I am Mexican expat. no I don't pick fruits. My background is IT but switched careers and now I work in Finance. yes joined the dark side i guess. Worked in the UAE for about 4 yrs, and now been in Switzerland for the last 2. In both these places you gett 30 days holidays, plus about 5 sick days. and in Switzerland it is mandated by law that I am able to take at least 2 weeks straight. employment laws were more flexible in the UAE than in the US, and in Switzerland are far more flexible than in the rest of Europe which means I can be hired/fired way easier, but notification is 3 months. so not pum! you are fired, security will escort you out of the building now, like it can happen in the US. Income tax was 0 in the UAE and in Switzerland it's very low. In both countries you are obliged by law to pay for private health insurance, which is very expensive when compared to the rest of europe, but not outrageous like in the US either and with good coverage. The education system in the UAE isn't that great, and certainly expensive, but in Switzerland, the public education system is excellent big focus on STEM, and even the tough of bringing "creationism" somewhere into the curriculum would get you laughed out of whatever room you are at. yes that would probably include a room in a lot of churches. (no school shootings here either) Crime is extremely low in both of these countries, as in practically nil, certainly violent crime. but probably the UAE even slightly safer. i've never felt safer in my life, yes that's in the middle east. (no asset forefeiture by the PO-lice in any of these countries btw) my commute here is about 25 min long (considered long) on a train that is very comfortable, clean, etc, that arrives ALWAYS on time... ok, ít's late every now and then by about 4 or 5 min. I like cars and driving, but here i don't own a car because i just don't need one. (and gas is taxed heavily to curb down greenhouse gases) I have a ride share for when i do need one or take uber. Because of my industry it would not be weird that one of my next career steps would take me to the US. which i'm not against, but it would have to make a lot of sense, but it could also take me to London, Singapur, maybe the UAE again or perhaps a developing market (and i would totally consider Africa). if I did go to the US I would not be comfortable with an H1-B visa as it basically ties me to that company and it makes my wife's job search extremely difficult (also a working professional, who earns slightly more than I do). so perhaps a green card, which I would probably give up, the MINUTE, I move out, and then it means I would still have to report to the IRS for several years even if i am no longer living there (nor would i aim to become an us citizen, which is a tax disaster if you are an expat) and most banks in developed countries would probably refuse to open a bank account because of the very tough and difficult IRS FATCA regulations... no country is perfect, of the ones i lived in, there are tons of things i like and tons I don't, and there's plenty of stuff i love about the US.(I studied a master's degre over there). but no, i'm not dying to go there, I would consider it, but it's not number one on my list. (the holiday and the likely long commute are probably my biggest turn offs) and I know plenty of expats who feel the same way about it. so that's my 2 cents.
i work in a company that has about 1000 clients, out of which about 3/4 are working with officescan AV. on friday we 1st tought part of our network was down then we saw a system process driving the processor 95%~99%. so we tought it was virus outbreak. but it came to our attention that the computers not using officescan where o.k., and also the part of the company that doesn't allow people to install messenger on computers. we got a box working when we tried installing norton, to do that we tought it was a good idea to stop all officescan services before (we had to do it on safe mode, which was the only way we could do anything) when the box was booted up again, it just ran smoothly. then we noticed a new update version was up. by then we had also noticed that the boxes that didn't have messenger where also windows 2000 boxes. in all the faulty update was pattern file 2.594.00 replaced about 2~3 hrs later with 2.596.00. The "infected" boxes had to had officescan's services disabled, except for the listener service so it could download the new file, and then had the whole box restarted. in all, all IT personnel had to stay until around 9:00 p.m. on friday to fix the boxes on the assembly line. lots of money was lost.
and by the way, officescan's EULA states that their product is NOT without errors.
here's a copy of an e-mail we received the next monday:
Urgent Notification - Trend Micro Pattern File 2.594.00 Causes High CPU Utilization
On April 22, 2005 at approximately 3:30 pm Pacific (11:30pm GMT) Trend Micro posted a pattern file (2.594.00) which had the potential to interact with certain computing configurations and cause computer performance issues for some users of PC-cillin, OfficeScan (including the OfficeScan component of Client/Server Suite for SMB, and Client/Server/Messaging Suite for SMB), and ServerProtect for NT.
This specific pattern file was only available during an approximately 90-minute time window. Trend Micro removed the pattern file from our Web sites and Active Update servers at 5:02 pm (1:02am GMT), and immediately took steps to post a new pattern file. Subsequent pattern files do not cause these issues.
For any customers experiencing instability, Trend Micro has provided a set of solutions which can be found under the Support section of Trend Micro's Web site. Additionally, Trend Micro has extended support hours especially to help those customers who were affected by this issue. Further information, instructions, and details can also be found on the Trend Micro Web site at: http://www.trendmicro.com/pattern594
We sincerely apologize for this incident and will continue to improve our processes so that problems such as this do not happen in the future.
Eva Chen, CEO
Trend Micro, Inc.
for someone who has lived in japan he has quickly forgotten how determined, boneheaded or just plain old fanatics or however you want to put it, can a normal japanese be about simple common things. how criteria seems to stop working stoped behind a big wall or "ruru-desu" and it's WAY toned down now after decades of american influence, now put yourself back in wartime imperial japan where the emperor was commanding an army that had not lost a battle in 2000 years? imagine america getting invaded by any army. would you not go to arms to defend it?
i live on the very most northeastern corner of mexico on the border with san diego ca. theres an helicopter school almost right on the border, and i basically get to see all the military ships coming in and out of port all the time. there's lots of military activiy going on all the time. about a year ago. i was driving just by the border. as in literally the fence dividing the two countries. when the radio on my car started switching stations and making fax-like noises afterwards my car died on me. it basically stood there for about 40 minutes until well the battery re-gained life and it was as if nothing had happened. funny thing was a friend of mine was driving around the same area, at around the same time and the same thing happened to him. people i know also "listen" to radar as in the way radar operators describe they can listen to the signals. as in somewhere in the back of your head. i've done some goggling on it on electromagnetic weapons. and what i've read they do just that, aim at something and you can turn it off. there's also stuff on mind/behaviour control on monkeys. don't know but seems pretty effective weapons to me.
i distributed my share of invites yesterday, all of them to hotmail accounts and every single one got there. i wouldnt have sended them if this article had appeared yesterday, but i did and all of my friends are happy with their new gmail accounts now. none of us have e-mailed to the hotmail account anymore but we'll probably try that. anyways hotmail did work for me, at least this time
i work in a korean company and they use this propietary webmail/software client developed in asp. (called mysingle in case you're wondering) you can actually configure any mail client to connect and send e-mails throught the snmp port so far so good. BUT its also sort of like a portal with a bunch of little aps, and you can't just use it as an e-mail client, for example orders and approvals only work throught the portal. thing is the code is written just for ie and not validated for netscape/mozilla type browsers (or opera, or firefox or whatever i tried). so you cant go any further then the log in page. using this little portal is the only thing why a big bunch of computers havent been reformated to linux so vmware might just do it for us
haven't you seen all those foster commercials??
what he meant for a pen, must be an aborigine spear or something and he calls it a pen, because after he makes a killing he writes stuff with the blood of his enemies
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I am Mexican expat. no I don't pick fruits. My background is IT but switched careers and now I work in Finance. yes joined the dark side i guess. Worked in the UAE for about 4 yrs, and now been in Switzerland for the last 2. In both these places you gett 30 days holidays, plus about 5 sick days. and in Switzerland it is mandated by law that I am able to take at least 2 weeks straight. employment laws were more flexible in the UAE than in the US, and in Switzerland are far more flexible than in the rest of Europe which means I can be hired/fired way easier, but notification is 3 months. so not pum! you are fired, security will escort you out of the building now, like it can happen in the US. Income tax was 0 in the UAE and in Switzerland it's very low. In both countries you are obliged by law to pay for private health insurance, which is very expensive when compared to the rest of europe, but not outrageous like in the US either and with good coverage. The education system in the UAE isn't that great, and certainly expensive, but in Switzerland, the public education system is excellent big focus on STEM, and even the tough of bringing "creationism" somewhere into the curriculum would get you laughed out of whatever room you are at. yes that would probably include a room in a lot of churches. (no school shootings here either) Crime is extremely low in both of these countries, as in practically nil, certainly violent crime. but probably the UAE even slightly safer. i've never felt safer in my life, yes that's in the middle east. (no asset forefeiture by the PO-lice in any of these countries btw) my commute here is about 25 min long (considered long) on a train that is very comfortable, clean, etc, that arrives ALWAYS on time... ok, ít's late every now and then by about 4 or 5 min. I like cars and driving, but here i don't own a car because i just don't need one. (and gas is taxed heavily to curb down greenhouse gases) I have a ride share for when i do need one or take uber. Because of my industry it would not be weird that one of my next career steps would take me to the US. which i'm not against, but it would have to make a lot of sense, but it could also take me to London, Singapur, maybe the UAE again or perhaps a developing market (and i would totally consider Africa). if I did go to the US I would not be comfortable with an H1-B visa as it basically ties me to that company and it makes my wife's job search extremely difficult (also a working professional, who earns slightly more than I do). so perhaps a green card, which I would probably give up, the MINUTE, I move out, and then it means I would still have to report to the IRS for several years even if i am no longer living there (nor would i aim to become an us citizen, which is a tax disaster if you are an expat) and most banks in developed countries would probably refuse to open a bank account because of the very tough and difficult IRS FATCA regulations... no country is perfect, of the ones i lived in, there are tons of things i like and tons I don't, and there's plenty of stuff i love about the US.(I studied a master's degre over there). but no, i'm not dying to go there, I would consider it, but it's not number one on my list. (the holiday and the likely long commute are probably my biggest turn offs) and I know plenty of expats who feel the same way about it. so that's my 2 cents.
i work in a company that has about 1000 clients, out of which about 3/4 are working with officescan AV. on friday we 1st tought part of our network was down then we saw a system process driving the processor 95%~99%. so we tought it was virus outbreak. but it came to our attention that the computers not using officescan where o.k., and also the part of the company that doesn't allow people to install messenger on computers. we got a box working when we tried installing norton, to do that we tought it was a good idea to stop all officescan services before (we had to do it on safe mode, which was the only way we could do anything) when the box was booted up again, it just ran smoothly. then we noticed a new update version was up. by then we had also noticed that the boxes that didn't have messenger where also windows 2000 boxes. in all the faulty update was pattern file 2.594.00 replaced about 2~3 hrs later with 2.596.00. The "infected" boxes had to had officescan's services disabled, except for the listener service so it could download the new file, and then had the whole box restarted. in all, all IT personnel had to stay until around 9:00 p.m. on friday to fix the boxes on the assembly line. lots of money was lost. and by the way, officescan's EULA states that their product is NOT without errors. here's a copy of an e-mail we received the next monday: Urgent Notification - Trend Micro Pattern File 2.594.00 Causes High CPU Utilization On April 22, 2005 at approximately 3:30 pm Pacific (11:30pm GMT) Trend Micro posted a pattern file (2.594.00) which had the potential to interact with certain computing configurations and cause computer performance issues for some users of PC-cillin, OfficeScan (including the OfficeScan component of Client/Server Suite for SMB, and Client/Server/Messaging Suite for SMB), and ServerProtect for NT. This specific pattern file was only available during an approximately 90-minute time window. Trend Micro removed the pattern file from our Web sites and Active Update servers at 5:02 pm (1:02am GMT), and immediately took steps to post a new pattern file. Subsequent pattern files do not cause these issues. For any customers experiencing instability, Trend Micro has provided a set of solutions which can be found under the Support section of Trend Micro's Web site. Additionally, Trend Micro has extended support hours especially to help those customers who were affected by this issue. Further information, instructions, and details can also be found on the Trend Micro Web site at: http://www.trendmicro.com/pattern594 We sincerely apologize for this incident and will continue to improve our processes so that problems such as this do not happen in the future. Eva Chen, CEO Trend Micro, Inc.
for someone who has lived in japan he has quickly forgotten how determined, boneheaded or just plain old fanatics or however you want to put it, can a normal japanese be about simple common things. how criteria seems to stop working stoped behind a big wall or "ruru-desu" and it's WAY toned down now after decades of american influence, now put yourself back in wartime imperial japan where the emperor was commanding an army that had not lost a battle in 2000 years? imagine america getting invaded by any army. would you not go to arms to defend it?
i live on the very most northeastern corner of mexico on the border with san diego ca. theres an helicopter school almost right on the border, and i basically get to see all the military ships coming in and out of port all the time. there's lots of military activiy going on all the time. about a year ago. i was driving just by the border. as in literally the fence dividing the two countries. when the radio on my car started switching stations and making fax-like noises afterwards my car died on me. it basically stood there for about 40 minutes until well the battery re-gained life and it was as if nothing had happened. funny thing was a friend of mine was driving around the same area, at around the same time and the same thing happened to him. people i know also "listen" to radar as in the way radar operators describe they can listen to the signals. as in somewhere in the back of your head. i've done some goggling on it on electromagnetic weapons. and what i've read they do just that, aim at something and you can turn it off. there's also stuff on mind/behaviour control on monkeys. don't know but seems pretty effective weapons to me.
i distributed my share of invites yesterday, all of them to hotmail accounts and every single one got there. i wouldnt have sended them if this article had appeared yesterday, but i did and all of my friends are happy with their new gmail accounts now. none of us have e-mailed to the hotmail account anymore but we'll probably try that. anyways hotmail did work for me, at least this time
i work in a korean company and they use this propietary webmail/software client developed in asp. (called mysingle in case you're wondering) you can actually configure any mail client to connect and send e-mails throught the snmp port so far so good. BUT its also sort of like a portal with a bunch of little aps, and you can't just use it as an e-mail client, for example orders and approvals only work throught the portal. thing is the code is written just for ie and not validated for netscape/mozilla type browsers (or opera, or firefox or whatever i tried). so you cant go any further then the log in page. using this little portal is the only thing why a big bunch of computers havent been reformated to linux so vmware might just do it for us
haven't you seen all those foster commercials?? what he meant for a pen, must be an aborigine spear or something and he calls it a pen, because after he makes a killing he writes stuff with the blood of his enemies