At some point you or management will want to know what kind of amperage or wattage the system use so a clamp on amp meter and short extension cord with the bundle insulation removed will give you access to the each insulated wire to check power usage.with your new clamp on amp meter
I turned 50 last month and I track pretty much the way the OP has. All of my previous management experiences where no good from my POV but others have told me it was okay. I differ from him in that I don't feel to old, in fact I am ready to try my hand at managing again, I am just waiting for the right small opportunity to open up.
My motto as far as this goes is you are only to old when you are dead.
I would agree with you if you simply gave a homeless guy a free meal, but it sounds to me like the homeless guy was then ask what he thought. When you ask someone what would they do, then you should expect an answer, that is how dialog works.
I don't buy the argument that the in-house IT Department is dead. There may be some shrinkage due to new technologies but a very significiant number of companines will keep in-house IT Departments. You could substitute IT for HR, Finance, Engineering or any other department.
Electricity is one product (60hz at some voltage). IT is multiple products and services that add value and efficiency.
Well I have installed linux servers thousands of times. I have not had a problem with bad installs in years. I would agree years ago linux installs were not as easy as they could have been, but time have changed a lot things. If I get new hardware in, I test it to see if I have the drivers I need to do the install. It is true linux does not have all drivers for every piece of hardware out. If you have tried installing linux lately, and it did not go well for you, You still do not need the services of a consultant. What you most likely need is the url of the hardware compatibility list.
Administering a linux server in not unlike maintaining
Microsoft servers. You will need to take the time to get accustomed to
the administrative task and applications. It is not out of your reach
to accomplish this. You should use the same sticktoitness that you used to learn the Microsoft Os.
I share your confusion, for the reasons you give.
Zealots and bandwagoneers will be zealots and bandwagoneers. I don't think they help the open source cause any more that Darl Mcbride helped
SCO's cause, by spouting off rhetoric.
Larry states
that Tridge's software adds to Bitmovers overhead
and cost of maintenance, and if for no other reason
than that,Tridge who is capable of writing his our
version control software from scratch should do so,
if he has a problem with Bitmover.
Just so you know Larry has freely given software to the general public. Bitmover had a free version for years and lmbench is still available, which I use often.
I use Linux and other GNU software daily, but I do understand that, I don't have a right in my non-communist country to add to a businesses overhead to suit my own needs.
I have not noticed any idiots doing the admin work for an oracle database, but I have seen some newbies come in and say things like, "I only took this job to gain experience". So your statement is a correct one as I see it. I am not a guru, but I have not had
any down time in two years on any of my mysql databases.
I just tried out the updated site. The look and feel
is about the same. The differences willl take some
getting use to. I am normally impressed by all the
new features I find at google.
I too have been using linux at home. I have been on
linux at home since 1998. I am OS agnostic so I do
see the benefits and shortcomings of all OS's. I do, however really, really like using the command
line to move and copy files instead of dragging and
dropping. I just meant that most novice users would
not like linux at home until recently.
I did'nt take into account gaming. I am not a gamer, but I do understand that the vast majority
of the games out there that are blockbuster don't
run on linux. I agree it was an oversight on my part.
I have used a linux workstation for work since
1999. I have noticed vast improvements since redhat
5.2. I now run redhat 9.0 and love the openoffice
apps as well as xine which had to be added after install. I have always felt linux was ready for the
office, I now feel linux is ready for the home.
I have not lost my job. I am in fact writing to you from work. There is no doubt that flipping burgers for a living is in fact a living. As I said
before show me how loosing my job to outsourceiing is going to get me a job that pays what mine pay or
yours pays.
You picked up on the burger flipping comment like it was the main point of my message which is was not.
Show me the math were outsourcing grows american jobs, This is my question.
Saying there in no such thing as ensuring your
furture would suggest to me, why vote? why get an education? Why protest against things that don't seem right?
The future is made my your present actions that
why.
The problem I have with outsourceing is that I all
to well understand the math of, If I loose my job
I have no job. 1 - 1 = 0;
What I don't understand and have not had anyone else point out to me in any realistic fashion is,
where is that good paying job simular to the one
I just had coming from.
Flipping burgers won't do it. Retail sales won't do it. Serviceing your home a/c system won't do it. As far as the creativity and innovation that is maybe 5% of engineering the other 95% is completeing the steps which any techy can do. We
need to insure our future by establishing balanced
trade, and we need to put an end to outsourceing.
Outsourcing by the way is anti-capitallist. If you believe in true supply and demand. Then a company
should not go to outsiders to reduce the demand for IT and engineering.
A lot of the respones to this post seem to describe
unions by the afl-cio standard. If you are the member of a union you decide how the union will react to outside pressures. All unions don't have to
negociate contracts for each member. I would envision a IT union as a strong political action
comittee that lobbied congress to ensure real bi-directional free trade and not just trade our good american IT jobs for low priced trinkets from
overseas which is what we have now. I believe the old saying about there being strenght in numbers
and a union is a way to show that strenght.
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At some point you or management will want to know what kind of amperage or wattage the system use so a clamp on amp meter and short extension cord with the bundle insulation removed will give you access to the each insulated wire to check power usage.with your new clamp on amp meter
I turned 50 last month and I track pretty much the way the OP has. All of my previous management experiences where no good from my POV but others have told me it was okay. I differ from him in that I don't feel to old, in fact I am ready to try my hand at managing again, I am just waiting for the right small opportunity to open up. My motto as far as this goes is you are only to old when you are dead.
Yes Java and PHP run the same on Linux as they do on Window
Is this thing working
Bro, there is only Korean and North Korea
I would agree with you if you simply gave a homeless guy a free meal, but it sounds to me like the homeless guy was then ask what he thought. When you ask someone what would they do, then you should expect an answer, that is how dialog works.
I don't buy the argument that the in-house IT Department is dead. There may be some shrinkage due to new technologies but a very significiant number of companines will keep in-house IT Departments. You could substitute IT for HR, Finance, Engineering or any other department.
Electricity is one product (60hz at some voltage). IT is multiple products and services that add value and efficiency.
Well I have installed linux servers thousands of times.
I have not had a problem with bad installs in years.
I would agree years ago linux installs were not as easy
as they could have been, but time have changed a lot things.
If I get new hardware in, I test it to see if I have the drivers
I need to do the install. It is true linux does not
have all drivers for every piece of hardware out. If you have tried
installing linux lately, and it did not go well for you,
You still do not need the services of a consultant. What you
most likely need is the url of the hardware compatibility list.
Administering a linux server in not unlike maintaining
Microsoft servers. You will need to take the time to get accustomed to
the administrative task and applications. It is not out of your reach
to accomplish this. You should use the same sticktoitness that you
used to learn the Microsoft Os.
Good Luck on your next install.
I share your confusion, for the reasons you give. Zealots and bandwagoneers will be zealots and bandwagoneers. I don't think they help the open source cause any more that Darl Mcbride helped SCO's cause, by spouting off rhetoric.
Larry states that Tridge's software adds to Bitmovers overhead and cost of maintenance, and if for no other reason than that,Tridge who is capable of writing his our version control software from scratch should do so, if he has a problem with Bitmover.
Just so you know Larry has freely given software to the general public. Bitmover had a free version for years and lmbench is still available, which I use often.
I use Linux and other GNU software daily, but I do understand that, I don't have a right in my non-communist country to add to a businesses overhead to suit my own needs.
I have not noticed any idiots doing the admin work for an oracle database, but I have seen some newbies come in and say things like, "I only took this job to gain experience". So your statement is a correct one as I see it. I am not a guru, but I have not had any down time in two years on any of my mysql databases.
Don't you hate, having to explain a joke.
I just tried out the updated site. The look and feel is about the same. The differences willl take some getting use to. I am normally impressed by all the new features I find at google.
I too have been using linux at home. I have been on linux at home since 1998. I am OS agnostic so I do see the benefits and shortcomings of all OS's. I do, however really, really like using the command line to move and copy files instead of dragging and dropping. I just meant that most novice users would not like linux at home until recently.
I did'nt take into account gaming. I am not a gamer, but I do understand that the vast majority of the games out there that are blockbuster don't run on linux. I agree it was an oversight on my part.
I have used a linux workstation for work since 1999. I have noticed vast improvements since redhat 5.2. I now run redhat 9.0 and love the openoffice apps as well as xine which had to be added after install. I have always felt linux was ready for the office, I now feel linux is ready for the home.
Jay
I have not lost my job. I am in fact writing to you from work. There is no doubt that flipping burgers for a living is in fact a living. As I said before show me how loosing my job to outsourceiing is going to get me a job that pays what mine pay or yours pays.
You picked up on the burger flipping comment like it was the main point of my message which is was not.
Show me the math were outsourcing grows american jobs, This is my question.
Saying there in no such thing as ensuring your furture would suggest to me, why vote? why get an education? Why protest against things that don't seem right?
The future is made my your present actions that why.
The problem I have with outsourceing is that I all to well understand the math of, If I loose my job I have no job. 1 - 1 = 0;
What I don't understand and have not had anyone else point out to me in any realistic fashion is, where is that good paying job simular to the one I just had coming from.
Flipping burgers won't do it. Retail sales won't do it. Serviceing your home a/c system won't do it. As far as the creativity and innovation that is maybe 5% of engineering the other 95% is completeing the steps which any techy can do. We need to insure our future by establishing balanced trade, and we need to put an end to outsourceing.
Outsourcing by the way is anti-capitallist. If you believe in true supply and demand. Then a company should not go to outsiders to reduce the demand for IT and engineering.
A lot of the respones to this post seem to describe unions by the afl-cio standard. If you are the member of a union you decide how the union will react to outside pressures. All unions don't have to negociate contracts for each member. I would envision a IT union as a strong political action comittee that lobbied congress to ensure real bi-directional free trade and not just trade our good american IT jobs for low priced trinkets from overseas which is what we have now. I believe the old saying about there being strenght in numbers and a union is a way to show that strenght.