Here I'm a bit more than an entire IT department. I'm a programmer at heart, but working in a web + IT position. 25 users. 6 servers. $30k/year. It's a summer job, turned into a full time job now that I've graduated. The main problem is not so much that they're cheap but that it's a small company and the workload is still very low. I'm always looking for things to do, and most of my work is self directed. Despite the low workload, I feel that it'd cost them dearly if I simply quit. My current plan is to shift over to contract work where they'd pay me more, but only for work they need, freeing me to work for other businesses of myself. They're leaning toward that as well.
The alternative is that I could bet on the company's growth and stay. Their IT, web, and inhouse development needs will grow with them, and so will their need for my skills and experience. I hate IT though.
Half the city's simply underwater, except for the rooftops. I started off in a reasonably unaffected part of the city thinking "hey, the damage doesn't look as bad from up here", then I scrolled to the left a bit and, damn. It's like I'm looking at Venice, if it were flooded.
I subscribe to the "two party system" duality paradigm whereby most competitive markets evolve into primarily a two horse race and just make sure my pages work in the top two browser engines, IE and Gecko. I'll usually try some pages in Konqueror and Opera, but sometimes it's only after the site has gone live, and I usually don't encounter serious problems. Most of my active development goes on in FireFox, except for HTA applications which are IE only, though I've been experimenting with XUL-Runner for making cross platform HTML apps.
Longhorn will spread primarily through OEM installs, as XP did, until it becomes the dominant desktop operating system despite very few people actually buying it themselves.
the PayPal emails I've been receiving recently regarding suspicious activity... have to re-enable my account every other day when PayPal's automated fraud detection finds something amiss
Mod parent funny I guess. If it's not funny-joke, it's funny-oops.
shut down accounts that SEEM to be scamming people, and then, upon futrther investigation, decide "this one isnt a scam, we will re-open it"
That might actually work, if they were willing to do the whole "further investigation" part. They firmly refuse to do anything. Perhaps they could actually try contacting a couple random buyers to verify their payments, and compare buyers' ip addresses to the ones they registered with. That'd tell them in 5 minutes whether the seller is scamming or if those are real donations.
Whenever an account gets too big, they freeze it and pocket the money. They don't have to explain their reasons. They don't have to let you prove your innocence. They don't have to give anything back if you can prove it. And you agree not to sue them over it (probably not enforceable). It's all in their terms of service, and demonstrated in the thousands of horror stories you can find on the internet. I know people who have been hurt by them. I never have and never will trust PayPal with more money than I could afford to lose.
"We have experimented with amputating or damaging several different organs, such as the heart, toes, tail and ears, and just watched them regrow," she said.
That's gotta hurt, especially for the non-regenerating mice in the control group.
The aim was to eventually migrate the company's massive SAP systems onto the Linux platform.
They probably spend more for SAP than they do on UNIX and all the overpriced hardware they run it on, and ERP downtime can be far more costly than whatever they spend on licensing. Their UNIX investment is a sunken cost, and you don't want to f*ck with the servers running your ERP. They did state their intent to use Linux in other places.
Every newbie and their grandmother knows you just have to type "rpm --import/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*" before using up2date, and do the same for any other repositories you might add.
To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
Some might argue that Quattro Pro is still alive (they're still releasing new versions), but its default spreadsheet format is entirely unsupported by the rest of the world. Every time someone cracks their file format, they make a new one. WB1, WB2, WB3, and now QPW. QPW is already 8 years old and still few have figured it out well enough to even extract data from it. If Corel Office dies, many old spreadsheets will slip into oblivion unless converted manually (open, save as, close, and repeat for each of your 500+ spreadsheets).
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The small print says 4x Pentium M 1.7ghz.
Plus there's that whole "1 server" part.
Here I'm a bit more than an entire IT department. I'm a programmer at heart, but working in a web + IT position. 25 users. 6 servers. $30k/year. It's a summer job, turned into a full time job now that I've graduated. The main problem is not so much that they're cheap but that it's a small company and the workload is still very low. I'm always looking for things to do, and most of my work is self directed. Despite the low workload, I feel that it'd cost them dearly if I simply quit. My current plan is to shift over to contract work where they'd pay me more, but only for work they need, freeing me to work for other businesses of myself. They're leaning toward that as well.
The alternative is that I could bet on the company's growth and stay. Their IT, web, and inhouse development needs will grow with them, and so will their need for my skills and experience. I hate IT though.
Half the city's simply underwater, except for the rooftops. I started off in a reasonably unaffected part of the city thinking "hey, the damage doesn't look as bad from up here", then I scrolled to the left a bit and, damn. It's like I'm looking at Venice, if it were flooded.
I needed more time for Slashdot.
I subscribe to the "two party system" duality paradigm whereby most competitive markets evolve into primarily a two horse race and just make sure my pages work in the top two browser engines, IE and Gecko. I'll usually try some pages in Konqueror and Opera, but sometimes it's only after the site has gone live, and I usually don't encounter serious problems. Most of my active development goes on in FireFox, except for HTA applications which are IE only, though I've been experimenting with XUL-Runner for making cross platform HTML apps.
Longhorn will spread primarily through OEM installs, as XP did, until it becomes the dominant desktop operating system despite very few people actually buying it themselves.
the PayPal emails I've been receiving recently regarding suspicious activity ... have to re-enable my account every other day when PayPal's automated fraud detection finds something amiss
Mod parent funny I guess. If it's not funny-joke, it's funny-oops.
shut down accounts that SEEM to be scamming people, and then, upon futrther investigation, decide "this one isnt a scam, we will re-open it"
That might actually work, if they were willing to do the whole "further investigation" part. They firmly refuse to do anything. Perhaps they could actually try contacting a couple random buyers to verify their payments, and compare buyers' ip addresses to the ones they registered with. That'd tell them in 5 minutes whether the seller is scamming or if those are real donations.
Whenever an account gets too big, they freeze it and pocket the money. They don't have to explain their reasons. They don't have to let you prove your innocence. They don't have to give anything back if you can prove it. And you agree not to sue them over it (probably not enforceable). It's all in their terms of service, and demonstrated in the thousands of horror stories you can find on the internet. I know people who have been hurt by them. I never have and never will trust PayPal with more money than I could afford to lose.
"We have experimented with amputating or damaging several different organs, such as the heart, toes, tail and ears, and just watched them regrow," she said.
That's gotta hurt, especially for the non-regenerating mice in the control group.
I've only encountered it on CentOS. Somehow I was modded insightful for trying to be funny.
The aim was to eventually migrate the company's massive SAP systems onto the Linux platform.
They probably spend more for SAP than they do on UNIX and all the overpriced hardware they run it on, and ERP downtime can be far more costly than whatever they spend on licensing. Their UNIX investment is a sunken cost, and you don't want to f*ck with the servers running your ERP. They did state their intent to use Linux in other places.
I wanted to keep the post simple.
US courts value a human life at roughly US $3.5 million. Some of that is punitive though.
I wonder how many (if any) lives the system didn't save. If the lifeguards didn't trust the system, would they still be alive?
How long can you hold your breath at the bottom of the pool? Long enough to trigger the alarm?
A lot of people including Verisign.
Every newbie and their grandmother knows you just have to type "rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*" before using up2date, and do the same for any other repositories you might add.
The rack is very small and only used for switches.
To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
You just described our setup almost exactly.
Some might argue that Quattro Pro is still alive (they're still releasing new versions), but its default spreadsheet format is entirely unsupported by the rest of the world. Every time someone cracks their file format, they make a new one. WB1, WB2, WB3, and now QPW. QPW is already 8 years old and still few have figured it out well enough to even extract data from it. If Corel Office dies, many old spreadsheets will slip into oblivion unless converted manually (open, save as, close, and repeat for each of your 500+ spreadsheets).
Lets call it adamantium, until a stonger material comes around.
I've seen this post before.
It's dead, Jim.
Hence the "From here on I'll be rambling about things I have little or no experience with." in the first paragraph.