Is it just me, or is anyone else suffering from tendinitis of the Carpal Tunnel just from looking at the thing (this statement is not meant to have any hidden meaning of sexual self-satisfaction)? I can't imagine using that 18 button behemoth for any extended time...
I agree. I live in Maine (also known as Vacationland), and I know exactly what you are talking about. And now like the rest of them, I will be a hypocrite:
Next weekend (Memorial Day weekend), you will find me hiding from the major arteries in Maine just to avoid the bad driving habits and discourtesy of those not from Maine. Here are several tips for every flatlander, uh... rubber-necker, I mean tourist, in Maine: 1) use blinkers, 2) stop at those red and white octagon shaped signs, 3) yield at the inverted triangular ones, 4) a light that turns yellow means that it will turn red, and not green, and 5) Maine has a distracted driving law, read up on it, and observe it.
What is this Windows of which you speak???
All joking aside, if it is just going to be used by me, I use ClamWin (www.clamwin.org). If my wife or anyone else is going to use it (the less "aware" folks in my life, I tend to go with something a little more thorough like Avast (albeit slower and a little more bloated.... thats even a little redundant). Avast has served me very well in the past, and would use it at the drop of a hat.
This was mentioned in an earlier reply from a Slashdotter in Australia, but I live in the US (ME), and we have similar legislation. We have a state law called the "Implied Warranty Act", where all goods, including used goods (except used cars, unless otherwise contracted by the seller), are protected for 4 years from date of purchase from manufacturing maladies. This is to say, as long as the item is used normally from day to day, the manufacturer is responsible for the costs at a LOCAL repair facility. For instance, my father has a 3 year old microwave (major brand over the range model) in which the magnetron went bad. Since he is protected by this law, it cost him nothing but time to get the microwave repaired.
For me, can't be done. Not only am I a System Administrator at a software company, but a musician... I can't make it more than a few hours of mind-numbing silence or obnoxious office banter without the injection of a siren song or two.
why should a system administrator need a degree? does a plumber or an electrician need a degree? an apprenticeship should be enough for this kind of work.
I don't know how this got an "Insightful". You dolt! You absolutely need a "degree" to practice a trade (in the US anyway). Although a "Journeyman" license will get you an apprenticeship, it will not allow you to work on your own (because no insurance company will insure you, and no code enforcement officer will inspect your work). That requires a "Masters" license. To obtain said license requires schooling on theory, general (best) practice, national code requirements, etc. Gee, doesn't sound all that different than the four years I spent in college getting my degree.
Now, not to discourage the questioner, you absolutely can break into the sys-admin role without a degree, but it will take time, and you will need to work your way up the IT ladder. I have seen plenty of people do it, and thrive along the way. Just don't take advice from people who really don't know what they are talking about.
Write some views, be sure you write them well, as to reference everything the customer would EVER need. Then, give them the public role to the database, but do not grant select on the tables... only the views.
Now, the customer doesn't see your tables, and only runs (essentially queries you have written as views) what you would approve of through the views.
Additionally, you could have the customer purchase something like Crystal Reports to build these reports.
I have successfully assisted my company to switch to OpenOffice. We started the venture with OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, and now use 1.1.4... The hardest part of the switch was making OpenOffice preconfigured for users, as we have a lot of ol' timers without the compacity to hit next without a major brain hemorage. I wrote a piece of software that runs at login time that copies a preconfigured (with default save types set to MS filetypes etc etc etc) OpenOffice workstation install to the users profile (for the specific version of OOo that is on the computer), replace all the usernames so the config files point to the right location, and voila, OpenOffice workstation installs with absolutely no user interaction. So for the cost of developing the software to make it work, it has been used for nearly 3 years as the defacto office suite for 250 workstations.
Couldn't agree more... having spent hours of time getting the individual applications for people and putting something half a###d together, it is cool to see someone making a project out of it. Keep up the excelent work!!
http://www.retrobox.com/
These guys sell great pc's (rebuilt and tested before selling to you) for dirt. $75.00 gets you a PIII-500, 128MB Ram, 6.4Gb hard drive, Sound, 8MB Video, CD-Rom, and Network card.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else suffering from tendinitis of the Carpal Tunnel just from looking at the thing (this statement is not meant to have any hidden meaning of sexual self-satisfaction)? I can't imagine using that 18 button behemoth for any extended time...
I agree. I live in Maine (also known as Vacationland), and I know exactly what you are talking about. And now like the rest of them, I will be a hypocrite: Next weekend (Memorial Day weekend), you will find me hiding from the major arteries in Maine just to avoid the bad driving habits and discourtesy of those not from Maine. Here are several tips for every flatlander, uh... rubber-necker, I mean tourist, in Maine: 1) use blinkers, 2) stop at those red and white octagon shaped signs, 3) yield at the inverted triangular ones, 4) a light that turns yellow means that it will turn red, and not green, and 5) Maine has a distracted driving law, read up on it, and observe it.
What is this Windows of which you speak??? All joking aside, if it is just going to be used by me, I use ClamWin (www.clamwin.org). If my wife or anyone else is going to use it (the less "aware" folks in my life, I tend to go with something a little more thorough like Avast (albeit slower and a little more bloated.... thats even a little redundant). Avast has served me very well in the past, and would use it at the drop of a hat.
This was mentioned in an earlier reply from a Slashdotter in Australia, but I live in the US (ME), and we have similar legislation. We have a state law called the "Implied Warranty Act", where all goods, including used goods (except used cars, unless otherwise contracted by the seller), are protected for 4 years from date of purchase from manufacturing maladies. This is to say, as long as the item is used normally from day to day, the manufacturer is responsible for the costs at a LOCAL repair facility. For instance, my father has a 3 year old microwave (major brand over the range model) in which the magnetron went bad. Since he is protected by this law, it cost him nothing but time to get the microwave repaired.
For me, can't be done. Not only am I a System Administrator at a software company, but a musician... I can't make it more than a few hours of mind-numbing silence or obnoxious office banter without the injection of a siren song or two.
why should a system administrator need a degree? does a plumber or an electrician need a degree? an apprenticeship should be enough for this kind of work.
I don't know how this got an "Insightful". You dolt! You absolutely need a "degree" to practice a trade (in the US anyway). Although a "Journeyman" license will get you an apprenticeship, it will not allow you to work on your own (because no insurance company will insure you, and no code enforcement officer will inspect your work). That requires a "Masters" license. To obtain said license requires schooling on theory, general (best) practice, national code requirements, etc. Gee, doesn't sound all that different than the four years I spent in college getting my degree. Now, not to discourage the questioner, you absolutely can break into the sys-admin role without a degree, but it will take time, and you will need to work your way up the IT ladder. I have seen plenty of people do it, and thrive along the way. Just don't take advice from people who really don't know what they are talking about.
Write some views, be sure you write them well, as to reference everything the customer would EVER need. Then, give them the public role to the database, but do not grant select on the tables... only the views. Now, the customer doesn't see your tables, and only runs (essentially queries you have written as views) what you would approve of through the views. Additionally, you could have the customer purchase something like Crystal Reports to build these reports.
I have successfully assisted my company to switch to OpenOffice. We started the venture with OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, and now use 1.1.4... The hardest part of the switch was making OpenOffice preconfigured for users, as we have a lot of ol' timers without the compacity to hit next without a major brain hemorage. I wrote a piece of software that runs at login time that copies a preconfigured (with default save types set to MS filetypes etc etc etc) OpenOffice workstation install to the users profile (for the specific version of OOo that is on the computer), replace all the usernames so the config files point to the right location, and voila, OpenOffice workstation installs with absolutely no user interaction. So for the cost of developing the software to make it work, it has been used for nearly 3 years as the defacto office suite for 250 workstations.
I hear that the 12 grain variety is most suited for high performance racing, even outside the formula 1 world!.
Couldn't agree more... having spent hours of time getting the individual applications for people and putting something half a###d together, it is cool to see someone making a project out of it. Keep up the excelent work!!
http://www.retrobox.com/ These guys sell great pc's (rebuilt and tested before selling to you) for dirt. $75.00 gets you a PIII-500, 128MB Ram, 6.4Gb hard drive, Sound, 8MB Video, CD-Rom, and Network card.