Don't email, pick up a pen and WRITE. You and I both know that a letter on your desk will receive more attention than an email in your inbox. Every time I have written and mailed (USPS) a letter, I have received a response. Only once have I ever received a response to an email. YMMV, but I always write.
I have done a little bit of work on the side doing this, usually when the normal guy is on vacation or something.
I hate these jobs. Why? Because I'm always cleaning up messes left by the normal guy. Have you ever seen a network of 50 workstations, all without any centralized user/workstation management (ie: no domain or anything)? I have. It's scary. How do you make a printer avail on the network? Duh, printer sharing... the thought never occures to anyone to get a stand-alone print server. How do you deploy software? Over sneakernet. We won't even go into the horrible network security, the rampant viruses, or the spyware installed on every workstation (but hey, Outlook has color now!). Since i'm always just the fill-in guy, whatever I recommend falls on deaf ears. The icing on the cake? The usual guy makes $60/hour doing this.
Before anyone says it, no, these shoddy networks are not the result of lack of funding... these companies have plasma screens on the walls, and very nice chairs.... it's not lack of funding, it's a lack of will on the part of the IT guy to improve the situation, and perhaps a lack of skill/knowledge. For someone who knows better, it's a very frustrating experience.
Those water photos gave me a good laugh this afternoon. My cube neighbor and I were making up quotes for the guy standing on the dock watching the RV pull out of the lake....
Isn't the the reverse of what Ford did over 100 years ago? He paid workers more, and as a result, more people could afford the product they were producing.
When you outsource higher paying jobs, people have to find another (probably lower paying) job. With more people making less money (and this able to consume less), how is that good for the company long term?
If they have totally different use patterns, then why do they try to mimic the same functions as the laptop? Is video really necessary on a PDA? Sure, it's cool and all, but how is it useful? How does this function serve to justify the cost? Yeah, it can play mp3s, that's cool too, but again, same question as before.
I have gone through several Palm units, and through 2 iPaqs. What did I use them for? Well, I played bejeweled a lot on the IIIc, and I played a few mp3s on the iPaq... oh yes, I also used the contacts / calendar functions on each.
I guess that i'm starting to 'grow up' in my nerdish behavior and am beginning to realize that tech, for the simple reason of tech, is not enough. I will be the first to admit though, I do enjoy my toys.
I still don't understand this. At this price, you are in direct competition with a laptop, and the laptop can do a lot more. I think that HP is moving in the right direction by offering sub $300 ipaq units that are actually quite nice.
Title 47 does seem to provide for protection against SMS-style spam. The reason is that for it costs YOU money to receive the unsolicited ads.
'to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;'
So I believe that if you wanted to, you would have grounds for a lawsuit under current law.
Actually, by allowing THOSE records to be avail, the school district violated HIPAA privacy rule. They COULD get into some trouble over this. Also, another fedreal law that was broken is FERPA which basically prohibits student records from ging outside the school system (or to military recruiters... go figure that one out...)
Will this increase competition and lower the monthly rates? I know i'll be going back to voicestream (with my current sprint phone #) once this gets going
I just put in for it... Is there really a reason why your employer WOULDN'T pay for it? Seriously, any semi-competent manager would know that $47 (Amazon.com) is much cheaper than even an hour of downtime due to security concerns. If this could even possibly save you one single hour in the future, then it has already paid for itself.
I got moo3 today and other than it starting out really slow, it only runs in 800x600. Since I have a LCD screen, it doesn't look so sharp. Perhaps it looks ok on a CRT, but with LCDs becoming more and more common, developers need to think about letting apps run in the native resolution of the display.
Why does it necessarily mean that you can't check your account?
AOLs data warehouse should contain the complete set of customer information, but on a private network with as few connections as possible to the outside network(s). A separate incomplete copy of this database could be stored on a more public network. This would contain partial customer information and credit card numbers.
Example:
Your billing credit card number:
**** **** **** 9720
For the customer who has their card in hand, this is more than enough information to identify the account they are using for billing.
Here is where the only access into the 'private network' comes in place... when a customer makes a change. The account that the web server has stored only has INSERT and UPDATE access on the private SQL server. This would allow changes to be made on the main database. The data warehouse could then replicate the new (censored) data back to the more public customer database. For even increased security, have a PIX box in between the more public, and private network using static mappings and NAT while allowing incoming connections from the applicable web servers only.
This is just one of many ideas for increasing their security without necessarily sacrificing access.
As for employees at AOL not having web access... should they have web access in such a sensitive area of operations? If it's totally necessary, put them on a separate VLAN connected to the more public network.
We have 'private' networks. Hackers etc. can't get into a network that isn't connected to the outside world. Yes, it's a little simplistic, but if you're going to have sensitive information used by internal processes (ie: billing), then why do these servers need to have any kind of exposure at all? Keep the web servers in the DMZ, everything else out.
In Washington state, we have a do-not-email list that Washington residents can sign up on. Does it work? Sorta. I have heard about people using the law to sue spammers, and actually generate a decent income. This wasn't the intent of the law however.... it's supposed to cut down on the crap in my inbox. The main problem is that most of the spam I get these days comes from other countries. For some reason, I doubt the spammers are losing much sleep over our anti-spam laws.
Where I work as a sys admin, we used to have a box dedicated to monitoring web activity. While I disagreed with the monitoring of employees, I was told to implement it by the director. Morale across the office plummeted the very next day. It was horrible. One of the biggest complaints people had was that the monitoring software has no idea if you are on break or not... and if you are on break, why not visit your online banking? It is after all, YOUR time. To compound this matter, it turned out that the director had a voyeuristic streak to her.... She would spend over an hour a day looking at what sites people would go to....remember, this was not the employee's boss, this was their bosses' boss. She would never say anything to anyone about the stats.... She just liked to watch.
I thought, and still do think, that this was a complete waste of her time.... After all, isn't observing web based stats of employee web use just as bad?
A wireless 'modem' is $350? If 'your' ISP is anything like most of the other wireless ISPs out there, you're also using 802.11b. This makes me wonder, why are you paying so much for your wireless NICs? Last I checked, you could get a good 802.11b PCI nic with an external antenna port for $100. Shoot, you can buy one of the more expensive WAPs for $350 these days.
If you're not using 802.11b, then ignore everything I said =)
To improve upon that idea, you could actually send someone a bar code as a picture message to their cell phone. Since most cell phones have a standard LCD display, the CCD reader should be able to scan it without any problem. Lost you key? No problem! I'll send one to your phone!.
I have to wonder why they are now deciding to do this?
None of this really matters to me though... I am one of the many who have ditched their 'land' line in favor of a cell phone. My motivation for doing this was that I hate Qwest, but that's another matter. Since I don't have a regular phone line, I can't have a TiVo. I do have a home network with a fairly fat DSL connection to the internet.... when will TiVo start putting in useful features like an ethernet connection rather than some encryption scheme? That way, people like me who want a TiVo, can get a TiVo.
I also worked at Radio Shack.... I think you learned the wrong lesson here: It's not that RCA is crappy, it's that EVERYTHING in Radio Shack is crappy!
The thing about 'junk' DNA is that it's not junk at all. When you remove the 'junk', the organism dies. It's just junk until we find out what it really does.
Sounds like you and I have the same cable box. There is a nice little port that says SPDIF, but it's blank.... nothing there. What about Y/Pb/Pr outputs for video? It's a digital signal coming in right? Why must I have an interlaced signal coming out? And the best part: I called and asked for a better box... something that had REAL digital output. They laughed. Unfortunately, it's not like I can just got to bestbuy or costco and get a better box either.
I also asked about HDTV via cable... they said that it's technically not possible.... on their website however, it's an option in several markets. Don't feed me bull, just tell me that my market isn't big enough to bother with... and that we have no competition.
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Don't email, pick up a pen and WRITE. You and I both know that a letter on your desk will receive more attention than an email in your inbox. Every time I have written and mailed (USPS) a letter, I have received a response. Only once have I ever received a response to an email. YMMV, but I always write.
I have done a little bit of work on the side doing this, usually when the normal guy is on vacation or something. I hate these jobs. Why? Because I'm always cleaning up messes left by the normal guy. Have you ever seen a network of 50 workstations, all without any centralized user/workstation management (ie: no domain or anything)? I have. It's scary. How do you make a printer avail on the network? Duh, printer sharing... the thought never occures to anyone to get a stand-alone print server. How do you deploy software? Over sneakernet. We won't even go into the horrible network security, the rampant viruses, or the spyware installed on every workstation (but hey, Outlook has color now!). Since i'm always just the fill-in guy, whatever I recommend falls on deaf ears. The icing on the cake? The usual guy makes $60/hour doing this. Before anyone says it, no, these shoddy networks are not the result of lack of funding... these companies have plasma screens on the walls, and very nice chairs.... it's not lack of funding, it's a lack of will on the part of the IT guy to improve the situation, and perhaps a lack of skill/knowledge. For someone who knows better, it's a very frustrating experience.
Those water photos gave me a good laugh this afternoon. My cube neighbor and I were making up quotes for the guy standing on the dock watching the RV pull out of the lake....
Isn't the the reverse of what Ford did over 100 years ago? He paid workers more, and as a result, more people could afford the product they were producing.
When you outsource higher paying jobs, people have to find another (probably lower paying) job. With more people making less money (and this able to consume less), how is that good for the company long term?
If they have totally different use patterns, then why do they try to mimic the same functions as the laptop? Is video really necessary on a PDA? Sure, it's cool and all, but how is it useful? How does this function serve to justify the cost? Yeah, it can play mp3s, that's cool too, but again, same question as before. I have gone through several Palm units, and through 2 iPaqs. What did I use them for? Well, I played bejeweled a lot on the IIIc, and I played a few mp3s on the iPaq... oh yes, I also used the contacts / calendar functions on each. I guess that i'm starting to 'grow up' in my nerdish behavior and am beginning to realize that tech, for the simple reason of tech, is not enough. I will be the first to admit though, I do enjoy my toys.
I still don't understand this. At this price, you are in direct competition with a laptop, and the laptop can do a lot more. I think that HP is moving in the right direction by offering sub $300 ipaq units that are actually quite nice.
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."
And yet, right above this, their page says 300kb+ connection recommended. Am I the only one who finds the humor in this?
Title 47 does seem to provide for protection against SMS-style spam. The reason is that for it costs YOU money to receive the unsolicited ads.
'to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;'
So I believe that if you wanted to, you would have grounds for a lawsuit under current law.
Actually, by allowing THOSE records to be avail, the school district violated HIPAA privacy rule. They COULD get into some trouble over this. Also, another fedreal law that was broken is FERPA which basically prohibits student records from ging outside the school system (or to military recruiters... go figure that one out...)
Will this increase competition and lower the monthly rates? I know i'll be going back to voicestream (with my current sprint phone #) once this gets going
I just put in for it... Is there really a reason why your employer WOULDN'T pay for it? Seriously, any semi-competent manager would know that $47 (Amazon.com) is much cheaper than even an hour of downtime due to security concerns. If this could even possibly save you one single hour in the future, then it has already paid for itself.
of deodorant would be nice... I know I wear mine, but that's just me...
Maybe someone who knows more about OLEDs can answer this...
Why the 165 degree viewing angle? Why not 180? Since unpolarized light is being emitted, why should there be any limit less than 180?
Just curious =)
I got moo3 today and other than it starting out really slow, it only runs in 800x600. Since I have a LCD screen, it doesn't look so sharp. Perhaps it looks ok on a CRT, but with LCDs becoming more and more common, developers need to think about letting apps run in the native resolution of the display.
Why does it necessarily mean that you can't check your account?
AOLs data warehouse should contain the complete set of customer information, but on a private network with as few connections as possible to the outside network(s). A separate incomplete copy of this database could be stored on a more public network. This would contain partial customer information and credit card numbers.
Example:
Your billing credit card number:
**** **** **** 9720
For the customer who has their card in hand, this is more than enough information to identify the account they are using for billing.
Here is where the only access into the 'private network' comes in place... when a customer makes a change. The account that the web server has stored only has INSERT and UPDATE access on the private SQL server. This would allow changes to be made on the main database. The data warehouse could then replicate the new (censored) data back to the more public customer database. For even increased security, have a PIX box in between the more public, and private network using static mappings and NAT while allowing incoming connections from the applicable web servers only.
This is just one of many ideas for increasing their security without necessarily sacrificing access.
As for employees at AOL not having web access... should they have web access in such a sensitive area of operations? If it's totally necessary, put them on a separate VLAN connected to the more public network.
We have 'private' networks. Hackers etc. can't get into a network that isn't connected to the outside world. Yes, it's a little simplistic, but if you're going to have sensitive information used by internal processes (ie: billing), then why do these servers need to have any kind of exposure at all? Keep the web servers in the DMZ, everything else out.
In Washington state, we have a do-not-email list that Washington residents can sign up on. Does it work? Sorta. I have heard about people using the law to sue spammers, and actually generate a decent income. This wasn't the intent of the law however.... it's supposed to cut down on the crap in my inbox. The main problem is that most of the spam I get these days comes from other countries. For some reason, I doubt the spammers are losing much sleep over our anti-spam laws.
Where I work as a sys admin, we used to have a box dedicated to monitoring web activity. While I disagreed with the monitoring of employees, I was told to implement it by the director. Morale across the office plummeted the very next day. It was horrible. One of the biggest complaints people had was that the monitoring software has no idea if you are on break or not... and if you are on break, why not visit your online banking? It is after all, YOUR time. To compound this matter, it turned out that the director had a voyeuristic streak to her.... She would spend over an hour a day looking at what sites people would go to....remember, this was not the employee's boss, this was their bosses' boss. She would never say anything to anyone about the stats.... She just liked to watch.
I thought, and still do think, that this was a complete waste of her time.... After all, isn't observing web based stats of employee web use just as bad?
A wireless 'modem' is $350? If 'your' ISP is anything like most of the other wireless ISPs out there, you're also using 802.11b. This makes me wonder, why are you paying so much for your wireless NICs? Last I checked, you could get a good 802.11b PCI nic with an external antenna port for $100. Shoot, you can buy one of the more expensive WAPs for $350 these days.
If you're not using 802.11b, then ignore everything I said =)
I like that idea of sending the bar code!
To improve upon that idea, you could actually send someone a bar code as a picture message to their cell phone. Since most cell phones have a standard LCD display, the CCD reader should be able to scan it without any problem. Lost you key? No problem! I'll send one to your phone!.
Nifty.
I have to wonder why they are now deciding to do this?
None of this really matters to me though... I am one of the many who have ditched their 'land' line in favor of a cell phone. My motivation for doing this was that I hate Qwest, but that's another matter. Since I don't have a regular phone line, I can't have a TiVo. I do have a home network with a fairly fat DSL connection to the internet.... when will TiVo start putting in useful features like an ethernet connection rather than some encryption scheme? That way, people like me who want a TiVo, can get a TiVo.
I also worked at Radio Shack.... I think you learned the wrong lesson here: It's not that RCA is crappy, it's that EVERYTHING in Radio Shack is crappy!
The thing about 'junk' DNA is that it's not junk at all. When you remove the 'junk', the organism dies. It's just junk until we find out what it really does.
Well, if you didn't love your cable, i'm sure you do now....looks like we slashdotted your cable modem. Gotta love that 128k up AT&T gives you.
Sounds like you and I have the same cable box. There is a nice little port that says SPDIF, but it's blank.... nothing there. What about Y/Pb/Pr outputs for video? It's a digital signal coming in right? Why must I have an interlaced signal coming out? And the best part: I called and asked for a better box... something that had REAL digital output. They laughed. Unfortunately, it's not like I can just got to bestbuy or costco and get a better box either.
I also asked about HDTV via cable... they said that it's technically not possible.... on their website however, it's an option in several markets. Don't feed me bull, just tell me that my market isn't big enough to bother with... and that we have no competition.