In the past year, I've been approached by more Recruiters than ever before. The offers are going up too. In 2002, I was approached with a 50-60k PHP programming offer. In 2006, 60-80k. The jobs are out there, you just need the right set of skillsets.
Sadly, I'm so burnt out on technology (I'm crispy around the edges), I'm probably going to start working for an outdoor tour company where my office is a rock wall or fishing trip, etc... Less money, more fun.
I hate to agree with an AC, but this is very true. In some areas where you feel something might happen, you can always call the local PD before showing up to alert them you're going to be in the area. May seem like you don't need to or shouldn't but I've seen police escorts for things like this.
(self mod: offtopic) I'm an American living in western Germany and my wife and I took a vacation to Eastern Germany. Even today, my wife and I were suprised by the housing. In the area we where in, everything was grey, the same type of house, there where empty shells of houses and buildings all over downtown. We where amazed at the difference between the city we live in compared to there. I can't even think of how it was when the Soviets had the area.
I have 2 Linksys routers in my house (50 year old gov housing with 2 foot thick, reinforced, walls) and another Linksys router in my basement connected with a 9db antenna and its all running Sveasoft. I've had this setup for over a year and not one hiccup - unless you count Win2K AdvSvr crashing occasionally.
Before I had my DSL installed, I had the 9db antenna pointed to some idiot with an open access point about 100 meters away.
My biggest point of failure is my ISP's DNS server, and I'm thinking about hooking up my own DNS server to get around them.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but there are plenty of firms still doing stateside TS and CS.
Verizon, SUN, Sprint, DELL, etc still do in house support. Granted, some might be outsourced locally or overseas, but not ALL of it.
The main issue I had with Earthlink is that they lied through their teeth to their own employees, just to make a buck. Do you know why? Because the investors were pissed that the stock tanked after the merger. The reason for this is because the quality of the service tanked as soon as Earthlink management took over and because the management went on a spending spree to buy anything they wanted. We had phones, pagers, blackberry's, LCD projectors and they where flying people all over the country for stuff like a 2 hour meeting.
While I agree that it is not the ISPs job to teach people how to use their computer and how to surf the internet, it is a fact that if you give good support, you will make more money and grow. If you look at the growth of Earthlink, its been very stale because of the quality of service.
I have nothing against the free market. I have everything wrong with a corporation all out lying through their yellow teeth to their own employees.
As for inefficient, not true. By far, in my experience, US based support is more efficient. Outsourced support mainly reads from a script on answers. They have a problem; they look it up and read through a script to fix it. After doing the same thing about 2 dozen times, they begin to learn it. Toss them something completely off the wall and they spend 20 minutes trying to tell you that its the OS's fault or something.
Earthlink is known for outsourcing. In fact, ALL of their technical support and customer service is outsourced to various parts of the world. The only things thats really left are a few managers, the NOC team and a few other choice depts like Training. I'm really suprised they didn't at least talk to their ex-earthlink employees about this.
I really don't know what the hell Google was thinking. This is pretty much Good and Bad partnering together to create the Ugly.
Um... This always annoys me. People talk about Sepron's being old and not able to handle what they do.
PII 700 with 392 memory running Win2k Adv Server...
Currently, I have Word, Fireworks (with 2 decent sized projects in it open), Firefox (4 tabs), Winamp playing with 50 hours of music Q'd, a USB drive mounted and open, wireless keyboard/mouse, Apache and MySQL PHP/Python running, etc and its my houses domain server. Not a damn hiccup.
Oh yea, AND I play Unreal Tournament and Empire Earth II, etc on it (THE HORROR!).
Whats funny to me is people like you thinking that this box is trash. I haven't upgraded in years (although, I'm waiting on the last part of my new box) because I use what I can for the maximum amount of time. After I upgrade, this goes downstairs as a test box for programming as well as to help out my Render Farm - which I might add, consists mostly of "donated" boxes from people upgrading.
My new box will have so much power, I won't know what to do with it all. You people make ME laugh.
Funny - I have one 3 feet from my head on my desk and one under my couch as well. I think I'm at risk of becoming a redneck... I personally have 2 of mine turned on right now, as hidden as I can. Unfortunately, I'm surrounded by idiots: (You'd figure they would change the channel like I have...)
On top of this, I would transfer the source (on whatever media) encrypted so, if something where to happen, they cannot claim it was stolen somewhere in the middle. Require them to call a specific person when they receive the disk to get the key.
An NDA and possibly a Non-compete agreement should be fine. This stops them from sharing the source and from giving the source to in-house developers to try to pick through your source to make a product for themselves.
Also, since they do this with all applications they use, you have the right to ask for the contact info of a few places they've done this with. This allows you to talk to X Company about what happened during and after the process. Tell them this is your security check on them.
Either way, as with most business related "Ask Slashdot" articles, you need to consult your lawyer.
I've had a problem with the way language has been going down the tubes for awhile. In fact, I started a blog entry complaining abou the crap I've been seeing all over the place. One of my biggest complaints is that commercial sites are letting it all happen. Look at the reviews on NewEgg and you'll see what I'm talking about...and the language complaint you have is looking like "Me and Jim are going to the park." instead of "Jim and I are going to the park."
I thought about running it under Linux, but I figured I would have a better experience if I actually did it myself. I'm currently learning C++ and later, Java2, so this will be something I can use and practice programming with as well.
No, but if I where a hiring manager, I would look through your posting history to determine your attitude. It would quickly tell me if you know what you're talking about in certain situations, how well you handle people picking you apart, etc...
I bought my first laptop from Gateway, but after awhile of dealing with Support and such, I have written them off as well. Unfortunately, my wife loves them. At the moment, my wife loves her Gateway laptop and her old Gateway desktop - never had a problem with them and will probably get another one from them.
I know it hasn't been released yet, but its a matter of if I want to spend the money now or possibly wait and let the games sit in front of me for awhile. I'll probably go for XP (unfortunately) since I really don't want to buy the first release of Vista anyway.
Yup, I hate Windows with a passion, but the latest games I like to play forced me to both build a new gaming rig from scratch (i'm lazy) and get a new copy of Windows - haven't decided between XP or possibly Vista...
"Exciting Opportunity! Several temp positions available at XX Company. Assist in rollout of new software on the Crackberry platform. Must be able to thumb type 35wpm. Experience recommended, crackberry addicts need not apply."
Seriously though, I can see temps being brought into major companies across the US to take these suckers and place them on a cradle and update - rinse and repeat for 8 hours a day.
Na, you'll make more money when you sue for mental anguish over shrinkage...
"There's no warning on the cold water saying it'll shrink! I yelled "Oh my god! Its shrinking, its going away!" My girlfriend ran in because of the screaming and just laughed at me. I thought my sex life was over. Judge, she calls me Turtle now. I can't go out to any clubs anymore.
If some idiot can sue and win over tripping over a crack on your property, yea, I could see you winning the above.
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You know, I happen to agree with you...
In the past year, I've been approached by more Recruiters than ever before. The offers are going up too. In 2002, I was approached with a 50-60k PHP programming offer. In 2006, 60-80k. The jobs are out there, you just need the right set of skillsets.
Sadly, I'm so burnt out on technology (I'm crispy around the edges), I'm probably going to start working for an outdoor tour company where my office is a rock wall or fishing trip, etc... Less money, more fun.
I hate to agree with an AC, but this is very true. In some areas where you feel something might happen, you can always call the local PD before showing up to alert them you're going to be in the area. May seem like you don't need to or shouldn't but I've seen police escorts for things like this.
Um, you haven't been keeping up with this very much...
He's on update 24 or so now and it looks like it needs to be updated again. That update was right after the Blog hit Slashdot/Digg the first time.
(self mod: offtopic) I'm an American living in western Germany and my wife and I took a vacation to Eastern Germany. Even today, my wife and I were suprised by the housing. In the area we where in, everything was grey, the same type of house, there where empty shells of houses and buildings all over downtown. We where amazed at the difference between the city we live in compared to there. I can't even think of how it was when the Soviets had the area.
I'm stuck in Germany for the next year or so due to the USArmy, so no... Unfortunately, they blame their upstream provider most of the time.
Hm...
I have 2 Linksys routers in my house (50 year old gov housing with 2 foot thick, reinforced, walls) and another Linksys router in my basement connected with a 9db antenna and its all running Sveasoft. I've had this setup for over a year and not one hiccup - unless you count Win2K AdvSvr crashing occasionally.
Before I had my DSL installed, I had the 9db antenna pointed to some idiot with an open access point about 100 meters away.
My biggest point of failure is my ISP's DNS server, and I'm thinking about hooking up my own DNS server to get around them.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but there are plenty of firms still doing stateside TS and CS.
Verizon, SUN, Sprint, DELL, etc still do in house support. Granted, some might be outsourced locally or overseas, but not ALL of it.
The main issue I had with Earthlink is that they lied through their teeth to their own employees, just to make a buck. Do you know why? Because the investors were pissed that the stock tanked after the merger. The reason for this is because the quality of the service tanked as soon as Earthlink management took over and because the management went on a spending spree to buy anything they wanted. We had phones, pagers, blackberry's, LCD projectors and they where flying people all over the country for stuff like a 2 hour meeting.
While I agree that it is not the ISPs job to teach people how to use their computer and how to surf the internet, it is a fact that if you give good support, you will make more money and grow. If you look at the growth of Earthlink, its been very stale because of the quality of service.
I have nothing against the free market. I have everything wrong with a corporation all out lying through their yellow teeth to their own employees.
As for inefficient, not true. By far, in my experience, US based support is more efficient. Outsourced support mainly reads from a script on answers. They have a problem; they look it up and read through a script to fix it. After doing the same thing about 2 dozen times, they begin to learn it. Toss them something completely off the wall and they spend 20 minutes trying to tell you that its the OS's fault or something.
What could possibly go wrong from here?
Um - lots...
Earthlink is known for outsourcing. In fact, ALL of their technical support and customer service is outsourced to various parts of the world. The only things thats really left are a few managers, the NOC team and a few other choice depts like Training. I'm really suprised they didn't at least talk to their ex-earthlink employees about this.
I really don't know what the hell Google was thinking. This is pretty much Good and Bad partnering together to create the Ugly.
Um... This always annoys me. People talk about Sepron's being old and not able to handle what they do.
PII 700 with 392 memory running Win2k Adv Server...
Currently, I have Word, Fireworks (with 2 decent sized projects in it open), Firefox (4 tabs), Winamp playing with 50 hours of music Q'd, a USB drive mounted and open, wireless keyboard/mouse, Apache and MySQL PHP/Python running, etc and its my houses domain server. Not a damn hiccup.
Oh yea, AND I play Unreal Tournament and Empire Earth II, etc on it (THE HORROR!).
Whats funny to me is people like you thinking that this box is trash. I haven't upgraded in years (although, I'm waiting on the last part of my new box) because I use what I can for the maximum amount of time. After I upgrade, this goes downstairs as a test box for programming as well as to help out my Render Farm - which I might add, consists mostly of "donated" boxes from people upgrading.
My new box will have so much power, I won't know what to do with it all. You people make ME laugh.
Funny - I have one 3 feet from my head on my desk and one under my couch as well. I think I'm at risk of becoming a redneck... I personally have 2 of mine turned on right now, as hidden as I can. Unfortunately, I'm surrounded by idiots: (You'd figure they would change the channel like I have...)
Scan Lists
SSID MAC Channel Rssi noise beacon cap dtim rates
linksys 00:13:10:9F:81:1D 6 -83 -96 100 1025 0 12(g)
Milky Way 00:14:BF:C4:4F:34 6 -86 -96 100 1041 0 12(g)
default 00:13:46:86:73:1E 6 -87 -96 100 1057 0 12(g)
home_444 00:14:BF:E4:14:1D 6 -93 -96 100 1025 0 12(g)
bka 00:0C:41:DE:9F:F8 6 -88 -96 100 1025 0 12(g)
That's obviously not counting both of mine and the few others I know are hidden around here as well. Ah... Stairwell life...
On top of this, I would transfer the source (on whatever media) encrypted so, if something where to happen, they cannot claim it was stolen somewhere in the middle. Require them to call a specific person when they receive the disk to get the key.
An NDA and possibly a Non-compete agreement should be fine. This stops them from sharing the source and from giving the source to in-house developers to try to pick through your source to make a product for themselves.
Also, since they do this with all applications they use, you have the right to ask for the contact info of a few places they've done this with. This allows you to talk to X Company about what happened during and after the process. Tell them this is your security check on them.
Either way, as with most business related "Ask Slashdot" articles, you need to consult your lawyer.
I've had a problem with the way language has been going down the tubes for awhile. In fact, I started a blog entry complaining abou the crap I've been seeing all over the place. One of my biggest complaints is that commercial sites are letting it all happen. Look at the reviews on NewEgg and you'll see what I'm talking about. ..and the language complaint you have is looking like "Me and Jim are going to the park." instead of "Jim and I are going to the park."
They really can't do too much. Its part of the founder's name: "...founder Ken Krugler"
I thought about running it under Linux, but I figured I would have a better experience if I actually did it myself. I'm currently learning C++ and later, Java2, so this will be something I can use and practice programming with as well.
I took this question the same way as you - wanting to store old parts of code (functions, etc), instead of storing whole projects.
If I where looking at staying on Windows, I would try this. It actually would help my current issue of creating files for each function I like.
Unfortunately, I have come to hate (and I do mean HATE) windows and am switching. Anyone know about anything like this on Linux?
No, but if I where a hiring manager, I would look through your posting history to determine your attitude. It would quickly tell me if you know what you're talking about in certain situations, how well you handle people picking you apart, etc...
I could not agree with this more. I have always hated it when I'm ignored and unfortunately it happens a lot.
I personally think it would be suicide to use Clip-Art in a resume...
I bought my first laptop from Gateway, but after awhile of dealing with Support and such, I have written them off as well. Unfortunately, my wife loves them. At the moment, my wife loves her Gateway laptop and her old Gateway desktop - never had a problem with them and will probably get another one from them.
I know it hasn't been released yet, but its a matter of if I want to spend the money now or possibly wait and let the games sit in front of me for awhile. I'll probably go for XP (unfortunately) since I really don't want to buy the first release of Vista anyway.
Yup, I hate Windows with a passion, but the latest games I like to play forced me to both build a new gaming rig from scratch (i'm lazy) and get a new copy of Windows - haven't decided between XP or possibly Vista...
I can see the job posting on Craigslist:
"Exciting Opportunity! Several temp positions available at XX Company. Assist in rollout of new software on the Crackberry platform. Must be able to thumb type 35wpm. Experience recommended, crackberry addicts need not apply."
Seriously though, I can see temps being brought into major companies across the US to take these suckers and place them on a cradle and update - rinse and repeat for 8 hours a day.
Na, you'll make more money when you sue for mental anguish over shrinkage...
"There's no warning on the cold water saying it'll shrink! I yelled "Oh my god! Its shrinking, its going away!" My girlfriend ran in because of the screaming and just laughed at me. I thought my sex life was over. Judge, she calls me Turtle now. I can't go out to any clubs anymore.
If some idiot can sue and win over tripping over a crack on your property, yea, I could see you winning the above.
2nd grade watching it live at school. Everyone that saw it was ushered into the gym about 2 hours after and talked about death and such.