Stuff VaR, I find it hard enough to get any clients to create and maintain a Vision Document (RUP - or any other similar document from another framework) for their project. This ha always proved to be the biggest risk.
Then there are those stunning Risk Registers with the Likelihood and Impact factors assigned during the one and only "risk workshop", that is akin to decision by committee, that are never looked at again. Does anyone know who I apply to for those hours of my life spent in Risk Workshops back.
Install Greasemonkey in Firefox then add the Youtube download script. This adds a "Download this video" link to the bottom of videos on the Youtube site.
The videos are good quality/size also. I have used this heaps
Having worked in a bank that was planning to move to SOX I always wondered how they would do without Excel. A lot of their system interfaces spat out a CSV (or similar data file), someone checked it in Excel and corrected it (Because either the in or out interface had some issues they could not spend the time to fix) and then upload it. This is especially the case when interfacing with Mainframe systems. Generally, the business process is like this
Export the file to CSV
Check it for errors and fix as required
Add in the rows it always missed
Save the file, sometimes using VBA written by the last person working there that has left the country
Convert to EBCDIC(??) using the dodgy converter downloaded from the internet
FTP to mainframe
Hope like hell it works again this month and you dont need to raise a Business Case to get a developer in Bangalore to work on it
Try "Ironwood", a colloquial name for some hardwood timbers.
While working as a structural engineer I designed and supervised the strengthening of an older building to resist the earthquake forces. To install the steel diagonal bracing in the roof we had to drill bolts through the Ironwood beams. The contractor had to use a diamond drill designed for concrete as nothing else worked.
Interestingly, the beams were hand shaped as you could see the marks from the tool used. Obviously the old builders (circa 1890) found them harder to work with also.
David Lange is the porson that made the. David, now deceased, is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand and a brilliant speaker. If interested have a listen or read the Transcript to the Oxford Debate on the topic "Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible" where he spoke in the affirmative against Jerry Falwell.
My favourite quote of his was to a reporter. The reporter asked "Prime Minister, can I have a short word?" and David Lange kept walking and responded "Wombat". Love him or hate him he had a certain brilliance about him.
I am in the IT healthcare field at present and have had a look at EHR (Electronic Health Records) and other iniatives. For an overall healthcare experience the data is one component of the quacks keeping me alive. Process is the other. I recommend looking at IHE (Integrating the Health Enterprise) and what they are trying to achieve using existing and open standards. Here is the intro from their website.
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.
Telecom New Zealand has a new Go Large plan. The advertising says no limits but the conditions say more than 750Mb in one day is deemed excessive. Then there is the Traffic Managment that is not advertised. mmmm
Even better, 1 Receive meeting invite 2 Decline meeting 3 Meeting update is sent 4 You receive no update even though you are still on the Recipient List
At my last contract I had one of those chairs. They are fricken awesomely confortable. Your back doesnt sweat, legs/quads stay confortable even after long periods in the chair. Everything was adjustable and they are nice to look at.
Granted this was a bank trading department and the traders, and consequently associated staff, had the best of most things.
I miss that chair and none I have tried since comes clost for comport.
How about putting as many of your business functions on a linux box, for the ultimate Wank factor create a custome Knoppix Disk and startup in front of them, that enables the attendees to do their work.
The idea is to suprise them at what they could do on Linux with OS apps. Ensure you have network access and can fire up a browser and access network documents.
Follow up with a rough summary of the licensing costs for the entire organisation per PC making sure your figures are transparent.
If you could provide access to their:
Email
Documents (Open Office)
Adobe Reader for Linux or other
Browser with flash and shockwave plugins Plugins are for those who would scoff at them not being there
IBM has released a Linux based technology enabling the visualization of infectious agents across the United States at any point in time, providing scientists and public health officials with a powerful tool for understanding, and potentially preventing, the spread of infectious diseases.
Being able to model the data using different visualization/modelling techniques has the potential to allow officials to identify areas of interest. For more info look at
ESRIs Website.
For example: Map the Maximum growth rate per head of population to identify geographic areas where the disease grew the fastest. Combine this with census/demographic information such as Population density, ethnicity, Std of living. Display as a heat map (eg Red Max, Green Min).
Visually, some data can be mined for useful information qith some speed.
If you have put the total of your requirements in your post then your requirements are as follows:
keep employee details
allow the Web-based booking, signing off and tracking of holiday requests
act as a repository for personnel-level correspondence and activities between staff and Area Managers
Think about using eGroupware. You already have it installed and know the application. Try to make it meet your requirements.
Can you add custom fields to eGroupware? If so you could store a lot of this information in there
eGroupware has a meeting request system. Could you use this as a leave request system. Employee enters in leave request, invites the approving manager, manager approves or rejects. From http://www.egroupware.org/?category_id=43
* How can I allow my secretary to "manage" my calendar ?
Manage means to eGW that the secretary has to be able to add appointments to your calendar and confirm them on your behalf. You have to grant the secretary read, edit and add access to your calendar. Go to your preferences and start Calendar / Grant access. Check read, edit and add for that user. Your secretary can then select your calendar in any view and add appointsments to it.*...
Have a look at http://www.egroupware.org/acl
as this would seem to allow you to meet the third requirement. You should be able to make this work.
If you could make eGroupware meet the HR requirements this would simplify things for you with less applications to run, less training required.
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Stuff VaR, I find it hard enough to get any clients to create and maintain a Vision Document (RUP - or any other similar document from another framework) for their project. This ha always proved to be the biggest risk.
Then there are those stunning Risk Registers with the Likelihood and Impact factors assigned during the one and only "risk workshop", that is akin to decision by committee, that are never looked at again. Does anyone know who I apply to for those hours of my life spent in Risk Workshops back.
My $0.02 is spent.
Someone has lost their sense of humour today. (FTR, I live in NZ and am not offended by someone on the internet not knowing how big Auckland is)
Well played Master
Install Greasemonkey in Firefox then add the Youtube download script. This adds a "Download this video" link to the bottom of videos on the Youtube site. The videos are good quality/size also. I have used this heaps
Try "Ironwood", a colloquial name for some hardwood timbers. While working as a structural engineer I designed and supervised the strengthening of an older building to resist the earthquake forces. To install the steel diagonal bracing in the roof we had to drill bolts through the Ironwood beams. The contractor had to use a diamond drill designed for concrete as nothing else worked. Interestingly, the beams were hand shaped as you could see the marks from the tool used. Obviously the old builders (circa 1890) found them harder to work with also.
I have used ODBC to both CSV and fixed width text files with good results. Try a Google Search
David Lange is the porson that made the. David, now deceased, is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand and a brilliant speaker. If interested have a listen or read the Transcript to the Oxford Debate on the topic "Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible" where he spoke in the affirmative against Jerry Falwell.
My favourite quote of his was to a reporter. The reporter asked "Prime Minister, can I have a short word?" and David Lange kept walking and responded "Wombat". Love him or hate him he had a certain brilliance about him.
I am in the IT healthcare field at present and have had a look at EHR (Electronic Health Records) and other iniatives. For an overall healthcare experience the data is one component of the quacks keeping me alive. Process is the other. I recommend looking at IHE (Integrating the Health Enterprise) and what they are trying to achieve using existing and open standards. Here is the intro from their website.
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.I for one am very happy to know that there is hope for Autistic mice.
When will the treatment be available in pet shops.
Telecom New Zealand has a new Go Large plan. The advertising says no limits but the conditions say more than 750Mb in one day is deemed excessive. Then there is the Traffic Managment that is not advertised. mmmm
Some links:
Traffic Management on the Go Large plan
Telecom to refund $8m to broadband customers
Telecom New Zealand backpedals and remove un-capped broadband plan Go Large
I have always liked carcino.gen.nz as a domain. He has a good collection of photos also.
I might want to go to the updated meeting. The person booking the meeting does not know it has not been sent to those that declined originally.
Even better,
1 Receive meeting invite
2 Decline meeting
3 Meeting update is sent
4 You receive no update even though you are still on the Recipient List
Gavin
At my last contract I had one of those chairs. They are fricken awesomely confortable. Your back doesnt sweat, legs/quads stay confortable even after long periods in the chair. Everything was adjustable and they are nice to look at.
Granted this was a bank trading department and the traders, and consequently associated staff, had the best of most things.
I miss that chair and none I have tried since comes clost for comport.
Until the US moves to Metric they should stay the hell away from changing the current time system.
It most likely would have saved The Challenger
Amen brother. As soon as that ring hits their finger they go into super Change the husband mode. Mind you, the sex last night was great!!!
I am another Kiwi supporting this bill. And I am suprised the bill is sensible from a users point of view.
Move along. Small scientific religious faction. Nothing to see.
How about putting as many of your business functions on a linux box, for the ultimate Wank factor create a custome Knoppix Disk and startup in front of them, that enables the attendees to do their work.
The idea is to suprise them at what they could do on Linux with OS apps. Ensure you have network access and can fire up a browser and access network documents.
Follow up with a rough summary of the licensing costs for the entire organisation per PC making sure your figures are transparent.
If you could provide access to their:
Adobe Reader for Linux or other
Plugins are for those who would scoff at them not being there
Database apps
Web/XML
Who just read the Technical Writing book?
Spatio (Spatial) = Location
IBM has released a Linux based technology enabling the visualization of infectious agents across the United States at any point in time, providing scientists and public health officials with a powerful tool for understanding, and potentially preventing, the spread of infectious diseases.Temporal = Time
Being able to model the data using different visualization/modelling techniques has the potential to allow officials to identify areas of interest. For more info look at ESRIs Website.
For example: Map the Maximum growth rate per head of population to identify geographic areas where the disease grew the fastest. Combine this with census/demographic information such as Population density, ethnicity, Std of living. Display as a heat map (eg Red Max, Green Min).
Visually, some data can be mined for useful information qith some speed.
Have a look at Relayfax. They have opensourced their engine on Sourceforge although it is a Windows only C++ solution.
I just recently installed Relayfax at a clients site and it is working well.
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Evolution - Still a theory just dont tell its religious zealouts, the Evolutionians.
HR != Payroll
Some systems are referref to as HR/Payroll. These do both.
If you have put the total of your requirements in your post then your requirements are as follows:
Think about using eGroupware. You already have it installed and know the application. Try to make it meet your requirements.
Can you add custom fields to eGroupware? If so you could store a lot of this information in there
eGroupware has a meeting request system. Could you use this as a leave request system. Employee enters in leave request, invites the approving manager, manager approves or rejects. From http://www.egroupware.org/?category_id=43
Have a look at http://www.egroupware.org/acl as this would seem to allow you to meet the third requirement. You should be able to make this work.
If you could make eGroupware meet the HR requirements this would simplify things for you with less applications to run, less training required.
Gavin