Most engineers have some the intelligence and power to change their situation, even if it is by changing jobs to avoid stupid or ignorant managers. You and Dilbert should definitely look elsewhere. Alternately you could educate that pointy haired dude. Good luck.
Go for it, having knowledge and qualifications will always benefit you. I haven't done hiring in a while, but maturity and experience counts for something.
I think there's a great opportunity around at the moment - learning mainframes and COBOL. The people who understand them and who are good at it are retiring, and once you're decent at it you could make a shedload of money as a consultant/contractor. It's not sexy, and it's not leading edge, but I think it could be a really good niche and great earner. Legacy systems are definitely not going away.
I have a 10Mbps line running off a Telstra Clear fibre infrastructure in Wellington, New Zealand, using a well seeded torrent I can often saturate my 10Mbps connection on weekday evenings. A friend of mine has Telecom ADSL in a building in central Wellington, she's lucky to get 1% of that - 20KB/sec is good for her. Maybe you just need a better ISP.
You guys should stop moaning, it could be a lot worse. Here in New Zealand I pay US$50 for 2mbps down, 256kbps up, and if I exceed 10GB in a month the speed's cut back to 64kbps.
This is all because the short sighted NZ government decided against opening up the local loop. This means the government sanctioned monopoly can make a fortune supplying a crap service.
What if the house burns down, you're robbed, or a tornado destroys your house? Bye bye to all your data. Don't forget you need to back up your most important data, if not the whole array.
"X can be a smaller percentage if the e-mail has any hyperlinks in it, because it is virtually guaranteed that someone is trying to sell you something..."
Not true. Forums/message boards "new post" notifications all contain at least two links.
Remember that the quantity of champagne you would consume in a sitting is far more than the quantity of ink you'd consume (use) in a sitting (or day). So per day, you're spending less on ink than drink.
SMS seems to be 99.99% reliable here in Ireland. If a message doesn't arrive, you get a failure notice, and delivery receipts let you know if messages arrived or not.
I've also used SMS extensively while roaming all over Europe. Approx 98% of the time they're delivered within a few minutes, but occasionally you lose a message, or they take a few days to arrive. That's why you don't send anything important over SMS.
I do a lot of work with application servers. If you're prepared to spend lots of money on app servers ($10,000 - $35,000 per CPU) you can scale to very large numbers of users. The app servers do load balancing and caching for you, scales to support multiple processors per box and multiple boxes, and can scale to hundreds of hits per second (with fast enough hardware).
Have a look at the Netscape Application Server (or the new version, the iPlanet application server, which is not yet available), WebLogic, SilverStream, or IBM WebSphere advanced.
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Most engineers have some the intelligence and power to change their situation, even if it is by changing jobs to avoid stupid or ignorant managers. You and Dilbert should definitely look elsewhere. Alternately you could educate that pointy haired dude. Good luck.
Without music at work there won't be any more programmers, the issue will be moot
Go for it, having knowledge and qualifications will always benefit you. I haven't done hiring in a while, but maturity and experience counts for something.
I think there's a great opportunity around at the moment - learning mainframes and COBOL. The people who understand them and who are good at it are retiring, and once you're decent at it you could make a shedload of money as a consultant/contractor. It's not sexy, and it's not leading edge, but I think it could be a really good niche and great earner. Legacy systems are definitely not going away.
I have a 10Mbps line running off a Telstra Clear fibre infrastructure in Wellington, New Zealand, using a well seeded torrent I can often saturate my 10Mbps connection on weekday evenings. A friend of mine has Telecom ADSL in a building in central Wellington, she's lucky to get 1% of that - 20KB/sec is good for her. Maybe you just need a better ISP.
"This could be as bad as one of the old ISS vulnerabilities. "
;)
What's wrong with the International Space Station?
You guys should stop moaning, it could be a lot worse. Here in New Zealand I pay US$50 for 2mbps down, 256kbps up, and if I exceed 10GB in a month the speed's cut back to 64kbps.
This is all because the short sighted NZ government decided against opening up the local loop. This means the government sanctioned monopoly can make a fortune supplying a crap service.
What would probably be a better idea is to save up a bit of cash then go live the good life in India for a while.
What if the house burns down, you're robbed, or a tornado destroys your house? Bye bye to all your data. Don't forget you need to back up your most important data, if not the whole array.
A lot of people behind corporate firewalls can't connect to port 8090.
"X can be a smaller percentage if the e-mail has any hyperlinks in it, because it is virtually guaranteed that someone is trying to sell you something..."
Not true. Forums/message boards "new post" notifications all contain at least two links.
After reading it a couple of times, I think it means the nurses saved 1,100 hours collectively, not each. It's not a well written sentence.
Here's a do it yourself windows setup: http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pvr/
I don't get it. Explaination anyone?
Remember that the quantity of champagne you would consume in a sitting is far more than the quantity of ink you'd consume (use) in a sitting (or day). So per day, you're spending less on ink than drink.
Acer alredy have one of these - the Acer Aspire. Take a look here
Take a look at http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pvr/
SMS seems to be 99.99% reliable here in Ireland. If a message doesn't arrive, you get a failure notice, and delivery receipts let you know if messages arrived or not.
I've also used SMS extensively while roaming all over Europe. Approx 98% of the time they're delivered within a few minutes, but occasionally you lose a message, or they take a few days to arrive. That's why you don't send anything important over SMS.
I do a lot of work with application servers. If you're prepared to spend lots of money on app servers ($10,000 - $35,000 per CPU) you can scale to very large numbers of users. The app servers do load balancing and caching for you, scales to support multiple processors per box and multiple boxes, and can scale to hundreds of hits per second (with fast enough hardware).
Have a look at the Netscape Application Server (or the new version, the iPlanet application server, which is not yet available), WebLogic, SilverStream, or IBM WebSphere advanced.