I agree - a dedicated IT purchasing agent would be a great position in the IT organization. It'd make a good junior position. They get to learn the hardware side and how the organization runs. Initially, you'd have to have someone sanity check their decisions (System Architect... or System Admin depending on size of company)-- but I think they'd come up to speed quickly.
We too had the issues the above poster mentioned. It got so bad that a "shadow" IT department was formed by the engineering department. Ultimately, it wasn't until instructions were given to the accounting department that those individuals were not allowed to buy stuff that it finally quit.
Damage was done-- resource allocation was out of whack and burn rate continued to flame away.
Of course, by the time the company was getting it's "stuff" together in that area... the venture capital money was exhausted and the company became "dot gone", with nary a whisper.
I thought the same thing when it came to GUIs and a command line interface-- they must be for people with a weird disability.
Like attention deficit order.
Keyboard commands are clearly faster than a GUI:-p
On my Sony Vaio laptop, I've enabled the "functions" tab, off the mouse icon on the control panel, and it enables such exotic functions as:
Sliding Finger
Shortcut Menu
Auto scroll
Easy Launcher
Easy Capture
I've been using them for about a year now, and I rather like it. I do have the same problem, as one reader mentioned, of inadvertently closing a window I've been working on. Training wheels do come with it-- you can make it pop up a quick picture of the action it thinks you want it to do.
What's more disturbing, is that this laptop has Windows 2k on it-- and I rather like it! (ducking)
Dammit, I've been training for that mission all of my life!!
I can show you pictures of my Atari 2600 and my super high score!!
I'm ready to serve my country!
Word, dude.
Delete the config.cache , make clean, make install and life is good.
Where I had fun was pulling out the SSL references. Somehow c-client.a in/usr/local/lib/libc-client.a was in the mix and cause I had *that* compiled with SSL support make for Apache was dying, IMHO, that is.
Recompiled imap-2001a and php all from source and I'm happy again (er... well.. SSL support will be better, but not in as big a rush)
I saw 354... and now... Nothing.
I hope he's proud of taking a defenseless little beastie, Teathering it by it's power cord and then calling us to hunt it.
Well, that little Ipaq is free of our injurious gaze.
At least I only took a screen shot of it.
Leave nature where you find it!
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I think you worked in my company!
I agree - a dedicated IT purchasing agent would be a great position in the IT organization. It'd make a good junior position. They get to learn the hardware side and how the organization runs. Initially, you'd have to have someone sanity check their decisions (System Architect... or System Admin depending on size of company)-- but I think they'd come up to speed quickly.
We too had the issues the above poster mentioned. It got so bad that a "shadow" IT department was formed by the engineering department. Ultimately, it wasn't until instructions were given to the accounting department that those individuals were not allowed to buy stuff that it finally quit.
Damage was done-- resource allocation was out of whack and burn rate continued to flame away.
Of course, by the time the company was getting it's "stuff" together in that area... the venture capital money was exhausted and the company became "dot gone", with nary a whisper.
You guys are so naughty and zany!
I thought the same thing when it came to GUIs and a command line interface-- they must be for people with a weird disability.
:-p
Like attention deficit order.
Keyboard commands are clearly faster than a GUI
On my Sony Vaio laptop, I've enabled the "functions" tab, off the mouse icon on the control panel, and it enables such exotic functions as:
Sliding Finger
Shortcut Menu
Auto scroll
Easy Launcher
Easy Capture
I've been using them for about a year now, and I rather like it. I do have the same problem, as one reader mentioned, of inadvertently closing a window I've been working on. Training wheels do come with it-- you can make it pop up a quick picture of the action it thinks you want it to do.
What's more disturbing, is that this laptop has Windows 2k on it-- and I rather like it! (ducking)
Mod this one up-- damn it gave me a laugh! P.S. Avoid game show's by the ICS Network, as well!
Dammit, I've been training for that mission all of my life!! I can show you pictures of my Atari 2600 and my super high score!! I'm ready to serve my country!
Word, dude. Delete the config.cache , make clean, make install and life is good. Where I had fun was pulling out the SSL references. Somehow c-client.a in /usr/local/lib/libc-client.a was in the mix and cause I had *that* compiled with SSL support make for Apache was dying, IMHO, that is.
Recompiled imap-2001a and php all from source and I'm happy again (er... well.. SSL support will be better, but not in as big a rush)
I saw 354... and now... Nothing. I hope he's proud of taking a defenseless little beastie, Teathering it by it's power cord and then calling us to hunt it. Well, that little Ipaq is free of our injurious gaze. At least I only took a screen shot of it. Leave nature where you find it!