Not allowed and occurs are two very different things. There's very good reasons EU laws are much more protective of personal privacy than the US. The US has not learned from what happened in Europe, nor experienced it itself.
Make sure you have off site backups of everything needed to reconstruct your network.
At this point that would a "shoulda done" thing. I'm guessing since he's asking, they don't have a clue. Hopefully you practiced proper source control/workstation backups. Grab the servers and place them in a car(s). After that, the most important workstations, any truly expensive pieces of networking gear, and then whatever else you can. Realize anything in the U-Haul may not survive the trip, even with packing material.
Depending upon where this occurs, that clause may or may not apply. Just because it's in a contract does not mean its enforceable. I had the displeasure of dealing with the legal side of a related issue once, let's just say that it's extremely difficult to enforce some of those clauses in certain legal domiciles, although the side effects can still be quite unpleasant. (Hiring lawyers, going to court, filing counter suits)
The best way around this is to create something not related to work, and not create it with any work resources, nor talk about it with anyone at work. Once done or near done, quit. A short time later, start selling your product, under the guise of another company. If it's unrelated, your former employer won't have a leg to stand on in court as they won't have any proof, and they can't go fishing either, at least not in most places.
And where do you sleep at night or spend your off hours? If you are so isolated that the answer is "at the company's facilities" then, and only then, do you have a point, and it should have been a clause in your contract when you signed on.
I guess I don't like being bounced out of my current application (when I ran windows) Your considerations somehow don't affect how I feel about that key at all.
I'll second the flood & drought piece. Where I live, we are going through cycles of extended drought followed by torrential downpours that have significantly more flooding (we hit a new high on one river that exceeded all known and perceived highs from the historical record). The net effect is that while our water supplies overflow, we're still in a drought situation regarding vegetation.
Unless you're not running windows. But even in the days of windows, that key was rather annoying, IMNSHO. A key that bounces you out of your current app was easily the least productive thing on the keyboard.
These days anyone can buy a frozen pizza for a dollar and nuke it in the microwave.
Pizzas don't have a mechanism to keep people from adding their own toppings before putting it in a microwave or conventional oven. Console games, on the other hand, do have a cryptographic mechanism to keep end users from adding mods.
And yet to most of those putting frozen pizzas in microwaves a kitchen knife or can opener are almost as alien as the toppings in their non-prepared form.
There is that start key on your keyboard that 99% of keyboards not produced by Apple Inc. in the last 15 years have. Tablets will also have a physical start button, much like the home button on iOS devices.
What key would that be? (this keyboard is an MS keyboard, I don't see a start button, gadgets, magnifying glass, Home, email, phone, headphones (audio I guess) and printer and a few others relating to multi-media, but no start, unless you mean "play") (none of which I use, ever)
There was a time I'd take exception to your statements, now I agree fully. My hackintosh has had some drive upgrades, well, additions mostly, and a RAM upgrade. However, to build this one I removed almost all the hardware from the case and essentially built a new one with a few parts reused from the old one (1 HD and the HDDVD/BD/DVD burner) The reason why was I didn't need another box and I received a really nice CPU (980x) as a gift. The old parts are still sitting on a shelf - I should probably sell them off.
My mini's been running 2 years straight, I only upgraded the RAM. For drive space I added an external green drive, works fine for what it's used for. My windows box won't boot Windows XP in anything but safe mode, so it's been sitting unplugged in a closet for 2 years now. My Linux box has been running for 5 years non-stop only rebooting during 3 power outages that exceeded the battery life of the UPS. It's time to retire it however because the mini can do the last remaining job with a second external HD, and the mini's being used for more tasks. My wife will be happy that various boxes and components are leaving the house. I've already gotten rid of over 10 boxes and a bunch of old accessories that were mainly collecting dust at this point. (What do you do with 2 Sun Ultra 2s today? They're power hogs and the mini handles more than both of them could together)
[older ipod].... (One caveat; it is Firewire, so won't work with any of Apple's newer laptops, but that's ok because putting Firewire on a Windows box is trivial.)
Interesting, last I checked, laptops still came with firewire check the connections - Firewire 800, which will connect to a FW400 with the proper inexpensive and commonly available cable. For your scenario, battery replacement seem unnecessary.
Last time I tried it, tail didn't work correctly, and there was still no symlink support. Granted, it was more than 5 years ago, but while the first was merely extremely annoying, the second was a show stopper. And no, junctions are not the same. I'm aware NTFS has been enhanced since then, I no longer care. If I need *NIX features, I'll run a *NIX. Like much of the rest of the world is starting to realize, I really don't need windows features for anything.
A 4 will still be under warranty if you wanted it. Why you wouldn't put a $700 device you walk around with a lot and likely will drop at least once under AppleCare would surprise me. They even cover glass breakage, which is worth the price of the warranty itself. That said, mine's not.:)
unless you're a digital hoarder who feels the need to keep more music and TV/movies than any reasonable person can watch in a lifetime hard drives are large enough.
Never say that kind of stuff around a video editor like my wife. You take maybe 25 to 100 hours of uncompressed high def documentary video, per project, times a couple simultaneous projects, oh whoops that's why I have a full size tower full of hard drives in the basement along with what sounds like a jet fighter auxiliary turbine power unit to cool it. Just one of her projects is about the size of my complete lifetime mp3 collection, or about the same as a full set of low-def star trek... and she still has more projects. My digital hoard is pretty big by/.er standards, at least a TB,
I currently have about 400GB of music, losslessly compressed, and about 8 TB of movies/shows/videos (EyeTV rocks, and my entire HD DVD collection - <$3 / movie made it worthwhile). HD movies, even compressed to high quality (H264) will average between 4-5GB an hour before you start getting noticeable artifacts, with some animation being able to hit 1GB / hour. Digital video editing however, is another beast entirely. I've got 1 project that sucked up 1TB without breaking stride. Another at about 500GB. A third was light, at about 300GB. These are for 1-2 hours of video as a final project with 3 cameras or less. HD video editing makes the biggest drives look tiny, and you'll want a high speed connected RAID array. Don't try this on USB drives (any version).
I too am a long time Mac user. And I agree Apple generally charges far too much for their RAM. However, doing some searching for 10 minutes quickly shows that DDR3L memory in 8GB modules runs anywhere from $60-160 each, for the extremely few that you can find. Note I mention modules, not SODIMMs. So $200 for 16GB total memory may not be a bad deal at all.
I'd be happy with a 4 or 5 years applecare policy. Although, I can envision using the Retina MBP as a 2-3 year box at most, since the tech will have advanced enough by then to make the next iteration attractive. My current laptop is nearing 3 years of age and works fine. My last laptop is almost 6 years old and still works fine - it had the battery replacement nearly 4 years ago due to a short in the cells - under warranty. The previous PowerPC laptop was sold several years ago was 5 years old and still netted almost $500 at that time with a 1 year old battery replaced for free outside of warranty due to the battery bulge problem.
Contrast that with my Dells whose batteries had half the life new, and lasted less than a year each for $120 a piece.
Buggy whips are perfectly repairable, as are steam engines. The problem? Running them is infinitely more expensive than upgrading to modern equivalents.
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I used to work there.
I worked with them, and personally know a few field guys (retired). They weren't desk jockeys.
There's a bridge for sale somewhere, I'm sure. What makes you think they only do ELINT?
You don't need to be an idealist to not do windows....
Not allowed and occurs are two very different things. There's very good reasons EU laws are much more protective of personal privacy than the US. The US has not learned from what happened in Europe, nor experienced it itself.
Make sure you have off site backups of everything needed to reconstruct your network.
At this point that would a "shoulda done" thing. I'm guessing since he's asking, they don't have a clue. Hopefully you practiced proper source control/workstation backups. Grab the servers and place them in a car(s). After that, the most important workstations, any truly expensive pieces of networking gear, and then whatever else you can. Realize anything in the U-Haul may not survive the trip, even with packing material.
Depending upon where this occurs, that clause may or may not apply. Just because it's in a contract does not mean its enforceable. I had the displeasure of dealing with the legal side of a related issue once, let's just say that it's extremely difficult to enforce some of those clauses in certain legal domiciles, although the side effects can still be quite unpleasant. (Hiring lawyers, going to court, filing counter suits)
The best way around this is to create something not related to work, and not create it with any work resources, nor talk about it with anyone at work. Once done or near done, quit. A short time later, start selling your product, under the guise of another company. If it's unrelated, your former employer won't have a leg to stand on in court as they won't have any proof, and they can't go fishing either, at least not in most places.
And where do you sleep at night or spend your off hours? If you are so isolated that the answer is "at the company's facilities" then, and only then, do you have a point, and it should have been a clause in your contract when you signed on.
I just wouldn't use that company network for anything other than company use. I'd go ahead and use my phone/tablet with 3/4G for anything personal.
Remember, you're at work, you're being paid to work. Not to play or do personal banking or anything else.
I guess I don't like being bounced out of my current application (when I ran windows) Your considerations somehow don't affect how I feel about that key at all.
Surprisingly enough, not everyone plays games on their computers.
Mine's been mapped to the Option (Alt) key.
I'll second the flood & drought piece. Where I live, we are going through cycles of extended drought followed by torrential downpours that have significantly more flooding (we hit a new high on one river that exceeded all known and perceived highs from the historical record). The net effect is that while our water supplies overflow, we're still in a drought situation regarding vegetation.
Unless you're not running windows. But even in the days of windows, that key was rather annoying, IMNSHO. A key that bounces you out of your current app was easily the least productive thing on the keyboard.
I don't see their high school prom photo.....
Or, just have everyone start running Open TOR servers. It may be coming from your house, but there's no telling who actually did what.
The first key you remap when you get a new keyboard. ;)
These days anyone can buy a frozen pizza for a dollar and nuke it in the microwave.
Pizzas don't have a mechanism to keep people from adding their own toppings before putting it in a microwave or conventional oven. Console games, on the other hand, do have a cryptographic mechanism to keep end users from adding mods.
And yet to most of those putting frozen pizzas in microwaves a kitchen knife or can opener are almost as alien as the toppings in their non-prepared form.
How am I supposed to start new programs?
There is that start key on your keyboard that 99% of keyboards not produced by Apple Inc. in the last 15 years have. Tablets will also have a physical start button, much like the home button on iOS devices.
What key would that be? (this keyboard is an MS keyboard, I don't see a start button, gadgets, magnifying glass, Home, email, phone, headphones (audio I guess) and printer and a few others relating to multi-media, but no start, unless you mean "play") (none of which I use, ever)
There was a time I'd take exception to your statements, now I agree fully. My hackintosh has had some drive upgrades, well, additions mostly, and a RAM upgrade. However, to build this one I removed almost all the hardware from the case and essentially built a new one with a few parts reused from the old one (1 HD and the HDDVD/BD/DVD burner) The reason why was I didn't need another box and I received a really nice CPU (980x) as a gift. The old parts are still sitting on a shelf - I should probably sell them off.
My mini's been running 2 years straight, I only upgraded the RAM. For drive space I added an external green drive, works fine for what it's used for. My windows box won't boot Windows XP in anything but safe mode, so it's been sitting unplugged in a closet for 2 years now. My Linux box has been running for 5 years non-stop only rebooting during 3 power outages that exceeded the battery life of the UPS. It's time to retire it however because the mini can do the last remaining job with a second external HD, and the mini's being used for more tasks. My wife will be happy that various boxes and components are leaving the house. I've already gotten rid of over 10 boxes and a bunch of old accessories that were mainly collecting dust at this point. (What do you do with 2 Sun Ultra 2s today? They're power hogs and the mini handles more than both of them could together)
[older ipod].... (One caveat; it is Firewire, so won't work with any of Apple's newer laptops, but that's ok because putting Firewire on a Windows box is trivial.)
Interesting, last I checked, laptops still came with firewire check the connections - Firewire 800, which will connect to a FW400 with the proper inexpensive and commonly available cable. For your scenario, battery replacement seem unnecessary.
Last time I tried it, tail didn't work correctly, and there was still no symlink support. Granted, it was more than 5 years ago, but while the first was merely extremely annoying, the second was a show stopper. And no, junctions are not the same. I'm aware NTFS has been enhanced since then, I no longer care. If I need *NIX features, I'll run a *NIX. Like much of the rest of the world is starting to realize, I really don't need windows features for anything.
A 4 will still be under warranty if you wanted it. Why you wouldn't put a $700 device you walk around with a lot and likely will drop at least once under AppleCare would surprise me. They even cover glass breakage, which is worth the price of the warranty itself. That said, mine's not. :)
unless you're a digital hoarder who feels the need to keep more music and TV/movies than any reasonable person can watch in a lifetime hard drives are large enough.
Never say that kind of stuff around a video editor like my wife. You take maybe 25 to 100 hours of uncompressed high def documentary video, per project, times a couple simultaneous projects, oh whoops that's why I have a full size tower full of hard drives in the basement along with what sounds like a jet fighter auxiliary turbine power unit to cool it. Just one of her projects is about the size of my complete lifetime mp3 collection, or about the same as a full set of low-def star trek ... and she still has more projects. My digital hoard is pretty big by /.er standards, at least a TB,
I currently have about 400GB of music, losslessly compressed, and about 8 TB of movies/shows/videos (EyeTV rocks, and my entire HD DVD collection - <$3 / movie made it worthwhile). HD movies, even compressed to high quality (H264) will average between 4-5GB an hour before you start getting noticeable artifacts, with some animation being able to hit 1GB / hour. Digital video editing however, is another beast entirely. I've got 1 project that sucked up 1TB without breaking stride. Another at about 500GB. A third was light, at about 300GB. These are for 1-2 hours of video as a final project with 3 cameras or less. HD video editing makes the biggest drives look tiny, and you'll want a high speed connected RAID array. Don't try this on USB drives (any version).
I too am a long time Mac user. And I agree Apple generally charges far too much for their RAM. However, doing some searching for 10 minutes quickly shows that DDR3L memory in 8GB modules runs anywhere from $60-160 each, for the extremely few that you can find. Note I mention modules, not SODIMMs. So $200 for 16GB total memory may not be a bad deal at all.
I'd be happy with a 4 or 5 years applecare policy. Although, I can envision using the Retina MBP as a 2-3 year box at most, since the tech will have advanced enough by then to make the next iteration attractive. My current laptop is nearing 3 years of age and works fine. My last laptop is almost 6 years old and still works fine - it had the battery replacement nearly 4 years ago due to a short in the cells - under warranty. The previous PowerPC laptop was sold several years ago was 5 years old and still netted almost $500 at that time with a 1 year old battery replaced for free outside of warranty due to the battery bulge problem.
Contrast that with my Dells whose batteries had half the life new, and lasted less than a year each for $120 a piece.
Perhaps you both have good sticky fingers and never drop your phone? I've seen the battery pop out of a Druid X just 2 days ago.
Buggy whips are perfectly repairable, as are steam engines. The problem? Running them is infinitely more expensive than upgrading to modern equivalents.