Americans are a lot more used to buying things from catalogues, (Sears for example) and from the internet. Australians are not as likely to buy something over the internet.
The same goes for Telemarketing. Basically, the people aren't there to buy the stuff as what they are in the US. The people just aren't interested.
I have had a few phone calls for people doing survey's and the like, and the couple of calls that I have had from call centres are namely people trying to get me in the door to sell me time share (Yes it's starting out over here)
Your performance should not be tied to the amount you are paid. Bullshit. If a client pays well [...], they deserve that extra time taken to show which judgement would be best and why. I will add in here that they shouldn't be an arsehole either.
Too true. Welcome to the real world GlassHeart. Sorry to shatter your image of it.
Lets look at facts here, someone who is easy to get along with, provides me with nice challenging work, and that says thank you. When you hand over a working solution to the customer with no interuption to the business (Where possible) and pays me well is going to get my time of day.
Someone who is a pain in the arse, doesn't implement any recommendations that I put forward and fucks me around on the bill, if they ask for me next time, either is going to get turned down or I am not going to put my neck out for them.
Some of my customers have gone through good times and bad, I have one customer who has gone from 10 employees to over 200 and then dropped back, I was with them the whole way through everything that they did. They have paid me well, and have gone from paying about 10% of my yearly income to over 50% and then back again. I will ask to call other clients back, so that I can take calls from these guys.
They have been brilliant, they pay on time, they are nice, and they do what they need to to keep an edge. They are the clients that you want.
The good thing about contracting is that for the most of the time you do have the ability to pick your clients.
I would never do a lousy job on a site. Never.
Would I research something for a couple of hours, build documentation and scripted install / un-install, write additional administration documentation or anything else (without charge) to stay on the good side of a poor customer, not a chance.
Shooting someone down in a ball of flames though doesn't help anyone, the usual "I told you so" admittedly can be ESPECIALLY fulfilling when it happens to the letter; but don't burn bridges in the process.
My guess would be, is that they want some circuit boards they can use internally for QA of Cell when they get it working, secondly they are probably checking time to build and yield rates to get some numbers.
I doubt they would label it as a trial if they are going to throw these things at game developers. Prototypes? Number crunching? Maybe. Parts that would actually go into the final PS3? I doubt it.
If someone had these details (Especially Case designs etc) they would have been plastered all over the internet by now.
The only problem with this, and it was in the article, is that it wastes bandwidth. For some people with low speed links, virus attacks can take out their whole link. Blocking it at the router is no use, and it still has to get to their router in the first place for it to be dropped. The bandwidth damage is already done.
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I would be interested to find this out too.
They were one of the only people that did caching of real audio streams. Their cache infrastucture was pretty awesome.
One is yours, the second, is what most of everybody else followed.
Yes (with help I might add), he has managed to do this, but this isn't the point.
The lawsuit is about whether he broke any rules along the way.
Now what they are looking at is the resolution, Microsoft was found guilty, there is no question about that one now, remember this.
Microsoft has provided something that for the most part works, but what happens when somebody else from a competing commercial company that wants to use their OS as a platform stands up with a potentially competing product? Microsoft, basically destroys them, or attempts to. It may not be on a technical level better, but just because it can, Microsoft seems them as a threat.
This is what this whole thing is about. Choice, and Microsoft taking that option away because of its monopoly.
Being one of the founders of the internet, and I am sure being your baby, you have followed its growing up. (Must be a proud parent ?!)
To this end, I am questioning where you think the internet will go in 30 years from now?
With the advent of broadband technologies now being delivered to end-users, and P2P applications that are becoming so prevelant on the internet today, do you think that in the future network backbone providers will start imposing data limits, or that more and more bandwidth will get thrown at users?
Do you think in the near future that we will finally get a global rollout of IPv6? What do you think could be done to push this along?
On a more personal note, and I am not sure if you can talk about this, but with the loss of MCI Worldcom, what are you going to do with yourself?
My experiences have been better as well. I used to IRC a lot, and I although you don't have touch, smell and body language, there is other things that you notice that replace this. How quickly they type, what they say, and how they say it.
When you finally do meet them in RL I find that you pick it up the body language, and the other intimacies very very easily.
e.g. One girl who I used to speak to a lot I met her twice, and I saw her walk down the street, I pulled over, turned around and gave her a lift. I knew her that well, I knew her style. I knew it was her.
I met my previous g/f online, some things that happened between us, I still can't explain to this day.
Overall, the people I have met online have been great experiences, you do feel for them, you do help them, they help you. You still get angry, you still get sad. With all this, how can they NOT have any depth?
Are you in Australia too? Where the users are conditioned to what Telstra is doing for internet bandwidth?
I think it will be the other way around. I know a lot of companies now, already aren't impressed with fluctuating internet costs. Some by multiples of $10k / month in traffic charges.
Don't forget, a bulk of the population isn't tech savvy, and they don't know better. We as techs, do.
I think you have just had the wool over your eyes too long.
I think the low cost for a port, and then high cost is crap. I don't mind for a business paying $7500 AU for a 2 meg link to the net for unlimited data.
In Australia we already have this database, and already all information is being data matched. It is being used by the Department of Social Security, and is used to prevent fraud of the social security / welfare / public payout / pension benefit (whatever you want to call it) This has been done since the 1970's when they started out on a mainframe and is still in use to this day.
The privacy groups got in there as soon as they started up, and they got a few wraps on the knuckles for what they did, but it is still being done. The privacy groups ensured that the Tax Department only had information to their own records, and that the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages only had information to their information as well as every other source.
I actually think that if it has taken the Netherlands this long to get in on the act they are pretty slow to it all. I don't believe that my own personal information has been compromised in any way. I don't recieve any junk mail from it. The government isn't selling the information to them, if they did they would have more of a backlash on their hands that what they could ever believe.
It is only being used to catch crooks, and for that reason and that reason only I count it as a good thing.
Well, actually no it doesn't.
Currently, I am running a 768K to the US, (International Private Line) INCLUDING switching and routing delays, the MAXIMUM I would expect to see would be 45 milliseconds. I recently went through an outsource of our comms, and 45 was the max that we would allow. A couple of carriers came in at 35 - 40 milliseconds
This comment may be redundant by the time that you read it. If people read the the PDF, then you will understand where the 70,000 number comes up from.
It comes from John Rose from Compaq who made the original claim that "approximately" 70,000 applications had been written for Windows, which was the "prime reason" that Compaq shipped PCs with Windows loaded.
All of this M$ Software is not necessarily a shrink wrapped package, buyable off the shelf at any given time. It may be different versions (service packs) and my guess would include all the different utilities that you find on the CDs when you get software such as Exchange server which has utilities to low level MAPI login to the database to change, view and delete entries in the database.
I would say the number of 70,000 probably came from something that John Rose got from within Microsoft itself, possibly a listing of all the different software releases from one of the source archives.
At work, we use a system called Remedy, we have around 1000 people in the region who we look after out of one central server.
Recently we have started playing around with a web page similar to what you are talking about. We use the web page to send an email to ARMailer, which in turn gets pulled into our Remedy Database.
The main thing that we use Remedy for is for escalation and reporting.
We are working on having the web page talk directly to the database so that you can update the work log and query the case information on all machines.
In your instance I think something similar might be of use, you could dump all the jobs to a database, and when you get near a terminal, jump on and take a look at a web page to tell you what jobs you have got to take a look at.
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I think its because of a different culture.
Americans are a lot more used to buying things from catalogues, (Sears for example) and from the internet. Australians are not as likely to buy something over the internet.
The same goes for Telemarketing. Basically, the people aren't there to buy the stuff as what they are in the US. The people just aren't interested.
I have had a few phone calls for people doing survey's and the like, and the couple of calls that I have had from call centres are namely people trying to get me in the door to sell me time share (Yes it's starting out over here)
Berny
Mods.... Please mark parent as troll.
I think the funny part is this, I have been led to believe that when AOL setup here in Australia, Telstra provided the dial in for AOL.
I think the dial-in lines are now being hosted by MCI Worldcom.
Your performance should not be tied to the amount you are paid. Bullshit.
If a client pays well [...], they deserve that extra time taken to show which judgement would be best and why. I will add in here that they shouldn't be an arsehole either.
Too true. Welcome to the real world GlassHeart. Sorry to shatter your image of it.
Lets look at facts here, someone who is easy to get along with, provides me with nice challenging work, and that says thank you. When you hand over a working solution to the customer with no interuption to the business (Where possible) and pays me well is going to get my time of day.
Someone who is a pain in the arse, doesn't implement any recommendations that I put forward and fucks me around on the bill, if they ask for me next time, either is going to get turned down or I am not going to put my neck out for them.
Some of my customers have gone through good times and bad, I have one customer who has gone from 10 employees to over 200 and then dropped back, I was with them the whole way through everything that they did. They have paid me well, and have gone from paying about 10% of my yearly income to over 50% and then back again. I will ask to call other clients back, so that I can take calls from these guys.
They have been brilliant, they pay on time, they are nice, and they do what they need to to keep an edge. They are the clients that you want.
The good thing about contracting is that for the most of the time you do have the ability to pick your clients.
I would never do a lousy job on a site. Never.
Would I research something for a couple of hours, build documentation and scripted install / un-install, write additional administration documentation or anything else (without charge) to stay on the good side of a poor customer, not a chance.
Shooting someone down in a ball of flames though doesn't help anyone, the usual "I told you so" admittedly can be ESPECIALLY fulfilling when it happens to the letter; but don't burn bridges in the process.
I hate to be pedantic, but you can have two people connect to it remotely, and one person at the console.
If you installed XP Pro, did it still detect two CPUs?
Reason I ask, is that I have seen MB's that don't support HT.
hfnetchk is another that I find useful, download the latest xml file when you are online, and use it when you are on-site.
If you miss a single update or something its better than having nothing.
Secondly I find service packs for the MS backoffice suite to be extremely useful.
Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server both support hyperthreading. Therefore they see the physical and virtual CPU as one device.
I know cause a company I did some work for had to fork out some major dollars for a 4 way server as Win2k Server saw it as an 8 way server.
Great way to get people to move from one platform to another.
This is apparently a "Trial Run"
My guess would be, is that they want some circuit boards they can use internally for QA of Cell when they get it working, secondly they are probably checking time to build and yield rates to get some numbers.
I doubt they would label it as a trial if they are going to throw these things at game developers. Prototypes? Number crunching? Maybe. Parts that would actually go into the final PS3? I doubt it.
If someone had these details (Especially Case designs etc) they would have been plastered all over the internet by now.
Berny
The only problem with this, and it was in the article, is that it wastes bandwidth. For some people with low speed links, virus attacks can take out their whole link. Blocking it at the router is no use, and it still has to get to their router in the first place for it to be dropped. The bandwidth damage is already done.
I would be interested to find this out too.
They were one of the only people that did caching of real audio streams. Their cache infrastucture was pretty awesome.
There are two trains of thought to this.
One is yours, the second, is what most of everybody else followed.
Yes (with help I might add), he has managed to do this, but this isn't the point.
The lawsuit is about whether he broke any rules along the way.
Now what they are looking at is the resolution, Microsoft was found guilty, there is no question about that one now, remember this.
Microsoft has provided something that for the most part works, but what happens when somebody else from a competing commercial company that wants to use their OS as a platform stands up with a potentially competing product? Microsoft, basically destroys them, or attempts to. It may not be on a technical level better, but just because it can, Microsoft seems them as a threat.
This is what this whole thing is about. Choice, and Microsoft taking that option away because of its monopoly.
ROFL.
I think its just a case of lazyness, we can't be fucked to find out how to print 100 languages onto a can, and still have space for a logo.
Being one of the founders of the internet, and I am sure being your baby, you have followed its growing up. (Must be a proud parent ?!)
To this end, I am questioning where you think the internet will go in 30 years from now?
With the advent of broadband technologies now being delivered to end-users, and P2P applications that are becoming so prevelant on the internet today, do you think that in the future network backbone providers will start imposing data limits, or that more and more bandwidth will get thrown at users?
Do you think in the near future that we will finally get a global rollout of IPv6? What do you think could be done to push this along?
On a more personal note, and I am not sure if you can talk about this, but with the loss of MCI Worldcom, what are you going to do with yourself?
Thanks for your time Dr Cerf.
Berny
Yeah, he probably tried to reach his own.
:P
Reason why he doesn't remember is that he couldn't reach that far. I am sure that as soon as he does reach, we will know all about it
I am going to chime in here with my own thoughts.
My experiences have been better as well. I used to IRC a lot, and I although you don't have touch, smell and body language, there is other things that you notice that replace this. How quickly they type, what they say, and how they say it.
When you finally do meet them in RL I find that you pick it up the body language, and the other intimacies very very easily.
e.g. One girl who I used to speak to a lot I met her twice, and I saw her walk down the street, I pulled over, turned around and gave her a lift. I knew her that well, I knew her style. I knew it was her.
I met my previous g/f online, some things that happened between us, I still can't explain to this day.
Overall, the people I have met online have been great experiences, you do feel for them, you do help them, they help you. You still get angry, you still get sad. With all this, how can they NOT have any depth?
Are you in Australia too? Where the users are conditioned to what Telstra is doing for internet bandwidth?
I think it will be the other way around. I know a lot of companies now, already aren't impressed with fluctuating internet costs. Some by multiples of $10k / month in traffic charges.
Don't forget, a bulk of the population isn't tech savvy, and they don't know better. We as techs, do.
I think you have just had the wool over your eyes too long.
I think the low cost for a port, and then high cost is crap. I don't mind for a business paying $7500 AU for a 2 meg link to the net for unlimited data.
I guess I wanted to chime in with my contratulations!
Though we have never met, I admire what you did. Excellent work.
May you have many happy years together.
"May the road rise to meet you, and the wind be at your back."
In Australia we already have this database, and already all information is being data matched. It is being used by the Department of Social Security, and is used to prevent fraud of the social security / welfare / public payout / pension benefit (whatever you want to call it) This has been done since the 1970's when they started out on a mainframe and is still in use to this day.
The privacy groups got in there as soon as they started up, and they got a few wraps on the knuckles for what they did, but it is still being done. The privacy groups ensured that the Tax Department only had information to their own records, and that the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages only had information to their information as well as every other source.
I actually think that if it has taken the Netherlands this long to get in on the act they are pretty slow to it all. I don't believe that my own personal information has been compromised in any way. I don't recieve any junk mail from it. The government isn't selling the information to them, if they did they would have more of a backlash on their hands that what they could ever believe.
It is only being used to catch crooks, and for that reason and that reason only I count it as a good thing.
Berny.
Well, actually no it doesn't. Currently, I am running a 768K to the US, (International Private Line) INCLUDING switching and routing delays, the MAXIMUM I would expect to see would be 45 milliseconds. I recently went through an outsource of our comms, and 45 was the max that we would allow. A couple of carriers came in at 35 - 40 milliseconds
This comment may be redundant by the time that you read it. If people read the the PDF, then you will understand where the 70,000 number comes up from.
It comes from John Rose from Compaq who made the original claim that "approximately" 70,000 applications had been written for Windows, which was the "prime reason" that Compaq shipped PCs with Windows loaded.
All of this M$ Software is not necessarily a shrink wrapped package, buyable off the shelf at any given time. It may be different versions (service packs) and my guess would include all the different utilities that you find on the CDs when you get software such as Exchange server which has utilities to low level MAPI login to the database to change, view and delete entries in the database.
I would say the number of 70,000 probably came from something that John Rose got from within Microsoft itself, possibly a listing of all the different software releases from one of the source archives.
At work, we use a system called Remedy, we have around 1000 people in the region who we look after out of one central server.
Recently we have started playing around with a web page similar to what you are talking about. We use the web page to send an email to ARMailer, which in turn gets pulled into our Remedy Database.
The main thing that we use Remedy for is for escalation and reporting.
We are working on having the web page talk directly to the database so that you can update the work log and query the case information on all machines.
In your instance I think something similar might be of use, you could dump all the jobs to a database, and when you get near a terminal, jump on and take a look at a web page to tell you what jobs you have got to take a look at.
Berny
150K /sec and feeling fine :P
I have a habit of doing work arounds, and adding functionality here and there.
I am the TIS firewall ftp-gw module for people on my internal network as well as the NEC Socks5 firewall.
These functions prove useful for logging as. (Anothing thing I haven't bothered configuring in IP Masq if its there)
Berny