Journalists do this muckraking to raise controversy, and stir up the pot. I had the same kinda thing talking to local reporters about wardriving -- "Ooh, hackers spamming everyone from open Wi-Fi spots!" You tell them one thing, and they'll figure out what makes their story sensationalized. Then you hear the story, and learn that they ignored what you told them, even if you tried hard to make your point clear.
I think the best thing to do is to talk to the reporters. It is up to them to quote you properly, and get the story straight.
This is why I setup Recruiter-Rater -- to find and rate technical recruiters. There is lots of jobboard SPAM and SCAMs out there, and you can use this website to find out whether your recruiter is good or not -- before you send your resume.
I left highschool early, and got a GED. I did badly on the SATs, too, and did not go to college. While it is more difficult to get past the HR people, most of the jobs I've had were because of what I do, not how I did in school. While it would be nice to have a Masters in CS from CMU or MIT, I just cannot get one of those from there. I have to stand-out on other merits instead.
I have a GED, and believe I am completely qualified to be a UNIX sysadmin -- I have 10 years of experience. Yes, I also get tossed right off the top, but I probably don't want to work in those places, anyway. At least that's what I tell myself whenever I eat my last packet of ramen in the dark.
Wow, Jeff Taylor is a long way from just above Sampan's in Framingham. You have to remember that first and foremost, Monster is a bigtime cash cow. Doesn't matter if the website is useful for finding work, I've never found work on Monster. They make their money from selling the job postings, whether they're even used or not. THEN, they make money on their advertising, and from their job seekers looking to bump-up their rating.
They are the largest jobsite on the Internet, and that is their selling point. All of everything you see on their website, and they way they do things is all designed to make money, not get you a job. One of my parents is a salesperson at Monster.
As a contractor working alot with recruiters, I found the best way is to keep track of who is good, and who is bogus. For this, I setup (shameless plug) Recruiter-Rater, as a way to find and rate tehcnical recruiters. Mostly I've done the posting, but other users have started to contribute their experiences. There really isn't another way to find out which gigs are SPAM, and which are valid, until you do some research, or compare with other people.
I get modeling agencies. Honestly, from Monster! I am clearly and obviously a UNIX sysadmin, but that doesn't mean I won't get hit-up for banker jobs, telemarketing, COBOL jobs in Virgina, or even modeling agency jobs. Maybe they like the long hair, or the tube-tan =_)
Right away, when I meet a new recruiter, I can tell when they don't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to my trade. All they know is that I came up in a keyword search. So ya, I throw alot of keywords on my resume. In fact, I have an entire block of keywords on my resume, just so that I can harvest contact information for my website. It is almost meaningless to secure a job, either straight through the front door, or through an agency.
Nobody likes to bitch about HR more than I. I'll be nice, though. HR people couldn't possibly perform any other function in society, except for maybe insurance claims processing. They don't ever seem to grasp how flexible many of us geeks really are. If a position requires X ammount of blah experience, they don't know what that kind of experience it is, or what it entails, or even how it relates to the job. They get little check-off items from the hiring manager. "Do you have TCP/IP?" they ask me. "Uh, yeah," I tell them.
Recruiters are kinda the same. Yes, there are people that have been in the industry forever, and those are the useful people to have on your contact list. Most of them are just useless people that couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. Not only do they not understand the work, but they don't even make things easy for me. I have to drive way out somewhere, meet them, talk for a few minutes, and then I never hear from them again. Aren't I here to make them money?
Most of the time I get work through word of mouth, networking, and being prominent in my field. Sometimes I'll find a good recruiter with the right req. Otherwise, I just rate them.
Totally. I have to post about MythTV, I am a big fan.
I chose the KnoppMyth distro, which installs quite easily, but blows away your hard disk, and sets itself up neatly. I did try the RedHat RPM version (dag?), but I found it much easier to use the knoppix than the RPM version, due to things like remote control setups, and the like -- they're all there for you with KnoppMyth.
I'm using an old 850Mhz Pentium 3 I think. I've had the Intel mainboard for a while, and it kept (incorrectly) reporting disk errors with Windows, and bluescreening -- an old mainboard.
I used to use old ATI tuners, without the hardware MPEG. You'll need a pretty hardcore machine to read the data, compress it, and then write it to disk. I picked up a PVR-150, which has a hardware MPEG encoder. I paid $99 for it at COMPUSA, which is too much. Grab the card with two tuners from an online voodoo hut.
We don't have any big cable package -- just the cable TV that comes with the Comcast Internet. It is $10 cheaper if we have the cable, presumably because they want you to buy the $40 upgrade. Anyway, we have only like 12 channels of slightly useful stuff. But, with MythTV, we can make sure we get to watch Futurama, ST:TNG, and the other geeky shows we like to watch.
Hell, I love it. It downloads the showtimes and listings, records your shows, has priority and quality settings, lets you play MAME ROMs, lets you play other video files you have, will play DVDs, MP3s, has an image browser -- it is rediculously full-featured. There's a VOIP module, DVD-burning support, and much much more. I'm using the KnoppMyth version, which only needed me to tell it about my remote control, and setup the buttons.
What an interesting concept, and I've been lusting over this technology since I heard about it (uh, on/.). Just think -- we can make fuel, and take care of our population problem at the same time with this equasion:
So as such, and speaking as a longtime computer user, that Not only can Bill take his "Windows Tax" and $action it in his $item, but Steve can do the same with his "Mac Tax". If I truly want a nice well-built laptop, and want a truly superior computing experience, I will just have to wait. Instead, it's Linux on a Dell for me.
I sent applied several times over the years to Microsoft. I think I got form-letters in reply, thanking me for doing so. I guess there just aren't many jobs for a UNIX systems administrator at Microsoft. Too bad, too, as I think I'd be able to help them, in some small way.
Right, now instead of people hammering at the security part, imagine that people are hammering at getting their favorite devices to work on the platform. I can't believe Apple doesn't want OSX (or whatever) to be the dominant operating system.
Hell. If given a choice between XP and OSX for my existing x86 laptop, I'd rather have OSX. Why not just let me buy it in the store?
I still have half a case of:CueCats here, which I can't even give away. The owner of the radio shack store wanted me to take two cases! Good post, that was funny =_)
Full-on! It surely is great to see devices like this serving not only multiple purposes, but designed so well that they perform their duties well long after their life expectancy. Can of these space vehicles can be designed in such a way as to have life after death? Like, long long life?
It is a shame that what once was some sort of religeous holliday, has now been pounced on by the retail industry as a major source of income. When I go xmass shopping, I don't feel the warm feeling of shopping in the snow with other hurried patrons. Instead, I am filled with fears of inadequacy, at not being a good consumer, or gift giver. However, it is more distasteful to be taken advantage of by the greed of the retailers.
It makes sense to me that Bluetooth would be useful in this scenario. A program runs on your phone, detecting existing bluetooth nodes. Some of them, hearable from the theatre, are labeled 'Quiet Zone' or something. Your phone uses this to change your ringer to vibrate. Imagine the implications for abuse. Perhaps you'd need to carry with you a database of quiet-zones, and just match 'em up...
Wow, Borland is still in business? I remember that I never got Turbo C to compile the examples that were in the book that came with it. I blame them for me not being such a great programmer.
Same here. This is what drives me to play Dance Dance Revolution, We Love Katamari, and take-up an interest in some of the other odd games out there. Multiplayer GTA would be fab, though I wouldn't pay to play.
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Journalists do this muckraking to raise controversy, and stir up the pot. I had the same kinda thing talking to local reporters about wardriving -- "Ooh, hackers spamming everyone from open Wi-Fi spots!" You tell them one thing, and they'll figure out what makes their story sensationalized. Then you hear the story, and learn that they ignored what you told them, even if you tried hard to make your point clear.
I think the best thing to do is to talk to the reporters. It is up to them to quote you properly, and get the story straight.
This is why I setup Recruiter-Rater -- to find and rate technical recruiters. There is lots of jobboard SPAM and SCAMs out there, and you can use this website to find out whether your recruiter is good or not -- before you send your resume.
Aren't all plugs shameless?
I left highschool early, and got a GED. I did badly on the SATs, too, and did not go to college. While it is more difficult to get past the HR people, most of the jobs I've had were because of what I do, not how I did in school. While it would be nice to have a Masters in CS from CMU or MIT, I just cannot get one of those from there. I have to stand-out on other merits instead.
Are they going to ban names like Jehova, Jaweh, and Prince too?
I have a GED, and believe I am completely qualified to be a UNIX sysadmin -- I have 10 years of experience. Yes, I also get tossed right off the top, but I probably don't want to work in those places, anyway. At least that's what I tell myself whenever I eat my last packet of ramen in the dark.
Wow, Jeff Taylor is a long way from just above Sampan's in Framingham. You have to remember that first and foremost, Monster is a bigtime cash cow. Doesn't matter if the website is useful for finding work, I've never found work on Monster. They make their money from selling the job postings, whether they're even used or not. THEN, they make money on their advertising, and from their job seekers looking to bump-up their rating.
They are the largest jobsite on the Internet, and that is their selling point. All of everything you see on their website, and they way they do things is all designed to make money, not get you a job. One of my parents is a salesperson at Monster.
As a contractor working alot with recruiters, I found the best way is to keep track of who is good, and who is bogus. For this, I setup (shameless plug) Recruiter-Rater, as a way to find and rate tehcnical recruiters. Mostly I've done the posting, but other users have started to contribute their experiences. There really isn't another way to find out which gigs are SPAM, and which are valid, until you do some research, or compare with other people.
I get modeling agencies. Honestly, from Monster! I am clearly and obviously a UNIX sysadmin, but that doesn't mean I won't get hit-up for banker jobs, telemarketing, COBOL jobs in Virgina, or even modeling agency jobs. Maybe they like the long hair, or the tube-tan =_)
Right away, when I meet a new recruiter, I can tell when they don't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to my trade. All they know is that I came up in a keyword search. So ya, I throw alot of keywords on my resume. In fact, I have an entire block of keywords on my resume, just so that I can harvest contact information for my website. It is almost meaningless to secure a job, either straight through the front door, or through an agency.
Nobody likes to bitch about HR more than I. I'll be nice, though. HR people couldn't possibly perform any other function in society, except for maybe insurance claims processing. They don't ever seem to grasp how flexible many of us geeks really are. If a position requires X ammount of blah experience, they don't know what that kind of experience it is, or what it entails, or even how it relates to the job. They get little check-off items from the hiring manager. "Do you have TCP/IP?" they ask me. "Uh, yeah," I tell them.
Recruiters are kinda the same. Yes, there are people that have been in the industry forever, and those are the useful people to have on your contact list. Most of them are just useless people that couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. Not only do they not understand the work, but they don't even make things easy for me. I have to drive way out somewhere, meet them, talk for a few minutes, and then I never hear from them again. Aren't I here to make them money?
Most of the time I get work through word of mouth, networking, and being prominent in my field. Sometimes I'll find a good recruiter with the right req. Otherwise, I just rate them.
Totally. I have to post about MythTV, I am a big fan.
I chose the KnoppMyth distro, which installs quite easily, but blows away your hard disk, and sets itself up neatly. I did try the RedHat RPM version (dag?), but I found it much easier to use the knoppix than the RPM version, due to things like remote control setups, and the like -- they're all there for you with KnoppMyth.
I'm using an old 850Mhz Pentium 3 I think. I've had the Intel mainboard for a while, and it kept (incorrectly) reporting disk errors with Windows, and bluescreening -- an old mainboard.
I used to use old ATI tuners, without the hardware MPEG. You'll need a pretty hardcore machine to read the data, compress it, and then write it to disk. I picked up a PVR-150, which has a hardware MPEG encoder. I paid $99 for it at COMPUSA, which is too much. Grab the card with two tuners from an online voodoo hut.
We don't have any big cable package -- just the cable TV that comes with the Comcast Internet. It is $10 cheaper if we have the cable, presumably because they want you to buy the $40 upgrade. Anyway, we have only like 12 channels of slightly useful stuff. But, with MythTV, we can make sure we get to watch Futurama, ST:TNG, and the other geeky shows we like to watch.
Hell, I love it. It downloads the showtimes and listings, records your shows, has priority and quality settings, lets you play MAME ROMs, lets you play other video files you have, will play DVDs, MP3s, has an image browser -- it is rediculously full-featured. There's a VOIP module, DVD-burning support, and much much more. I'm using the KnoppMyth version, which only needed me to tell it about my remote control, and setup the buttons.
You must mean MythTV.
What an interesting concept, and I've been lusting over this technology since I heard about it (uh, on /.). Just think -- we can make fuel, and take care of our population problem at the same time with this equasion:
People = Fuel
So as such, and speaking as a longtime computer user, that Not only can Bill take his "Windows Tax" and $action it in his $item, but Steve can do the same with his "Mac Tax". If I truly want a nice well-built laptop, and want a truly superior computing experience, I will just have to wait. Instead, it's Linux on a Dell for me.
...but you have to know the limits of your disks! =_)
Seconded. Even better if she rolls the joint for you =_)
I sent applied several times over the years to Microsoft. I think I got form-letters in reply, thanking me for doing so. I guess there just aren't many jobs for a UNIX systems administrator at Microsoft. Too bad, too, as I think I'd be able to help them, in some small way.
Right, now instead of people hammering at the security part, imagine that people are hammering at getting their favorite devices to work on the platform. I can't believe Apple doesn't want OSX (or whatever) to be the dominant operating system.
Hell. If given a choice between XP and OSX for my existing x86 laptop, I'd rather have OSX. Why not just let me buy it in the store?
I still have half a case of :CueCats here, which I can't even give away. The owner of the radio shack store wanted me to take two cases! Good post, that was funny =_)
Full-on! It surely is great to see devices like this serving not only multiple purposes, but designed so well that they perform their duties well long after their life expectancy. Can of these space vehicles can be designed in such a way as to have life after death? Like, long long life?
And automated mass-production?
It is a shame that what once was some sort of religeous holliday, has now been pounced on by the retail industry as a major source of income. When I go xmass shopping, I don't feel the warm feeling of shopping in the snow with other hurried patrons. Instead, I am filled with fears of inadequacy, at not being a good consumer, or gift giver. However, it is more distasteful to be taken advantage of by the greed of the retailers.
War on xmass it is, then.
You can also combine all three. Using Bluetooth, I think you're allowed to send some sort of SMS-type message to the phone (if they're allowed).
"Hay, you're leaving the theatre. Did you turn your ringer back on?"
It makes sense to me that Bluetooth would be useful in this scenario. A program runs on your phone, detecting existing bluetooth nodes. Some of them, hearable from the theatre, are labeled 'Quiet Zone' or something. Your phone uses this to change your ringer to vibrate. Imagine the implications for abuse. Perhaps you'd need to carry with you a database of quiet-zones, and just match 'em up...
Wow, Borland is still in business? I remember that I never got Turbo C to compile the examples that were in the book that came with it. I blame them for me not being such a great programmer.
Same here. This is what drives me to play Dance Dance Revolution, We Love Katamari, and take-up an interest in some of the other odd games out there. Multiplayer GTA would be fab, though I wouldn't pay to play.