Amen. When they get to 512M memory and the writing gets easier, I'll buy one. Until then, I have a DayTimer and a pencil with soft lead. All is good.
I have seen some great applications at Virginia Tech involving satellite stations that transmit insect data collected from farms but I don't need that for my 8 tomato plants.
We had a prima donna where I previously worked. He finally decided he wasn't appreciated and left to take over a shop in another state. 6 months later, he was back. When asked what happened, he responded "I had an employee just like me".
I have a simple philosophy. If it works, don't mess with it. Don't change or make rules simply to make rules. I once worked in a sweat shop with 90% turnover. All management cared about was appearance. We could not be at the elevators at 5PM. We could leave at 4PM or 6PM but not 5PM. They didn't want the VP's seeing us leaving on time. No wonder turnover was so high!! The CIO constantly had to screw with everything.
If you have a prima donna, let them do what they do best. If they have a pet system, give them another one and take that one away. They'll probably welcome the chance to birth another system. If they like playing hero, just be glad you have a hero.
Here's what I use:
1. Use obscure brand names like Caldera. They don't appear on the naughty lists. Then add your area code.
2. Write them down in a DayTimer or the like but don't write down the login id. This only works if you can remember the login id.
3. Use a person's last name (like Rucker) and 4 digits (say 3120). In your DayTimer or PDA, record it as a name and phone (Bill Rucker 275-3120).
The older you get, the worse it gets.
Instead of getting an answer from Exodus and running to Cisco with it, and then back again, he got Cisco and Exodus engineers to talk directly to each other and work it out.
That's a damn lie. Engineers from separate companies always require some clueless idiot act as a go-between.
I worked for a company on the 11th floor of a bank building. One day, a headhunter group moved in on the 5th floor. I was sitting at my terminal pounding COBOL code when this guy walked into my office, introduced himself and gave me a business card. He went into every office with the same routine. "Hi, I'm Sam Headhunter. Give me a call". My boss walks into my office a few minutes later and says "Please tell me that just didn't happen".
I guess that beats random calling office numbers looking for programmers. One of our contract guys sold our phone directory to a headhunter. It's not uncommon for spurned vendors to sell business cards collected at meetings to headhunters.
It died when Political Correctness came into being. Anyway, children don't have First Amendment rights. The State controls what they do and say. The Courts have been stripping away speech rights for years. You can't say a prayer at a graduation, you can't picket close to an abortion clinic, you can't use racial slurs, etc.
I was always salaried and on-call. We didn't get paid for getting called in. Some jobs had beepers that went of constantly. I finally started looking for jobs where on-call was not a requirement.
LM8 is great. The install was flawless and I even did an (gasp) upgrade. The browser actually works on this release and Gnome looks really impressive. It is absolutely shot in the ass with applications which is why I like Mandrake so much.
It takes forever to boot up though. This is not a distro for your spare 32 meg machine. This baby needs some room. Time for a CPU upgrade.
My former boss fired a whole group because they refused to learn anything. They swore they could program anything in Quickjob. It was easier to shitcan them and find some people with skills who were learning to code in Quickjob until everything moved over. I've coded in Cobol, Delphi, VB, CSP, Quickjob, REXX, Algol, Perl, PHP, Fortran and a half dozen languages I can't remember in the past 20 years. You either keep up or get left behind. The people who are willing to be flexible are the people who get the jobs. Shoot, I got a COBOL assignment after being away from COBOL almost 5 years. Now I am doing Oracle development along with some VBA.
Now I'm doing Linux at home and it has helped me tremendously on our unix boxen here. I don't work with unix enough to keep up so I have to fire up the terminal at home and play with vi.
If you can setup a nix box and hook people up to it, you are doing better than 90% of net admins I have met. And I bet I have setup Mandrake about 12 times at home.
It's not the toy itself; it's the willingness to learn and do.
This is nuts. Microsoft is practically giving away the home market. Linux is getting easier and more flexible and Windows is getting more anal and restrictive.
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Amen. When they get to 512M memory and the writing gets easier, I'll buy one. Until then, I have a DayTimer and a pencil with soft lead. All is good. I have seen some great applications at Virginia Tech involving satellite stations that transmit insect data collected from farms but I don't need that for my 8 tomato plants.
A solar powered car could never pass safety requirements. The best bet is an electric car with a solar charger.
We had a prima donna where I previously worked. He finally decided he wasn't appreciated and left to take over a shop in another state. 6 months later, he was back. When asked what happened, he responded "I had an employee just like me".
I have a simple philosophy. If it works, don't mess with it. Don't change or make rules simply to make rules. I once worked in a sweat shop with 90% turnover. All management cared about was appearance. We could not be at the elevators at 5PM. We could leave at 4PM or 6PM but not 5PM. They didn't want the VP's seeing us leaving on time. No wonder turnover was so high!! The CIO constantly had to screw with everything.
If you have a prima donna, let them do what they do best. If they have a pet system, give them another one and take that one away. They'll probably welcome the chance to birth another system. If they like playing hero, just be glad you have a hero.
Jimmy Carter killed Solar Energy. No president has done anything with it including Clinton.
I bet it boots faster than my current machine.
Here's what I use: 1. Use obscure brand names like Caldera. They don't appear on the naughty lists. Then add your area code. 2. Write them down in a DayTimer or the like but don't write down the login id. This only works if you can remember the login id. 3. Use a person's last name (like Rucker) and 4 digits (say 3120). In your DayTimer or PDA, record it as a name and phone (Bill Rucker 275-3120). The older you get, the worse it gets.
Will IBM commit to a FREE (as in beer) distribution that we peons can use at home?
COBOL! COBOL! COBOL!!!!!
That's a damn lie. Engineers from separate companies always require some clueless idiot act as a go-between.
I worked for a company on the 11th floor of a bank building. One day, a headhunter group moved in on the 5th floor. I was sitting at my terminal pounding COBOL code when this guy walked into my office, introduced himself and gave me a business card. He went into every office with the same routine. "Hi, I'm Sam Headhunter. Give me a call". My boss walks into my office a few minutes later and says "Please tell me that just didn't happen".
I guess that beats random calling office numbers looking for programmers. One of our contract guys sold our phone directory to a headhunter. It's not uncommon for spurned vendors to sell business cards collected at meetings to headhunters.
It died when Political Correctness came into being. Anyway, children don't have First Amendment rights. The State controls what they do and say. The Courts have been stripping away speech rights for years. You can't say a prayer at a graduation, you can't picket close to an abortion clinic, you can't use racial slurs, etc.
Those who are upset are about 10 years too late.
This ain't 1900. Employees are free to leave and find new jobs. It wasn't that way in the early part of 1900.
The last thing we need is a group demanding that someone work at a job they hate because they are a "member" of a union.
Don't like it? Get another job. How hard is that?
More like: I set fire to this sweater and now it won't fit. You better fix it.
Geez, we used to BUY MBA's for our executives. He needs to get a better package.
I was always salaried and on-call. We didn't get paid for getting called in. Some jobs had beepers that went of constantly. I finally started looking for jobs where on-call was not a requirement.
That fixed the problem.
One difference. You can still reach those sites from a non-government computer. China wants to make it illegal to reach those sites from ANY computer.
As long as you are sponging off the government for your internet access, you have to accept their conditions.
LM8 is great. The install was flawless and I even did an (gasp) upgrade. The browser actually works on this release and Gnome looks really impressive. It is absolutely shot in the ass with applications which is why I like Mandrake so much.
It takes forever to boot up though. This is not a distro for your spare 32 meg machine. This baby needs some room. Time for a CPU upgrade.
My former boss fired a whole group because they refused to learn anything. They swore they could program anything in Quickjob. It was easier to shitcan them and find some people with skills who were learning to code in Quickjob until everything moved over. I've coded in Cobol, Delphi, VB, CSP, Quickjob, REXX, Algol, Perl, PHP, Fortran and a half dozen languages I can't remember in the past 20 years. You either keep up or get left behind. The people who are willing to be flexible are the people who get the jobs. Shoot, I got a COBOL assignment after being away from COBOL almost 5 years. Now I am doing Oracle development along with some VBA.
Now I'm doing Linux at home and it has helped me tremendously on our unix boxen here. I don't work with unix enough to keep up so I have to fire up the terminal at home and play with vi.
If you can setup a nix box and hook people up to it, you are doing better than 90% of net admins I have met. And I bet I have setup Mandrake about 12 times at home.
It's not the toy itself; it's the willingness to learn and do.
Peace, out
Please don't throw us in that briar patch!!
This is nuts. Microsoft is practically giving away the home market. Linux is getting easier and more flexible and Windows is getting more anal and restrictive.
If China apologized and returned the hostages, we would accept their apology and apologize for using their airfield.
Ya gotta like a man who knows when to roll over and expose his belly while crying like a small child.
I suggest you do it in person. The Chinese really respect that attitude.
If we apologize, what's to stop the Chinese from putting the crew on trial?
If we did nothing wrong, there is no reason to apologize.
The Russians did it all the time. We never busted one of their planes.
It is intellectually dishonest to base an premise on something that never happened.
People are capable of driving and drinking at age 12. Most 12 year-olds are capable of working 40 hours a week in a mill. Do you let them do that?
A Dutch person told me that adults CAN have sex with 12 year-olds as long as the 12 year-old doesn't object. That's the whole point of Age Of Consent.