Agreed - I've been standing for 9 months. Bought an anti-fatigue mat and it's made a world of difference. Also critical that you ease into it - the first two weeks were rough, I did about 50/50, then expanded from there.
When I worked at a major US university, we would test new student-facing systems against Windows, Mac, Fedora and Ubuntu. There wasn't a ton of demand, but we never wanted to invest a ton of money in a solution only to find there was some percentage of users - likely the savviest of them - were guaranteed to be left out in the cold.
My team made a genuine effort to engage the uber-geeks on the network - they could either be your staunchest ally or your loudest critic, and I never felt that their requests were unreasonable. In terms of "support", we all had a bit of knowledge and could help if need be, but we rarely got support requests from Linux users - if they had the skill to install and run a linux distro they probably didn't need much of our help.
I've been noticing this for about a month, and haven't had the time to research the cause. It sucks the most when it crashes after you've read a few hundred pages, and the thing forgets where you are in the book.
Good to know I'm not alone and that there's apparently some sort of remediation available...
Feel free to correct me, but I seem to remember Cogent and Level-3 having a similar disagreement a few years back, with Cogent being just as intransigent then.
Peculiar that a major peer like Cogent would be unable to resolve peering contracts twice in such a short period of time - were I a Cogent enterprise customer I'd be pretty concerned with the pattern that's developing here.
I definitely agree - ACM has a ton of Special Interest Groups, I'm sure at least one of them might offer you some valuable information. If you don't have time to attend meetings or conferences you can always join topic-specific listservs and use the archives and the combined knowledge/ experience of other members to push through some of the issues you encounter.
I got an email from Seagate last week informing me that I was eligible to receive the refund, and happily went in and checked the "Decline Claim" box. I've explained the discrepancy to 100 different users over the years ("I ordered an 80GB drive and my computer says I only have xx GB of available space?!"), so it would've been hypocritical for me to accept money from a company that I like, offered because a few lawyers saw an opportunity to gouge the company over a technicality.
Each time I feel like complaining about/. discussions, I go and read a digg thread. Over here we have to separate the wheat from the chaff, digg discussions have no "wheat." Admittedly, Digg often has some interesting links, but the overall quality of the tech discussions on slashdot remain at a much higher level than most other places on the 'net. Not that it's perfect, but hey, at least I can filter out (most of) the trolls;-)
They key is to find gadgets that she'll warm up to- wifi, giant HDTV being good examples. My female overlord I mean, girlfriend stares at me in disbelief when I talk about spending $300 on a new video card, but grins ear to ear at the thought of me dropping two grand on a plasma screen.
The increase in earnings is a result of lower compensation per share- instead of offering a 2-to-1 split or dividends to their investors, Microsoft kept the cash on hand. At the same time, demand for Windows and Office products dropped.
I'll give you that... I suppose there is a fine line between acknowledging a job well done and blowing smoke. I just know that sitting in a meeting and hearing someone else take credit for something you've done can be one of the most aggravating things I've ever experienced;-) But yeah, I can see how constant pats on the back without any reflection in compensation could make a man bitter.
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one more thing: give credit where credit's due. Nothing will get your team to work hard for you better than the knowledge that they are credited with successes. The easy thing is to sit around and accept accolades for a job well done, but spreading it around will pay off.
I found an old Dell machine laying around when I was looking for a Win98 platform to test some software... I was surprised to discover that this P2 266mhz box with 128mb ram was running XP- and doing so fairly well, for that matter. Which isnt to say it wasnt promptly formatted anyway, but the point is that is worked. Took a little while to boot though...
Ditto. A thorough cleaning usually takes about 2-3 hours for me- I start off by running msconfig and rebooting, then continue with an Ad-Aware scan, then run stinger... After that I'll clean out the registry by hand, and run HijackThis if something is still acting up. Google really is the best tool we've found, especially with some of the more obscure stuff. I finish up by making sure they've got AV software auto-installing defs and scanning weekly and install Firefox as the default. Ick.
That's good to know... I sent them another email earlier - although it makes it far more excusable if they are not gov't assigned identifiers, I still think they should be a bit more careful with what they web publish.
sadly, the most connected campus seems to be fairly irresponsible with their student data. 3 years ago, i did a search for a friend who went there, and got a hit on a page including student names matched with Social Security numbers and a test score. We sent an email to the IT guys there... a year later, I did it again- the page was still up, so I told them again. Out of curiosity, I just did the same search, and got the same list. How would you feel knowing that your school was this irresponsible with personal data?
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Agreed - I've been standing for 9 months. Bought an anti-fatigue mat and it's made a world of difference. Also critical that you ease into it - the first two weeks were rough, I did about 50/50, then expanded from there.
...or when we're testing video chat solutions. /awkward_moments_in_professional_history
When I worked at a major US university, we would test new student-facing systems against Windows, Mac, Fedora and Ubuntu. There wasn't a ton of demand, but we never wanted to invest a ton of money in a solution only to find there was some percentage of users - likely the savviest of them - were guaranteed to be left out in the cold. My team made a genuine effort to engage the uber-geeks on the network - they could either be your staunchest ally or your loudest critic, and I never felt that their requests were unreasonable. In terms of "support", we all had a bit of knowledge and could help if need be, but we rarely got support requests from Linux users - if they had the skill to install and run a linux distro they probably didn't need much of our help.
I've been noticing this for about a month, and haven't had the time to research the cause. It sucks the most when it crashes after you've read a few hundred pages, and the thing forgets where you are in the book. Good to know I'm not alone and that there's apparently some sort of remediation available...
Feel free to correct me, but I seem to remember Cogent and Level-3 having a similar disagreement a few years back, with Cogent being just as intransigent then. Peculiar that a major peer like Cogent would be unable to resolve peering contracts twice in such a short period of time - were I a Cogent enterprise customer I'd be pretty concerned with the pattern that's developing here.
I definitely agree - ACM has a ton of Special Interest Groups, I'm sure at least one of them might offer you some valuable information. If you don't have time to attend meetings or conferences you can always join topic-specific listservs and use the archives and the combined knowledge/ experience of other members to push through some of the issues you encounter.
I got an email from Seagate last week informing me that I was eligible to receive the refund, and happily went in and checked the "Decline Claim" box. I've explained the discrepancy to 100 different users over the years ("I ordered an 80GB drive and my computer says I only have xx GB of available space?!"), so it would've been hypocritical for me to accept money from a company that I like, offered because a few lawyers saw an opportunity to gouge the company over a technicality.
Each time I feel like complaining about /. discussions, I go and read a digg thread. Over here we have to separate the wheat from the chaff, digg discussions have no "wheat." Admittedly, Digg often has some interesting links, but the overall quality of the tech discussions on slashdot remain at a much higher level than most other places on the 'net. Not that it's perfect, but hey, at least I can filter out (most of) the trolls ;-)
NetSQUID from Texas A&M... based on Snort, pretty cool: netSQUID
They key is to find gadgets that she'll warm up to- wifi, giant HDTV being good examples. My female overlord I mean, girlfriend stares at me in disbelief when I talk about spending $300 on a new video card, but grins ear to ear at the thought of me dropping two grand on a plasma screen.
its the rare post like this that make be wish I had mod points right this very second ;-)
supposedly the new MSN search links to encarta topics when applicable, which I guess is a similar solution.
just giving the information I heard on NPR last night...
The increase in earnings is a result of lower compensation per share- instead of offering a 2-to-1 split or dividends to their investors, Microsoft kept the cash on hand. At the same time, demand for Windows and Office products dropped.
I'll give you that... I suppose there is a fine line between acknowledging a job well done and blowing smoke. I just know that sitting in a meeting and hearing someone else take credit for something you've done can be one of the most aggravating things I've ever experienced ;-) But yeah, I can see how constant pats on the back without any reflection in compensation could make a man bitter.
one more thing: give credit where credit's due. Nothing will get your team to work hard for you better than the knowledge that they are credited with successes. The easy thing is to sit around and accept accolades for a job well done, but spreading it around will pay off.
I found an old Dell machine laying around when I was looking for a Win98 platform to test some software... I was surprised to discover that this P2 266mhz box with 128mb ram was running XP- and doing so fairly well, for that matter. Which isnt to say it wasnt promptly formatted anyway, but the point is that is worked. Took a little while to boot though...
Not one, but TWO Meg Ryan romantic comedies you've now referenced. Just reading that post made my eyeballs smoke.
Ditto. A thorough cleaning usually takes about 2-3 hours for me- I start off by running msconfig and rebooting, then continue with an Ad-Aware scan, then run stinger... After that I'll clean out the registry by hand, and run HijackThis if something is still acting up. Google really is the best tool we've found, especially with some of the more obscure stuff. I finish up by making sure they've got AV software auto-installing defs and scanning weekly and install Firefox as the default. Ick.
It feels like someone took all my toys away :-(
Suse also ships with a live CD, which ran great on my machine- I'd recommend it, as the only thing it didnt pick up automagically was my wifi card
Fastest bird in Europe... could it be a Swallow perhaps?
(R) In Nevada's, silly!
That's good to know... I sent them another email earlier - although it makes it far more excusable if they are not gov't assigned identifiers, I still think they should be a bit more careful with what they web publish.
sadly, the most connected campus seems to be fairly irresponsible with their student data. 3 years ago, i did a search for a friend who went there, and got a hit on a page including student names matched with Social Security numbers and a test score. We sent an email to the IT guys there... a year later, I did it again- the page was still up, so I told them again. Out of curiosity, I just did the same search, and got the same list. How would you feel knowing that your school was this irresponsible with personal data?