1. Something long is running (In which case, I usually turn off the moniter after starting the process). This can be some long jobs I have, or it can be a total backup of the pc. (Some of my runs can tie up the machine for 8-9 hours of 100% processor!)
2. If nothing long is running, then the whole machine is powered down each night. There is no better security than a machine in the OFF position.
As for screen savers - well, I haven't used one in years, not since I found the problem with them. One of my scanners would start scanning, and take long enough that the screen saver would kick in. When the screen saver kicked in, it screwed up the scan.
As for raising the electricity cost - the companies would just pass it along.
Which was required for my degree. As a DBA today, you have to use this, as even single machines are going into parallel processors. So one has to use Prob and Stat to calculate what the machine is going to do. And while I was working on Teradatas, with as many as 150 parallel processors, I lived in that world.
Even the micros today are going to parallel processors. Calculas? Haven't touched it in 25+ years in the business world of CS.
The other course that was useful was data structures. Tought me to think in linked lists. In one case it taught me to look at the problem from the link point of view. So the process I was on was codeable in 4n lookups, instead of n! + 3n lookups!
Oh, and to all the doubters there. When calculating the processing power of multiple processors, don't forget to subtract off the OS on each processors. Most venders won't tell you about that little probelm when calculating the machine size.
I read the source that the article was derived FROM. And they clearly stated that the site in question advocated child rape.
So, better go back to the drawing board, because you know nothing.
For anyone that cares, the article was derived from a case presented by Perverted Justice. Go read the source of the information on their site. And for what it is worth, their site is MUCH more accurate than the article that was presented here on/. .
And finally, I have had reason to check out Perverted Justice carefully. The guy I used to have sitting next to me at work was caught up in one of their stings. He is now facing 3 felony charges, awaiting trial.
The particular sites were advocating more than just Pedophilia, they including child rape.
Verizon gave them 30 days notice to move or be shut down. They moved. The new company they moved to was informed about the content on the site. They gave these pedophiles 30 days to move or be shut down.
Shed no tears for these guys, with the laws as they currently are, they may have crossed from free speech to illegal speech.
We already recieved the message that came down from corporate. No IE7 and NO Vista on any company machine, or any machine that might connect to the network. (That last includes all my home machines). They will get back to us when testing is complete. That comprises over 100,000 machines right there.
And I tend to keep as few windows open as possible. Not because it is harder to manage. No, because I have some apps which are "POWER" apps. I have to shut everything down, and re-boot before running one particular app in one particular set of data, because even with 2GB of memory, Windows doesn't do enough memory garbage collection to allow that to run. I have to start fresh.
Now, having said that, the app in question will open 4 windows all by itself. And most times when I run it, I have at least e-mail open as well. But mostly 4-5 windows is all I run.
As for leaving things up for days? Why would I do that? I basically use 2 machines. The work machine is left on a few nights a week to process specific things, which run from 3 hours to 9 hours to run. Otherwise, it is shut down. The ultimate security. My laptop? I shut it down for transportation with me from home to work and back, and typically pack it away at night for the next morning, unless the back up is still running.
And don't get into this whole Seti at home for spare cycles crap. Those applications do not recognize long running jobs, and as such they want to kick in, even while my main app is running. This steals cycles from the main app, which doesn't have them to spare.
And if I want 2 screen to deal with, I have them. My desktop and my laptop, and believe me, I have cranked them both up and run them both at 100% side by side for hours, doing work, not maintenance. (And the two machines are a 2.8GHZ and a 3.6 GHZ as well).
And maybe what the interviewers are looking for is the reason you have gaps, which historically is that the person with one or more gaps has been fired. Usually for reason that they will not admit. If they were fired once, maybe they will have to be fired again? And we are not neccessarily talking about contract to contract. Those are more recognizable these days. We are talking about gaps between perm gigs.
And the bottom line. Noting gaps is not FATAL! Several gaps without a good explaination may very well be. It is one more thing to check out in the interview process. And when comparing more than one person, maybe a trigger to choose person A over person B.
Actually, I know that the company DOES check credit histories. Since during the aquisition, I had to give them permission to check mine. I don't know what criteria they use, but there you go. What criteria do they use? I don't know, that is outside my perview.
Oh, and on that front, I once interviewed for a job, and was offered employment. I turned them down for someone else. Checking my credit history a few months later, I found that the people I had turned down reported themselves as my employer, probably to allow them to check my credit!
I don't set the rates, and since the recent aquisition, they may change drastically in the near future. I was evaluating resumes, making notes for my boss.
And yes, my boss ahd noted some gaps, but I found some more he had missed. I also found someone that had obviously "padded" his resume, because I knew the comapny he supposed did all these things for.
>Then your masters isn't worth the paper its printed on. A real masters, which requires research, is not possible on a night and weekend basis. Besides which, who the hell would want to? There is such a thing as quality of life as well.
Shows what you know. An MBA is not an MS in CS. I did my CS at the BS level. MBA hasn't come up with anything new in years, but it is a checkmark on the resume. And the school I went to IS an accreditte duniversity, not some over the computer fly by night.
>Some companies are good at hiding such things. Especially small ones. Or you may know something is wrong, but not how badly. Or it can come as a total surprise- corporate headquarters decides to outsource your entire division.
And if your division is outsourced, then you typically have a years warnign with the year garunteed employment that goes with it. How do I know? Been there, right at the begining of the outsourcing craze. And when big companies do layoffs, they give you time based upon how long you have been there. Heck, my sister got a YEAR serverance when they merged. Me, best I got was 3 months warning, and 11 weeks pay when leaving.
>Thats true. Others of us don't- we're not married, not sick, and fiscally responsible so we have plenty of money. I have enough without raiding my 401K to take 2 or 3 years off right now. If I was laid off, I wouldn't even look for a job for a few months- I could use the break.
How nice for you, but then why would we want an employee with an attitude that he doesn't care about work? Time is money.
>Then I'd bring that up on the 1st interview and hit him with questions on recent knowledge he needed. ALthough it really depends on the type of position- normal programming hasn't changed much in the past 7 years or so, whereas an administrator would need to keep on the edge. But just blanket tossing those apps will lose a lot of good candidates.
No way. In the DB2 DBA ranks, 7 years is 4 releases of the DBMS. Do you know how much stuff he is behind? He can't even be productive until we retrain him. No knowledge of packages at all, they were brought in after he went out on his gap. Now we can't live without them and he needs to know how to deal with them.
Sounds like you would not be a fit here (nor in most of the other companies I am familiar with either, which is a few over the years).
Still don't get it do you? I went back to school and got a masters. Did it at night and on the weekends, without missing a day of work.
And if you have to scan the financials to see if your company is headed for the dumper, then you don't pay enough attention to what is going on in your company.
As for getting a job in a week, well you decide what you think, but it only takes the right offer to happen.
As for you, with your attitude, well, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Take 3-6 months off? Gee that would be nice, but some of us have bills to pay and families to support. Personally, I spent 10 of the last 11 years paying off the bills I ran up surviving cancer, even with full medical coverage. I got your 3-6 months off, right here.
And finally, I am talking about unexplained gaps. Like the guy with a 7 year gap, totally unexplained on his resume. Only been back into this industry for 9 or 10 months. We seriously question his skill set.
Nope, read me comment. I want people that are smart enough to see when a company is failing, or when a major downturn is coming. Or are good enough to get a new job fast enough to avoid gaps.
When I got downsized in 1994, I was given basically 3 months notice. I had a new job lined up in 1 week, with my choice of start date.
It is a red flag, when you see gaps. the longer the gap, the bigger the flag. And when the gap isn't plugged by any kind of explaination, well.....
Point of order, some of the gaps were PRE 2000. (And the crash occurred in 2000, I was there). When you find someone that has multiple gaps, that is just the first flag on some of these people. But what about a guy who has a 7 YEAR gap in his resume? Or 2 years, neither with an explaination?
And yes, gaps in a resume are a BAD thing. It also means that you could not see the handwriting on the wall and get out to a new job before the old one crashed and burned. Or didn't have anew one waiting when a contract ended.
And just for the record, I was downsized in the spring of 2000, out of a contract that was not renewed. I got it together and GOT another job without a gap in my resume. The best people don't have gaps in their resume, period.
The pay rate is depending on which job you are applying for, we have several. And we aren't just talking about gaps in 2001, but some of these have gaps in more than one place (and the recession started in 2000, under Clinton's watch anyway!). Other things included one where the guy had a gap, then has a thing about refurbishing a house for 10 months, then another gap, then a job or two, then another gap... and so on.
Or a gap for 2 years with no explaination (not in 2000 or 2001). Or working for a company I am familiar with, and then while only staying there for 8 months running a list of "achomplishments" a mile long - much longer than anybody does in that kind of timeframe at that company.
Most of what we are looking for at themoment is DB2 DBA work. We need one for ZOS and one for UDB.
The income tax thing goes back to cost of living. The cost of living here is a whole lot less that CA or NY.
The rate of pay is commensurate with skills, but we are in a state with no state income tax, so you have to take that into account for the amount offered.
I just went thru a bunch of resumes this morning. I am surprised that that many people are actually out there submittign resumes with gaps in their employment and other obvious bad things on their resumes.
We have been trying to hire a DBA or two since April. We are still trying to find good candidates that will actually show up for work.
On topics that only a few people know about, it is good. For example, the Alpa camera article is good, though unfinished. Why? Only a few people have bothered with it (and yes, I put in the photos). There is only one controversy in the whole thing, and those of us working on it came to a consensus.
Go to a hot topic, and the biased admins can't even get all the facts right. Take John Kerry for example. I had to go get some data off the way back machine to prove to them the simple fact that John Kerry was only promoted to LT as a temporary rank, and that it was recinded when he was transferred to the reserves. That shouldn't have slipped by the authors.
There is a lot more garbage out there, being kept there by biased admins as well.
What do you call someone who had a type I diabetic mother, survived cancer, and then became a type II diabetic? Sports and exercise are not an option, due to side effects of previous problems, like "Chronic left subdeltoid Burrsitus with inpingement syndrome" to screw up one shoulder and a hip screwed up by the process of doing a bone marrow biopsy during cancer treatment?
"Eating like a pig" has nothing to do with it. There is nothing about lifestyle CHOICES that causes oen to get the disease.
Crawl back under your rock and thank someone that YOUR condition isn't more serious.
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I don't know about 10%.
My PC has two settings for overnight / weekends.
1. Something long is running (In which case, I usually turn off the moniter after starting the process). This can be some long jobs I have, or it can be a total backup of the pc. (Some of my runs can tie up the machine for 8-9 hours of 100% processor!)
2. If nothing long is running, then the whole machine is powered down each night. There is no better security than a machine in the OFF position.
As for screen savers - well, I haven't used one in years, not since I found the problem with them. One of my scanners would start scanning, and take long enough that the screen saver would kick in. When the screen saver kicked in, it screwed up the scan.
As for raising the electricity cost - the companies would just pass it along.
Which was required for my degree. As a DBA today, you have to use this, as even single machines are going into parallel processors. So one has to use Prob and Stat to calculate what the machine is going to do. And while I was working on Teradatas, with as many as 150 parallel processors, I lived in that world.
Even the micros today are going to parallel processors. Calculas? Haven't touched it in 25+ years in the business world of CS.
The other course that was useful was data structures. Tought me to think in linked lists. In one case it taught me to look at the problem from the link point of view. So the process I was on was codeable in 4n lookups, instead of n! + 3n lookups!
Oh, and to all the doubters there. When calculating the processing power of multiple processors, don't forget to subtract off the OS on each processors. Most venders won't tell you about that little probelm when calculating the machine size.
I read the source that the article was derived FROM. And they clearly stated that the site in question advocated child rape.
/. .
So, better go back to the drawing board, because you know nothing.
For anyone that cares, the article was derived from a case presented by Perverted Justice. Go read the source of the information on their site. And for what it is worth, their site is MUCH more accurate than the article that was presented here on
And finally, I have had reason to check out Perverted Justice carefully. The guy I used to have sitting next to me at work was caught up in one of their stings. He is now facing 3 felony charges, awaiting trial.
Did you miss that part of the fact that by American law, they aren't legal, no matter what the article says, and that Verizon is an American company?
Oh, and BTW, I read the source that the article was derived from.
I read the source the article was derived from asshole.
So, to complain that I lie shows that you know next to nothing.
The particular sites were advocating more than just Pedophilia, they including child rape.
Verizon gave them 30 days notice to move or be shut down. They moved. The new company they moved to was informed about the content on the site. They gave these pedophiles 30 days to move or be shut down.
Shed no tears for these guys, with the laws as they currently are, they may have crossed from free speech to illegal speech.
We already recieved the message that came down from corporate. No IE7 and NO Vista on any company machine, or any machine that might connect to the network. (That last includes all my home machines). They will get back to us when testing is complete. That comprises over 100,000 machines right there.
And I tend to keep as few windows open as possible. Not because it is harder to manage. No, because I have some apps which are "POWER" apps. I have to shut everything down, and re-boot before running one particular app in one particular set of data, because even with 2GB of memory, Windows doesn't do enough memory garbage collection to allow that to run. I have to start fresh.
Now, having said that, the app in question will open 4 windows all by itself. And most times when I run it, I have at least e-mail open as well. But mostly 4-5 windows is all I run.
As for leaving things up for days? Why would I do that? I basically use 2 machines. The work machine is left on a few nights a week to process specific things, which run from 3 hours to 9 hours to run. Otherwise, it is shut down. The ultimate security. My laptop? I shut it down for transportation with me from home to work and back, and typically pack it away at night for the next morning, unless the back up is still running.
And don't get into this whole Seti at home for spare cycles crap. Those applications do not recognize long running jobs, and as such they want to kick in, even while my main app is running. This steals cycles from the main app, which doesn't have them to spare.
And if I want 2 screen to deal with, I have them. My desktop and my laptop, and believe me, I have cranked them both up and run them both at 100% side by side for hours, doing work, not maintenance. (And the two machines are a 2.8GHZ and a 3.6 GHZ as well).
And maybe what the interviewers are looking for is the reason you have gaps, which historically is that the person with one or more gaps has been fired. Usually for reason that they will not admit. If they were fired once, maybe they will have to be fired again? And we are not neccessarily talking about contract to contract. Those are more recognizable these days. We are talking about gaps between perm gigs.
And the bottom line. Noting gaps is not FATAL! Several gaps without a good explaination may very well be. It is one more thing to check out in the interview process. And when comparing more than one person, maybe a trigger to choose person A over person B.
Actually, I know that the company DOES check credit histories. Since during the aquisition, I had to give them permission to check mine. I don't know what criteria they use, but there you go. What criteria do they use? I don't know, that is outside my perview.
Oh, and on that front, I once interviewed for a job, and was offered employment. I turned them down for someone else. Checking my credit history a few months later, I found that the people I had turned down reported themselves as my employer, probably to allow them to check my credit!
I don't set the rates, and since the recent aquisition, they may change drastically in the near future. I was evaluating resumes, making notes for my boss.
And yes, my boss ahd noted some gaps, but I found some more he had missed. I also found someone that had obviously "padded" his resume, because I knew the comapny he supposed did all these things for.
If I could afford to spend my time being a pro photographer, great, but I content myself being a serious amateur, both above and below the waves.
Glad it worked out for you.
>Then your masters isn't worth the paper its printed on. A real masters, which requires research, is not possible on a night and weekend basis. Besides which, who the hell would want to? There is such a thing as quality of life as well.
Shows what you know. An MBA is not an MS in CS. I did my CS at the BS level. MBA hasn't come up with anything new in years, but it is a checkmark on the resume. And the school I went to IS an accreditte duniversity, not some over the computer fly by night.
>Some companies are good at hiding such things. Especially small ones. Or you may know something is wrong, but not how badly. Or it can come as a total surprise- corporate headquarters decides to outsource your entire division.
And if your division is outsourced, then you typically have a years warnign with the year garunteed employment that goes with it. How do I know? Been there, right at the begining of the outsourcing craze. And when big companies do layoffs, they give you time based upon how long you have been there. Heck, my sister got a YEAR serverance when they merged. Me, best I got was 3 months warning, and 11 weeks pay when leaving.
>Thats true. Others of us don't- we're not married, not sick, and fiscally responsible so we have plenty of money. I have enough without raiding my 401K to take 2 or 3 years off right now. If I was laid off, I wouldn't even look for a job for a few months- I could use the break.
How nice for you, but then why would we want an employee with an attitude that he doesn't care about work? Time is money.
>Then I'd bring that up on the 1st interview and hit him with questions on recent knowledge he needed. ALthough it really depends on the type of position- normal programming hasn't changed much in the past 7 years or so, whereas an administrator would need to keep on the edge. But just blanket tossing those apps will lose a lot of good candidates.
No way. In the DB2 DBA ranks, 7 years is 4 releases of the DBMS. Do you know how much stuff he is behind? He can't even be productive until we retrain him. No knowledge of packages at all, they were brought in after he went out on his gap. Now we can't live without them and he needs to know how to deal with them.
Sounds like you would not be a fit here (nor in most of the other companies I am familiar with either, which is a few over the years).
Still don't get it do you? I went back to school and got a masters. Did it at night and on the weekends, without missing a day of work.
And if you have to scan the financials to see if your company is headed for the dumper, then you don't pay enough attention to what is going on in your company.
As for getting a job in a week, well you decide what you think, but it only takes the right offer to happen.
As for you, with your attitude, well, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Take 3-6 months off? Gee that would be nice, but some of us have bills to pay and families to support. Personally, I spent 10 of the last 11 years paying off the bills I ran up surviving cancer, even with full medical coverage. I got your 3-6 months off, right here.
And finally, I am talking about unexplained gaps. Like the guy with a 7 year gap, totally unexplained on his resume. Only been back into this industry for 9 or 10 months. We seriously question his skill set.
Nope, read me comment. I want people that are smart enough to see when a company is failing, or when a major downturn is coming. Or are good enough to get a new job fast enough to avoid gaps.
When I got downsized in 1994, I was given basically 3 months notice. I had a new job lined up in 1 week, with my choice of start date.
It is a red flag, when you see gaps. the longer the gap, the bigger the flag. And when the gap isn't plugged by any kind of explaination, well.....
Point of order, some of the gaps were PRE 2000. (And the crash occurred in 2000, I was there). When you find someone that has multiple gaps, that is just the first flag on some of these people. But what about a guy who has a 7 YEAR gap in his resume? Or 2 years, neither with an explaination?
And yes, gaps in a resume are a BAD thing. It also means that you could not see the handwriting on the wall and get out to a new job before the old one crashed and burned. Or didn't have anew one waiting when a contract ended.
And just for the record, I was downsized in the spring of 2000, out of a contract that was not renewed. I got it together and GOT another job without a gap in my resume. The best people don't have gaps in their resume, period.
The pay rate is depending on which job you are applying for, we have several. And we aren't just talking about gaps in 2001, but some of these have gaps in more than one place (and the recession started in 2000, under Clinton's watch anyway!). Other things included one where the guy had a gap, then has a thing about refurbishing a house for 10 months, then another gap, then a job or two, then another gap... and so on.
Or a gap for 2 years with no explaination (not in 2000 or 2001). Or working for a company I am familiar with, and then while only staying there for 8 months running a list of "achomplishments" a mile long - much longer than anybody does in that kind of timeframe at that company.
Most of what we are looking for at themoment is DB2 DBA work. We need one for ZOS and one for UDB.
The income tax thing goes back to cost of living. The cost of living here is a whole lot less that CA or NY.
The rate of pay is commensurate with skills, but we are in a state with no state income tax, so you have to take that into account for the amount offered.
I just went thru a bunch of resumes this morning. I am surprised that that many people are actually out there submittign resumes with gaps in their employment and other obvious bad things on their resumes.
We have been trying to hire a DBA or two since April. We are still trying to find good candidates that will actually show up for work.
On topics that only a few people know about, it is good. For example, the Alpa camera article is good, though unfinished. Why? Only a few people have bothered with it (and yes, I put in the photos). There is only one controversy in the whole thing, and those of us working on it came to a consensus.
Go to a hot topic, and the biased admins can't even get all the facts right. Take John Kerry for example. I had to go get some data off the way back machine to prove to them the simple fact that John Kerry was only promoted to LT as a temporary rank, and that it was recinded when he was transferred to the reserves. That shouldn't have slipped by the authors.
There is a lot more garbage out there, being kept there by biased admins as well.
No shit Sherlock
Near Tampa put a system into practice a couple of years ago. First time out of the barrel it IDed a "criminal" who turned out to be someone else.
Sorry, no sale.
It is also only in the LA council and NOT approved anywhere else. In fact the BSA is standing up for you by NOT LETTING IT BE A MERIT BADGE!
I would be that the badge is still born in any other ocuncil in the nation.
Two injuries.
Chronic left subdeltiod bursitus with impingement syndrome Aquired in the service of my country, the USA.
And my hip was messed up by one of the bone marrow biopsies that were done to diagnose and cure my cancer, which predated the diabetis.
Any more bright comments, jackass?
What do you call someone who had a type I diabetic mother, survived cancer, and then became a type II diabetic? Sports and exercise are not an option, due to side effects of previous problems, like "Chronic left subdeltoid Burrsitus with inpingement syndrome" to screw up one shoulder and a hip screwed up by the process of doing a bone marrow biopsy during cancer treatment?
"Eating like a pig" has nothing to do with it. There is nothing about lifestyle CHOICES that causes oen to get the disease.
Crawl back under your rock and thank someone that YOUR condition isn't more serious.