That's one way to look at it I guess. He could just have easily boosted his salary and cut staff. He didn't do that. Let's hear from the employees before we make judgment. Sure there is a good dose of PR in there, but if staff are getting raises and he is motivating them that will improve the company, and that is good business.
Exactly. Buy yourself a couple of 2 or 3 TB usb's. Encrypt them with Truecrypt and backup all your data to both. Now store one offsite. Update your backups (rsync for Linux or robocopy for Windows). Now swap your offsite with the one you had onsite that you updated. Keep doing this.
I am just not a cloud type of guy. I know some people prefer that but it makes no sense to me when it is so easy, cheap, fast and most importantly, secure.
Will we be legislated off the roads as hazards to society? Anyway didn't Google just say that they are nowhere near being able to handle winter conditions. Yet we keep hearing that by 2020 these will be on the roads. tick tick....
One link on a wiki about fictional psychohistory? 10000 years into the future is incomprehensible and whoever exists in that time will laugh at us. Just write sci-fi instead.
Not picking on you specifically, just answering a chorus of boos from the peanut gallery. People have lost their love of how stuff works. Who cares if you can't use it as the real thing. I can think of no better way to learn about transmissions than what this guy had done. And all the negative posters on Slashdot just shrug and criticize. You do this stuff because __you can__, end of story, no other reason needed. From the interest he has received I am thankful others still get joy from doing stuff for purely learning and discovery purposes. They are the ones that go on to invent cool things. The rest drool over their shiny new sealed smartphones and tablets.
I knew, I just knew that after reading the summary and it contained the word 'gun' that the whole first thread would be another useless gun debate with "second amendment" being brought up and people questioning each others parentage.
This is very touching and I can only begin to imagine, as the father of a 5 year old son, how I would cope with this. Strangely enough, I have given it some thought in the past. What if I am not here, how will my wife and son fare? What would I want to tell my son, being the age he is at and all of the experiences I would miss. You have already touched on video messages but also consider leaving her your written thoughts. These can be shorter musings, your inner thoughts to share with her. Stuff she can pick up without having to experience the intensity of a video. Take the opportunity to share who you are with her, your values, your hopes and dreams for her. Let her know that you love her mother, why you love her. This can be important to her later when she is experiencing her first relationships.
When I was in University (many years ago) I got my degree in Business. Majored in HR and got a job as an employment counsellor out of university. Business is what was needed in the world, and there were opportunities there. I was miserable. I once read of a man who spoke at a Career Day at a high school. In question period a student asked him what he should study, what did the world need. He took a deep breath and said that this was the wrong question. Ask yourself instead what gives you passion, then do that. Because what the world needs is people with more passion. It stuck with me and I moved into a Technology stream which is always something I enjoyed (it wasn't so clear cut when the major technology in the office was the photocopier). IT was not really even recognized as a profession in the business world at the time.
Apart from that, don't be afraid to post online in various circles with your real name. I use a pseudonym here because I would not really want some of my old comments to come back and haunt me. I could be a dumbass when I was younger. But lately (past several years) I have take to using my real name. My approach is to always post in a way that I can stand behind what I said as a person, even when posting pseudo anonymously. With your real name out there commenting on technology, social, political or business issues it is an opportunity to raise the level of discussion because it will force you to reread before hitting 'Submit'. Once it is on the net it will always be there, a legacy for her, that she can come across and be proud of. I would want my son to see a father who was engaged with the world and interacted with it in a dignified manner and with humour (maybe bad humour, he can judge that I guess). Life shouldn't always be serious.
Good luck to you in the coming months. I feel priviledged to have read your story and that you took the opportunity to reach out to your fellow geeks here.
He was asked an opinion and he gave it. If it can at least give pause and make people think about it then great. He didn't have to write a thesis on it.
I hear ya. We use Sharepoint at work and it is very capable for version control. We have one library with over 2000 documents in it and they hold numerous minor and major versions of the docs. Even clueless users can be shown how to use it relatively quickly. Other nice features is Alerts. SP sends you an email if someone has modified a doc. Handy when you are waiting on information from someone before proceeding with your work. As soon as they check it in you get an email alert.
AC's message was crude, which is unfortunate, but there is a point in there. Some occupations attract one gender more than others. It would be better to ask why that is in CS rather than just throw money at the issue trying to balance out the numbers. If CS is a hostile environment for women that needs to be addressed. Once upon a time male nurses were scorned, but now it is common although still more dominated by women. Why is it more acceptable now, maybe there are lessons that can be learned from that. Oh and no matter how good it gets idiots will still be idiots so that won't change.
Sounds like a case of hubris. He was overconfident in his abilities and probably got more and more sloppy as time went on, convincing himself that he was too smart to get caught.
Not in Canada. Not sure where the hell you live but if prison wardens run your public schools you are in trouble. Your post comes off as a little cooky.
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That's one way to look at it I guess. He could just have easily boosted his salary and cut staff. He didn't do that. Let's hear from the employees before we make judgment. Sure there is a good dose of PR in there, but if staff are getting raises and he is motivating them that will improve the company, and that is good business.
....to do it yourself. I cut sentence short there. Slashdot should implement an edit button.
Exactly. Buy yourself a couple of 2 or 3 TB usb's. Encrypt them with Truecrypt and backup all your data to both. Now store one offsite. Update your backups (rsync for Linux or robocopy for Windows). Now swap your offsite with the one you had onsite that you updated. Keep doing this.
I am just not a cloud type of guy. I know some people prefer that but it makes no sense to me when it is so easy, cheap, fast and most importantly, secure.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.c...
Will we be legislated off the roads as hazards to society? Anyway didn't Google just say that they are nowhere near being able to handle winter conditions. Yet we keep hearing that by 2020 these will be on the roads. tick tick....
Ah fuck.......leaving slashdot until April2. fuck ^*&((^&*(^*&Y&* SUHRUISHUIPY&Y&*)^6
One link on a wiki about fictional psychohistory? 10000 years into the future is incomprehensible and whoever exists in that time will laugh at us. Just write sci-fi instead.
And when I put it in a CD player, it plays Mozart. True story....
Not picking on you specifically, just answering a chorus of boos from the peanut gallery. People have lost their love of how stuff works. Who cares if you can't use it as the real thing. I can think of no better way to learn about transmissions than what this guy had done. And all the negative posters on Slashdot just shrug and criticize. You do this stuff because __you can__, end of story, no other reason needed. From the interest he has received I am thankful others still get joy from doing stuff for purely learning and discovery purposes. They are the ones that go on to invent cool things. The rest drool over their shiny new sealed smartphones and tablets.
I knew, I just knew that after reading the summary and it contained the word 'gun' that the whole first thread would be another useless gun debate with "second amendment" being brought up and people questioning each others parentage.
the teale colored "Post" text on teale background makes it hard to see.
This is very touching and I can only begin to imagine, as the father of a 5 year old son, how I would cope with this. Strangely enough, I have given it some thought in the past. What if I am not here, how will my wife and son fare? What would I want to tell my son, being the age he is at and all of the experiences I would miss. You have already touched on video messages but also consider leaving her your written thoughts. These can be shorter musings, your inner thoughts to share with her. Stuff she can pick up without having to experience the intensity of a video. Take the opportunity to share who you are with her, your values, your hopes and dreams for her. Let her know that you love her mother, why you love her. This can be important to her later when she is experiencing her first relationships.
When I was in University (many years ago) I got my degree in Business. Majored in HR and got a job as an employment counsellor out of university. Business is what was needed in the world, and there were opportunities there. I was miserable. I once read of a man who spoke at a Career Day at a high school. In question period a student asked him what he should study, what did the world need. He took a deep breath and said that this was the wrong question. Ask yourself instead what gives you passion, then do that. Because what the world needs is people with more passion. It stuck with me and I moved into a Technology stream which is always something I enjoyed (it wasn't so clear cut when the major technology in the office was the photocopier). IT was not really even recognized as a profession in the business world at the time.
Apart from that, don't be afraid to post online in various circles with your real name. I use a pseudonym here because I would not really want some of my old comments to come back and haunt me. I could be a dumbass when I was younger. But lately (past several years) I have take to using my real name. My approach is to always post in a way that I can stand behind what I said as a person, even when posting pseudo anonymously. With your real name out there commenting on technology, social, political or business issues it is an opportunity to raise the level of discussion because it will force you to reread before hitting 'Submit'. Once it is on the net it will always be there, a legacy for her, that she can come across and be proud of. I would want my son to see a father who was engaged with the world and interacted with it in a dignified manner and with humour (maybe bad humour, he can judge that I guess). Life shouldn't always be serious.
Good luck to you in the coming months. I feel priviledged to have read your story and that you took the opportunity to reach out to your fellow geeks here.
i would drive that. especially if it was a SUV that got 2 miles per gallon.
By having a long term investing horizon and rebalancing periodically
He was asked an opinion and he gave it. If it can at least give pause and make people think about it then great. He didn't have to write a thesis on it.
And for forgot to add, no more attachments. Just send a link to the doc in email.
I hear ya. We use Sharepoint at work and it is very capable for version control. We have one library with over 2000 documents in it and they hold numerous minor and major versions of the docs. Even clueless users can be shown how to use it relatively quickly. Other nice features is Alerts. SP sends you an email if someone has modified a doc. Handy when you are waiting on information from someone before proceeding with your work. As soon as they check it in you get an email alert.
AC's message was crude, which is unfortunate, but there is a point in there. Some occupations attract one gender more than others. It would be better to ask why that is in CS rather than just throw money at the issue trying to balance out the numbers. If CS is a hostile environment for women that needs to be addressed. Once upon a time male nurses were scorned, but now it is common although still more dominated by women. Why is it more acceptable now, maybe there are lessons that can be learned from that. Oh and no matter how good it gets idiots will still be idiots so that won't change.
I'm taking notes.
Ya, ok, that will work.
Wife: "Honey does this dress make me look fat?"
Husband: "No baby, not at all, it's your big ass that does that."
This is brilliant.
Sounds like a case of hubris. He was overconfident in his abilities and probably got more and more sloppy as time went on, convincing himself that he was too smart to get caught.
That's just your opinion, and I disagree.
Not in Canada. Not sure where the hell you live but if prison wardens run your public schools you are in trouble. Your post comes off as a little cooky.