And I would sit down with them and walk them through the problem and help them come up with their own solution. More often what I see is: I have a problem, I'm not sure if I should do X or Y, what do you think I should do? Or I think I should do Z, what are your thoughts? That's the kind of situation I want to create. They're bringing both the problem and a proposed solution(s). Teach a man to fish, after all.
The day to day problems aren't "often in management". Most problems are simple technical problems that have zero to do with management. I realize Dilbert taught us all that bosses are bad and everything is their fault, but it's just not true. I've got a boss too, I don't blame everything on him either.
After spending many hours researching I'd suggest osTicket for helpdesk software. It's free and open source and really good.
Just curious why you think IT is simpler now than it was before Ethernet. Or did you just mean cabling specifically? That seems kind of counter intuitive. The demands from their users on IT departments is much, much higher than it was 20 years ago.
As someone who works in management, I couldn't agree more. Don't come with a problem, come with a solution. I don't pay my staff to find problems I pay them to find problems and FIX THEM.
We outsource our helpdesk to a (US BASED!!!) company that charges a very reasonable per incident fee. They are extremely professional and will do pretty much anything we train them to do and provide documentation for. I've been EXTREMELY happy with them. We use them to provide after hours support, in lieu of me having to staff people at night. I'm not going to post the name of the company here unless you specifically ask, because they don't pay me.
They used a raised platform and even put some rope lighting underneath around the edges. Looks great and would give you a way to run cables underneath to the workstations.
It's horrible and 30Hz is awful. And at 39" you can get nearly the same PPI in a 1080p display at 20". Not to mention you can get a much higher input rate. Guy is a wacko to buy that Seiki, it's awful.
Watching movies at 48 fps just looks odd. It's not about being realistic, it's about what we're accustomed to and expectations of that ethereal quality of film. It's this slick, smoothness that you lose at higher frame rates. It's what allows us to suspend disbelief and really be drawn into a movie.
Aside from the extra pixels these Seikis are pretty bare-bones. Each has a 120Hz refresh rate and can accept 4K signals at 24 or 30Hz. They all lack the 60Hz 4K input capability of newer sets equipped with HDMI 2.0, making them less suited for PC monitor use. Seiki also equips them with USB ports for display of 4K and other high-resolution photos.
Khasim is profoundly wrong about several things, but a lot more than "ISPs and Telcos" run BGP. The entire concept of multihoming is based around announcing your netblock(s) to multiple carriers via BGP. This provides the broader internet with two AS_PATHs to you.
Except that you have to gather the materials and manufacture the panels. I assume it's MUCH better than burning coal, but it isn't without any effect. Especially in places like China which have lax pollution regulations which is disregarded anyway.
The most obnoxious thing which has NOT changed in the past decade is obscenely long boot times. Do I really need to wait 20 minutes still for a system to POST sufficiently to get to my bootloader? Really, IBM, REALLY?!
With virtualization it's very rare for me to have to reboot a physical host, and guests reboot in a couple of seconds. So overall that situation seems to have improved dramatically. In my environment, at least.
I think you make a good point, but I also think the ability to deliver apps easily and provide broad cross-platform compatibility with web apps (html+css+javascript) offers some advantages as well. It also allows us to use the same set of tools to develop local applications as web based applications, which is more accessible to a broader set of developers.
This just says CGI became a federally approved vendor in 2007. What does that have to do with them being awarded a specific contract years later? Basically anyone can become a government vendor.
I actually bounce back and forth between Apple and Android (currently iPhone 5s, previously a Galaxy Nexus) and I don't really see any problem for Apple here. They still increased unit shipments, the market is just growing faster than their sales are. This is mostly because of all of the extremely low cost android phones in China expanding the total market size. And that low-cost market is a market that Apple has no interest in. Apple has always been more concerned about revenue than market share, and there's just no margin in that part of the market. It's like saying BMW is "losing" because their percentage of the automotive market shrinks because more people are buying cars and they're all buying Kias.
They shipped more phones than they did last quarter, the market is just growing faster than their percentage of it. They have higher margins on their products as well, so I don't see why we would say Apple was being "squeezed" ?
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Oh look the 100th executive to predict the end of moore's law in the last month.
And I would sit down with them and walk them through the problem and help them come up with their own solution. More often what I see is: I have a problem, I'm not sure if I should do X or Y, what do you think I should do? Or I think I should do Z, what are your thoughts? That's the kind of situation I want to create. They're bringing both the problem and a proposed solution(s). Teach a man to fish, after all.
The day to day problems aren't "often in management". Most problems are simple technical problems that have zero to do with management. I realize Dilbert taught us all that bosses are bad and everything is their fault, but it's just not true. I've got a boss too, I don't blame everything on him either.
After spending many hours researching I'd suggest osTicket for helpdesk software. It's free and open source and really good.
Just curious why you think IT is simpler now than it was before Ethernet. Or did you just mean cabling specifically? That seems kind of counter intuitive. The demands from their users on IT departments is much, much higher than it was 20 years ago.
As someone who works in management, I couldn't agree more. Don't come with a problem, come with a solution. I don't pay my staff to find problems I pay them to find problems and FIX THEM.
We outsource our helpdesk to a (US BASED!!!) company that charges a very reasonable per incident fee. They are extremely professional and will do pretty much anything we train them to do and provide documentation for. I've been EXTREMELY happy with them. We use them to provide after hours support, in lieu of me having to staff people at night. I'm not going to post the name of the company here unless you specifically ask, because they don't pay me.
Wow, thanks that's actually a really interesting piece of information.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5122290/small-empires-010-squarespace-video
They used a raised platform and even put some rope lighting underneath around the edges. Looks great and would give you a way to run cables underneath to the workstations.
A $1B writedown is a "little difficulty"? I'd hate to see what a big problem would look like.
It's horrible and 30Hz is awful. And at 39" you can get nearly the same PPI in a 1080p display at 20". Not to mention you can get a much higher input rate. Guy is a wacko to buy that Seiki, it's awful.
Watching movies at 48 fps just looks odd. It's not about being realistic, it's about what we're accustomed to and expectations of that ethereal quality of film. It's this slick, smoothness that you lose at higher frame rates. It's what allows us to suspend disbelief and really be drawn into a movie.
Aside from the extra pixels these Seikis are pretty bare-bones. Each has a 120Hz refresh rate and can accept 4K signals at 24 or 30Hz. They all lack the 60Hz 4K input capability of newer sets equipped with HDMI 2.0, making them less suited for PC monitor use. Seiki also equips them with USB ports for display of 4K and other high-resolution photos.
No thanks
...said "Linuxguy" reading a slashdot article. The irony is palpable.
Oh I can't wait to hear where you're going with this one. Let me get some popcorn.
You think the NSA isn't trying to do that? That's adorable.
Khasim is profoundly wrong about several things, but a lot more than "ISPs and Telcos" run BGP. The entire concept of multihoming is based around announcing your netblock(s) to multiple carriers via BGP. This provides the broader internet with two AS_PATHs to you.
Except that you have to gather the materials and manufacture the panels. I assume it's MUCH better than burning coal, but it isn't without any effect. Especially in places like China which have lax pollution regulations which is disregarded anyway.
The most obnoxious thing which has NOT changed in the past decade is obscenely long boot times. Do I really need to wait 20 minutes still for a system to POST sufficiently to get to my bootloader? Really, IBM, REALLY?!
With virtualization it's very rare for me to have to reboot a physical host, and guests reboot in a couple of seconds. So overall that situation seems to have improved dramatically. In my environment, at least.
Spoken like someone who's never worked on any large or complex piece of software.
I think you make a good point, but I also think the ability to deliver apps easily and provide broad cross-platform compatibility with web apps (html+css+javascript) offers some advantages as well. It also allows us to use the same set of tools to develop local applications as web based applications, which is more accessible to a broader set of developers.
This just says CGI became a federally approved vendor in 2007. What does that have to do with them being awarded a specific contract years later? Basically anyone can become a government vendor.
More like 99.9% of the time. The only time I need anything other than the built in PDF viewer is when I need to edit and save a PDF.
As a 3Par customer, I couldn't agree with you more.
I actually bounce back and forth between Apple and Android (currently iPhone 5s, previously a Galaxy Nexus) and I don't really see any problem for Apple here. They still increased unit shipments, the market is just growing faster than their sales are. This is mostly because of all of the extremely low cost android phones in China expanding the total market size. And that low-cost market is a market that Apple has no interest in. Apple has always been more concerned about revenue than market share, and there's just no margin in that part of the market. It's like saying BMW is "losing" because their percentage of the automotive market shrinks because more people are buying cars and they're all buying Kias.
They shipped more phones than they did last quarter, the market is just growing faster than their percentage of it. They have higher margins on their products as well, so I don't see why we would say Apple was being "squeezed" ?