After being laid off from my sysadmin job, it's been the best thing that ever happened in my 12-year IT career since I was also severely burned out. I'm now back at school studying filmmaking heading to an editing career. The IT skills come in super useful, and I get to do something I've always wanted to do. It's all about what you love, and though I learned that lesson the hard way, I'm glad I have the IT experience to back my new career.
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I'm telling my folks the simple workaround to blank site with Safari - change your user agent under the debug menu, then reload pg until Godummy fixes their server.
Maintaining in-house systems can be fun, but also a big 'ol pain, and considering you will still be paying for trunks, upgrades, hardware, maintenance, and maintaining that large IT staff (and possibly expanding it in this case), it is quite an investment of time, effort, training, and of course, $.
There are a few (though not many high quality ones out there yet) outsourced ip phone system providers for small-to-mid-size businesses out there. One of the highest rated and ahead-of-the-game companies out there is M5 Networks that currently primarily serves NYC area. Data/voice supplied and managed, superb customer service, redundancy, and no need to purchase/manage/bother with phone/long distance/ISP companies, and still manage your own network and do what you do best. The voice service is specialized, versatile, feature-rich, and it's what companies like M5 does, and does best.
Give hosted companies like this a look while you're researching - they're well worth it.
I guess I'm one of the few - only one I know of personally - female sysadmins around. Not a programmer - couldn't stomach sitting still on one project that long. I haven't experienced any overwhelming negative male attitude. Since I can actually *do* my job, I've received more respect and acceptance than anything else (and I have never seen a very big paycheck - entirely my own fault, not the biz).
I am currently one of four women in a company of 40. The last entry level position we hired for we received 300 resumes, five of which were from women, and none of those five were qualified. So, maybe its not women leaving, maybe its that women aren't even entering the field in the first place.
I've found that my skills are just too diverse for a job that has one specific function. Maybe it is that many women get bored with a single, repetitive task easily, and a majority of men can remain concentrated on one singular thing for longer. It's a general thought, and in no way applies to everyone.
Too many tech jobs hold people to such specific tasks, and creativity can be killed on day one. Personally, I find that idea less-than-fulfulling, and I would need more. If being a sysadmin begins to bore me, believe me, I am outta this biz as fast as you can say 'kernel panic'.
"There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out." - JMS
I don't want to buy ANY Apple products just to listen to music. I want CHOICE. Apple doesn't give me that.
If you want choice, you first need patience, and then you need to read. The Windows version of iTunes will be released by end of year. If demand is high, maybe for more platforms.
Quote from Fortune Mag: "Jobs, however, isn't targeting just Mac users. He plans to roll out a Windows version of iTunes by the end of the year. (Apple already sells a Windows-compatible version of the iPod, which accounts for about half of all units sold.) It is a dramatic departure for Steve, who has deliberately kept the Mac's best features off the screens of the much larger Microsoft-dominated world."
Surprise! woman here who uses linux and other and reads/. regularly - oooooo shocking.
I usually hate this type of article and it is mostly **** but I must say from personal experience that when I play a 3D game, say UT2K3 or other, on my laptop with 14" screen I get major motion sickness. When I play on 17" or higher I don't. Not sure if that is a specific side effect from their study, as it isn't very clear from the article.
Though this does not mean it's specifically a "woman" thing, it seems quite weird. I tend to think the reasons we women find it hard to get our "bearings" is that we're thinking of a million things at once, while the male, well, you can fill that in...
But since this is a M$ study, they realize that women, in general, make the practical purchase decisions for the household, and it would be nice to get PC vendors to sell the bigger monitors for their bloated OS, instead of making a better UI, wouldn't it?
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After being laid off from my sysadmin job, it's been the best thing that ever happened in my 12-year IT career since I was also severely burned out. I'm now back at school studying filmmaking heading to an editing career. The IT skills come in super useful, and I get to do something I've always wanted to do. It's all about what you love, and though I learned that lesson the hard way, I'm glad I have the IT experience to back my new career.
Safari blank except when using proxy or Debug user agent set to another type.
I'm telling my folks the simple workaround to blank site with Safari - change your user agent under the debug menu, then reload pg until Godummy fixes their server.
There are a few (though not many high quality ones out there yet) outsourced ip phone system providers for small-to-mid-size businesses out there. One of the highest rated and ahead-of-the-game companies out there is M5 Networks that currently primarily serves NYC area. Data/voice supplied and managed, superb customer service, redundancy, and no need to purchase/manage/bother with phone/long distance/ISP companies, and still manage your own network and do what you do best. The voice service is specialized, versatile, feature-rich, and it's what companies like M5 does, and does best.
Give hosted companies like this a look while you're researching - they're well worth it.
I disagree. As a woman in tech I definitely have to say:
::oops::
drinking.
End these dull topics. End them before we all die of boredom, or start pretending we really like MUDs, or become alcoholics.....
I guess I'm one of the few - only one I know of personally - female sysadmins around. Not a programmer - couldn't stomach sitting still on one project that long. I haven't experienced any overwhelming negative male attitude. Since I can actually *do* my job, I've received more respect and acceptance than anything else (and I have never seen a very big paycheck - entirely my own fault, not the biz).
I am currently one of four women in a company of 40. The last entry level position we hired for we received 300 resumes, five of which were from women, and none of those five were qualified. So, maybe its not women leaving, maybe its that women aren't even entering the field in the first place.
I've found that my skills are just too diverse for a job that has one specific function. Maybe it is that many women get bored with a single, repetitive task easily, and a majority of men can remain concentrated on one singular thing for longer. It's a general thought, and in no way applies to everyone.
Too many tech jobs hold people to such specific tasks, and creativity can be killed on day one. Personally, I find that idea less-than-fulfulling, and I would need more. If being a sysadmin begins to bore me, believe me, I am outta this biz as fast as you can say 'kernel panic'.
For trolls who rag on the B5 writing I have this:
"There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out."
- JMS
It's all about what you bring to the table....
I don't want to buy ANY Apple products just to listen to music. I want CHOICE. Apple doesn't give me that.
If you want choice, you first need patience, and then you need to read. The Windows version of iTunes will be released by end of year. If demand is high, maybe for more platforms.
Quote from Fortune Mag: "Jobs, however, isn't targeting just Mac users. He plans to roll out a Windows version of iTunes by the end of the year. (Apple already sells a Windows-compatible version of the iPod, which accounts for about half of all units sold.) It is a dramatic departure for Steve, who has deliberately kept the Mac's best features off the screens of the much larger Microsoft-dominated world."
Surprise! woman here who uses linux and other and reads /. regularly - oooooo shocking.
I usually hate this type of article and it is mostly **** but I must say from personal experience that when I play a 3D game, say UT2K3 or other, on my laptop with 14" screen I get major motion sickness. When I play on 17" or higher I don't. Not sure if that is a specific side effect from their study, as it isn't very clear from the article.
Though this does not mean it's specifically a "woman" thing, it seems quite weird. I tend to think the reasons we women find it hard to get our "bearings" is that we're thinking of a million things at once, while the male, well, you can fill that in...
But since this is a M$ study, they realize that women, in general, make the practical purchase decisions for the household, and it would be nice to get PC vendors to sell the bigger monitors for their bloated OS, instead of making a better UI, wouldn't it?