Another thing is they go against IRC servers; I have no clue why. Why not block public FTP servers, streaming audio or game servers for the bandwidth? Do IRC servers get attacked that often?
Yes they do. having worked IT security at the largest hosting providers in the world I can honestly say that yes IRC servers basicly paint a target saying "Hack and DDoS Me PLEASE!". alot of hosting providers will even go so far as to setup ACLs on routers to block ident and irc traffic.
HERE HERE! MOD THIS MAN UP!
this law would just *NEVER* work in the US, not without the cops being there to oversee everything. legal firearms and a very liberal policy on self defense when it involves a stranger coming into another persons home would make this the most hazardous job in the world.
involves a certain risk!? ya a knife in his hand and a.45 in mine (or atleast thats what the cops will hear). Here in america we normally don't take shit like that. you come into my house you better be prepared to show me a badge or defend your self. thats one damn effective way to get shot.
I'm beginning to notice a pattern here. slashdotters seem to think that IT == programmer. which is WRONG! sure programming is part of IT but a very small part. Those computer science degrees could be used very well to obtain an entry level job in help desk ot junior sysadmin at a large company. getting a job as a programmer with no real world experience is like a convicted child molester applying at the FBI. get your ass in the door first, fine tune your skill for a couple years _THEN_ go look for a programming job. you need portfolio's and verifiable experience under your belt.
I personally have been in IT for around 8-9 years, well before the dotcom boom. and I've never been out of work for more than 4 months at a stretch especially now that I've moved over to networking and process automation. I have yet to see a qualified network technician stay out of work for very long. the market is there, stop trying to skate your way in @ $50,000 a year coding web pages. get your asses in the trench and do it like the rest of us did. work your way up. a couple years of hard work won't kill ya, and it always pays off in the end. there is an IT market out there and plenty of jobs but without experience you might as well compare it to an etheopian child looking at pictures of a royal feast, i.e. you ain't ever gonna get it.
and for those windows impared people, Start -> Run -> RegEdit.exe (CTRL-F: RunOnceEx), up one level, there's your autostart menu in the registry, have fun w/the delete key
wow the ignorance coming off this post is almost blinding. you like that lightbulb in your room? thank astrophysicists for that one discovering nuclear power. or better yet, how would you like to have your breast cancer cure 100 years from now. alot of fucking good it's going to do you.
The earth can support roughly 9 billion people, there are roughly 6.2 billion people on it right now. DOUBLE WHAT IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO! if we don't find a way to either a) kill 1/2 the worlds population or b) find a way off this planet and colonize other planets than you can kiss your happy human race goodbye in less than 200 years.
it's fucking morons like you who have held back real science for hundreds of years. astrophysics is humanity's only hope. if you think we can live the way we live now on this planet for another 500 years than I STRONGLY suggest you get your self a college education because you obviously didn't pay attention in high school. by the end of most of our lives most of the natural resources of the earth will be at less than 50% of what they were. the earth _WILL_ strike back. disieses, plagues, famine, you name it it will happen. oh and never mind the constant threat from 2-10 mile across heavenly bodies that would just love to usher in the next mass-extinction. oh but I guess saving 2 people's lives is FAR more important than the survival of an entire life form..... fucking idiot. please just go back in ivory tower and put on your rose colored glasses. if you leave the house please wear a sign, so we know who you are.
I second this too. I've been using mailscanner for > 1.5 years now and I love it to death. not 1 virus has gotten past it. if you use that in conjunction with a light spam blacklist and spamassassin you can basicly not run AV software on your PC's if your carefull. file virii have all but been replaced with spyware, which is not as harmfull normally (atleast if your firewall'd properly). and spybot S&D does wonders for nuking spyware.
I'm a QMail lover like most linux users but ya gotta give the sendmail/MailScanner/spamassassin config credit. it's one nice setup!
I would say please shoot me, I've seen enough. but no, PLEASE SHOOT HIM! what a fucking tard! nnnGGRRRHHH I hope an army of geeks castrate's this bastard in public. fucking schiester.
I know I'm trolling but man what the hell has the world come to!? post-dot-com has been one scam after another after another. extortion seems to be the only viable business model these days. Oh I can't wait for the feds to step in on this shit. I'll take regulation before I have to hear another one of these assholes trying to ruin the internet!
trying to be one of the few people on topic here..
as an amateur level editor with > 10 years experience I can say a couple things about it. one I don't know what it's like working in the gaming industry but I understand most designers have cots next to they're desk. two, most people have no idea what goes into a production game level. it can take MONTHS just to get some decent geometry layed out. if your doing your own textures there's another month. then there's bringing it all together. the refining process (texture alignment, light tweaking, ambient effects) usually takes another month. so for a 1 man level design team it can be 3-4 months for a PRODUCTION quality level. it's a painstakingly long process thats not for everyone.
So many people think "oh hey, I wanna make a game!" without realizing the amount of knowledge and experience that goes into it. sure tutorials will get you building boxes with monsters and textures but that hardly constitutes a quality game level. Especially now with HL2/UT2k3/Doom3 where most of the level is no longer geometry but static mesh's. now you have to be proficient in Maya and 3dsmax to produce anything that makes people go "wow!".
as far as my favorites to work with, I'd have to say the build editor for Duke3D was one of my favorites. it had no docs and less support but once you actually spent the 30+ days to figure it out it was an amazing tool to work with. WorldCraft/Hammer is also another nice editor. I didn't like it much for Quake2/3 (did it support Q3? I forget) but for Q1/HL it rocked! the vertex manipulation tools were a wonderfull addition back in v1.6. but I'd have to say my all time favorite editor is UnrealEd for UT2k3. that is by far and away the most powerfull piece of gaming software I've ever seen in my life! full game-rendered sound and graphics right within the editor! support for static mesh editing, scripting, everything! it's a total Unreal IDE.
anyone who has had to put up with the tools over the past decade can back me up on that one. it's the first one that has a professional quality feel to it (and it's no where near as buggy as QuakeEd).
In closing I would say if your interested in level design go for it! it can't hurt. but be prepared for a 90 degreee learning curve for about a year (especially if you haven't been exposed to 3D modeling). Learn programming early, save your self the frustration. and stick with it, it takes a while for a design to come out of your head and into a game. it can seem like you'll never get it finished, just tack ur balls to the walls and finish it. you will be beyond proud of your self the first time you hear "wow that kicks ass!"
Oh and for pete's sake, _PLEASE_ check out the video tutorials on http://www.3dbuzz.com . those guys really kick ass!
just like all fanatics your flaming ignorance almost makes it not worth it to reply but you really got me with that one.
there's a reason the USA is _BY FAR AND AWAY_ the most successfull nation on earth, because CAPITALISM WORKS! every single pinko nation except red china has failed (oh and it's coming. . . taiwan anyone?).
just because you hear the pathetic bleeding heart liberal redirec on TV about the US and bush's war mongering doesn't mean america isn't still thriving. we took a hard hit on 09/11 . . . it struck the foundation of our economy, and 3 years after we are seeing an amazing upturn.
I swear your opinion is soo typical of fanatical left-wing behavior. you don't like us soo you look for the smallest things you can over exaturate and start a FUD campaign against us. it's the typical have's vs the have-not's. the beauty of america is with some drive and ambition (based solely on the capitilist model) can go from the bottom of the have-not's to the very top of the have's. unlike commie or socialist governments where most people work for the better of they're government, which trickle's down to the citizen's if they're lucky. yeah free health care would be nice, but if I had a serious disiese I'd much rather incur 20+ years of debt and survive in america and wait 10+ years to receive treatment in canada/whereever and be dead after the first year.
it's not about race anymore here if anything it's been reversed. minorities have FAR MORE opportunities than white people. especially in the things that matter (education, credit applications, etc).
oh and about the constitution. that is what makes america great. people tend to bend and change laws overtime. that document garuntees our freedoms in this land. and every single american citizen I know will defend it with they're life if necessary. even once our government falls it will be the people that will quickly rise up and repair our democrocy, probably refining that document even more to include the evils of the 21st century (evils of the 18th century == no religious freedom, etc).
it's the ignorant dumbasses like you who would love to live in a rosy world where everyone felt equal and no one had any more than anyone else and just lived out they're meaningless lives making meneal wages untill they meet they're inevitable death. instead of advancing human kind through technological and social innovation (also thanks to our capitalist society). we may be behind on public education but america is the absolute center of social diversity/integration and the undisputed leader in technology. those 2 things will enable humans to succeed in the 22nd century. but I guess that all means nothing cause some out of work euro-trash pinko thinks capitalism is evil.
phew! atleast the USA isn't on the *dead bottom* of the education food chain. I'm pretty damn sure even the aborigines in the aussie outback know the diffrence from 2 very diffrent and hardly connected (panama canal anyone?) land masses.
stop blowing smoke up our ass. BGP is not even on the test. you would be in that bootcamp for 6 months if you were learning BGP, maybe more. people don't go from "ok this is a network, this is a router, here's how you configure RipII and bridging" to "ok here's our north american IGP mesh. we need to begin deploying our routers in confederations to help consolidate this mess".
I'm sorry an education of BGP is honestly an education of the internet it self. anyone who has studied or taken the CCNP can easily back me up on this one.
and yes I'm a bit sore about all you unwashed claiming the higher level cisco certs are bullcrap, as I've been studying for the CCNP for almost 2 years (coming from nothing more than a sysadmin).
are you smoking crack? you must be. the CCIE _IS_ _THE_ IT certification. 15 years as a netadmin!? pfft, not bloody likely going to pass the CCIE. more than 70% of all people fail, and less than 1% pass on the first try. the CCIE is for people who eat sleep live shit and breathe cisco. Cisco usually offers people who get a CCIE a job with them doing consulting.
I used to work for the largest web hosting provider in the world (no lie, I'm just not saying they're name here as they will probably see it) and they're top network engineers even admitted they could not pass the CCIE. one of the senior engineers friends took 8 times to pass just the written test! he had to wait over a year to fly out to texas to take the lab test and will not likely pass. (oh btw it's $7,000 per test, regardless if you fail).
So frankly I don't think the CCIE will ever devalue. once you obtain one of those you are golden. people will come to you, it's not necessary to go to them.
ya CCNA is not a very hard test. CCNP now there's one for ya! without atleast 4-5 years experience with cisco gear and BGP/OSPF you don't have much chance in hell of passing it. Well unless you happen to be one of those people that retain EVERYTHING they read.
been there done that. to be honest ya wanna know what happens when this takes place? the VP looses his job, his replacement comes in on a "clean-slate" basis and replaces all of upper management siting that "our current staff can not adapt to our technology needs". in the end you end up loosing all your good connections in the company getting replaced by green-horns with MCSE's and no real world experience trying to convert your "legacy" (about to move to linux) network to the *latest tech* windows system. FUCKING TRUST ME I'VE BEEN THERE 4 DAMN TIMES!!!
is a damn plague where I live. PLEASE IT GUYS do not enlighten your exec's to your job. it works SOO much better when they only know enough to quote laptop prices and say "hey, can I use XP?"
I speak from YEARS of experience here. please no -1 troll mod. I really am serious (although a bit jaded due to my loosing 2 jobs on this subject, but bailing from another 2 because of the patternistic behavior).
you're better off backing your IT manager in a corner and trully explaining to him/her how things are and letting them talk to the exec's than hearing it from the geeks. if you do it I swear unless you hold a Ph.D in bullshit you will only end up making things worse. as the poster said it shows the minor problems with a company that can seem massive to an exec but are a daily routine for an IT professional. it's just not wise to report such things to mangement.
On the real, your IT director/manager is there for you. if you look bad he does. and in most situations your manager is newer than you so image is a big thing. make him look good by explaining to him the problems and time lines for repair/completion and use his purported skills to improve your image. thats why there is a layer between IT and management (although we all know we are like -1 link behind the CEO as we _ALL_ do massive favors for them).
trust me guys/gals, been there done that. I hope someone can back me up on this.
I know all situations will not be like this but trust me on this one, experience is a mutha. . . seen it soo many times I wanted to puke when reading this article just from bad memories. Remember PHB's will always be PHB's. You can teach them untill your blue in the face and they'll still ask 'why did my computer lock up after opening that attachment from that person that said "ILOVEYOU"?'
here here. someone with some insight. I personally do not suffer from it but I have 2 or 3 friends that have it bad! AND I MEAN BAD! literilly incapable of paying attention. to the point it has become a learning disorder for the 3 of them.
it's interesting from my perspective to watch them. they can assimilate information only when it is fed to them in rosy pink *everything's ok, your not stupid just slow. ..* sort of way. (explaining things to them like a 5 year old). now I'm not being condesending here . . . I swear it's more like autism. 1 of the people I speak of who has it the worst is an absolute prodigy at bass guitar. he can hear the most complex song/rift and reproduce it 100% perfectly on his first try. but he is totally unable to comprehend a simple list of 5 items of instructions. and I've seen these little things popping up everywhere for all of them.
now I'm wondering, is it possible that it can basicly be turned on and off? perhaps not "at will" but at some subconcious level where the person is extreemly interested in what they're doing, they can put forth 100% focus and concentration?
now I understand bi-polar disorder (the real kind, not imagined) can be at play here. horrendous mood swings could drop the priority of a thought at an instant. but I just find it soo strange that engaged in some activity that pleases them (usually something juvenial, immature or stupid) they're minds are at 100%. but get away from that and requre them to perform a specific task (i.e. *work*) and it's like the brain takes a vacation.
is this ADD/ADHD or is it something entirely else. I'm kinda worried about my friends. they're at that age where if they don't do something now they're gonna be loosers for life. is there anything I could do to help (looking for experience here)?
you know guys this is not only a good day for linux it's a good day for the war against micro$oft (TM). remember about 10 years ago novell had almost 100% of the server market and frankly I think they probably will again. once the netware infrastructure is ported to linux it's going to be ONE HELL of a platform for network management. frankly I'm excited! can't wait to see novell's new product line. buh-buy microsoft!
A keystroke-by-keystroke walkthrough of applying a patch.
So I guess the Linux Kernel-HOWTO just mysteriously disapeared all of a sudden. get over it people, linux has GLOBS of docs, more than any one human should ever have to read, FAR more than windows or any other OS for that matter considering all the user contrib'd sutff out there now.
Get them here:
and for some more reading on this subject go here
sure http://www.historychannel.com. although if your american you might find it a bit shocking as we tend to over-sympathize with the jews when in all reality they are the ones who are wrong.
Ariel Sharon openly hates palestinians, threatened to assassinate they're leader. claims he will never back down and will fight them untill the day he dies (which hopefully is soon). atleast when netanyahu was in office he got things done and *almost* came to an agreement with the palestinians.
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Another thing is they go against IRC servers; I have no clue why. Why not block public FTP servers, streaming audio or game servers for the bandwidth? Do IRC servers get attacked that often?
Yes they do. having worked IT security at the largest hosting providers in the world I can honestly say that yes IRC servers basicly paint a target saying "Hack and DDoS Me PLEASE!". alot of hosting providers will even go so far as to setup ACLs on routers to block ident and irc traffic.
HERE HERE! MOD THIS MAN UP! this law would just *NEVER* work in the US, not without the cops being there to oversee everything. legal firearms and a very liberal policy on self defense when it involves a stranger coming into another persons home would make this the most hazardous job in the world.
involves a certain risk!? ya a knife in his hand and a .45 in mine (or atleast thats what the cops will hear). Here in america we normally don't take shit like that. you come into my house you better be prepared to show me a badge or defend your self. thats one damn effective way to get shot.
I'm beginning to notice a pattern here. slashdotters seem to think that IT == programmer. which is WRONG! sure programming is part of IT but a very small part. Those computer science degrees could be used very well to obtain an entry level job in help desk ot junior sysadmin at a large company. getting a job as a programmer with no real world experience is like a convicted child molester applying at the FBI. get your ass in the door first, fine tune your skill for a couple years _THEN_ go look for a programming job. you need portfolio's and verifiable experience under your belt.
I personally have been in IT for around 8-9 years, well before the dotcom boom. and I've never been out of work for more than 4 months at a stretch especially now that I've moved over to networking and process automation. I have yet to see a qualified network technician stay out of work for very long. the market is there, stop trying to skate your way in @ $50,000 a year coding web pages. get your asses in the trench and do it like the rest of us did. work your way up. a couple years of hard work won't kill ya, and it always pays off in the end. there is an IT market out there and plenty of jobs but without experience you might as well compare it to an etheopian child looking at pictures of a royal feast, i.e. you ain't ever gonna get it.
and for those windows impared people, Start -> Run -> RegEdit.exe (CTRL-F: RunOnceEx), up one level, there's your autostart menu in the registry, have fun w/the delete key
wow the ignorance coming off this post is almost blinding. you like that lightbulb in your room? thank astrophysicists for that one discovering nuclear power. or better yet, how would you like to have your breast cancer cure 100 years from now. alot of fucking good it's going to do you.
.... fucking idiot. please just go back in ivory tower and put on your rose colored glasses. if you leave the house please wear a sign, so we know who you are.
The earth can support roughly 9 billion people, there are roughly 6.2 billion people on it right now. DOUBLE WHAT IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO! if we don't find a way to either a) kill 1/2 the worlds population or b) find a way off this planet and colonize other planets than you can kiss your happy human race goodbye in less than 200 years.
it's fucking morons like you who have held back real science for hundreds of years. astrophysics is humanity's only hope. if you think we can live the way we live now on this planet for another 500 years than I STRONGLY suggest you get your self a college education because you obviously didn't pay attention in high school. by the end of most of our lives most of the natural resources of the earth will be at less than 50% of what they were. the earth _WILL_ strike back. disieses, plagues, famine, you name it it will happen. oh and never mind the constant threat from 2-10 mile across heavenly bodies that would just love to usher in the next mass-extinction. oh but I guess saving 2 people's lives is FAR more important than the survival of an entire life form.
I second this too. I've been using mailscanner for > 1.5 years now and I love it to death. not 1 virus has gotten past it. if you use that in conjunction with a light spam blacklist and spamassassin you can basicly not run AV software on your PC's if your carefull. file virii have all but been replaced with spyware, which is not as harmfull normally (atleast if your firewall'd properly). and spybot S&D does wonders for nuking spyware.
I'm a QMail lover like most linux users but ya gotta give the sendmail/MailScanner/spamassassin config credit. it's one nice setup!
I would say please shoot me, I've seen enough. but no, PLEASE SHOOT HIM! what a fucking tard! nnnGGRRRHHH I hope an army of geeks castrate's this bastard in public. fucking schiester. I know I'm trolling but man what the hell has the world come to!? post-dot-com has been one scam after another after another. extortion seems to be the only viable business model these days. Oh I can't wait for the feds to step in on this shit. I'll take regulation before I have to hear another one of these assholes trying to ruin the internet!
trying to be one of the few people on topic here. .
as an amateur level editor with > 10 years experience I can say a couple things about it. one I don't know what it's like working in the gaming industry but I understand most designers have cots next to they're desk. two, most people have no idea what goes into a production game level. it can take MONTHS just to get some decent geometry layed out. if your doing your own textures there's another month. then there's bringing it all together. the refining process (texture alignment, light tweaking, ambient effects) usually takes another month. so for a 1 man level design team it can be 3-4 months for a PRODUCTION quality level. it's a painstakingly long process thats not for everyone.
So many people think "oh hey, I wanna make a game!" without realizing the amount of knowledge and experience that goes into it. sure tutorials will get you building boxes with monsters and textures but that hardly constitutes a quality game level. Especially now with HL2/UT2k3/Doom3 where most of the level is no longer geometry but static mesh's. now you have to be proficient in Maya and 3dsmax to produce anything that makes people go "wow!".
as far as my favorites to work with, I'd have to say the build editor for Duke3D was one of my favorites. it had no docs and less support but once you actually spent the 30+ days to figure it out it was an amazing tool to work with. WorldCraft/Hammer is also another nice editor. I didn't like it much for Quake2/3 (did it support Q3? I forget) but for Q1/HL it rocked! the vertex manipulation tools were a wonderfull addition back in v1.6. but I'd have to say my all time favorite editor is UnrealEd for UT2k3. that is by far and away the most powerfull piece of gaming software I've ever seen in my life! full game-rendered sound and graphics right within the editor! support for static mesh editing, scripting, everything! it's a total Unreal IDE.
anyone who has had to put up with the tools over the past decade can back me up on that one. it's the first one that has a professional quality feel to it (and it's no where near as buggy as QuakeEd).
In closing I would say if your interested in level design go for it! it can't hurt. but be prepared for a 90 degreee learning curve for about a year (especially if you haven't been exposed to 3D modeling). Learn programming early, save your self the frustration. and stick with it, it takes a while for a design to come out of your head and into a game. it can seem like you'll never get it finished, just tack ur balls to the walls and finish it. you will be beyond proud of your self the first time you hear "wow that kicks ass!"
Oh and for pete's sake, _PLEASE_ check out the video tutorials on http://www.3dbuzz.com . those guys really kick ass!
just like all fanatics your flaming ignorance almost makes it not worth it to reply but you really got me with that one.
there's a reason the USA is _BY FAR AND AWAY_ the most successfull nation on earth, because CAPITALISM WORKS! every single pinko nation except red china has failed (oh and it's coming. . . taiwan anyone?).
just because you hear the pathetic bleeding heart liberal redirec on TV about the US and bush's war mongering doesn't mean america isn't still thriving. we took a hard hit on 09/11 . . . it struck the foundation of our economy, and 3 years after we are seeing an amazing upturn.
I swear your opinion is soo typical of fanatical left-wing behavior. you don't like us soo you look for the smallest things you can over exaturate and start a FUD campaign against us. it's the typical have's vs the have-not's. the beauty of america is with some drive and ambition (based solely on the capitilist model) can go from the bottom of the have-not's to the very top of the have's. unlike commie or socialist governments where most people work for the better of they're government, which trickle's down to the citizen's if they're lucky. yeah free health care would be nice, but if I had a serious disiese I'd much rather incur 20+ years of debt and survive in america and wait 10+ years to receive treatment in canada/whereever and be dead after the first year.
it's not about race anymore here if anything it's been reversed. minorities have FAR MORE opportunities than white people. especially in the things that matter (education, credit applications, etc).
oh and about the constitution. that is what makes america great. people tend to bend and change laws overtime. that document garuntees our freedoms in this land. and every single american citizen I know will defend it with they're life if necessary. even once our government falls it will be the people that will quickly rise up and repair our democrocy, probably refining that document even more to include the evils of the 21st century (evils of the 18th century == no religious freedom, etc).
it's the ignorant dumbasses like you who would love to live in a rosy world where everyone felt equal and no one had any more than anyone else and just lived out they're meaningless lives making meneal wages untill they meet they're inevitable death. instead of advancing human kind through technological and social innovation (also thanks to our capitalist society). we may be behind on public education but america is the absolute center of social diversity/integration and the undisputed leader in technology. those 2 things will enable humans to succeed in the 22nd century. but I guess that all means nothing cause some out of work euro-trash pinko thinks capitalism is evil.
phew! atleast the USA isn't on the *dead bottom* of the education food chain. I'm pretty damn sure even the aborigines in the aussie outback know the diffrence from 2 very diffrent and hardly connected (panama canal anyone?) land masses.
the ip's not 127.0.0.1 is it?
stop blowing smoke up our ass. BGP is not even on the test. you would be in that bootcamp for 6 months if you were learning BGP, maybe more. people don't go from "ok this is a network, this is a router, here's how you configure RipII and bridging" to "ok here's our north american IGP mesh. we need to begin deploying our routers in confederations to help consolidate this mess".
I'm sorry an education of BGP is honestly an education of the internet it self. anyone who has studied or taken the CCNP can easily back me up on this one.
and yes I'm a bit sore about all you unwashed claiming the higher level cisco certs are bullcrap, as I've been studying for the CCNP for almost 2 years (coming from nothing more than a sysadmin).
are you smoking crack? you must be. the CCIE _IS_ _THE_ IT certification. 15 years as a netadmin!? pfft, not bloody likely going to pass the CCIE. more than 70% of all people fail, and less than 1% pass on the first try. the CCIE is for people who eat sleep live shit and breathe cisco. Cisco usually offers people who get a CCIE a job with them doing consulting.
I used to work for the largest web hosting provider in the world (no lie, I'm just not saying they're name here as they will probably see it) and they're top network engineers even admitted they could not pass the CCIE. one of the senior engineers friends took 8 times to pass just the written test! he had to wait over a year to fly out to texas to take the lab test and will not likely pass. (oh btw it's $7,000 per test, regardless if you fail).
So frankly I don't think the CCIE will ever devalue. once you obtain one of those you are golden. people will come to you, it's not necessary to go to them.
ya CCNA is not a very hard test. CCNP now there's one for ya! without atleast 4-5 years experience with cisco gear and BGP/OSPF you don't have much chance in hell of passing it. Well unless you happen to be one of those people that retain EVERYTHING they read.
THANK YOU!!! please read my post, had the same experience, can you back me up? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=93497&cid=8028 916
been there done that. to be honest ya wanna know what happens when this takes place? the VP looses his job, his replacement comes in on a "clean-slate" basis and replaces all of upper management siting that "our current staff can not adapt to our technology needs". in the end you end up loosing all your good connections in the company getting replaced by green-horns with MCSE's and no real world experience trying to convert your "legacy" (about to move to linux) network to the *latest tech* windows system. FUCKING TRUST ME I'VE BEEN THERE 4 DAMN TIMES!!!
is a damn plague where I live. PLEASE IT GUYS do not enlighten your exec's to your job. it works SOO much better when they only know enough to quote laptop prices and say "hey, can I use XP?"
I speak from YEARS of experience here. please no -1 troll mod. I really am serious (although a bit jaded due to my loosing 2 jobs on this subject, but bailing from another 2 because of the patternistic behavior).
you're better off backing your IT manager in a corner and trully explaining to him/her how things are and letting them talk to the exec's than hearing it from the geeks. if you do it I swear unless you hold a Ph.D in bullshit you will only end up making things worse. as the poster said it shows the minor problems with a company that can seem massive to an exec but are a daily routine for an IT professional. it's just not wise to report such things to mangement.
On the real, your IT director/manager is there for you. if you look bad he does. and in most situations your manager is newer than you so image is a big thing. make him look good by explaining to him the problems and time lines for repair/completion and use his purported skills to improve your image. thats why there is a layer between IT and management (although we all know we are like -1 link behind the CEO as we _ALL_ do massive favors for them).
trust me guys/gals, been there done that. I hope someone can back me up on this.
I know all situations will not be like this but trust me on this one, experience is a mutha. . . seen it soo many times I wanted to puke when reading this article just from bad memories. Remember PHB's will always be PHB's. You can teach them untill your blue in the face and they'll still ask 'why did my computer lock up after opening that attachment from that person that said "ILOVEYOU"?'
here here. someone with some insight. I personally do not suffer from it but I have 2 or 3 friends that have it bad! AND I MEAN BAD! literilly incapable of paying attention. to the point it has become a learning disorder for the 3 of them.
.* sort of way. (explaining things to them like a 5 year old). now I'm not being condesending here . . . I swear it's more like autism. 1 of the people I speak of who has it the worst is an absolute prodigy at bass guitar. he can hear the most complex song/rift and reproduce it 100% perfectly on his first try. but he is totally unable to comprehend a simple list of 5 items of instructions. and I've seen these little things popping up everywhere for all of them.
it's interesting from my perspective to watch them. they can assimilate information only when it is fed to them in rosy pink *everything's ok, your not stupid just slow. .
now I'm wondering, is it possible that it can basicly be turned on and off? perhaps not "at will" but at some subconcious level where the person is extreemly interested in what they're doing, they can put forth 100% focus and concentration?
now I understand bi-polar disorder (the real kind, not imagined) can be at play here. horrendous mood swings could drop the priority of a thought at an instant. but I just find it soo strange that engaged in some activity that pleases them (usually something juvenial, immature or stupid) they're minds are at 100%. but get away from that and requre them to perform a specific task (i.e. *work*) and it's like the brain takes a vacation.
is this ADD/ADHD or is it something entirely else. I'm kinda worried about my friends. they're at that age where if they don't do something now they're gonna be loosers for life. is there anything I could do to help (looking for experience here)?
that sounds cool oh btw, first post! (I hope)
you know guys this is not only a good day for linux it's a good day for the war against micro$oft (TM). remember about 10 years ago novell had almost 100% of the server market and frankly I think they probably will again. once the netware infrastructure is ported to linux it's going to be ONE HELL of a platform for network management. frankly I'm excited! can't wait to see novell's new product line. buh-buy microsoft!
according to EBGames doom3 is set to release on 4/14!! (hope thats true) here's the link
A keystroke-by-keystroke walkthrough of applying a patch.
So I guess the Linux Kernel-HOWTO just mysteriously disapeared all of a sudden. get over it people, linux has GLOBS of docs, more than any one human should ever have to read, FAR more than windows or any other OS for that matter considering all the user contrib'd sutff out there now.
Get them here:
and for some more reading on this subject go here
sure http://www.historychannel.com. although if your american you might find it a bit shocking as we tend to over-sympathize with the jews when in all reality they are the ones who are wrong.
Ariel Sharon openly hates palestinians, threatened to assassinate they're leader. claims he will never back down and will fight them untill the day he dies (which hopefully is soon). atleast when netanyahu was in office he got things done and *almost* came to an agreement with the palestinians.
I must be going blind. I thought I read "Bill Gates as a shemale". ack, maybe I need some coffee?
they're called "key deer" and are a local tourist attraction down here in hell, oops I mean south florida. they're like 1/2 the size of a normal deer.