And from that survey the bigger your company the more important business skills are. I work for a 330,000 employee company and there is no doubt that business skills are the most heavily weighted skills when it comes to promotions. Of the VPs I know here only one is pure tech and he's a worldwide guru in RF stuff.
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1) The HR director called me in because her computer was making a funny noise. The weird thing was that the noise would stop when you got near the box, and then it would start back up as you walked away. Chirp, chirp, chirp. I thought that was odd so I picked up the computer and out jumped a cricket from behind it.
2) Same company, one of the sales support reps asked me to check out his computer while he was at lunch because he was running low on disk space. This was Win95 with a 2 GB disk where space was a bit of premium. The first thing I checked was his Recycle Bin which had about 200 MB of stuff, much of which was porn, so I emptied it. A couple of hours later he called me in a panic asking where his spreadsheets were. I told him I had only emptied his Recycle Bin. He freaked on me and asked why the hell I had emptied it. He thought that was the place where you were supposed to store your personal files. I had a copy of some file recovery utility and was able to recover the spreadsheets, I didn't bother with the porn, and I showed him his home dir on the server to avoid future mishaps like that.
I agree. We have a class A and thousands of internal RFC1918/28s, and at least on our corner of our network everything is self-documenting. There 20 other divisions so I don't know how they manage their nets.
But it's not all rah rah. One of the words mentioned in the question, deliverable, is something that IT forgets about and is why many projects never meet deadlines or actually get finished. I cannot begin to tell you how many projects I see floundering because the developers don't know that they have to deliver something.
I work for one of the 26 TV stations that our company owns, 2200 employees, and they outsourced our websites back in 2001. I was on the web team at the time and at the highpoint we had 6 people handling the front end app, the app server, the network, and the database, 5 people handling design, 3 or 4 people per station providing content, and a few salespeople dedicated to new media advertising. Actually those salespeople are still employees dedicated to selling web advertising and sponsorship but they are now part of the regular sales team.
I don't miss it because our newscasts generated a lot of traffic and our crappy application server couldn't handle the traffic. So it was a page every time the sites were mentioned on a broadcast, and they were mentioned A LOT. Having stations on both coasts meant that those pages came at anytime from 3am to 11:30pm local time. And there were only 2 of us sharing the pager. I didn't sleep for 39 weeks out of that year and a half.
Don't confuse hotheadedness and integrity. Hotheadedness is why Theo got dropped from NetBSD, integrity is why OpenBSD no longer gets funding from DARPA.
The SMS client is included in the image that we provided to Dell for all of our new desktops. When the SMS client is borked, or when we simply get tired of the SMS remote control console, we use Dameware. When Dameware doesn't work we get the user to fire up Net Meeting. We're migrating from SMS to a product that doesn't provide remote control, CA Unicenter, I believe, so we'll be installing PCAnywhere on all desktops with SMS. On servers we use a mix of Terminal Services, PCAnywhere, and VNC.
Our desktop techs still know our users very well because they can't always handle tickets via remote control. Desktop visits still happen often enough. And it sure saves time being able to remote in so tickets get handled quicker in general. Some of our small offices are 15 minutes away by car.
No one is worried about privacy here because all the tools we use either prompt the user to allow the connection or they put up a notice.
My "think about your breathing" filter must be on. I didn't even see it while reading post of the article. I had to go back and run a find on it after seeing your post.
$100 a year gets him 1GB actually. I'm glad someone else read the article but I wish more people would realize the complete misleading nature of it. I can't believe CNN.com published this story.
No kidding. The guy says he writes reviews for eMusic but I guess he's so clueless that he doesn't realize that one doesn't need their music manager software to use their service. And adding to your point about iPod users being stuck with iTMS hasn't he noticed that the MP3s are unecumbered with DRM? What a moron.
Yeah, I was thinking to myself a week ago or so: "Self, would you put the search box at the bottom of the page", "No, self, I think that that is the last place I would look since most of the rest of the stuff is up at the top".
Since the Deathstar fiasco I know no one who swears by IBM disks. OTOH, I agree that people are influenced by the failures of the drives that they have owned. The only manufacturer I haven't had multiple drive failures with is Maxtor. I have had batches of the same models of Seagates, IBMs, and Western Digitals fail.
Wow, I guess it's so rare that Chase, one of the largest credit card issuers in the USA, is stupid for including this practice in their FAQ because according to you know one does it? Tell me, what good is a $1 auth for $50 worth of gasoline? Sounds like your gas station proprietors are opening themselves up to a lot of grief.
I've personally bought 8 thousand dollars worth of computer equipment over the course of a week with almost double that amount in auths and never was denied.
The restaurants are being stupid then. Every place I go gets auth for up to 50% more than my meal cost and then charges the card the appropriate amount after I fill in the tip. This is also standard practice for online purchases and gasoline:
"Sometimes, though, the merchant doesn't know how much you'll charge until after the authorization must be made. A good example of this is at the gas pump.
When you swipe your credit card, a request for authorization is made immediately. Because the amount of the purchase is unknown at that point, the merchant asks for authorization up to a specified amount. For this example, the authorization request is for $50. This amount also shows in your Account Summary as a pending charge.
Your gasoline purchase ends up being $22.50. That's the actual charge that will be paid to the merchant."
And it's not the banks responsibility to check your credit card charges. I hope I'm not the only person that keeps CC receipts until my statement comes.
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And from that survey the bigger your company the more important business skills are. I work for a 330,000 employee company and there is no doubt that business skills are the most heavily weighted skills when it comes to promotions. Of the VPs I know here only one is pure tech and he's a worldwide guru in RF stuff. '
2) Same company, one of the sales support reps asked me to check out his computer while he was at lunch because he was running low on disk space. This was Win95 with a 2 GB disk where space was a bit of premium. The first thing I checked was his Recycle Bin which had about 200 MB of stuff, much of which was porn, so I emptied it. A couple of hours later he called me in a panic asking where his spreadsheets were. I told him I had only emptied his Recycle Bin. He freaked on me and asked why the hell I had emptied it. He thought that was the place where you were supposed to store your personal files. I had a copy of some file recovery utility and was able to recover the spreadsheets, I didn't bother with the porn, and I showed him his home dir on the server to avoid future mishaps like that.
I agree. We have a class A and thousands of internal RFC1918 /28s, and at least on our corner of our network everything is self-documenting. There 20 other divisions so I don't know how they manage their nets.
But it's not all rah rah. One of the words mentioned in the question, deliverable, is something that IT forgets about and is why many projects never meet deadlines or actually get finished. I cannot begin to tell you how many projects I see floundering because the developers don't know that they have to deliver something.
...hit Refresh and my eyes are blown out. I'm suing.
I don't miss it because our newscasts generated a lot of traffic and our crappy application server couldn't handle the traffic. So it was a page every time the sites were mentioned on a broadcast, and they were mentioned A LOT. Having stations on both coasts meant that those pages came at anytime from 3am to 11:30pm local time. And there were only 2 of us sharing the pager. I didn't sleep for 39 weeks out of that year and a half.
Don't confuse hotheadedness and integrity. Hotheadedness is why Theo got dropped from NetBSD, integrity is why OpenBSD no longer gets funding from DARPA.
Please mod down and see Homestar breadmaker's post.
Right here: ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/fl oppy38.fs
ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/fl oppyB38.fs
ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/fl oppyC38.fs
The first will work in most cases, the B and C version include rarer drivers than the first one.
Did you bother looking? At all?
Our desktop techs still know our users very well because they can't always handle tickets via remote control. Desktop visits still happen often enough. And it sure saves time being able to remote in so tickets get handled quicker in general. Some of our small offices are 15 minutes away by car.
No one is worried about privacy here because all the tools we use either prompt the user to allow the connection or they put up a notice.
...every address I've hit this from has scored a 7? Huh, huh?
...that at the Glendale Galleria Apple store there is a Mac store across the hall. Well, M.A.C, that is.
Same with changing majors at this point. Of the three options graduating on time is the most reasonable.
Very well put except for your trendy use of "meme". Meme mod -2.
My "think about your breathing" filter must be on. I didn't even see it while reading post of the article. I had to go back and run a find on it after seeing your post.
$100 a year gets him 1GB actually. I'm glad someone else read the article but I wish more people would realize the complete misleading nature of it. I can't believe CNN.com published this story.
...is that I want that 80GB of .Mac storage for $99 a year.
I guess you don't follow misc@ much, do you? I've seen worse from Theo, BFD. As others have said it's the quality of the OS that counts.
No kidding. The guy says he writes reviews for eMusic but I guess he's so clueless that he doesn't realize that one doesn't need their music manager software to use their service. And adding to your point about iPod users being stuck with iTMS hasn't he noticed that the MP3s are unecumbered with DRM? What a moron.
Large IDE harddrives in USB2 enclosure with removable trays.
Yeah, I was thinking to myself a week ago or so: "Self, would you put the search box at the bottom of the page", "No, self, I think that that is the last place I would look since most of the rest of the stuff is up at the top".
I originally modded him funny but decided to post so removed the mod. If I could mod your post I'd mod it Troll.
Since the Deathstar fiasco I know no one who swears by IBM disks. OTOH, I agree that people are influenced by the failures of the drives that they have owned. The only manufacturer I haven't had multiple drive failures with is Maxtor. I have had batches of the same models of Seagates, IBMs, and Western Digitals fail.
I've personally bought 8 thousand dollars worth of computer equipment over the course of a week with almost double that amount in auths and never was denied.
"Sometimes, though, the merchant doesn't know how much you'll charge until after the authorization must be made. A good example of this is at the gas pump.
When you swipe your credit card, a request for authorization is made immediately. Because the amount of the purchase is unknown at that point, the merchant asks for authorization up to a specified amount. For this example, the authorization request is for $50. This amount also shows in your Account Summary as a pending charge.
Your gasoline purchase ends up being $22.50. That's the actual charge that will be paid to the merchant."
And it's not the banks responsibility to check your credit card charges. I hope I'm not the only person that keeps CC receipts until my statement comes.