GET OTHER MANAGERS ON SIDE FIRST.
Users just want a computer to use. If you're going to change what they are used to, you'll have to get them sold on the solution. It doesn't have to be like Windows - in fact, if you can find a 'simpler' user interface to use - use it. If you're a geek - you might understand the paradigms that the OS is using - but the end user might not. But also remember that end users aren't morons, and can cope with something different - if they're given the support they need in changing a major way in how they work.
This is where having other mangers on side is so important. If their staff are going to take a performance hit, and need retraining on the way they do their day to day jobs, you WILL need them on side.
I see nothing assholish about acting like an asshole to someone who has already treated you like an asshole.
Be polite, and the world works for you. Be rude, and your phone gets thrown in the sea. Sounds good to me.
To get there you have to go over the active tracks, on the underground. Trespass on the tracks, past any notice that forbids it is a criminal offence under byelaws.
And if a government "lackey" said he didn't have to respond to a freedom of information request because he had "forgotten the password"
Yeah, I'm not buying it.
You are responsible for your actions. If you create a perfect lock that only you can open, and put things inside, that others under certain circumstances do have a right to access, then there is no one other than yourself responsible for providing that access.
My attitude is this; modern encryption provides an almost unbreakable lock. There is a consequence of using a lock of this perfection - "forgetting" the password whether deliberately or accidentally isn't a good enough reason to deny the court the evidence that they have required. If you are unable to remember that password, or ensure some other back door is in place then you should seriously consider whether you should be using encryption that strong.
Rather like the new Star Trek film, or the Sherlock Holmes films. I wish people wouldn't be afraid to give their ideas their own support rather relying on the coat-tails of the past.
>>I'm sick of the being asked which two of the same collection of over-exposed "real world" guns I want to carry
THIS. OH SO MUCH THIS!
I've served. I've fired an M4. I've fired an SA80 in anger. Playing with a mock one, on screen does nothing for me.
Give me the gravity gun. give me the portal gun. Give me something creative.
Don't give me something real world which is skinned, which I'll tell you why it's not realistic enough.
"Would you like to be extradited to a country like China"
European Arrests Warrants do not cover China. The EU has a treaty in place, that essentially say, that an arrest warrant in any member of the treaty acts as an arrest warrant across the entire EU. The assumption is, that all European countries that are signatory to the treaty provide adequate protections as enshrined in the ECHR.
To accuse the TPB judge of not being able to make a fair trial would be a serious charge - and to counter it, most countries - including Sweden - have appeal courts, and supreme courts. TPB lost in those courts too.
The Police in Sweden have issued an arrest warrant for him - it doesn't mean, can we come to your house, or ask questions over a video link - it's you're coming down to the station to answer questions. All EAW's do is extend that from the country in question, to the entire EU.
It should be a condition of employment, that unless there is a relationship already between teacher and student, then the teacher should not knowingly accept a student as a friend on social media.
There isn't need for any law.
Post school relationships with students are a difficult one, especially romantic ones that may well have started whilst the student was still a student.
I think this series will fail because it breaks comedy rules. Moss has no appeal. Roy has some very limited appeal, and could appear as an occasional extra on The Office. Jen is the only character with appeal because she does try. She's the Captain Manwaring, to the one joke Moss and Roy.
All IT jokes were pulled from other sources - The power button, talking to computers.
The only things I found funny were things other than IT about the show, which could be done in any other show
Exchange 2003 comes with Outlook web access for all your emailing needs. They say it requires a compatible browser, so, perhaps someone else can say if it needs Internet Exploder, or if its happy with Firefox Operat et. al
The problem I have with the infrequent builds, is getting them distributed. Since I admin a school network, I have to lockdown firefox so no one can tamper with proxy settings, or install the latest 3l33t extension, package it to an MSI and then distribute via group polices! I'm sure I must be missing an easier route...
I taught ICT in a school for a year, and to teach the most basic programming concepts, to young children I found that logo was easily the best, since it was so visual. Things like We have this program called House. House has something which we call a varible. The varible controls how big a house we draw and then giving them demonstrations of House 10, House 50 and House 100 so easily explains what varibles are to young minds.
For serious, older programmers - 14-18 teach an OO language. I started on Ada, then moved on to Java.
In my Opinion, there is a lot of "diagnosis" of what just needs firm parenting. I went to a school, and ended up as a teaching assistant there 12 years later. The size of the "Special Needs" group had tripled. And to sort out some of the kids all you needed to do was to Shout at them. We have a culture of dealing with social problems with drugs, rather than the way we were "designed" (by nature) to fix social problems (with smacking). A quick clip to the hand and most children will pay attention to you. There is a small percentage of gifted children, who will be bored in school. Homeschooling is not the answer. Children need to interact with each other to build social skills. Early on, children need to be streamed into classes appropriate to ability. Unfortunatly, the only way to pay for this is issue less drugs on free prescription. There are VERY few cases, where children need drugs. They do exist. The true skills is differentation between true cases, and those where drugs make things easier!
This might be a little conterverisal, but after working with the kids, I believe it is the best position.
I don't know about America, but what is the legality of this in the rest of the world? Since the UK has no DMCA or RIUK (and thats not a cue to start one!) how would all this effect other countries, especially ones with PRIVACY laws (thank god for being a UKian). BTW, I think i'll be staying with linux. All I need is dreamweaver for linux, and perhaps a slightly better office suite...
They may hold the patents, but who does the standard belong to?
The website http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdro m/95x8.htm
may prove of interest to readers, which contains the CD-Audio Standard. Since these Copy Protected CDs do not conform to these standards, It would seem that to discribe them as Audio CD's would be misleading, and, certainly, in the UK, Illegal.
Hear Hear! I like this idea. Teach the coporate fat cats who's really in charge (unless the American Government would like to ban boycotts because they "harm the industry...")
This is why your managers get paid so much - its there job to take this kind of blame. Work out how much it would be to upgrade from a couple of outside companys - a local one, a large company (such as Dell), and then work out how much it would be for you to do it (and make sure It was clear about the time you would have to spend afterwards supporting them), then leave the whole lot for the manager to decide - its probbably not your job to do it all on your own backside (and if it is, you should probbably be paid more!)
I have to reinstall my Windows System, once or twice a year simply beacause of the rubbish that Windows leaves on my hard disk from the stuff I've installed and uninstalled. A well used Windows box, with new software added, periodically (like once a month, when the new PC's mags come out) will not last more than a year with out being either slown down, or wibbling badly. (At least, in my experience).
Being Microsofty is also releasing unfinished code, because somebody is going to release their's before yours (and is going to therefore dominate the market). People who manufacture cars would not forget the safety test, because someone is going to release a similarly themed car would they? (Having said this, it is not really the same thing, but it does get a point across. Remember the Comdex thing...)
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GET OTHER MANAGERS ON SIDE FIRST. Users just want a computer to use. If you're going to change what they are used to, you'll have to get them sold on the solution. It doesn't have to be like Windows - in fact, if you can find a 'simpler' user interface to use - use it. If you're a geek - you might understand the paradigms that the OS is using - but the end user might not. But also remember that end users aren't morons, and can cope with something different - if they're given the support they need in changing a major way in how they work. This is where having other mangers on side is so important. If their staff are going to take a performance hit, and need retraining on the way they do their day to day jobs, you WILL need them on side.
If a police officer is biased because of a lunch, then we're really fucked.
I see nothing assholish about acting like an asshole to someone who has already treated you like an asshole. Be polite, and the world works for you. Be rude, and your phone gets thrown in the sea. Sounds good to me.
To get there you have to go over the active tracks, on the underground. Trespass on the tracks, past any notice that forbids it is a criminal offence under byelaws.
And if a government "lackey" said he didn't have to respond to a freedom of information request because he had "forgotten the password" Yeah, I'm not buying it.
You are responsible for your actions. If you create a perfect lock that only you can open, and put things inside, that others under certain circumstances do have a right to access, then there is no one other than yourself responsible for providing that access.
My attitude is this; modern encryption provides an almost unbreakable lock. There is a consequence of using a lock of this perfection - "forgetting" the password whether deliberately or accidentally isn't a good enough reason to deny the court the evidence that they have required. If you are unable to remember that password, or ensure some other back door is in place then you should seriously consider whether you should be using encryption that strong.
Rather like the new Star Trek film, or the Sherlock Holmes films. I wish people wouldn't be afraid to give their ideas their own support rather relying on the coat-tails of the past.
>>I'm sick of the being asked which two of the same collection of over-exposed "real world" guns I want to carry THIS. OH SO MUCH THIS! I've served. I've fired an M4. I've fired an SA80 in anger. Playing with a mock one, on screen does nothing for me. Give me the gravity gun. give me the portal gun. Give me something creative. Don't give me something real world which is skinned, which I'll tell you why it's not realistic enough.
"Would you like to be extradited to a country like China"
European Arrests Warrants do not cover China. The EU has a treaty in place, that essentially say, that an arrest warrant in any member of the treaty acts as an arrest warrant across the entire EU. The assumption is, that all European countries that are signatory to the treaty provide adequate protections as enshrined in the ECHR.
To accuse the TPB judge of not being able to make a fair trial would be a serious charge - and to counter it, most countries - including Sweden - have appeal courts, and supreme courts. TPB lost in those courts too.
The Police in Sweden have issued an arrest warrant for him - it doesn't mean, can we come to your house, or ask questions over a video link - it's you're coming down to the station to answer questions. All EAW's do is extend that from the country in question, to the entire EU.
It should be a condition of employment, that unless there is a relationship already between teacher and student, then the teacher should not knowingly accept a student as a friend on social media. There isn't need for any law. Post school relationships with students are a difficult one, especially romantic ones that may well have started whilst the student was still a student.
I think this series will fail because it breaks comedy rules. Moss has no appeal. Roy has some very limited appeal, and could appear as an occasional extra on The Office. Jen is the only character with appeal because she does try. She's the Captain Manwaring, to the one joke Moss and Roy.
All IT jokes were pulled from other sources - The power button, talking to computers.
The only things I found funny were things other than IT about the show, which could be done in any other show
Exchange 2003 comes with Outlook web access for all your emailing needs. They say it requires a compatible browser, so, perhaps someone else can say if it needs Internet Exploder, or if its happy with Firefox Operat et. al
The problem I have with the infrequent builds, is getting them distributed. Since I admin a school network, I have to lockdown firefox so no one can tamper with proxy settings, or install the latest 3l33t extension, package it to an MSI and then distribute via group polices! I'm sure I must be missing an easier route...
For serious, older programmers - 14-18 teach an OO language. I started on Ada, then moved on to Java.
Does this mean the hackers are communists?
In my Opinion, there is a lot of "diagnosis" of what just needs firm parenting. I went to a school, and ended up as a teaching assistant there 12 years later. The size of the "Special Needs" group had tripled. And to sort out some of the kids all you needed to do was to Shout at them. We have a culture of dealing with social problems with drugs, rather than the way we were "designed" (by nature) to fix social problems (with smacking). A quick clip to the hand and most children will pay attention to you. There is a small percentage of gifted children, who will be bored in school. Homeschooling is not the answer. Children need to interact with each other to build social skills. Early on, children need to be streamed into classes appropriate to ability. Unfortunatly, the only way to pay for this is issue less drugs on free prescription. There are VERY few cases, where children need drugs. They do exist. The true skills is differentation between true cases, and those where drugs make things easier! This might be a little conterverisal, but after working with the kids, I believe it is the best position.
Isn't that what hotmail accounts are for?
Does anyone have a server call Charlie?
Charlie% Snort Charlie -1 line...
I don't know about America, but what is the legality of this in the rest of the world? Since the UK has no DMCA or RIUK (and thats not a cue to start one!) how would all this effect other countries, especially ones with PRIVACY laws (thank god for being a UKian). BTW, I think i'll be staying with linux. All I need is dreamweaver for linux, and perhaps a slightly better office suite...
They may hold the patents, but who does the standard belong to? The website http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdro m/95x8.htm
may prove of interest to readers, which contains the CD-Audio Standard. Since these Copy Protected CDs do not conform to these standards, It would seem that to discribe them as Audio CD's would be misleading, and, certainly, in the UK, Illegal.
Hear Hear!
I like this idea. Teach the coporate fat cats who's really in charge (unless the American Government would like to ban boycotts because they "harm the industry...")
- Eudora (www.eudora.com)
- Netscape/Mozilla/Opera E-Mail Clients
- Peagsus Mail (www.pmail.com)
- PM Mail 2000 (www.pmmail2000.com)
My university uses Pegasus, my favorite is Balsa (Linux/X Windows), Pine ('nix/Cmd Line)or Eudora (Winblows)RE: Managers Responsability
This is why your managers get paid so much - its there job to take this kind of blame. Work out how much it would be to upgrade from a couple of outside companys - a local one, a large company (such as Dell), and then work out how much it would be for you to do it (and make sure It was clear about the time you would have to spend afterwards supporting them), then leave the whole lot for the manager to decide - its probbably not your job to do it all on your own backside (and if it is, you should probbably be paid more!)
Easy Uninstall?!!!
I have to reinstall my Windows System, once or twice a year simply beacause of the rubbish that Windows leaves on my hard disk from the stuff I've installed and uninstalled. A well used Windows box, with new software added, periodically (like once a month, when the new PC's mags come out) will not last more than a year with out being either slown down, or wibbling badly. (At least, in my experience).
Being Microsofty is also releasing unfinished code, because somebody is going to release their's before yours (and is going to therefore dominate the market). People who manufacture cars would not forget the safety test, because someone is going to release a similarly themed car would they? (Having said this, it is not really the same thing, but it does get a point across. Remember the Comdex thing...)