>I always lie to clients and say "I don't know how to do Crystal Reports"
Yeah, that's such a great idea. Why don't you just say that "Crystal Reports often requires a lot of time to do anything outside a simple report" instead of lying? Or how about, "I could build it a lot quicker and save you a lot of money"?
>John C. having some trouble getting the little Scrub in Keen2 to carry the player on its back and, as always, The Carmack figures the shit out and gets it done
>or maybe just figure out how to use rsync over an ssh tunnel.
Definitely possible. The syntax is a bit backwards though - from memory setup SSH to open another port tunnel, then run Rsync.
I did this in my old job - but ended up writing my own mini-rsync because rsync kept crashing when connecting linux to hpux on a dodgy network:) If interested in the C code let me know.
From the words of a relatively experienced consultant:
Don't say no, say yes, and explain how long it will take (3 months) and when you can get started (in 6 months). Of course you must be very polite and empathise with them. Tell them that you understand how annoying their current problem might be.
Write a list of jobs, prioritise them, and then stick to the damn thing like superglue. If anyone has a request, listen to them, write it done, forward it onto your boss. Or alternatively if your boss is useless, stick the item at the bottom of the list. (my boss was so useless I ended up writing a small web-app to do this for me, and then for other people, and then for other people in different projects). But most importantly if you stick to your prioritised tasks you'll actually get some work done instead of constantly task switching, which wastes everybodies time.
Alternatively, if the request is just stupid, don't say "No, that's dumb", say "Maybe we could also (instead) do this, which would result in also having these positives, on top of what you've already said.". Diplomacy is the key!
Another important thing is to not let these users prioritise your tasks. They will all end up "super high" or something equally useless. Just use your own numbering scale from 1-10.
The alternative is to piss off all of your users, say yes to everything, look like you never get anything done, stress yourself into a heart attack by 40, write crappy buggy code and to hate your job. It's your choice.
>so if it wasn't turned on when I booted the machine (had to turn scanner off when not in use >as the lamp stayed on all the time) I had to reboot windows.
I can see how difficult it must be to remember, "Turn on scanner, turn on computer".
And then, "Shut down computer, turn off scanner".
>Moved it to my Linux machine, now I just rmmod aic7xxx then modprobe aic7xxx every time I want the scanner. I even wrote a tiny little shell script and put an icon on the desktop so my wife/kids can do it.
Wow, you installed a new OS, wrote some arcane code just so you wouldn't have to remember to turn on your scanner? Congratulations.
mp3.com.au has already done this perfectly. Awesome site. My music is up here. Free to register, free to listen... did Cliff do any research on this question?
.. can't these guys find something slightly more practical to work on? Finding out if Tetris is NP-Hard... honestly.. do something useful with your existence.
Wow, I didn't know that these things still existed.. I'll have to check it out. I remember playing "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" about 15 years ago.. must have been one of the first for the PC. Classic game.
Great comments samwhite..NET promises to fix a lot of these problems.. but I am vey cautious about it's performance capabilties and how it will end up working in the real world. Plus who the hell wants IIS as their production server in a high-load environment? After code-red + nimbda, no-one if they can help it.
Sorry, I didn't want to get into a j2ee vs.net argument.
We're toying with the Linux version of Weblogic, the biggest plus being that it forces our developers to write code that drops to log files (right now they insist on using Weblogic running in DOS boxes interactively on the desktop(!!!) so they can monitor it realtime).
I'd recommend going to Log4J for all of your output. Makes it quite easy to dump everything to a nice log file, zip it each night and take it off the production server. If the only reason you're moving to linux is so you can use better logging capabilities, it sounds like you're wasting your time.
Having said that, I used linux (and hpux) and weblogic, and ended up starting/stopping it from the command line. Very useful for examining startup/shutdown error messages real-time.
I work for one of the top 5 IT companies, and we also had _huge_ troubles with EJB's and Weblogic 5.1. We ended up pulling in a BEA consultant for $1000 a day and still couldn't get the problem fixed. A nightware. I ended up re-writing the website using servlets, JSP's, Corba and straight JavaBeans, doing my best to avoid EJB's. The connection pooling worked fine (after a while) so it wasn't much of an issue. I still got some mighty strange errors sometimes. (ever got pkzip out-of-memory exceptions when deploying?)
The number one rule was, if something doesn't work, re-start weblogic. It become our biggest in-joke. You have no idea how many times somebody goes "there's a problem with.." and someone shouted back "./stopWebLogic.sh;./startWeblogic.sh"!!!
Another ALS sufferer is Jason Becker. He was an awesome guitarist until this crippling disease struck him down. You might want to consider trying to get in touch with him: http://www.jasonbecker.com/. Good luck.
It's technology like this that gives me the heeby-jeebies. I wouldn't want to accidently turn up the volume too loud...
We can now blind people, deafen people and "incapacitate" people. I wonder how long it will take before all of our other senses can be destroyed by 'technology'?
Apart from making fun of the BCC, what is the point of reporting this item? Do we really care about an asteroid that's going to burn up on impact or not even go near the earth?
I'm also interested in what the health risks might be. I understand that mobile phones are pretty dodgy, but the US are doing their best to hide this research. Are there any decent studies showing the long-term effects of mobile phones on the brain?
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>I always lie to clients and say "I don't know how to do Crystal Reports"
Yeah, that's such a great idea. Why don't you just say that "Crystal Reports often requires a lot of time to do anything outside a simple report" instead of lying? Or how about, "I could build it a lot quicker and save you a lot of money"?
Bit of a difference from his Earlier days!.
My favourite quote from this article:
>John C. having some trouble getting the little Scrub in Keen2 to carry the player on its back and, as always, The Carmack figures the shit out and gets it done
>or maybe just figure out how to use rsync over an ssh tunnel.
:) If interested in the C code let me know.
Definitely possible. The syntax is a bit backwards though - from memory setup SSH to open another port tunnel, then run Rsync.
I did this in my old job - but ended up writing my own mini-rsync because rsync kept crashing when connecting linux to hpux on a dodgy network
Maybe I've missed something here.. but remind me.. why exactly do we care again?
From the words of a relatively experienced consultant:
Don't say no, say yes, and explain how long it will take (3 months) and when you can get started (in 6 months). Of course you must be very polite and empathise with them. Tell them that you understand how annoying their current problem might be.
Write a list of jobs, prioritise them, and then stick to the damn thing like superglue. If anyone has a request, listen to them, write it done, forward it onto your boss. Or alternatively if your boss is useless, stick the item at the bottom of the list. (my boss was so useless I ended up writing a small web-app to do this for me, and then for other people, and then for other people in different projects). But most importantly if you stick to your prioritised tasks you'll actually get some work done instead of constantly task switching, which wastes everybodies time.
Alternatively, if the request is just stupid, don't say "No, that's dumb", say "Maybe we could also (instead) do this, which would result in also having these positives, on top of what you've already said.". Diplomacy is the key!
Another important thing is to not let these users prioritise your tasks. They will all end up "super high" or something equally useless. Just use your own numbering scale from 1-10.
The alternative is to piss off all of your users, say yes to everything, look like you never get anything done, stress yourself into a heart attack by 40, write crappy buggy code and to hate your job. It's your choice.
Welcome to the real world!
>so if it wasn't turned on when I booted the machine (had to turn scanner off when not in use
>as the lamp stayed on all the time) I had to reboot windows.
I can see how difficult it must be to remember, "Turn on scanner, turn on computer". And then, "Shut down computer, turn off scanner".
>Moved it to my Linux machine, now I just rmmod aic7xxx then modprobe aic7xxx every time I want the scanner. I even wrote a tiny little shell script and put an icon on the desktop so my wife/kids can do it.
Wow, you installed a new OS, wrote some arcane code just so you wouldn't have to remember to turn on your scanner? Congratulations.
Watch it mate...
mp3.com.au has already done this perfectly. Awesome site. My music is up here. Free to register, free to listen... did Cliff do any research on this question?
Go farther, and roll your own distro.
Yeah.. it's as simple as that. Just make your own. We all have the time to create Red Hat 7...
Can you imagine writing code to be deployed onto 4500 servers and get hit 1.5 billion times a day? That's nuts.
How useful... this is exactly the piece of technology that I was waiting for.
.. can't these guys find something slightly more practical to work on? Finding out if Tetris is NP-Hard... honestly.. do something useful with your existence.
- hotmail email
- work email
- work email 2
- mobile
- home number
- work number
Naturally I give these out to different people for different contexts. There is no way I'd want everyone to know all of them!My question is, What problem are they trying to solve?
Wow, I didn't know that these things still existed.. I'll have to check it out. I remember playing "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" about 15 years ago.. must have been one of the first for the PC. Classic game.
Great comments samwhite. .NET promises to fix a lot of these problems.. but I am vey cautious about it's performance capabilties and how it will end up working in the real world. Plus who the hell wants IIS as their production server in a high-load environment? After code-red + nimbda, no-one if they can help it.
.net argument.
Sorry, I didn't want to get into a j2ee vs
We're toying with the Linux version of Weblogic, the biggest plus being that it forces our developers to write code that drops to log files (right now they insist on using Weblogic running in DOS boxes interactively on the desktop(!!!) so they can monitor it realtime).
I'd recommend going to Log4J for all of your output. Makes it quite easy to dump everything to a nice log file, zip it each night and take it off the production server. If the only reason you're moving to linux is so you can use better logging capabilities, it sounds like you're wasting your time. Having said that, I used linux (and hpux) and weblogic, and ended up starting/stopping it from the command line. Very useful for examining startup/shutdown error messages real-time.
I work for one of the top 5 IT companies, and we also had _huge_ troubles with EJB's and Weblogic 5.1. We ended up pulling in a BEA consultant for $1000 a day and still couldn't get the problem fixed. A nightware. I ended up re-writing the website using servlets, JSP's, Corba and straight JavaBeans, doing my best to avoid EJB's. The connection pooling worked fine (after a while) so it wasn't much of an issue. I still got some mighty strange errors sometimes. (ever got pkzip out-of-memory exceptions when deploying?)
./startWeblogic.sh"!!!
The number one rule was, if something doesn't work, re-start weblogic. It become our biggest in-joke. You have no idea how many times somebody goes "there's a problem with.." and someone shouted back "./stopWebLogic.sh;
Another ALS sufferer is Jason Becker. He was an awesome guitarist until this crippling disease struck him down. You might want to consider trying to get in touch with him: http://www.jasonbecker.com/. Good luck.
Yeah man.. awesome.. imagine how much it would freak out _you_.
We can now blind people, deafen people and "incapacitate" people. I wonder how long it will take before all of our other senses can be destroyed by 'technology'?
Apart from making fun of the BCC, what is the point of reporting this item? Do we really care about an asteroid that's going to burn up on impact or not even go near the earth?
I wonder how much force the body can stand being spun around on the spot? That is, before you are violently sick :)
I'm also interested in what the health risks might be. I understand that mobile phones are pretty dodgy, but the US are doing their best to hide this research. Are there any decent studies showing the long-term effects of mobile phones on the brain?