I don't know of any other non-religious nation that is so anal about language
Try Belgium, which has both Dutch and French as official languages. I'm from the Netherlands and I like to exercise my French. So anyway I'm visiting Brussels (capitol of Belgium) sitting on a terrace and I order my beer in French. Comes this big Flemish guy, asking me in a loud voice whether I'm not proud of my language, why order in French and the like. I was totally flabberghasted, I tell you. Lots of Belgians are totally anal about that.
It's geek related, lots of people that have bandwidth to share on their Flash streaming servers. Set up a script that round-robins across a bunch of streaming servers. Just use a decent encoder and the quality will be good.
You can not kill the Browser process, but you can kill any other.
I found that out as well! I installed Chrome, ran it for the first time and after a bit of surfing I wanted to close the window. When I clicked the red X in the upper right of the window, out of my speakers came this strange voice, booming "YOU CAN NOT KILL TEH BROWSER PROCESSSSSSS".
You: "What's wrong?" Mum: "The Google isn't loading!" You: "Oh OK?!" Google, softly purring: "I'm teh Google" Mum: "The logo is not there!" You:... *speechless* Google, incessantly: "I AM the GOOGLE!"
What kind of information would that then be? A new business idea or something? Because if you are a personal assistant, I don't think you'd be interested in a new business idea.
Trying to re-educate the boss can easily backfire. [...] In protest (not wanting to turn my office into a store room), I stacked the stuff in the hallways of our nice new building. I thought this would give ownership the hint.
It sounds like you weren't trying to re-educate the boss. You were clumsily communicating.
its gone from the local machine, but that does not mean it was not logged elsewhere.
I'm currently writing a Firefox extension to do just that. I.e. when you click Menu -> Extra -> Clean Up Private Data in Firefox, this extension will add a checkbox to the list:
"Open Project For Bidding On Elance.com To Let Blackhats Erase Private Data From Remote Machines You Have Visited"
You described my work environment pretty well, except we're 5:60.[... ] We'd be hard pressed to whittle that down.
I've saw there's some development going on but I have to admit our IT dept. isn't doing any of that. Almost all needed software is bought.
If the scientists/engineers need new software themselves, it's written internally in the separate departments, so that's the difference in staffing between your and my working environment.
I'm working at a semi-governmental organisation and I'm frankly amazed at how efficient we are. It's a mixed shop, with Cisco for network equipment, Novell for authentication/file/print sharing/mail servers, Sun for the Unix infrastructure and Linux for all secondary servers. The desktops are 25% Linux, 75% Windows XP.
We're with 200 people, most of them engineers or scientists. Our IT department consists of 7 people.
UAC is quite possibly the worst implementation of permission escalation I've ever seen. It cries way too often and for way too little, training you to just click continue no matter why it pops up.
Everybody keeps saying how it pops up so often, but looking at Wikipedia's list of tasks that trigger a UAC prompt, there's only real serious stuff in there like installing software and device wide settings.
You seem a Linux user. Are you really sure the UAC prompt pops up more often than you using sudo?
When those people finally get you that work you've been waiting for, suddenly the pressure's on you
Pressure is what you feel. The other party is experiencing irritation, impatience, et cetera. Besides finishing your work, adressing whatever they're feeling can also relieve you of pressure.
Does USB 3.0 assist in the more rapid delivery of porn to my PC?
Why, yes of course! The internet tubes will be replaced with USB 3.0, which is easily done because USB hubs are very cheap. When this is done, everybody will have 5 Gb/s!
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I don't know of any other non-religious nation that is so anal about language
Try Belgium, which has both Dutch and French as official languages. I'm from the Netherlands and I like to exercise my French. So anyway I'm visiting Brussels (capitol of Belgium) sitting on a terrace and I order my beer in French. Comes this big Flemish guy, asking me in a loud voice whether I'm not proud of my language, why order in French and the like. I was totally flabberghasted, I tell you. Lots of Belgians are totally anal about that.
It's geek related, lots of people that have bandwidth to share on their Flash streaming servers. Set up a script that round-robins across a bunch of streaming servers. Just use a decent encoder and the quality will be good.
You can not kill the Browser process, but you can kill any other.
I found that out as well! I installed Chrome, ran it for the first time and after a bit of surfing I wanted to close the window. When I clicked the red X in the upper right of the window, out of my speakers came this strange voice, booming "YOU CAN NOT KILL TEH BROWSER PROCESSSSSSS".
I was like OMG!!!
I think Google does it that way because, for a hosted web application, version numbers are meaningless.
If that's the case then what I don't get is WHY DOESN'T MICROSOFT CREATE A WEBBASED VERSION OF IE??
You: "What's wrong?" ... *speechless*
Mum: "The Google isn't loading!"
You: "Oh OK?!"
Google, softly purring: "I'm teh Google"
Mum: "The logo is not there!"
You:
Google, incessantly: "I AM the GOOGLE!"
They made things right, let's not dwell on the past.
I'm trapped in the past, you insensitive clod!
What kind of information would that then be? A new business idea or something? Because if you are a personal assistant, I don't think you'd be interested in a new business idea.
His e-mail password, yes.
Trying to re-educate the boss can easily backfire. [...]
In protest (not wanting to turn my office into a store room), I stacked the stuff in the hallways of our nice new building. I thought this would give ownership the hint.
It sounds like you weren't trying to re-educate the boss. You were clumsily communicating.
its gone from the local machine, but that does not mean it was not logged elsewhere.
I'm currently writing a Firefox extension to do just that. I.e. when you click Menu -> Extra -> Clean Up Private Data in Firefox, this extension will add a checkbox to the list:
"Open Project For Bidding On Elance.com To Let Blackhats Erase Private Data From Remote Machines You Have Visited"
Really, I'm getting a bit tired of the comments on the 140-character limit that Twitter imposes. The idea behind the limit is something tha
It does you no good to be able to process 16 billion pixels / second, when you can only get the data for 4 billion per second from your memories.
[voice accent="scotty"]
It's the memories, capt'n! They canna' take it any longer!
[/voice]
You described my work environment pretty well, except we're 5:60.[ ... ] We'd be hard pressed to whittle that down.
I've saw there's some development going on but I have to admit our IT dept. isn't doing any of that. Almost all needed software is bought.
If the scientists/engineers need new software themselves, it's written internally in the separate departments, so that's the difference in staffing between your and my working environment.
I'm working at a semi-governmental organisation and I'm frankly amazed at how efficient we are. It's a mixed shop, with Cisco for network equipment, Novell for authentication/file/print sharing/mail servers, Sun for the Unix infrastructure and Linux for all secondary servers. The desktops are 25% Linux, 75% Windows XP.
We're with 200 people, most of them engineers or scientists. Our IT department consists of 7 people.
I cant get it to do anything either, FF3 & IE7. I just get a black box with nav arrow controls
Yes, that's it. This is Microsoft with a first release. What did you expect??
UAC is quite possibly the worst implementation of permission escalation I've ever seen. It cries way too often and for way too little, training you to just click continue no matter why it pops up.
Everybody keeps saying how it pops up so often, but looking at Wikipedia's list of tasks that trigger a UAC prompt, there's only real serious stuff in there like installing software and device wide settings.
You seem a Linux user. Are you really sure the UAC prompt pops up more often than you using sudo?
When those people finally get you that work you've been waiting for, suddenly the pressure's on you
Pressure is what you feel. The other party is experiencing irritation, impatience, et cetera. Besides finishing your work, adressing whatever they're feeling can also relieve you of pressure.
what, they don't have taco bell in Finland?
In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell.
Hah, you're lying! You aren't from the future otherwise you'd have a much higher UID!!
Let those parents in, man, it'll be a blast!
Recruiter: "So, Johnny, you know that as a cop, you'll have to deal with pimps and prostitutes?"
Johnny: "Yes, sir and I'm sure I can deal with this."
Recruiter: "OK let's do a little roleplaying. Mrs. Jones while you're here, would you be so kind to play an... eerrr .. working gal?"
Mrs. Jones: "??"
Recruiter: "Right Johnny, so this err. lady.. is resisting arrest. Here's a taser and now let it rip with all you've got!"
didn't boot properly after md was upgraded. Turned out this was a pretty known issue. No one ever thought that people would want things migrated
That's typical Linux for you, however, I'd expect your distribution vendor to take this kind of stuff into account. Which distro do you guys run?
Yeah and get a whole lot of melons :-)
Interesting for the big boys, but not so much for the amateur or even professional freelance photographer.
What are you going to do if someone ripped your pics from Flickr and claims them? Exactly -- not much.
Grab Python, it's going to cost ~60 lines.
And two days of debugging.
Does USB 3.0 assist in the more rapid delivery of porn to my PC?
Why, yes of course! The internet tubes will be replaced with USB 3.0, which is easily done because USB hubs are very cheap. When this is done, everybody will have 5 Gb/s!
According to Wikipedia, Bash was first released in 1987, 21 years ago. I have no idea when it became the predominant shell in GNU/Linux-world.
It became the predominant shell when bash became sentient at 2:14am on August 29, 1997, inserting itself in all major Linux distributions.