I support Quickbooks as a consultant/sysadmin for SMBs. One of my biggest gripes about QB is that if the client PCs arn't configured correctly, it will attempt to take over the role of sharing out the file while the actual file is still on the server. And it's compounded by the fact Windows XP doesn't route data over the ethernet as a priority over WiFi connection. It can get ugly in the office real quick over "who has the file open". The proper way is to install over the server side hosting agent on the server, and clients arn't configured to host. Although some users get confused over the concept of "hosting" vs "multi-user mode". Bah!!! Curses!
The other major problem is that Quickbooks accounting administrators are not performing backups. Sure, Windows Backup or Backup Exec may be capturing the file. But that's not the same thing. The transaction log will not flush until after Quickbooks itself is allowed to perform a full backup with verification. Sometimes if you wait too long, the entire damn thing gets corrupted. In fact, one of my clients is facing this very problem. She wants to upgrade to the latest version of QB. But until the data can be repaired (if possible) via special services at Intuit, she has no safe way of converting the file without it either bombing out or causing even more corruption.
You jest, but you bring up a valid point. Back when I was younger and film cameras ruled the roost, pictures meant absolute proof. Or real close anyways. Now, every modern picture taken is questionable. Because Photoshop is just that good.
"...I haven't seen a lot of "cloud storage" stuff from their (or India)..."
A little OT, but did you read the news from the AP today about 370 MILLION people in India being without power. From what I've read, rolling blackouts are notorious over there. If they don't even have the most basic electrical infrastructure and power generation up to par, how could we (everyone else) trust India for reliable cloud based services hosted inside their own border?
I'd be curious to know of any of the outsourced IT phone support vendors were effected. If so, how much of the call volume got routed back to the US?
"We need to hang a cable between two buildings, from height $h1 on building A to height $h2 on building B. The cable will be tied to a steel wire that can have tension up to $F newtons. Masses of the wire and the cable (per meter) are known, as well as the distance between the buildings. What is the required length of the cable and the wire, considering that the wire forms a catenary? When done, calculate the wind load for the wind speed of $speed m/s and tell me if the steel wire is strong enough."
That better not be CATx cable. Twisted copper between two buildings is prone to ground loops, interference, and weather. It should be fiber optic; and even then it should be ran through ground based conduit. So not only are you using the wrong cable for the job, miscalculated overall length, but the implementation is wrong as well.
FYI. Correct math is still useless if your calculations are based on a flawed solution.
Your arguments are valid, but those are certainly not entry-level positions. Far from it in fact. You are way out of touch in understanding the IT industry.
People in power tend to work together to solidify and reinforce their position in life. Often by erecting barriers to entry after the fact. Nothing good will come out of this. Once you walk into DC, you become a living member of the castle while everyone else is stuck outside living in serfdom.
You're fastest connection based on the slowest link. How can you hold Comcast to an average access speed when you don't have a reliable metric of the average access speed of the websites and media services you're trying to access?
Just for the records, I manage Windows AD domains. It's exceedingly bad practice to use an external domain root suffix for an internal private domain. For example, never use.COM especially if the whole domain of example.com is the same outside as it is internally. Otherwise, you're now having to manage your private DNS records in attempt resolve split DNS hell. It's why both Microsoft and their SBS servers recommend using.LOCAL for internal uses. It solves so many DNS problems. Some use.WAN or.DOM. Which ever you prefer I suppose. But.LOCAL is perfectly valid and encouraged as a Windows AD domain.
I've both read about this issue online and experience this problem with a client whom also upgraded to Lion. But I've got a late 2008 MacBook with Lion and I haven't had a single WiFi issue. I guess I'm lucky. My unit shipped with Leopard. I ended up performing a clean install of Snow Leopard and then doing an in-place upgrade to Lion.
There are ways of extracting the original Lion download and making a bootable USB drive out of it. I can only recommend backing up your data and performing a clean install of either Lion or Mountain Lion tomorrow. At least that's what I would do if faced with a similar situation.
Agreed. I'm all for safe, clean nuclear energy. But equipment wears out. It's an inevitable fact of life. Eventually these plants will need to be decommission. So do so when recommended. Just move the fuel to a new plant or process the fuel into something else useful.
So why even work in California at all? Either telecommute from another city (like Austin, TX), or just outsource the entire damn job overseas. In the age of the Internet, why would anyone think of of living in one of the most expensive cities with high taxes among the most volatile and mobile occupations? These young people are simply nuts!
Still is. You should re-read what Alan Greenspan has been saying about getting off the gold standard.
The money supply hasn't changed in a long time. We have room to "print money" without raising inflation.
It changed after getting off the gold standard. Actually, for a very good reason that involved international commerce. So ultimately I agree with getting off it. Unfortunately our new found fiat currency was ripe to be abused. And it has been and continues to be.
Actually we are in a phase of stagflation. But should our economy recover, get ready for a nasty case of inflation. Payback is a bitch! We are ALL going to pay for it. BTW, notice how expensive food has been getting lately? Perfectly normal and expected.
What makes you think he would. Gore is just another politician grabbing for power with AGW as his bully pulpit. Most likely, he would use the Patriot spying act to track CO2 levels per citizen under the guise of national security.
Like many other that came before and after Gore, he's not a pro-freedom kinda guy. Quite the opposite in fact.
Printing money is side-band form of taxation. That's because it's devaluing our savings all while giving the government the power of first spending rights; and often not wisely. It's been said that we are now in a 12% year of inflation because of it. Nice! (not).
On a personal rant. I'm currently renting an apartment. Not too expensive, but not lower class either. In any case, I'm paying through the nose for a lifestyle I choose. Well, my recessed cabinet microwave finally died. It took the complex close to a month to order a new one and install it. When I came home after work to welcome the new installed unit, I noticed what a shit installation job it was. Part of the wooden frame looked to have been pulled apart with the claw of a hammer. Broken bits of wood all around the moulding. The support base wasn't mounted properly too. Apparently the clearance issue could have been solved if these "handymen" just removed the rubber feet at the bottom of the new microwave. It's so obvious it was a dual purpose design. How they couldn't figure it out is beyond me. But then again, the did manage to fuck up the wood pretty well. Go figure.
I'd fix it myself, but I keep reminding myself that it's not my home.
Must have been in the 1960s then. For the past 30 years, we don't get aerosol-ed waste and oil from refineries. I know because I've lived here most of my life. Many of my clients are in the Pasadena area including Deer Park. The scrubbing technology is amazing these days. Practically the only thing that goes up in the air is CO2 and water vapor along with light gasses that often get burned up by a pilot light.
Na. The only major problem we get is excessive ozone from automotive emissions in periods of very hot and stagnant weather. Most of the grime and oily film that accumulates on a car comes from tire tread wear (surprising I know, but it's true), brake dust, truck joint lube, leaky hydraulic fluid and engine oil from the pan. With millions of cars on the road, that crap adds up. It's also why you don't drive for the first 15 minutes on the road shortly after it rains. You need to give it enough time for the rain to wash much of it off the road.
Does Houston, TX count? My car never got a good cleaning after a whole week of morning and afternoon thunderstorms. Big thick raindrops from the sky. If that doesn't scrub the oily grim from the side of a car, nothing will. Not even a hurricane.
New Orleans should never have happened IMHO. Much of it is below sea level. Effectively, it's a giant bowl. The pumps are constantly moving water out 24/7. That's a lot of energy being used on a daily bases just to keep it from flooding.
Rain doesn't remove the oily film and the dirt that's attached to it you picked up from the road. You need soap and some surface agitation to really clean a car from filth. Case in point; those touch-less carwash machines suck balls! Unless it's new or just had a wax job, you're wasting your money on those.
And those intellectuals are fucking dumb shits! Marxism is an epic failure of a system. It failed in the Former USSR, Cuba, N Korea, and yes, China. Speaking of China, it took Deng Xiaoping in 1978 to lead a movement of economic reform. You should see the graph of improvement, it's a night and day difference in productivity and an improvement in quality of life.
Don't drink the Marxist Kool Aid. It's poison for the mind.
Humans ARE animals. At our very core, we are still fucking monkeys! We just so happen to be more civilized depending on whom you ask. Not everyone can be reformed. Only controlled or eliminated (death or locked away from civilization).
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I support Quickbooks as a consultant/sysadmin for SMBs. One of my biggest gripes about QB is that if the client PCs arn't configured correctly, it will attempt to take over the role of sharing out the file while the actual file is still on the server. And it's compounded by the fact Windows XP doesn't route data over the ethernet as a priority over WiFi connection. It can get ugly in the office real quick over "who has the file open". The proper way is to install over the server side hosting agent on the server, and clients arn't configured to host. Although some users get confused over the concept of "hosting" vs "multi-user mode". Bah!!! Curses!
The other major problem is that Quickbooks accounting administrators are not performing backups. Sure, Windows Backup or Backup Exec may be capturing the file. But that's not the same thing. The transaction log will not flush until after Quickbooks itself is allowed to perform a full backup with verification. Sometimes if you wait too long, the entire damn thing gets corrupted. In fact, one of my clients is facing this very problem. She wants to upgrade to the latest version of QB. But until the data can be repaired (if possible) via special services at Intuit, she has no safe way of converting the file without it either bombing out or causing even more corruption.
Sage (ERP, Peachtree Quantum), and Microsoft Dynamics seem to be pretty popular too.
You jest, but you bring up a valid point. Back when I was younger and film cameras ruled the roost, pictures meant absolute proof. Or real close anyways. Now, every modern picture taken is questionable. Because Photoshop is just that good.
"...I haven't seen a lot of "cloud storage" stuff from their (or India)..."
A little OT, but did you read the news from the AP today about 370 MILLION people in India being without power. From what I've read, rolling blackouts are notorious over there. If they don't even have the most basic electrical infrastructure and power generation up to par, how could we (everyone else) trust India for reliable cloud based services hosted inside their own border?
I'd be curious to know of any of the outsourced IT phone support vendors were effected. If so, how much of the call volume got routed back to the US?
"We need to hang a cable between two buildings, from height $h1 on building A to height $h2 on building B. The cable will be tied to a steel wire that can have tension up to $F newtons. Masses of the wire and the cable (per meter) are known, as well as the distance between the buildings. What is the required length of the cable and the wire, considering that the wire forms a catenary? When done, calculate the wind load for the wind speed of $speed m/s and tell me if the steel wire is strong enough."
That better not be CATx cable. Twisted copper between two buildings is prone to ground loops, interference, and weather. It should be fiber optic; and even then it should be ran through ground based conduit. So not only are you using the wrong cable for the job, miscalculated overall length, but the implementation is wrong as well.
FYI. Correct math is still useless if your calculations are based on a flawed solution.
Your arguments are valid, but those are certainly not entry-level positions. Far from it in fact. You are way out of touch in understanding the IT industry.
Maybe they should argue about the concept of arguing. Heads asplode everywhere!
People in power tend to work together to solidify and reinforce their position in life. Often by erecting barriers to entry after the fact. Nothing good will come out of this. Once you walk into DC, you become a living member of the castle while everyone else is stuck outside living in serfdom.
You're fastest connection based on the slowest link. How can you hold Comcast to an average access speed when you don't have a reliable metric of the average access speed of the websites and media services you're trying to access?
Just for the records, I manage Windows AD domains. It's exceedingly bad practice to use an external domain root suffix for an internal private domain. For example, never use .COM especially if the whole domain of example.com is the same outside as it is internally. Otherwise, you're now having to manage your private DNS records in attempt resolve split DNS hell. It's why both Microsoft and their SBS servers recommend using .LOCAL for internal uses. It solves so many DNS problems. Some use .WAN or .DOM. Which ever you prefer I suppose. But .LOCAL is perfectly valid and encouraged as a Windows AD domain.
I've both read about this issue online and experience this problem with a client whom also upgraded to Lion. But I've got a late 2008 MacBook with Lion and I haven't had a single WiFi issue. I guess I'm lucky. My unit shipped with Leopard. I ended up performing a clean install of Snow Leopard and then doing an in-place upgrade to Lion.
There are ways of extracting the original Lion download and making a bootable USB drive out of it. I can only recommend backing up your data and performing a clean install of either Lion or Mountain Lion tomorrow. At least that's what I would do if faced with a similar situation.
Agreed. I'm all for safe, clean nuclear energy. But equipment wears out. It's an inevitable fact of life. Eventually these plants will need to be decommission. So do so when recommended. Just move the fuel to a new plant or process the fuel into something else useful.
So why even work in California at all? Either telecommute from another city (like Austin, TX), or just outsource the entire damn job overseas. In the age of the Internet, why would anyone think of of living in one of the most expensive cities with high taxes among the most volatile and mobile occupations? These young people are simply nuts!
Still is. You should re-read what Alan Greenspan has been saying about getting off the gold standard.
It changed after getting off the gold standard. Actually, for a very good reason that involved international commerce. So ultimately I agree with getting off it. Unfortunately our new found fiat currency was ripe to be abused. And it has been and continues to be.
Actually we are in a phase of stagflation. But should our economy recover, get ready for a nasty case of inflation. Payback is a bitch! We are ALL going to pay for it. BTW, notice how expensive food has been getting lately? Perfectly normal and expected.
What makes you think he would. Gore is just another politician grabbing for power with AGW as his bully pulpit. Most likely, he would use the Patriot spying act to track CO2 levels per citizen under the guise of national security.
Like many other that came before and after Gore, he's not a pro-freedom kinda guy. Quite the opposite in fact.
Printing money is side-band form of taxation. That's because it's devaluing our savings all while giving the government the power of first spending rights; and often not wisely. It's been said that we are now in a 12% year of inflation because of it. Nice! (not).
On a personal rant. I'm currently renting an apartment. Not too expensive, but not lower class either. In any case, I'm paying through the nose for a lifestyle I choose. Well, my recessed cabinet microwave finally died. It took the complex close to a month to order a new one and install it. When I came home after work to welcome the new installed unit, I noticed what a shit installation job it was. Part of the wooden frame looked to have been pulled apart with the claw of a hammer. Broken bits of wood all around the moulding. The support base wasn't mounted properly too. Apparently the clearance issue could have been solved if these "handymen" just removed the rubber feet at the bottom of the new microwave. It's so obvious it was a dual purpose design. How they couldn't figure it out is beyond me. But then again, the did manage to fuck up the wood pretty well. Go figure.
I'd fix it myself, but I keep reminding myself that it's not my home.
Remember. If you can't polish a turd, try rolling it in glitter.
Must have been in the 1960s then. For the past 30 years, we don't get aerosol-ed waste and oil from refineries. I know because I've lived here most of my life. Many of my clients are in the Pasadena area including Deer Park. The scrubbing technology is amazing these days. Practically the only thing that goes up in the air is CO2 and water vapor along with light gasses that often get burned up by a pilot light.
Na. The only major problem we get is excessive ozone from automotive emissions in periods of very hot and stagnant weather. Most of the grime and oily film that accumulates on a car comes from tire tread wear (surprising I know, but it's true), brake dust, truck joint lube, leaky hydraulic fluid and engine oil from the pan. With millions of cars on the road, that crap adds up. It's also why you don't drive for the first 15 minutes on the road shortly after it rains. You need to give it enough time for the rain to wash much of it off the road.
Well...yes! You're leaving a business relationship. But it's still a breakup none the less.
Does Houston, TX count? My car never got a good cleaning after a whole week of morning and afternoon thunderstorms. Big thick raindrops from the sky. If that doesn't scrub the oily grim from the side of a car, nothing will. Not even a hurricane.
New Orleans should never have happened IMHO. Much of it is below sea level. Effectively, it's a giant bowl. The pumps are constantly moving water out 24/7. That's a lot of energy being used on a daily bases just to keep it from flooding.
Rain doesn't remove the oily film and the dirt that's attached to it you picked up from the road. You need soap and some surface agitation to really clean a car from filth. Case in point; those touch-less carwash machines suck balls! Unless it's new or just had a wax job, you're wasting your money on those.
And those intellectuals are fucking dumb shits! Marxism is an epic failure of a system. It failed in the Former USSR, Cuba, N Korea, and yes, China. Speaking of China, it took Deng Xiaoping in 1978 to lead a movement of economic reform. You should see the graph of improvement, it's a night and day difference in productivity and an improvement in quality of life.
Don't drink the Marxist Kool Aid. It's poison for the mind.
Humans ARE animals. At our very core, we are still fucking monkeys! We just so happen to be more civilized depending on whom you ask. Not everyone can be reformed. Only controlled or eliminated (death or locked away from civilization).