MCSE stands for Mirosoft Certified System Engineer.
No where in that title is the word programmer, anyone who hires an MCSE to program anything more than a simple script to add users to a domain is in fact a moron.
Sounds more like your programmers were too ingrained in their open source C to know how to use VC++ properly.
Stop bashing MS products when the real problem is implementation.
Company exec decides he doesn't like the IBM thinkpads we've speced and goes out on his own and buys a Gateway laptop (this is roughly 2000).
We say fine, but we aren't responsible for hardware support as it breaks the standard...right...like that works... For some reason exec can't get his Palm to sync up over the serial connection.
Enter me: 4 long frustrating days spent trying everything under the sun to get this beast syncing. Palm syncs on three other desktops and two other laptops with no problem, install it on gateway and nothing.
Tech call #1 to gateway...OS is corrupt reload from rescue disk. Tech call #2, palm is bad...explain that it works everywhere but on gateway. Tech call #3...CSR almost gets the balls to tell me gateway doesn't support palm, I inform him that I aint yo mammys foo.
Tech call #4 after talking with 2 differnt people I am finally transferred to "level three" support. Guy comes on the phone, reads case notes and says simply "That model's serial port is defectivly impemented, it will not work, you'll need to get later revision..blah blah blah..."
Laptop goes back the next day for full refund, exec gets a fsking thinkpad and has to explain why the seinor IT guy spent 4 days fsking around with his crappy out of standard laptop. He was gone a month later.
I had a feeling somthing like this would turn up once I posted the link. It just seems odd to me that one site will have the complete article with images and another would skimp out, even though the text refrences them.
Check this out. Go to Yardcare.com. If you read the text under how to restore your lawn you'll notice refrences to pictures and charts but you don't see any.
Now go to This Popular Mechanics Article and notice the text is verbatim, only this time with the proper pictures and charts.
Which one is the origional site? Hmm...not to hard too figure out. I wasn't sure if I should have emailed PM or not, either way I think its rather rude and unbecoming of the web.
I'm sure most coders out there have dreamed of this ability for years. No more clunky keyboard interface to slow you down.
Typos would be a thing of the past. Imagine scanning though some source and noticing that you assigned 100 to a var rather than 10, before you can even refocus your eye on the line the value has been changed.
Grep would be a thing of the past! Need to change all the instances of a function name? Think it and its done.
I used Monster 3 years ago to get my current Sys Admin job.
I posted an extensive resume and applied to about 30 different job postings online over about a month. I never got anything more than a few thank you emails and a couple rejection letters in the mail.
I left it alone for a month and one day had some cryptic message from my now boss saying "My name is blah blah please meet me here at this day and time..." That was it, no company name no other details. Turns out he's just a man of few words.
After he hired me he told me that he had intervied 12 other candidates from various sources but in the end liked me the best because he found my resume, and chose me for the interview. I guess its all about perspective.
For what it's worth he also told me Monster costs A LOT less for employers than your average head hunters fees.
In reality 90% of/. readers have dumped all forms of Linux for OS X (I still call it "Oh Es Ex" stupid mac nerds).
Except me of course. I just had to remove linux from my 2 dev machines for a 2003 server install. See I'm one of those employed sys admins...you know, who have to work on whatever the company owns...not what I dork around with in my spare time.
First off read the article, the Demos go on to say "no harm no foul" since the documents aren't "owned" by anyone and are not official govt business. They even put the blame on their own admin.
A few other things to clear up: This was not a "glitch," instead it was a simple permissions issue where certain security policies were not implemented properly or at all.
Second: If a document is readable, people will read it. Right wrong or otherwise I don't really see what the big deal is. These people are supposed to running our fscking country not trading dirty secrets about how to screw the president out of a judicial nominee.
Sure the people who weren't supposed to have access should have said somthing, but by the same token I can say the admin should have double checked to make sure they didn't have access.
If the honeypot theory is correct, and Demos knew the documents weren't secure whey would they allow stupid shit like "hes a latino" go there in the first place. If anything they would place false documents there and make he republicans look bad when they come out with all these lies and rumors.
In my opinion this doesn't even hurt the republicans credibility...so what if they were seeing stuff they weren't meant to see...the shit found more than makes up for any "ethical" issues involved. I say we pass a law that anything written, typed, or electronicly produced by any of our governmental representatives (that isn't top secret or national security) should be made public within 24hours of its creation.
Its time our government was held responsible for all the BS it creates.
If all hubble needs is some replacement gyros why don't some of these billionare space tourists (Tito) put down some hard cash and have the russians shoot them up for a fixit mission. Once the gyros are repaird the telescope becomes useful again without fear of losing orbit.
I'm all for new and advanced space and ground based telescopes but to just junk the craft seems wasteful, hell offer it up on ebay and see what happens, maybe the chinese would be interested in refurbing it.
Yea go USA! My father in law is one of those 69%...just this weekend I spent about two hours removing 12 viruses/trojans and another 6 or so spyware programs from his computer. All gotten from some evil pr0n sites (well he is divorced and single..).
Last month I installed a firewall and updated his anti-virus. I asked him why he had them both disabled, he said "My favorite web site requires me to have these turned off at all times."
With my wife (his daughter) in the room I didn't really say anything, but before we left I explained to him in private that his favorite web site has been installing viruses and spyware on his PC...then I gave him a few tips on how to find reputable pr0n.
I hope next year 99% of all US citizens are online, I'm going to be starting up a zombie network to punish evil terrorists and i'll need the boxen.
Someone already joked about getting it through security...I think it would be near impossible.
Recently there was a woman wearing a leather motorcycle jacket with a built in heating system that connects to the bike via wires...these wires were hanging out of the jacket..all of a sudden we have a terroist situation...a plane delayed awhile and this woman was accosted...Sorry, thats not making me safer, some hunyuk terrorist wanting to take down a plane is going to be smart enough to make sure no WIRES are hanging out of his bomb laden jacket....Good lord
Anyone else find the last paragraph of that article a bit scary?
"The leak was made more worrisome because the main oxygen generator, which has been working only sporadically, failed again last week. Russian flight managers are designing a way to fix it this week with spare parts already on the station."
Shouldn't the OXYGEN generators be...oh I dunno...WORKING most of the time? Failed again last week reminds me of the infamous furnace fighting scene from a Christmas Story.
I can just see a Russian cosmonaut banging on it with a wrench cursing...
This makes me very happy to hear. I'm 25 and my favorite lego series was the "Model Team" with the Semi trucks, jeeps, vans, helicopters and generally cool, LARGE fully functional models of real life vehicles.
I recently rebuilt my model team semi and it now rests proudly on my desk. Right now they have a very nice lego Shuttle in the stores for $50 bucks (same price as most of the model team models back in the day, and even today on ebay)that I've been trying to convince my wife we need...hehe
Its really disapointing to go to the store and see Soccer, Harry Potter, and Star Wars sets with little more than 20 pieces and some look alike action figures. Give the kids somthing that will take them a few hours to build and leave them enough blocks to construct something different if they should choose.
Just this weekend I noticed some new sets out called "design sets" that were of normal everyday objects (one was a pontoon plane) and each set is capable of being at least 3 different things. (I assume they have docs inside which show how to convert as well..at least the last technic model I bought did)
This is the lego I remember and love, and I think more parents would rather buy somthing that can be more than just a scene from SW or HP.
I wonder what this might do to the insurance business. Lets say perhaps they predict a 7 or greater in LA in the next 4 months... Now a smart person living in that area would go beef up their earthquake or homeowners insurance (or buy some if they don't have it already).
But a smarter insurance company might decide not to sell any more quake insurance until after the deadline if you live in that area.
So now we know they are coming but can't do much to protect ourselves other than getting out of the area.
I played with the "beta" version and had little if any luck. On my main work machine (PIII 800 VIA chipset) all I got was a black screen. I assume it was trying to drive my flat panel at a higher refresh than supported...I didn't notice any easy way to get around this.
On the second machine I tried it on it booted but didn't detect my USB memory stick. After that I pretty much gave up as the two main machines I had intended to use it on failed.
I have in the past used Knoppix with great success, as well as SuSE. Perhaps my problems were in some way related to the "beta" version or my own ignorance, either way not exactly what you call out of the box friendly.
The point is that we have no idea if this climate change is normal. Scientists have been wrong about everything forever, how do we know they are right this time? If they aren't right, and we do somthing to stop the climate change couldn't we cause more harm than good?
I'll give you that we are expierencing global climate change, what I won't give it is a name.."global warming" is a phrase invented by the media to scare people. One Volcano can put out 100x more "green house" gasses than man could hope to make in 20 years. To me, thats proof enough that what we are expierencing is little more than the eb and flow of our planet.
There are a ton of comments here that start with "Back in my day we didn't have (insert thing here) and we did GREAT!"
Here's the reality people, most course curriculim has changed since the introduction of the graphing calculators. I took the advanced Calc courses at the UofMN and it was REQUIRED that you owned one to enroll for the class...why? Because the professors had designed the course to use the calculators to teach the students things that were nearly impossible to teach without the visualization via graphing calcs. Sure they could get a comp and a projector and throw up a pick on a screen but they wanted more, they wanted you to change the values of the functions, understand how different terms affected the outcome.
Calc would have been insanly boring, if all we did was take intergrals, derivs, and solve diffi-Qs. I'm glad I invested in a TI-92 before my freshman year, its versatility beat the crap out of every other TI on the market.
I should also preface this post with how my class was graded...getting the "answer" was considered 25% of the worth of the question, what they wanted and taught was the process of deriving the answer, so having a calc that could do integrals was rather useless, you still had to show your work, especially on tests..it was nice for checking to make sure you added 2+2 right.
I haven't gotten a warning from Comcast yet but I've recently (read in two days) downloaded more than 10 ISOs from major linux distros. Am I to be lumped into the "movie stealer" catagory for simply checking out my free OS choices?
All I know is that work pays for my ISP, and Comcast is on month to month...there are at least 2 other options in my area...who wants some free money?
Why won't you people learn to use google.com before running off your mouths about half truths and FUD.
Seattle City Light has a nice page which shows the bi-monthly costs of many household items.
A typical computer drawing a constant 300watts (most computers draw significantly less) for 2 hours a day will cost ~$2.40 bi-monthly.
Granted a firewall would probably be running 24x7 it would likely not be drawing 300 continous watts..a smart monkey might even build one without a HDD and thus draw even less power.
How many months can I run a PC as a firewall before I meet the $200 price tag for a dedicated unit that is obsolete the instant you open the box?
No for the low low price of $4k anyone(terrorists/drug dealers/mafia) can keep their conversations(plots to kill people/drug shipments/sports gambling) private(don't let the CIA/FBI/INS...know!)!
I can't beleive anyone(criminals) could have survived without these babys! I'm going to run right down to my local Radio Shack and get a pair!
So I assume the standard solution to face to face bullies applies? Ignore them and they will go away.
I'm sure most of the/. crowd was/is subject to taunting, bullying, name calling what have you..we all seemed to come out fine in the end, and I never once had to fight anyone in the school yard, they never showed.
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No, I just know when to stop pounding the square peg through the round hole. Somthing many OSS advocates are still struggling with.
Note: I am not, nor do I know personally any MCSEs. Just so you don't think i'm defending my own honor or somthing stupid like that.
MCSE stands for Mirosoft Certified System Engineer.
No where in that title is the word programmer, anyone who hires an MCSE to program anything more than a simple script to add users to a domain is in fact a moron.
Sounds more like your programmers were too ingrained in their open source C to know how to use VC++ properly.
Stop bashing MS products when the real problem is implementation.
Gateway horror story:
Company exec decides he doesn't like the IBM thinkpads we've speced and goes out on his own and buys a Gateway laptop (this is roughly 2000).
We say fine, but we aren't responsible for hardware support as it breaks the standard...right...like that works... For some reason exec can't get his Palm to sync up over the serial connection.
Enter me: 4 long frustrating days spent trying everything under the sun to get this beast syncing. Palm syncs on three other desktops and two other laptops with no problem, install it on gateway and nothing.
Tech call #1 to gateway...OS is corrupt reload from rescue disk. Tech call #2, palm is bad...explain that it works everywhere but on gateway.
Tech call #3...CSR almost gets the balls to tell me gateway doesn't support palm, I inform him that I aint yo mammys foo.
Tech call #4 after talking with 2 differnt people I am finally transferred to "level three" support. Guy comes on the phone, reads case notes and says simply "That model's serial port is defectivly impemented, it will not work, you'll need to get later revision..blah blah blah..."
Laptop goes back the next day for full refund, exec gets a fsking thinkpad and has to explain why the seinor IT guy spent 4 days fsking around with his crappy out of standard laptop. He was gone a month later.
I had a feeling somthing like this would turn up once I posted the link. It just seems odd to me that one site will have the complete article with images and another would skimp out, even though the text refrences them.
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Check this out. Go to Yardcare.com. If you read the text under how to restore your lawn you'll notice refrences to pictures and charts but you don't see any.
Now go to This Popular Mechanics Article and notice the text is verbatim, only this time with the proper pictures and charts.
Which one is the origional site? Hmm...not to hard too figure out. I wasn't sure if I should have emailed PM or not, either way I think its rather rude and unbecoming of the web.
IL could just be buying OEM cards in bulk from some distributer, and not directly from Nvidia.
Not that I believe that but hey, it could happen.
Simple work around is for Comcast to require you to sign a contract which gives them license to your address before they grant you service.
Oops, now your data is free again.
I'm sure most coders out there have dreamed of this ability for years. No more clunky keyboard interface to slow you down.
Typos would be a thing of the past. Imagine scanning though some source and noticing that you assigned 100 to a var rather than 10, before you can even refocus your eye on the line the value has been changed.
Grep would be a thing of the past! Need to change all the instances of a function name? Think it and its done.
I want to be the lawnmower man!
I used Monster 3 years ago to get my current Sys Admin job.
I posted an extensive resume and applied to about 30 different job postings online over about a month. I never got anything more than a few thank you emails and a couple rejection letters in the mail.
I left it alone for a month and one day had some cryptic message from my now boss saying "My name is blah blah please meet me here at this day and time..." That was it, no company name no other details. Turns out he's just a man of few words.
After he hired me he told me that he had intervied 12 other candidates from various sources but in the end liked me the best because he found my resume, and chose me for the interview. I guess its all about perspective.
For what it's worth he also told me Monster costs A LOT less for employers than your average head hunters fees.
In reality 90% of /. readers have dumped all forms of Linux for OS X (I still call it "Oh Es Ex" stupid mac nerds).
Except me of course. I just had to remove linux from my 2 dev machines for a 2003 server install. See I'm one of those employed sys admins...you know, who have to work on whatever the company owns...not what I dork around with in my spare time.
First off read the article, the Demos go on to say "no harm no foul" since the documents aren't "owned" by anyone and are not official govt business. They even put the blame on their own admin.
A few other things to clear up: This was not a "glitch," instead it was a simple permissions issue where certain security policies were not implemented properly or at all.
Second: If a document is readable, people will read it. Right wrong or otherwise I don't really see what the big deal is. These people are supposed to running our fscking country not trading dirty secrets about how to screw the president out of a judicial nominee.
Sure the people who weren't supposed to have access should have said somthing, but by the same token I can say the admin should have double checked to make sure they didn't have access.
If the honeypot theory is correct, and Demos knew the documents weren't secure whey would they allow stupid shit like "hes a latino" go there in the first place. If anything they would place false documents there and make he republicans look bad when they come out with all these lies and rumors.
In my opinion this doesn't even hurt the republicans credibility...so what if they were seeing stuff they weren't meant to see...the shit found more than makes up for any "ethical" issues involved. I say we pass a law that anything written, typed, or electronicly produced by any of our governmental representatives (that isn't top secret or national security) should be made public within 24hours of its creation.
Its time our government was held responsible for all the BS it creates.
If all hubble needs is some replacement gyros why don't some of these billionare space tourists (Tito) put down some hard cash and have the russians shoot them up for a fixit mission. Once the gyros are repaird the telescope becomes useful again without fear of losing orbit.
I'm all for new and advanced space and ground based telescopes but to just junk the craft seems wasteful, hell offer it up on ebay and see what happens, maybe the chinese would be interested in refurbing it.
Yea go USA! My father in law is one of those 69%...just this weekend I spent about two hours removing 12 viruses/trojans and another 6 or so spyware programs from his computer. All gotten from some evil pr0n sites (well he is divorced and single..).
Last month I installed a firewall and updated his anti-virus. I asked him why he had them both disabled, he said "My favorite web site requires me to have these turned off at all times."
With my wife (his daughter) in the room I didn't really say anything, but before we left I explained to him in private that his favorite web site has been installing viruses and spyware on his PC...then I gave him a few tips on how to find reputable pr0n.
I hope next year 99% of all US citizens are online, I'm going to be starting up a zombie network to punish evil terrorists and i'll need the boxen.
Someone already joked about getting it through security...I think it would be near impossible.
Recently there was a woman wearing a leather motorcycle jacket with a built in heating system that connects to the bike via wires...these wires were hanging out of the jacket..all of a sudden we have a terroist situation...a plane delayed awhile and this woman was accosted...Sorry, thats not making me safer, some hunyuk terrorist wanting to take down a plane is going to be smart enough to make sure no WIRES are hanging out of his bomb laden jacket....Good lord
Anyone else find the last paragraph of that article a bit scary?
"The leak was made more worrisome because the main oxygen generator, which has been working only sporadically, failed again last week. Russian flight managers are designing a way to fix it this week with spare parts already on the station."
Shouldn't the OXYGEN generators be...oh I dunno...WORKING most of the time? Failed again last week reminds me of the infamous furnace fighting scene from a Christmas Story.
I can just see a Russian cosmonaut banging on it with a wrench cursing...
This makes me very happy to hear. I'm 25 and my favorite lego series was the "Model Team" with the Semi trucks, jeeps, vans, helicopters and generally cool, LARGE fully functional models of real life vehicles.
I recently rebuilt my model team semi and it now rests proudly on my desk. Right now they have a very nice lego Shuttle in the stores for $50 bucks (same price as most of the model team models back in the day, and even today on ebay)that I've been trying to convince my wife we need...hehe
Its really disapointing to go to the store and see Soccer, Harry Potter, and Star Wars sets with little more than 20 pieces and some look alike action figures. Give the kids somthing that will take them a few hours to build and leave them enough blocks to construct something different if they should choose.
Just this weekend I noticed some new sets out called "design sets" that were of normal everyday objects (one was a pontoon plane) and each set is capable of being at least 3 different things. (I assume they have docs inside which show how to convert as well..at least the last technic model I bought did)
This is the lego I remember and love, and I think more parents would rather buy somthing that can be more than just a scene from SW or HP.
I wonder what this might do to the insurance business. Lets say perhaps they predict a 7 or greater in LA in the next 4 months... Now a smart person living in that area would go beef up their earthquake or homeowners insurance (or buy some if they don't have it already).
But a smarter insurance company might decide not to sell any more quake insurance until after the deadline if you live in that area.
So now we know they are coming but can't do much to protect ourselves other than getting out of the area.
I played with the "beta" version and had little if any luck. On my main work machine (PIII 800 VIA chipset) all I got was a black screen. I assume it was trying to drive my flat panel at a higher refresh than supported...I didn't notice any easy way to get around this.
On the second machine I tried it on it booted but didn't detect my USB memory stick. After that I pretty much gave up as the two main machines I had intended to use it on failed.
I have in the past used Knoppix with great success, as well as SuSE. Perhaps my problems were in some way related to the "beta" version or my own ignorance, either way not exactly what you call out of the box friendly.
The point is that we have no idea if this climate change is normal. Scientists have been wrong about everything forever, how do we know they are right this time? If they aren't right, and we do somthing to stop the climate change couldn't we cause more harm than good?
I'll give you that we are expierencing global climate change, what I won't give it is a name.."global warming" is a phrase invented by the media to scare people. One Volcano can put out 100x more "green house" gasses than man could hope to make in 20 years. To me, thats proof enough that what we are expierencing is little more than the eb and flow of our planet.
There are a ton of comments here that start with "Back in my day we didn't have (insert thing here) and we did GREAT!"
Here's the reality people, most course curriculim has changed since the introduction of the graphing calculators. I took the advanced Calc courses at the UofMN and it was REQUIRED that you owned one to enroll for the class...why? Because the professors had designed the course to use the calculators to teach the students things that were nearly impossible to teach without the visualization via graphing calcs. Sure they could get a comp and a projector and throw up a pick on a screen but they wanted more, they wanted you to change the values of the functions, understand how different terms affected the outcome.
Calc would have been insanly boring, if all we did was take intergrals, derivs, and solve diffi-Qs. I'm glad I invested in a TI-92 before my freshman year, its versatility beat the crap out of every other TI on the market.
I should also preface this post with how my class was graded...getting the "answer" was considered 25% of the worth of the question, what they wanted and taught was the process of deriving the answer, so having a calc that could do integrals was rather useless, you still had to show your work, especially on tests..it was nice for checking to make sure you added 2+2 right.
It took Optima 5+ years to figure out that all CDR Software/Hardware infringed upon their patent?
Just another happy case of
1) Patent some tech
2) Wait for tech to become standard
3) Collect the underware
4) Sue for profit!
I haven't gotten a warning from Comcast yet but I've recently (read in two days) downloaded more than 10 ISOs from major linux distros. Am I to be lumped into the "movie stealer" catagory for simply checking out my free OS choices?
All I know is that work pays for my ISP, and Comcast is on month to month...there are at least 2 other options in my area...who wants some free money?
Why won't you people learn to use google.com before running off your mouths about half truths and FUD.
Seattle City Light has a nice page which shows the bi-monthly costs of many household items.
A typical computer drawing a constant 300watts (most computers draw significantly less) for 2 hours a day will cost ~$2.40 bi-monthly.
Granted a firewall would probably be running 24x7 it would likely not be drawing 300 continous watts..a smart monkey might even build one without a HDD and thus draw even less power.
How many months can I run a PC as a firewall before I meet the $200 price tag for a dedicated unit that is obsolete the instant you open the box?
No for the low low price of $4k anyone(terrorists/drug dealers/mafia) can keep their conversations(plots to kill people/drug shipments/sports gambling) private(don't let the CIA/FBI/INS...know!)!
I can't beleive anyone(criminals) could have survived without these babys! I'm going to run right down to my local Radio Shack and get a pair!
So I assume the standard solution to face to face bullies applies? Ignore them and they will go away.
/. crowd was/is subject to taunting, bullying, name calling what have you..we all seemed to come out fine in the end, and I never once had to fight anyone in the school yard, they never showed.
I'm sure most of the