You rarely called the helpdesk. Most folks fixed their own problems other than hardware and network lockouts. I've seen many a net tap disabled because someone's machine caught the latest worm/virus going around, so it did happen. You'd make fun of them and then go on with things. It really wasn't that hard core socially when those things happened.
We had more than one linux box running in my group. We actually had cases where we needed to test against pulling files off a samba share to see what happened. Firefox wasn't there yet when I was there, but I did know guys running various mozilla flavors.
I guess that means they finally upgraded the phone system. Back when I worked there in Developer Suppport (98-03) the phone system for our incoming customer calls ran on a Unix system. To run the phone monitoring application and see the various queues you had to run an X-desktop emulator (Hummingbird I think) to run the monitoring app. I always thought that was funny at the time. We were allowed to pretty much install anything we wanted to. I had tons of command line tools, perl and other stuff installed along the way. Oh, and lots of guys had Linux boxes running at their desks along the way as well.
I've heard this statement all day and it just kills me. Now, don't get me wrong; I voted for Bush so I'm not complaining, BUT the way this statement is being bandied about by the party and press is annoying. Consider two things:
The total US population is larger than it has ever been in history.
We had what appears to be a record turnout.
This makes it appear to be apples an oranges to me. The only meaningful statements would have to be based on something scaled to population, turnout, etc. Just my pair o pennies.
Been there, read that. Documentation doesn't make it any less a PIA. We're gonna disable the thing for now and prevent the download till the dust clears.
One of my old friends from when I used to work at MS said to me, and I quote "With SP2 DCOM apps are fucked". The whole outgoing TCP connections limitation is going to cause a lot of issues w/ distributed apps using DCOM and other such things.
One of MS's biggest vulnerabilities is that the financial model for the company has always been based on revenue growth and zero control of costs. When growth stops, the model will collapse. We're already seeing that in Balmer's latest memo.
Support is expensive. Back when I used to work at MS in developer support we had a guy who had a nice presentation that proved that Windows 98 didn't make a dime in profit once you figured in support costs. Pretty funny if you ask me. Support is where a lot of cutting is going on. I remember friends of mine being 'fired' and otherwise cut in my last year there for total BS reasons. They were basically culling the herd. Now I'm talking to friends who are doing interviews of potential engineers in India for some major support outsourcing far beyond what's there now.
Ask around, you can probably pick up a job working in one of the computer labs on campus. Also many college depts. have a student worker or two they can hire. I handle IT for a dept at ECU and we hire a couple of students a year to help us out. When they're done I'll write them glowing letters of reccomendation to go along with the experience they get and the lines on the resume.
When I used to work at Microsoft (Developer Support division) we were under tons of pressure to get certs because "it will impress the customer and assure them of your skills in solving the issue". What total BS. We had tons of testkiller, braindump, and other such cheats flowing around between all of us there in DS. It was all about getting the cert credit on your review and a few letters behind your name to impress management and had little to do with the real skills we needed in the job.
He's using weasel words. The entire product code base is stored in source depot. There's still a few stragglers using a few sourcesafe bits, but if you are in or touch any of the major products you're definitely using Source Depot.
The problem is that nextel won't put in that repeater for free unless you have a very large number of users at your company. Most companies have had to pay for the repeater.
Thanks for the info. Just read up on that. I'll be sure to explain that to my users. Very soon I'll have all those machines in an AD container that I'll be able to manager. My users are going to be very surprised when they find they suddenly can't install just anything they want on the system....:-)
Most of them. They start getting popups from something, so they get to google toolbar to try and stop that, then they get something else... Uphill battle all the way.
I work at a university maintaining systems for a large department. In the last two weeks I've removed gator from close to 20 machines. It's a constant battle to keep the spyware off of our boxes. AdAware and Spybot are now my best friends.
1- Being in the military doesn't mean you by default have to 'kill'. If they call, volunteer for medic duty.
2- With that second statement you dishonour the memories of all those who went when called by the draft during World World II (amoung others), serving and dying for this country.
3- Because of those people you have the rights to say and do as you choose. Never forget that.
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They are the best I have ever deal with.
You rarely called the helpdesk. Most folks fixed their own problems other than hardware and network lockouts. I've seen many a net tap disabled because someone's machine caught the latest worm/virus going around, so it did happen. You'd make fun of them and then go on with things. It really wasn't that hard core socially when those things happened.
We had more than one linux box running in my group. We actually had cases where we needed to test against pulling files off a samba share to see what happened. Firefox wasn't there yet when I was there, but I did know guys running various mozilla flavors.
I used to work at the Charlotte DS site. All the secretaries were contracted out there so I'm pretty sure their boxes were locked down tight.
I guess that means they finally upgraded the phone system. Back when I worked there in Developer Suppport (98-03) the phone system for our incoming customer calls ran on a Unix system. To run the phone monitoring application and see the various queues you had to run an X-desktop emulator (Hummingbird I think) to run the monitoring app. I always thought that was funny at the time.
We were allowed to pretty much install anything we wanted to. I had tons of command line tools, perl and other stuff installed along the way.
Oh, and lots of guys had Linux boxes running at their desks along the way as well.
Amen. I have up trying to stay ahead. Now I go looking when I need something and use my time for other things.
I've heard this statement all day and it just kills me. Now, don't get me wrong; I voted for Bush so I'm not complaining, BUT the way this statement is being bandied about by the party and press is annoying. Consider two things:
This makes it appear to be apples an oranges to me. The only meaningful statements would have to be based on something scaled to population, turnout, etc.
Just my pair o pennies.
DCOM development and remote debugging (which is RPC/DECOM) type stuff are blocked by default on the firewall.
dcomcnfg -- ugh -- welcome to my nightmare. Been there, done that with some really crappy apps and components. Total ugliness.
Been there, read that. Documentation doesn't make it any less a PIA. We're gonna disable the thing for now and prevent the download till the dust clears.
One of my old friends from when I used to work at MS said to me, and I quote "With SP2 DCOM apps are fucked". The whole outgoing TCP connections limitation is going to cause a lot of issues w/ distributed apps using DCOM and other such things.
One of MS's biggest vulnerabilities is that the financial model for the company has always been based on revenue growth and zero control of costs. When growth stops, the model will collapse. We're already seeing that in Balmer's latest memo.
Support is expensive. Back when I used to work at MS in developer support we had a guy who had a nice presentation that proved that Windows 98 didn't make a dime in profit once you figured in support costs. Pretty funny if you ask me.
Support is where a lot of cutting is going on. I remember friends of mine being 'fired' and otherwise cut in my last year there for total BS reasons. They were basically culling the herd. Now I'm talking to friends who are doing interviews of potential engineers in India for some major support outsourcing far beyond what's there now.
Ask around, you can probably pick up a job working in one of the computer labs on campus. Also many college depts. have a student worker or two they can hire. I handle IT for a dept at ECU and we hire a couple of students a year to help us out. When they're done I'll write them glowing letters of reccomendation to go along with the experience they get and the lines on the resume.
When I used to work at Microsoft (Developer Support division) we were under tons of pressure to get certs because "it will impress the customer and assure them of your skills in solving the issue". What total BS. We had tons of testkiller, braindump, and other such cheats flowing around between all of us there in DS. It was all about getting the cert credit on your review and a few letters behind your name to impress management and had little to do with the real skills we needed in the job.
An interesting note about line numbers: you can use them in Visual Basic and it works.
Don't you mean: ... that's Excel. Sorry ...
The language was so simple even Managers could use it."
No, wait
He's using weasel words. The entire product code base is stored in source depot. There's still a few stragglers using a few sourcesafe bits, but if you are in or touch any of the major products you're definitely using Source Depot.
For a second there I read it as:
"Why anyone would waste a network cable is beyond us stated........
The problem is that nextel won't put in that repeater for free unless you have a very large number of users at your company. Most companies have had to pay for the repeater.
Thanks for the info. Just read up on that. I'll be sure to explain that to my users. .... :-)
Very soon I'll have all those machines in an AD container that I'll be able to manager. My users are going to be very surprised when they find they suddenly can't install just anything they want on the system
Most of them. They start getting popups from something, so they get to google toolbar to try and stop that, then they get something else ...
Uphill battle all the way.
I work at a university maintaining systems for a large department. In the last two weeks I've removed gator from close to 20 machines. It's a constant battle to keep the spyware off of our boxes. AdAware and Spybot are now my best friends.
So, based on your comments what you're saying is that you would not participate in the defense of your country for any reason?
1- Being in the military doesn't mean you by default have to 'kill'. If they call, volunteer for medic duty.
2- With that second statement you dishonour the memories of all those who went when called by the draft during World World II (amoung others), serving and dying for this country.
3- Because of those people you have the rights to say and do as you choose. Never forget that.