them a little more job security during hard times.
The next day I came to work sans tie. I slung the tattered tie over the wall of my cubicle with a note, "this is why I don't wear ties here anymore". I've never worn once to work since, and that tie is all the explanation I need.
The next day I came to work sans tie. I slung the tattered tie over the wall of my cubicle with a note, "this is why I don't wear ties here anymore". I've never worn once to work since, and that tie is all the explanation I need.
However, I use the Chimmy Yahoo client, a console based client that runs on Linux, and run it through some expect scripts. I sometimes use this so that I appear to always be online and receive and reply to messages via email on my cellphone. I send an email message from my phone to an address on my linux box, which interprets the commands and sends them through to the appropriate places, and vice-versa. So far it works great.
Nah, that would be "Soitchking [insert Popeye laugh here]"
"Call Mr. Search,
that's my name.
That name again
is Mr. Search!"
Not really an "error", but still sounds strange.
Also, how often do you find you're restoring files? If it's more often than normal, and you have the money to spend (as you say), then what about using a snapshot solution? Keep hourly (up to, say, 8 hours) and daily (3 days?) of snapshots on your volumes and the users can go retrieve their lost file very easily on their own.
For a second there
I thought you wrote a haiku
I guess I was wrong
So my dad was wrong all along -- money DOES grow on trees!
I think I heard it cost a barrel of monkeys.
Not if you check the answers to questions already asked and find what you're looking for there.
I agree on the wireless point. In fact, you might be able to make a few bucks on the deal if you went and bought 5 cheap cards and sold them at the bar to people for a little profit. You can probably get these cards even cheaper from Ebay.
I've seen very cheap converters though (10Base2-10BaseT). I had tons of these laying around but I think they went out in the scrap heap years ago :-/.
I've heard/seen of macroing in MMORPG's for years now. People macroed when MUD's were the "first" MMORPG's, then in Ultima Online, and then EQ, etc.
Am I missing something, or does this sound like a bad idea when you're apt to be working around volatile computer equipment?
Will they add webcams inside these things so we can finally solve the riddle of the missing sock?
That's exactly what they're saying. Another motorcycle sequence, and a bunch of fist fighting. *sigh*.
It sounds like it's going all 3D, which judging by the screenshots I saw of Full Throttle in PC Gamer, is a real shame. The developer interviewed in the mag was trying to brush off the notion that the game could be considered a "hybrid" (i.e., a lot more action sequences than the previous version, like fighting sequences, etc.). Personally I wish they'd stick to the cartoon 2D graphics and beef it up with more pure adventure aspects instead of trying to make these games geared more towards consoles.
I've seen screenshots in the latest PC Gamer, and I'm a bit disappointed. Judging by the screenshots, they're switching from the cartoon-esque look and feel of the old Full Throttle to 3D models and "more action". The developer(?) interviewed tried to brush off the notion that this was going to be a hybrid game instead of pure adventure, but the description sure shouted HYBRID to me.
And I was told by a friend that they do do that. Is that still the case?
*shiver*
Well, he is doing something with rocketry now. Who knows -- if he's such the genious you make him out to be (I'm not saying he isn't), then maybe his project will take off (pun intended) and he'll be responsible for affordable trips to space.
Boston has some of the worst, one-way, no-block streets in the country, and because of that and the normal traffic, it can actually be pretty safe to ride your bike around the streets. At least that's been my experience.
However, I think that's all you do, too -- you think about it, but aren't really bursting at the seams to go out and do it, are you? Saying you can't do it is a huge cop out. Saying that you don't feel like it or are afraid to do those things are more accurate statements I think.
Nobody's holding a gun to your head. Nobody's making you do the things you feel so guildy about. So go out and do something about it if it bothers you so much. I'll admit I'm more afraid than anything else to enter into that venture.
And that other picture of the kids sorting computer chips -- I know that as well. I used to kid with my dad that he was running a sweat shop with the hours I put in -- now I have proof dammit! ;-)
He did pay well, though. *cough*...Ugh...brb, need some asprin again.